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The Best FPS On PS3--By Far

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 21
Date: November 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

In short, I've never seen a game look better, run better, or play better on the PS3.
It runs with my DualShock 3? Rumble on the PS3? This has to be a first.
More? It has at least 22 hours of Single Play, some of the fastest multiplay, and the best framerates I've seen to date on this platform. What is interesting is that in a side-by-side, often folks seem to think the PS3 looks better than the Xbox 360. How often do you hear that?
Lastly, after hours and hours over the past couple of days on the highly configurable (over 40 choices for play-types, and settings) multiplayer ripping and playing well at both low and high pings?
I'm a fan. Thank you, TimeShift. There's finally a shooter (that works and works well) with PC Shooter pacing and console playability on the PS3. Happy Boy Here.

Best game I ever played

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Pros: Most advanced graphic system ever with heavily use of havok effects (water effects are gorgeous, deformations, explosions, particle systems etc), story is great - keeps you playing and playing and playing...

Cons: Frame-rate gets choppy when you wouldn't expect (some will say it runs smooth, I'll say you'll notice the difference when it drops from 60fps to 25fps in the middle of action)

I would recommend this to everyone, in fact I could safely say this is the best PS3 game I've played so far (this is the first PS3 game I finished as well).

Decent shooter

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Well, after playing this game for a few hours, I have mixed feelings about the game. First, I must say, I tend to like it a bit better than Resistance: Fall Of Man, mainly because it's a bit different with the overall features. You wear this nifty Time-Shifting type of suit that can enable you to manipulate time. Which, is a really cool idea, and it can be quite fun blasting bad guys when you're using these features. A LOT OF FUN!

The graphics are awesome, it's really fast-paced, and is a blast to play.

BUT, after some time of playing, I got a bit bored with it. Simply because it's constant shooting...shooting....and more shooting...which normally I wouldn't mind, but, I would like some other challenges, or other things to do besides just shooting, shooting, shooting, and dodging ballistic missiles & projectiles. Maybe that's what I'm not crazy about...I guess I like games a bit more on the slower-side. Things in this game get a bit to crazy, and hectic all at the same time, and sometimes you just don't know what to do, where to go, or what's going on, and 2 seconds later you're dead!

I love SHOOTER-TYPE GAMES, but, I like them a bit slower, and with other kinds of challenges....What I mean by this is: In other Shooter type games (ala: Sniper Elite, or SOCOM series of games)...While they are all shooter games, you have to incorporate stealth, and other means of combat, to complete missions. I guess I like that stuff more than your more traditional kind of shooter game.

I guess I just get bored shooting the same thing over & over again... :) I guess I'd like to see more of that kind of thing in other shooter games.

Conclusion: Don't take this review the wrong way....I really dig this game, and I think the replay value will hold up for me, I do however, appreciate other elements in a game to make a game more interesting.

But, overall, on a scale from 1-10, I'd probably give it a solid "7".

What a great game!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I checked the other reviews first before buying this game and wasn't sure what to expect. The beginning was okay but then the game opened up into a real good time. This isn't just a shooting game but a thought game at the same time. Learning to use the suits power to adjust time to proceed are fun. The weapons get better and better as the game progresses. I'm playing it for the second time and it's even better.

One Neat Element, Many Mediocre Ones

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

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

Very Good Graphics but Boring Game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Somewhat confusing so uncertain what to write about this game. Purchased TimeShift after getting tired of playing Call of Duty 4 but can't say that it is a great alternative. The graphics are very good but since the character jumps right into the action, there's no story to pull you in. Very short review for this game since anymore would only be "fluff", not worth $60 IMHO.

BIG LET DOWN

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: January 24, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Please save your time and most important money on this HORRIBLE GAME. The reason I was stuck into buying this game is because I confused this game with Time Splitters, I bought this game as soon as I noticed it in GameStop....big mistake the game is horriblely medicore. The online DID NOT WORK AT ALL. Save your money and just wait for Haze.

Snore...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 12
Date: December 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Yet another boring FPS... I think that Resistance is a little better than this game but, I'm still waiting for something a little more fast paced like Unreal Tournament 3, which I plan on getting this week. This game is a better rental than a buy.. The whole time manipulation is fun for the first level, and then Timeshift just becomes another typical console FPS..

The best ps3 game by far

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is better than resistance, uncharted, and the darkness. They are all great games,but this game is way better. You get to stop time,slow time and reverse time. And I only paid $37 tax included,but well worth the $49.99. Would have paid more if I had to. You should buy this game right now!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pretty standard shooter plus a nice time twist

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

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......

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