TimeShift
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| Studio |
 Saber Interactive |
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| Publisher |
Sierra Entertainment Activision
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| Erstveröffent- lichung |
Windows / Xbox 360: October 30, 2007 November 2, 2007 Playstation 3: November 19, 2007 December 2, 2007 Steam: July 23, 2009   |
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| platform | Windows , Xbox 360 , PlayStation 3 | ||
| Game engine | Saber3D Engine, Havok 4.5 | ||
| genre | First person shooter | ||
| Subject | Science fiction , alternative world | ||
| Game mode | Single player , multiplayer | ||
| control | Keyboard and mouse , gamepad | ||
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| medium | DVD-ROM , Blu-ray Disc , download | ||
| language | Multilingual store version Steam version only in English |
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| Current version | 1.2 | ||
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| information | German version (USK 18) cut. Uncut version indexed in Germany. | ||
TimeShift (English for "time shift") is a first-person shooter developed by Saber Interactive and distributed by Vivendi Games under the subsidiary label Sierra Entertainment . It was released in November 2007 for Windows , Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 . Until spring 2006 the distribution rights were with Atari SA , but were then sold for financial reasons.
action
In the near future, scientists have managed to build a working time machine. The work ultimately culminates in two special suits with which it is possible to travel through and manipulate time: the Alpha Suit, a less advanced prototype, and the Beta Suit, a combat suit that additionally protects the wearer from dangerous time paradoxes and has built-in artificial intelligence .
The head of the project, Dr. Aiden Krone, steals the alpha suit and travels into the past to manipulate time there so that he comes to power as a dictator. The player slips into the shoes of another scientist, whose name is not mentioned, and he in turn into the beta suit to help Dr. Krone followed in a now changed timeline of 1939. There he made contact with the resistance in order to put the dictator down and to steer time back on the right track.
Gameplay
TimeShift is basically a genre- usual first person shooter , but with the special gameplay feature of time manipulation, similar to the modern trilogy Prince of Persia . Thanks to the special suit, it is possible for the player to turn back the time, to slow it down or even to bring it to a complete standstill, whereby this circumstance only affects the environment and not the protagonist himself. However, this skill is not unlimited , because the suit consumes energy when time manipulation is activated. If this drops to zero, the effect is ended and can only be activated again when the energy has been able to regenerate for a moment.
On the chase for Dr. Crown the player roams through various areas such as forests, war-ravaged city blocks and military facilities. In combat, more conventional weapons such as an assault rifle, shotgun, sniper rifle and rocket launcher are used. Occasionally, the course of the game is loosened up with quad rides and action on stationary weapons. Similar to the physics puzzles in other games, there are "time physics puzzles" that can only be solved through skillful use of time manipulation skills. For example, you can drop a container; If you stand on it and let the time run backwards, one of the containers catapults upwards.
technology
TimeShift was first announced in the spring of 2005, but has been postponed several times, mainly because the entire style developed from a comic-like look to a gloomy end-time scenario and numerous other elements were turned inside out. Since the game was barely heard of for such a long time, the press and players even considered it to be "dead" at times.
The game was developed with the in-house Saber3D engine , which was used in the first person shooter Will Rock in 2003 . However, this has been heavily revised, so that after viewing screenshots that were published without comment, many people suspected it could be the Unreal Engine 3.0 . Version 4.5 of the Havok physics engine has been integrated into the game engine .
Reviews
Paul Kautz from 4players.de described the game as a “playful and technically competent shooter with a casual time control system.” But as “casual as the introduction” may be, “TimeShift ends up in the second hour of the game when you start playing The possibility of stopping and reversing time was again on the ground. What then remains is a good shooter that delivers competent action entertainment. But unfortunately not anymore. ” - Overall rating: 82
Daniel Matschijewsky from GameStar said that “the manipulation of time loosens up the action-packed and damn tricky shootings” , “for the puzzles” he would have “wished for more courage for innovative experiments.” Bottom line, “Timeshift is still a very good one Shooter that fans of FEAR or Half-Life 2 should watch. " - Overall result: 80%