Timeshift

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How games like this get overlooked while mediocre games like Rainbow Six Vegas get all the hype, I'll never know. What a little gem of a game. If you're a fan of Sci Fi shooters, you'll like Timeshift. First the bad. The story is almost non existent. But what it lacks in story, it makes up for in gameplay. In the beginning, I found using the time shifting abilities a little cumbersome. But once you get used to it, boy does this game get fun. The graphics are excellent, the guns are cool. The environments are varied and challenging. The enemies are smart and will flank you fast. The game never feels redundant. One of Timeshift's greatest assets however is the checkpoint system. I HATE games where if you die, you have to repeat the last 6-10 minutes of gameplay you just finished before you died. This can ruin what might be an otherwise decent game. That never happens in Timeshift. The checkpoints are perfectly placed. It becomes apparent that the developers put autosaves just before really challenging parts. A huge plus! All I can say is don't let this game pass you by. I am a fan of shooters like Resistance, Halo, Call Of Duty franchise, and in my opinion Timeshift is just as worthy a shooter.

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I checked the other reviews first before buying this game and wasn't sure what to expect. The beginning was okay but then the game opened up into a real good time. This isn't just a shooting game but a thought game at the same time. Learning to use the suits power to adjust time to proceed are fun. The weapons get better and better as the game progresses. I'm playing it for the second time and it's even better.

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In short, I've never seen a game look better, run better, or play better on the PS3.

It runs with my DualShock 3? Rumble on the PS3? This has to be a first.

More? It has at least 22 hours of Single Play, some of the fastest multiplay, and the best framerates I've seen to date on this platform. What is interesting is that in a side-by-side, often folks seem to think the PS3 looks better than the Xbox 360. How often do you hear that?

Lastly, after hours and hours over the past couple of days on the highly configurable (over 40 choices for play-types, and settings) multiplayer ripping and playing well at both low and high pings?

I'm a fan. Thank you, TimeShift. There's finally a shooter (that works and works well) with PC Shooter pacing and console playability on the PS3. Happy Boy Here.

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Let me start of by saying that we've played them all: Halo 1-3, Gears of War, Black, Call of Duty 1-4, Lost Planet, Doom 3, Resident Evil (all of them) Rainbow Six Las Vegas 1 and 2, and on and on. So it goes without saying that we are FPS shooter fans first and foremost, and are hard to please when it comes to this genre. Given the reviews of this game, we weren't expecting much, but thought, you never know. Well surprise, surprise, this really is a very good FPS...The storyline may be derivative of games like Half-Life, and is certainly not it's strong point. Nonetheless, the graphics are great, the weapons unique (the crossbow with exploding bolts in particular), and the environments great to get around in. The game really shines, however, with the ability to manipulate time. This is a feature that no other game that we have played really has, and it adds a cool dimension to the combat sequences. It's great to sneak up on an group of enemies, plant a grenade, sneak out without them noticing and then watch the whole lot of them blow up in real time. This feature also gives one the ability to destroy enemies in a variety of different ways over and over again, thus making what is essentially a linear game very multi-dimensional.

It may not be Halo or Gears of War, but few games are that caliber, that being said, it's a lot of fun and well worth the price.

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A madman betrays his fellow scientists and steals a time-jumping super suit, leaving a timed explosive in his wake. In a last-ditch effort to save himself, one researcher jumps into the other prototype suit that they have and chases after him. What he finds is a world where the use of future technology has allowed said madman to become an unstoppable fascist dictator. That's the plot of Timeshift, a first person shooter for the PS3 that combines Half Life 2's dystopian future with Prince of Persia's time-changing abilities.

The main abilities in the game focus on the suit's time-warping, which can slow down, stop, or reverse time for short periods. Slowing time will increase your reflexes and agility, boosting your fighting ability. It also has a fairly long effect before it runs out of juice, so it's a good one to use during regular firefights. Stopping time has two different effects: one, it allows you to move among the enemy even less impeded than in slowed time, allowing you to literally grab the guns from their hands as they stand frozen in place. The other effect it has is on physics and the world; teetering boards that in other games would lower if you stood on them can be frozen in place and used as a solid walking platform, and water can be run across like solid ground. Reversing time is useful only in certain situations; unlike Prince of Persia, the player character is not moved by the reversing of time (so you can't pull yourself out of dangerous falls or whatever). What you can do, however, is undo damage done to, say, a bridge, so that you can cross before it gets destroyed again. You can also use it to free yourself from a sticky grenade that has caught onto you. The effects from these are pretty cool, and also tie into the health system (which regenerates over time); you can use time effects to surprise your enemies, run to cover, escape an ambush, or just plain beat up your foes. The time effects are definitely the best part of the game.

The FPS part of the game comes from the guns used by the player. However, they're almost all textbook weapons pistol, rifle with grenade launcher, shotgun, sniper rifle, and so on. There's nothing particularly noteworthy in the field of firearms, and they're mostly there to give you something to shoot with when you freeze or slow time. The controls are weird and unintuitive, and they can't be changed except for a single button switch.

The graphics and sound in the game are nice, but not excellent. The sound especially is fairly mediocre, though there are some interesting enemy responses to your time-shifting ("He just appeared!" "What just happened?!?"). The characters are bulky and odd and don't seem natural for whatever reason. None of the designs are particularly good; all of them have the same "future trooper" motif.

As a whole, this game has one neat element and a lot more mediocre ones. If it had been more developed, then it would've been enough, but it doesn't feel like the inclusion of one cool thing is enough to carry the game.

5/10