Timeshift
Dr. Aiden Krone is a former professor of Applied Physics at MIT, notorious for his unrivaled brilliance and obsession with Thermodynamics, Advanced Propulsion, and Quantum Electrodynamics (QED). Despite his increasing tendencies to demand control and secrecy, he became the Founder and Lead Physicist of a classified Time Travel research program. Over a decade later, Krone’s program had successfully developed the world’s first time-traveling suit technology. However, as the program’s equally secretive decision-makers demanded this technology be adapted for military applications, Krone’s feelings of self-entitlement and anger grew. He secretly desired a new existence, a new world where his scientific endeavors could be shaped and experienced without outside interference. The combination of Krone’s mind and his suit technology gave him the ability to create and control another existence - an existence where a man of science could finally operate without restrictions and do so within a place where science itself was properly respected¿ regardless of the effects on humanity. It is now up to you to trace Krone’s last known appearances and stop his tyrannical rule over Alpha District. In a twisted world where scientific accomplishments reign, it’s up to you to don the Beta Suit and Master Time to Become the Ultimate Weapon.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars What a cool movie, and your the main star.
I love this little game, The look on the bad guys face when you freeze time and run to the side of them them unfreeze is priceless. or freeze blow them away the unfreeze, this game is sick. The story needs some work but it’s not that bad. The Xbox game is cleaner then the PC version, in the PC you do more interacting and walking from one activity to other, the Xbox game loads and your at the activity. I played both and not much of a change. This is a sleeper FPS. The Time shifting is the matrix on acid.
5 Stars Stop, now DIE!
Timeshift, to me looked like a VERY interesting FPS, so I waited till it was about $20 and then bought it off of Ebay for only $16.99! For that price this game ROCKS! It is soooooo cool how you can Stop, Reverse, and Slow the hands of time and destroy your enemies in a couple of seconds, but there are lots of them, so use your timeshifting abilities wisely. There is a puzzle side in this game, in where you have to figure out which time power to use, for instance, if you’re in the sewer, and you want to pass a gate, in where you have to hold the wheel or otherwise it will shut, use time stop and walk right through without the gate closing, but you better hurry, because time stop goes by VERY quickly and you can’t move as fast! Or if you are on a quad, and a bridge is about to collapse with you on it, use to slow to get you across, faster than an Eagle! If you don’t make it, don’t worry, just use time reverse and you’ll be back on the bridge with a second chance! That’s what’s sooooo cool about Timeshift! The graphics and gameplay are amazing! The storyline is what makes this game a little worse, beacuse I don’t understand it. But other than that I can’t find anything wrong. You also have the option to turn the Blood and Gore off! Why would I do that? Blood and Gore is sooooo cool! Anyway, the weapons are also very cool, even though you only have a selection of 11. The levels are long, which is good! So, if you love FPS than you’ll love this! Begin the timeshifting! NOTE TO PARENTS: When ESRB means “M” they mean it! Timeshift has non-stop violence, extreme blood and gore, and language. This game should not be played by ANYONE under the age of 13.
4 Stars Its worth getting.
This is a solid title. it kind of feels like Half Life, the controll is tight, the envirenments are well put together and the story stays interesting. The time manipulation is really fun to play with, there’s nothing more satisfying then stopping time, drilling ten guys with the shot gun and then starting it again to watch the chaos.
Bottom line, you can pick it up really cheap used, and its totally worth it.
5 Stars Amazing
This is a truly amazing game. Especially if you have a big screen LCD or Plasma with surround sound. Timeshift is in my opinion one of the most underrated games of all time, hands down.
I won’t repeat the ‘cool factor’ about time shifting since many have already done it. BUT, there is one other aspect of this game that has gone mostly unmentioned. That is the weapons. (Not to mention their sound).
So many games have 1 or 2 good weapons. Moreover, 50% of these don’t make the sounds you’d expect from them. With that said, Timeshift got it right the first time. Listening to this game while you are holding one of the *Many* awesome weapons, hearing these things fire out of your speakers is an amazing experience.
The overall graphics are stunning (very comparable to Halo 3 at least on my 52″ Plasma using HDMI) and another area that has gone un-noted is the Multiplayer. Matches for multiplayer can be set up using the amazing “Low Gravity” and there is also a “High Speed” setting. There are tons of maps available and the overall experience will truly blow your mind.
Time shifting at any given moment - as well as stopping time to regain your last bit of health in messy situations - is truly rewarding. And one of the funniest aspects to the game (believe it or not, it IS actually laugh out loud funny) is the voice acting. I won’t go into it here, but you’ll see what I mean as you progress into the game.
This one is a keeper, simply for the online play. Just like Unreal Tournament 3, this is one of the most underrated titles *ever* for the XBox 360 AND XBox Live.
4 Stars One of my favorite games for the 360
I bought Timeshift last year and played it until I beat it on hard. It’s an excellent game minutes a few drawbacks (see below).
GRAPHICS: B-
Gothic, Orwellian futuristic landscape. I like the artwork but it is lacking some detail. I’m picky about detail b/c I like to see at what level the artists/designers went to do design this game. Gears of War 2 has some of the best ‘detail’ I’ve ever seen in a game, so one could argue that is the benchmark of detail in a game; if Gears 2 is a A+, I’d give Timeshift a solid C. There is a distinct Half Life-type of feel to it, but it takes NOTHING away from the gameplay–gameplay is where this game truly, truly shines.
Sound: A
Timeshift has some of the best sound in gaming, I have no complaints at all. I think the designers put more work into the quality of the sound effects than anything else. I cannot imagine how well this would sound on a good Bose 5.1 system.
GAMEPLAY: A++
The gameplay is excellent and should be considered a benchmark of how games should be played. I could not rate this higher! The concept of the time suit really changes how you play; it’s not a simple run-n-gun type of game where you shoot and take cover. No no. You have to be tactical in how you will use your time-shifting abilities to overtake an adversary; it can be anything from a tank to a room full of enemies, and kept me entertained completely. The game has bullet-time, and gives you a lot of useful methods to use the suit (ie. walk on electrical water, through fire, etc.). I throughly enjoyed this aspect of the game.
PLOT: B
Timeshift is Orwellian to say the least, but holds its charm throughout the game. I wish they had put more into the history and sub-history of the main character. I got the feeling they had the plot written, but stopped and re-wrote it somewhere along the way b/c it doesn’t follow a nice/easy flow that most good plots do. Perhaps that is the way the designers wanted it to flow with the idea of time travel, but otherwise a good story line. Put it this way….it’s no Bioshock, but keeps your interest.
QUALITY OF GAME: A-
I gave this game an A- b/c of how good the gameplay really is. Sound is excellent, but graphics could the better. Plot is ok, but has phenomenal gameplay. One thing is for sure….there is no perfect game but Timeshift is a lot of fun to play. If I would have known how fun this game was before it came out, I would’ve paid full tilt for it. Thankfully, I found it for $20 used.
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