 | | |
| Timeshift | 
 enlarge
| List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $17.75
You Save: $12.24 (41%)
Buy New/Used from $12.66
Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 13 reviews)
Sales Rank: 969
Category: Video Games
Publisher: Sierra
Studio: Sierra
Brand: Sierra
Label: Sierra
Platform: Playstation 3
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Autographed: 0
Memorabilia: 0
Batteries Included: 0
Age: 17 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 72625
Model: 72625
UPC: 020626726252
EAN: 0020626726252
ASIN: B000NGP1R8
Release Date: November 19, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
|
| Features:
| • | Harness time as the Ultimate Weapon: Slow, stop and reverse the flow of time to destroy your enemies | | • | Unleash a powerful arsenal of weapons and vehicles in 24 combat missions | | • | Up to 16-player multiplayer, featuring the use of time grenades in 14 different maps, allowing for unique style of slow, stop and reversal of time | | • | Completely customize your multiplayer experience with over 40 different features to fit your style of gameplay |
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Timeshift takes the first-person shooter to an entirely different dimension marked by erratic time and unrelenting action, a place where you can use time as a weapon and slow, stop, and reverse the flow of time to destroy your enemies and their surroundings. It all begins with you and your colleagues Krone and Lin, members of a secret government agency that is developing a time travel technology. However, Krone betrays you and steals the experimental time suit to jump into an alternate timestream, killing Lin in the process. You put on a second time suit that is more advanced, but also more experimental and risky, jump into the alternate time-stream and head after Krone. You suddenly emerge in the midst of a violent conflict in a city where Krone is supreme dictator, and the rebelling insurgents are on the verge of destruction. Ally yourself with the rebels and fight alongside them through this unfamiliar world on your mission to find Krone, and ultimately return home. 16 person multiplayer features 14 maps to create time stopping chaos and massive destruction to an already devastated world. Multiplayer includes 6 unique heart stopping, time crunching modes. Unleash an arsenal of 9 powerful. multifunction weapons. ESRB Rated M for Mature
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 FUN FPS July 24, 2008
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.
 A waste of a good concept... July 4, 2008
Occasionally you'll play a game with a concept that's so good that you just have to wonder why no one had ever thought of it before. Oftentimes, said concept becomes wasted on otherwise lackluster game design, and they you have to wonder how it went so horribly wrong. While Timeshift isn't necessarily horrible, it takes a great "time manipulation" gameplay mechanic (oh no, a grenade...I'll just rewind time so I'm ready for it), and then fumbles it thanks to the ho-hum remainder of the game.
An FPS really doesn't have to have a great story, but Timeshift's is notably weak. That wouldn't be so bad if it was backed-up by some particularly gratifying gameplay, but other than the timeshifting, the rest of the game plays like a hundred other FPS titles you've played before. The levels are extremely linear, and the level objectives are of the "search and find the switch that opens the next level" variety.
Graphics really aren't the game's strong-suit either. It doesn't look awful, and some of the explosions are particularly nice to look at, but the engine stutters along in places where it really shouldn't. This is obviously a game that could have used a bit more time to tweak the engine on the PS3, because we're all aware of the fact that the PS3 can push a lot more onscreen than is happening in this game.
All-in-all, Timeshift really isn't a bad game, just a dissapointing one. The online play is pretty good, and the campaign isn't awful, it's just that you know they could have done a lot more with the "timeshifting" abilities than they did. This one could have used a bit more time in the pot.
fun shooter lame online play June 5, 2008
this game is a lot of fun offline but the online multi player is lame it lag's alot and just not that fun to me any way im sure there are people that do like it and thats cool but its a good game none the less
Pretty standard shooter plus a nice time twist May 6, 2008
Here we go, another kinda-futuristic shooter. That's not bad, because I love futuristic shooters, but Timeshift is basically run-of-the-mill.
It definitely has its strong points. You can save anywhere (why doesn't everyone do this?????), there's no frame rate problems, graphics and enemy AI are very nice, and the craft design is especially good. I love the future-past blimps. Weapons also work well and are mostly appropriate, although it often takes half a clip to kill someone if it isn't a head shot.
The time shifting, the game's big selling point, is pretty cool. I wish the "stop" function lasted as long as the "slow" function, but you can't have everything. The fighting situations encourage you to use them, too. Often enemies are way off, and you don't get a sniper rifle until later (and when you do it's best to ditch it soon after the initial use is over for something more appropriate to what's coming), so your best bet is to slow or stop time and move to closer cover. Not bad, but I like to hang back and take them out from a distance. And playing with time is nothing new, so that hook for this game doesn't dig too deep (ugh, sorry for the bad analogy).
Luckily, the "crossbow" gun (no, not arrows, just the way it looks), is especially cool. It has a zoom scope and fires explosive pellets. The moment I got it I kept one on hand the entire rest of the game. It makes the conventional sniper rifle almost completely unnecessary.
Otherwise, though, there's nothing really new or special in the gameplay. The controls are bizarre at first, too. There's certainly nothing bad about Timeshift, it just doesn't advance the genre in any way. It's a very well done but unremarkable shooter and little more. If you just plain like shooters, it's worth having. If you're looking for something to really impress, this isn't it. In it's defense, a thought just occurred to me, though. Just how many more ideas for a first-person shooter are there? Maybe I'm expecting too much......
One Neat Element, Many Mediocre Ones February 16, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
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
|
|
|
Review and shop Cameras, Cars Accessories, Sporting Goods, Electronics, Computers, Software, Tools, Office Products, Books, DVD, Music, Kitchen, Apparel, and much more at discount prices! You find the Best Bargains right here! | | |
