The demo for TimeShift seems like your standard FPS fare. The location is a City 17 Half-Life 2 dystopia with propaganda blaring through the city, you have Max Payne meets F.E.A.R. powers -- except you can reverse time a little as well. One utterly obnoxious oversight is that you can't actually alter scripted history in the game. There's a scene very early on where a guy screams, "I don't want to die!" A soldier then caps the guy in the back of the head. If you reverse time, you can't kill the guy about to shoot him -- no matter how many bullets you put in his head. If you stop time, you can't take the gun out of the shooter's hands. If you slow time, you can't put your body in front of the bullet. The poor man will always die. Maybe they should have called the game TimeScript.
[Thanks Gage]
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Ah, I see. I didn't think shag liked his Wii that much.
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*throws flowers and chocolates in trash can*
So I pop out of time, wearing this crazy suit, save some resistance fighters who are getting beat down, they get up and run off to continue the fight? What, no, Holy Sh*t, what is that thing and where did it come from.
I don't know, maybe something is missing from the story b/c it is just a demo, but it seems pretty week to me.
Oh, and it wasn't fun at all either.
I think the devs of this game did just that - they had to put right what was once done wrong.
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Overall, the time shifting was interesting, if only an evolution of the bullet-time mechanic. Controls were very loose, and surfaces and textures were very glossy, despite the rain-soaked level. I would pick this up during a game-release draught, but certainly not this fall.
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control lag to high fuckin' heaven. even the menu lags when you try to input commands. and controlling in game ? TERRIBLE. almost impossible to aim.
the first demo was better
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I'll probably add it to the list of games to pick up, even though the next few months are liable to bankrupt me.
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No good.
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And this demo is way better then the first demo they released of the game. So much more refined.
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first thing i noticed is that the game looked freaking great and the physics are cool. The tank thing pounds on those garbage bins, and they can even knock them over from the constant ammo barrage- nice!!! there goes yer cover!
looks pretty hardcore, and yes it seems straight shoot em up if u judge it off the first 10 mins.
but ill be damned if it aint pretty- - no goddamned brown and grey graphics here.
give it a try, i say. we already know halo and cod will blow this aint away, but that certainly dont mean its crap.
more BULLETS!
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The demo was frikkin' BAD ASS!