Timeshift Demo

Lucid · Jan 27, 2006

At Gamespot...

It'll be released in 3 days.

Features :

-Time control elements never before seen in any game - players can slow, stop and reverse the flow of time, affecting the world and enemies around them while moving freely through frozen worlds

-Time shifting obstacles will challenge the players to think in four dimensions in order to overcome difficult scenarios and defeat challenging enemies

-Next-generation graphics technology in the Saber3D engine, including normal mapping for amazing high-detailed textures and characters as well as parallax lighting, which allows the environment to come alive with detail

-Deep storyline involving time travel and betrayal, featuring an alternate time stream

-A wide array of unique weapons, vehicles, and operable gun turrets

-More than 30 combat missions, spanning outdoor, urban, aerial and indoor environments, each featuring unique time shifting elements and challenges

-Online multiplayer options that allow up to 16 players to use time based weaponry against other human adversaries

Harryz · Jan 27, 2006

Cool. One of the forums I go to the owner is working on the game. Looking forward to it.

CptStern · Jan 27, 2006

sounds gimmicky but will try

Zeus · Jan 27, 2006

Sounds really cool I must DL (when it comes out)

Xune · Jan 27, 2006

They've put up a count down for a demo?! **** sake, it's bad enough when fanboi's do it for the game itself, but a demo? Attention whore much?

Asuka · Jan 27, 2006

Ya ill be buying this game for sure. Seems really cool.

Lucid · Jan 27, 2006

Xune said:
They've put up a count down for a demo?! **** sake, it's bad enough when fanboi's do it for the game itself, but a demo? Attention whore much?

Whenever Gamespot gets an exclusive, they pretty much always put up a countdown.

Beerdude26 · Jan 27, 2006

Online multiplayer options that allow up to 16 players to use time based weaponry against other human adversaries

Lawl a weapon that would freeze a certain spot of space in time would be hilarious
You'd shoot it at his groin and he would get stuck in space with his balls

Asknoone · Jan 27, 2006

From the screens, vids and previews, this game looks awesome. Looking forward to it.

Sulkdodds · Jan 27, 2006

4D! Ftw.

JNightshade · Jan 27, 2006

Bah. This game is so backwards. MGS4 for the PS3 will feature 7D.

boglito · Jan 27, 2006

Untill someone can prove that independent movement relative to time is possible (proven empirically to be impossible) I frown upon naming time the fourth dimension.

That said, I am definately going to give this demo a whirl. If the gameplay is solid and quality is aces it just might be my kinda game.

.bog.

john121 · Jan 27, 2006

i've got the demo from a PC gamer mag but it wont install.. :-(

tells me to clear my TEMP folder (done that)
tells me to close any other programs (did that)
and tells me to sign on to the net (i'm online right now, of course..)

arrrrgh!! demo's on my PC but won't install...

NJspeed · Jan 28, 2006

I got it in PC Gamer today too. About to install now so I'll be back with a review.

Icarusintel · Jan 28, 2006

hmmmm... wonder if this has been torrented yet....

NJspeed · Jan 28, 2006

Personally, I'm not too impressed. It kinda reminds me of Duke Nukem with the cartoonish graphics and "funny" sounds. Also there's no way to strafe, "move left" actually makes you simply look left and you move nowhere.. so the controls feel kind of oldschool, like when games first used the mouse to look around and you had to hold "alt" to strafe. Maybe there's a way to strafe but it didn't work for me. Uhh the music and voice acting is really bad and the graphics are poorly optimized at this point, they should have ran better considering I thought they looked cartoonish and not too realistic. Fighting seemed fun, but overall it's one of the less serious and less realistic FPS... not sure if I'll buy this one. I like FPS that seem realistic and pretty real, not the "fun" ones where things are more of a joke.

Lucid · Jan 28, 2006

NJspeed said:
Personally, I'm not too impressed. It kinda reminds me of Duke Nukem with the cartoonish graphics and "funny" sounds. Also there's no way to strafe, "move left" actually makes you simply look left and you move nowhere.. so the controls feel kind of oldschool, like when games first used the mouse to look around and you had to hold "alt" to strafe. Maybe there's a way to strafe but it didn't work for me. Uhh the music and voice acting is really bad and the graphics are poorly optimized at this point, they should have ran better considering I thought they looked cartoonish and not too realistic. Fighting seemed fun, but overall it's one of the less serious and less realistic FPS... not sure if I'll buy this one. I like FPS that seem realistic and pretty real, not the "fun" ones where things are more of a joke.

I believe you failed to mention anything about the time-shifting aspects.

Asknoone · Jan 28, 2006

NJspeed said:
Personally, I'm not too impressed. It kinda reminds me of Duke Nukem with the cartoonish graphics and "funny" sounds. Also there's no way to strafe, "move left" actually makes you simply look left and you move nowhere.. so the controls feel kind of oldschool, like when games first used the mouse to look around and you had to hold "alt" to strafe. Maybe there's a way to strafe but it didn't work for me. Uhh the music and voice acting is really bad and the graphics are poorly optimized at this point, they should have ran better considering I thought they looked cartoonish and not too realistic. Fighting seemed fun, but overall it's one of the less serious and less realistic FPS... not sure if I'll buy this one. I like FPS that seem realistic and pretty real, not the "fun" ones where things are more of a joke.

Story? Gameplay? Weapons? Enemies?

Fail.

Besides, you thought Quake 4 was awesome

jondy · Jan 28, 2006

Samon said:
Besides, you thought Quake 4 was awesome

QFMFT. Although you thought FEAR sucked. :O

Asknoone · Jan 28, 2006

I didn't think FEAR sucked actually, I thought it was hugely overrated and pretty average :O

Beerdude26 · Jan 28, 2006

Samon said:
I didn't think FEAR sucked actually, I thought it was hugely overrated and pretty average :O

I just played it again, and it really is the mediocre mapping that annoys me.
Everything else = Splendid + some kind of sauce tossed over it

Jangle · Jan 28, 2006

Beerdude26 said:
Everything else = Splendid + some kind of sauce tossed over it

?

Beerdude26 · Jan 28, 2006

Jangle said:
?

Maybe. I think it was more exotic.

2Fast4U · Jan 28, 2006

Not interested in this game at all, but I'll try the demo when it's out and see if it's really nothing special.

Lucid · Jan 28, 2006

I wouldn't want anyone to get their expectations up.

It could be a shitty console port.

It could just be terrible. Period.

john121 · Jan 28, 2006

wish i could install the darn thing...

NJspeed · Jan 28, 2006

You can use time once per minute. You can stop time, where everything pauses. Going forward is more like bullet time, where your moving fast thru time while everything is slow. Going back just rewinds what you've seen, but only for 10 seconds. I didnt think the time shifting aspect was that cool because the most you can go forward, pause, and back was 10 seconds. I was hoping for more ability to travel through time.. but the time thing is really combat / trap oriented. The flame and explosion effects are pretty cool, reminiscent of FEAR, they look good. The demo is also buggy, the first time I loaded it there was no enemies.. and today it missed a cutscene so I never knew these bad guys were behind me.

(By the way everyone should subscribe to PC Gamer. I mean for only $20 bucks a YEAR you get a sweet magazine and a cd or dvd every month with the latest demos. Skip a few milkshakes with your #3 and your there)

Asknoone · Jan 28, 2006

PC Gamer UK has really gone down the pan, I wouldn't waste my time and money on it.

Lucid · Jan 28, 2006

NJspeed said:
You can use time once per minute. You can stop time, where everything pauses. Going forward is more like bullet time, where your moving fast thru time while everything is slow. Going back just rewinds what you've seen, but only for 10 seconds. I didnt think the time shifting aspect was that cool because the most you can go forward, pause, and back was 10 seconds. I was hoping for more ability to travel through time.. but the time thing is really combat / trap oriented. The flame and explosion effects are pretty cool, reminiscent of FEAR, they look good. The demo is also buggy, the first time I loaded it there was no enemies.. and today it missed a cutscene so I never knew these bad guys were behind me.

(By the way everyone should subscribe to PC Gamer. I mean for only $20 bucks a YEAR you get a sweet magazine and a cd or dvd every month with the latest demos. Skip a few milkshakes with your #3 and your there)

Meh, Maybe the Gamespot demo will be different.
But either way I wasn't expecting much.

Vegeta897 · Jan 28, 2006

Xune said:
They've put up a count down for a demo?! **** sake, it's bad enough when fanboi's do it for the game itself, but a demo? Attention whore much?

Hmm, it just might be because the game revolves around time and stuff :|

Xune · Jan 29, 2006

xlucidx has already said that they do it for every exclusive they get. :dork:

And I still say that it's an incredibly stupid and self indulgent thing to do. They're making out like they're got something really important when infact what they have is a demo, something every game should have prior to or just after release. End of.

TwwIX · Jan 29, 2006

This game's gonna be a success if it's from the developers i think it is.
Their previous game didn't do very well because it was labeled as a Serious Sam clone.Will Rock beats the shit out of the SS series.
I am definitely excited about this game.

Lucid · Jan 29, 2006

TwwIX said:
This game's gonna be a success if it's from the developers i think it is.
Their previous game didn't do very well because it was labeled as a Serious Sam clone.Will Rock beats the shit out of the SS series.
I am definitely excited about this game.

...They did Will Rock?

Okay, All of my hope in this game has gone down the shitter.

That game was terrible... It does NOT beat anything out of the SS series.
At all.
Doesn't even come close.

It had very unsatisfying gameplay and horrible sounds... especially the voicework... It was cheesier than... uh... a block of cheese?

I did like the animations for certain enemies though and that they could spawn right behind you... and the graphics were okay.

And the fact that it didn't come with co-op multiplayer, brings down the score alot.

john121 · Jan 29, 2006

anyone who had my problem with installing a game, go here:
http://support.software602.com/kb/view.aspx?articleID=967

the demo in my opinion was WAY too short, and because of that I am questioning how long the game actually is. The replay value is probably a great value, considering you basically have a Tivo on your own life, LOL. Graphics were okay and the storyline seems to be decent. No HL2 but it does have some thought.

JNightshade · Jan 30, 2006

Wait, what are you talking about? It says in the site that the demo is released in T-minus 16 hours...

Icarusintel · Jan 30, 2006

Is there any place to d/l this at a good speed? Without paying? Because at the current rate from Gamespot it's going to take me 15 hours more... and that's f*cking ridiculous

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