Xbox/PC Preview - 'TimeShift'
by Rainier on Jan. 1, 2006 @ 1:30 a.m. PST | Filed under E3 - Pre - E3 2005
Genre : Action
Publisher: Atari
Developer: Saber Interactive
Release Date: Fall 2005
If there’s one thing I took away from Time Shift, it’s slow-motion clouds of gore.
As the name might suggest, Time Shift is concerned with issues of time-travel, and grants the player the ability to stop, slow down, or totally rewind time around his onscreen self.
This allows you, among other things, to blow a man into a messy red spray, complete with flying chunks of human meat, then stop time so you can admire the effect. It’s really very Jackson Pollock, in its way.
When that wears thin, you
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