Motto: "The Vulcan Science Directorate has determined that time travel is impossible."

*bleep* *whooshhh*

".elbissopmi si levart emit taht denimreted has etarotceriD ecneicS nacluV ehT" ttoM

*bleep*

After an extensively long period of time in development (see what I did there?), TimeShift is finally aligned with our current timeframe. But read fast! As I do not know for how long!

When Aiden Krone uses an experimental alpha suite to travel back in time and changes the past in his favor, making him the world biggest dictator world has ever seen, you have to think fast and make the best use of the one minute left before the secret facility you are in explodes and the timeline rearranges to reflect the changes Krone did. So without even the possibility of saying goodbye to your friends and co-workers you jump into your only other option left: the beta suit. Why didn't he take the beta suit in the first place anyway? Bah, temporal paradoxes, who understands them these days?!

So you make the time jump just before the "big bang" happens and of course the temporal drive malfunctions. You end up in an alternate past where Krone is now the supreme leader, and the rebel movement is getting more and more powerful. But because of Krone's temporal powers that make him almost a god, they need you and your suit to have a fighting chance. So you go far and wide, across mountains and plains, in war factories and big zeppelins and destroy everything in sight in order to fulfill your final goal: take care of Krone, get his temporal drive and restore the original timeline!

Did that sound like an imdb description or what? I know, I'm *that* good!

Seriously, after several delays and revamps of the Saber Interactive game, it finally got released and can successfully compete with today's most sophisticated first person shooters, in both multiplayer and singleplayer. Of course, such a long period of development took its toll a bit on the shooter, and along with fancy textures, shaders, cool weapons and gadgets we can, from time to time, see some low res textures or strange looking bushes with bitmap leaves that you cannot pass through. But even on the low resolution textures we have very high levels of bump mapping so they look very good from far away. So as I've said, TimeShift looks good and plays good.

The weapons look also very Sci-Fi yet they are familiar enough to recognize them easily. Yes, the shotgun is still the king of them all, as in any shooter of course... *bang*

You can carry 3 weapons tops on you at a time, but you can pick up anything you want and replace your current weapon. The catch is that, because of the time-slowing abilities you possess, and probably afraid the game might get too simple, the developers decided that your enemies should die very hard. So even if you freeze time and empty a whole cartridge into a single target, he might not still die. He could die, but usually there are 20 more around him, and you're out of time powers and with an empty weapon by the time you're done with your initial target.

As usual, you have pistols, close-range weapons, machine guns and sniper weapons.

Tip: Even if you encounter it rarely in the game and only for specific missions, the sniper rifle is in my opinion the wisest thing to have in your arsenal. Since you keep all the weapons from a mission to the next, you might as well hold on to it. Ammunition comes in boxes and gives you the exact bullets for what you have on you, so that won't be a problem. Why the sniper rifle you say? Well if you slow down time, you can take anyone out in one blow, and usually from a decent range. Remember to un-pause time as soon as you've dealt with your enemies!

Saber will try to push the Sci-Fi Crossbow (or Flechette-thrower - I just love that word, it's so full of "flavor" *wink*) on you. Basically it's a crossbow with an incendiary arrow that explodes on impact. The thing is that it has a traveling time, and it's not instant as the bullet; also it doesn't explode instantaneously, so... Be wise, use the classic sniper.

Of course, weapons are much more balanced in multiplayer. We'll talk about that when we get there.