Comments on: TIMESHIFT PC review

By: afiq

afiq — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:25:44 +0000

can my notebook can play timeshift??
mine is graphic medi accelerator 950
intel centrino

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:21:35 +0000

Why does every know-it-all think that if an FPS has elements of other games that a) it is a ripoff and b) that this somehow makes it bad? The HL2 comments are just plain stupid and are made by people who clearly know nothing about games. Oh yeah, that and the inane FEAR comments that pop up. What FPS (including the apparently vaunted HL2) doesn’t borrow from other games?

TimeShift is fun in its own right – innovates more than Ep. 2 and COD4 and looks and runs great.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:11:24 +0000

Mine runs like a champ! 2560 resolution, an NV 8800GT, A core 2, 2.4Ghz, and 2 gigs of fairly fast PC 6400 ram.
The game is sweet. It has a nice long single player (22 hours on Elite) and I’ve been having lan parties with my pals–with amazing configs on the multiplayer. This is a sleeper hit and I think it’ll be evergreen as heck. Check out the Parallax and Normal Maps with all the dynamic shadows. It’s even more fun when you turn off the gore and juggle the heck out of your enemies. I got one up about five hundred feet. I hear there are five new maps coming. Can’t wait. Bob… You gave it a fair review. Check out some who reviewed the game without even playing MP (GamePro–and laughed about it, as if that’s not about half a game when done right.)
Richard
–PS. To heck with Gordon. He’s five years aged, the tech is dated, and they had to include a little puzzle toy written by a student? There was nothing new there–and it was more linear than TS by a wide margin. At least in TimeShift you can play with or without the time powers and change them up for serious variation.

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:03:32 +0000

Could not agree more nick. I bloged about this game and called it HL2 (physicist hero) meets Max Payne (Bullet time= play, stop reverse time) and they buy a Nano Suit (sorry erm time suit)

that said I did enjoy it. Taught it looked good and the combat was very close quarters and intense! Would not pay full price for it tho, will buy it when it comes down in price.

go Gordon!

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 03:48:40 +0000

To say the game is linear is to grant it to much credit. A cross-bow for sniping…a physicist as a hero…hmmm…

I’d rather play Half-Life Episode 2

By: IceDragonIDGN

IceDragonIDGN — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:12:28 +0000

You neglected to mention what a pain the game is to get it to run properly on a PC with SLI. I wrote about that aspect of the game on my web site. I really wish PC reviews would include “install” along with all the other aspect of the ratings. Sometimes even good games aren’t worth the trouble.

For those of you still having issues getting Timeshift to run on the PC (/w nVidia hardware) here’s the trick.
1) disable SLI
2) download the 163.71 nVidia driver (it’s in the archives)
3) download the latest direct X from Microsoft’s web site.

Don’t ask how long it took to figure out those combinations, especially since the game keeps telling you to download “beta” drivers that goof everything up for many of us.

Hope that helps,
IceDragon

By: Mario

Mario — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:54:48 +0000

TimeShift is one awesome game. I just got the retail version, but did play and finish the demo and was very impressed with it.