I sincerely doubt that much of TimeShift is scientifically accurate. You, a former co-worker, are in possession of the Beta Suit and hot on his tail in a cloud of suspended animation body parts. The story, as told in professional, fast-cutting and increasingly confusing FMV flashback sequences, is that an evil professor called Krone has stolen the magic time suit he was developing and diverted the timestream to his own megalomaniacal whims. If you're being a bit more choosy, however, pressing shift and the relevant key will deliver your own selection of time trumpetry. This isn't like Prince of Persia in that you fall on a spike, then reverse time and drag yourself off the metal instrument of pain, and as such the reverse time feature rarely comes into play unless part of a puzzle or a scripted event Each time power you're using saps a reservoir of regenerating magic time fluid, and because the game assumes that you're stupid (this is a console co-release) when you tap the T key it'll select the power most relevant to your situation. Importantly, it's the enemies, vehicles and environments that feel the various effects of grandfather time - not you.
Freeze a scene of carnage and you can fill a man's face with lead before seeing him cartwheel bloodily backwards when time reverts to normal, fly off a ledge on a speeding train and you can reverse it through time back onto the tracks, place angry grunts in timetreacle and your opportunities for headshots increase tenfold. The magic suit heals you when you get shot (anyone else miss health packs?), but what makes it even more magic is its ability to temporarily halt, slow or reverse the passage of time. It's absolute no-brain carnage, with decent Al, and pretty explosions, and it's also the first game to do something new with the concept of time manipulation in donkey's years.Īs is a la mode this season, the hero wears a special magic suit. It's a daft resistance fight set in a dystopian parallel timeline, with big stompy robots, steampunk heli-zeppelins and goons who explode into constituent body-parts with the mere brush of a rocket-propelled grenade. And, what's more, neither she, nor I, nor you could ever have guessed that the lamest of FPS ducks, the most bunion-afflicted mallard on shootery pond, could have been turned into such a proficient action outing. Who knew that the plaintive words of Cher would be so apt when reviewing a stupid no-frills gib-hungry bad man shooter like TimeShift? Not her, presumably.
And there, for a little while, you'd stay. And I'd place a grenade at your feet And then in slow-motion I'd knock your body through the air with repeated shotgun blasts. If I Could Turn back time, if I could find a way, I'd take back those bullets that have hurt you.
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