TimeShift PC Game Review

[@MatthewMk27]

The developers must have a time traveling suit of their own if they could borrow ideas from Singularity, a game that came out 3 years after Timeshift.

[@desmonddies]

Also Crysis was actually released 2 weeks after this game.

[@greggeverman5578]

🤣

[@Mortgom]

@@kiddhkane He literally said just that. 6:36

[@vladislavivanov2334]

I am kinda suprised that there are actually a lot Of people Who really thinks this way.

[@coastalvan1978]

So you're saying the other games were borrowing from time shift and it was right under our noses.

[@TadejVig]

Singularity came out 3 years after Timeshift (which was in development for years), so it's not really fair to say Timeshift "borrowed" elements from it.

[@TadejVig]

It also came out before Crysis.

[@lostchild]

epic

[@Gggmanlives]

Poor choice of words. I didn't mean it was ripping Singularity off, it just has similar elements.

[@TadejVig]

Yeah, I loved the game when it came out, I think I would call it a hidden gem. It takes good elements from games and mixes them all together to make a fun experience, similar to Darksiders.

[@Angsc09]

Doesn't matter. It just all inspiration and I believe Singularity was inspire from this. Nevertheless. Are you going to review Syndicate. It is another cyber-punk game. But is not as good with the Hard Reset. But very similar to FEAR.

[@Larry]

You need to track down the demo for this game dude, it went through so many revisions, it's almost a completely different game. But I remember them saying they couldn't get the rewind feature to work properly and it was originally meant to rewind any screw ups/deaths you made ALA Prince of Persia.

[@Gggmanlives]

I remember it vaguely.

[@merces47letifer4]

I remember the demo for the 360. Visuals were totally different, and I remember walls being a lot more green, oddly.

[@audiosurfarchive]

Glad I'm not the only one that was thinking of that. Weird shit.

[@conyo985]

I remember the demo being more colorful. I wish we got that one instead of this. I believe the devs got afraid and played safe with the current video game trends at that time.

[@Turd_Rocket]

@conyo985 That definitely was the case in my opinion. The original TimeShift also featured a slightly different, more cinematic (cut-scene heavy) narrative, with the player character voiced by Dennis Quaid rather than being a silent protagonist. The original art design was much more blatantly steampunk and interesting, more like a BioShock than a Call of Duty, which still shows through slightly in some of the final level design and enemy types, just drabbed-down now to look darker and grittier. I think since darker war games like Medal of Honor and Call of Duty were in full swing back then, plus Far Cry rising to fame and its offshoot Instincts going even darker than its progenitor, they second-guessed their direction. Also F.E.A.R., the one game they knew TimeShift would be compared, had made serious waves, and that slightly monochromatic and dark hallways might've influenced their decision to drab-down TimeShift and make everything brown and grey. Also, Call of Duty 4 was getting a lot of press attention during the lead-up that year, so I suspect they might've taken notes from the screenshots' more "mature" color palette. I still totally agree that this game is pretty damn fun, and I have fond memories of shooting my way through it.

[@salokin3087]

Glad to see this gem getting some love, unfairly overlooked thanks to COD4 and Halo 3

[@Gophilio4567]

" there was a CoD game set in ancient Rome by Vicarious Visions" How would that even work?

[@Gophilio4567]

***** Call of Duty without guns sounds kind of weird, I must say. But I'll check that out.

[@Gophilio4567]

***** Okay, I just watched the leaked footages and this just doesn't feel like Call of Duty at all. Most of the gameplay is even third person! (I know there is some first person in there, but still)

[@Orange_knight_yt]

Mid game halo killer

[@jarredbierman9032]

This game is so sentimental for me. I cant believe it's still on steam!

[@R3GARnator]

This game is so fucking criminally underrated and overlooked.

[@vrapbrap]

Despite it being very "generic", it falls into the same category as singularity, wolfenstein 09 and a few other games like that. Very "bland", but oddly enough very enjoyable even after all these years. I always had a weird fondness for these games on PC and I still do. It was a time when people TRIED something new with the fps genre, but it all fell flat on its face each time for whatever reason. Soon after this magical period it seems that fps games stopped even trying and military games is all we got since then.

[@clydemarshall8095]

The unfortunate reason for that is probably the sheer expense of producing modern triple A titles and corporate suits, not artists, pulling the strings.

[@Reloaded2111]

The years after Modern Warfare seemed really hopeless, with military shooters taking over the fps genre. It's over now though, inventive gameplay is considered cool again.

[@clydemarshall8095]

As I understand it, Modern Warfare was considered really cool when it was the original modern war shooter.

[@tHeWasTeDYouTh]

holy shit man I was about to write something like what you wrote, maybe even word for word

[@princeofdarkness4711]

Prey is AWESOME! Wolfenstein 09 is ..... ehh I suggest you skip that bastardize Call of Duty shit and go with New Order. The only time you'll enjoy from the 09 version is a few nostalgic moments... and thats about it. I never really like Raven Software after The Thief reboot, their second failed reboot, I LOVE them during Star Wars though. Hell I give Singurality a chance since people say it's better then Bioshock, but after playing it they are both one of the same, only difference is TimeShift came first, and personally, I enjoy TimeShift and Infinite more because the Level design doesn't make me feel like Earth want to box me in.

[@bhlaab]

There are some cool things you can do with the time powers that aren't touched on in this review (because the game doesn't take advantage of them very well) If you're out of sight and then stop time to move somewhere else the AI will still think you're at your original location, allowing you to do some interesting flanking. The rewind power can also be used to mess with scripted events, for example if a bad guy is scripted to pop out in front of you, just walk past them and rewind time so when they jump out their backs are to you. IIRC you can also rewind time when guards spot you and they will return to passive. Honestly this game would have been much better with stealth elements, which feels strange to say about any shooter.

[@greggeverman5578]

I did it all the time, buddy!

[@eudesmunoz2061]

yep stealth parts could be great. Some battles With enemies are super hard to stealth cause they recognize you easily so its always assault

[@weismeister121]

I remember a trailer for this game, where the protagonist stops time, melee-s a grunt in the face, takes his gun and shoots the other 7 or 8 guards in a circle, and then takes 2 grenades and stuffs them down the barrel of a tank, walks away and time goes back to normal, all the grunts fall down dead and the tank explodes.

[@Hanfgurkenhasser]

@@weismeister121 Oooooh I remember that one! Looked so fucking cool.

[@bergonath8851]

This is such an underrated channel. You deserve more viewers, mate.

[@gtabro1337]

I loved this game when it came out, the time mechanics were actually well implemented.

[@WiltedRaven2]

I still play it on ps3. Its so hard to find a disc copy these days

[@TheTeeWorldsfreak]

I can remember playing the demo on my ps3 over and over again and yes, that machinepistol-flamethrower combo thing was the most fun weapon to use

[@user-hy5hs2wk2i]

I really liked TimeShift, i used to play it on Xbox 360 in multiplayer. Sadly, nobody plays it in multiplayer anymore and i'm all alone for now. Oh man, i miss 2007.

[@IMN602]

If a dude named IMN602 ever showed up and kicked your ass for awhile that was me !!! Use to get one or 2 people on rare occasions and every time i would destroy the poor fools... Further insuring the multiplayer stays dead... :( oops

[@Demon27248]

If you guys ever want to play on PC, I started a Steam group up earlier this year called 'TimeShift OpenSpy Matchmaking'. We've been getting matches going semi-regularly.

[@MaxRideWizardLord]

There are still multiplayer matches.

[@joeygang4136]

Multiplayer was fucking fun.

[@banishedepsilon1802]

@@IMN602 I got the game on sale about a year or two ago. Got to play multiplayer on xbox with one guy who accepted my looking for group post. It was very fun, hope I get to play it with more people someday. I have a new looking for group post for Friday BTW...

[@robbiefazle7802]

This game is one of my favorite FPS games ever, and one of my favorite underrated games ever. One of my favorite games on Steam.

[@SARRIMAVEA]

Pretty good shooter, I think it's an underestimated game, it wa worth the 10 Euros I spent on it.

[@absolutelyeveryone2425]

I LOVED this game, had an absolute blast with it. All of the gripes I'm hearing make total sense though. I was too busy having fun to notice any of them. That being said thinking back these problems are there, and I didn't draw a Half Life comparison myself but once again, thats spot on dude.

[@MaxRideWizardLord]

Most of the games he mentioned did get released far later than timeshift tho. And half-life NO WAY holds dystopian copyroghts to be the first one.

[@parallax8207]

This game is great.. I LOVED IT

[@salokin3087]

I like Variety spice on my Ruben Sandwhich

[@Indigo_Gaming]

Worth noting that TimeShift came out before Crysis and Singularity, so there's that. I remember being intrigued by the Xbox 360 demo back in the day, but I never quite picked it up. Cool ideas in it, though.

[@ITSTAKING]

This game is the very definition of underrated.

[@Rick-ln8ic]

Still boot this game up from time to time in 2021, truly this game deserves a sequel...

[@Dizzyfatpigeon]

( If you do requests) Do you think you could do a game called 'Urban Chaos: Riot Response' for PS2. It's a seriously good game worth a review.

[@DiegoAlanTorres96]

It's for pc, too.

[@Dizzyfatpigeon]

DiegoAlanTorres69 Sorry man the game I actually meant was: 'Urban Chaos Riot Response'

[@DiegoAlanTorres96]

Hariskillsstuff That's funny, totally different games :)

[@IMN602]

That game kicked ass!

[@EastyyBlogspot]

I remember when they released a Demo of the game....and then they decided to put the game back into development and delayed it for a while and the results were much much better

[@Canma890]

I really love this channel and I hope u get millions of subs one day. U r on a good path ! ;)

[@MarkT-ChildofGod]

This game brings back so many memories. Such a great demo.

[@smokiii1]

I still love this game. One of my favourites from 2007.

[@Zergosmuahaha]

As tomska once said: "Creativity: it's basically a lot of stealing". I think that describes this game in a nutshell.

[@MaxRideWizardLord]

Yet most most games he mentipned came out far later. It also been in development since early 2000's, so that makes it even pre-hl2 and prince of persia even.

[@kaz687]

This was my most anticipated review of yours, and you never disappoint. Good review man!

[@Kserijaro]

TimeShift was awesome

[@MaxRideWizardLord]

It still is.

[@hansturpyn5455]

I loved it

[@LordLOC]

Man I really liked this game. I remember following it for years and then all of a sudden BAM demo came out. That opening rain soaked demo level blew me away back then. Not graphically or anything, but that it was pretty good and not a huge let down like I figured it would be.

[@ReadyAimFire_]

I didnt like it at first, but then i enjoyed it a lot. I also liked Singularity and Wolfenstein 2009. I miss those times, where shooters werent just Cod/BF clones.

[@lukasgamcik1614]

Best reviewer :) Wish you the best mate :)

[@TwoWheelWarrior]

We love you Boogie! Great video!

[@CM421]

Man, my grandparents had a copy of this game for the Xbox 360 they had in a back room for when the grandkids came to visit, i remember playing this and thinking it was the greatest thing i've ever seen. Still got a lot of nostalgia for it.

[@markt.beaumont2790]

Wow...the PC graphics are MUCH better than PS3. First time I've seen the review on PC.

[@greggeverman5578]

360 was pretty dang good too...especially the 360 Elite!

[@luvingorc7818]

another great review, Gggmanlives you my friend are one hell of an underrated reviewer, keep up the good work man.

[@SabreXT]

One issue I had that isn't mentioned is that game kind of forgets about the story for large chunks of the game. The stuff where you're fighting alongside the resistance doesn't happen much after the start of the game. Also, I thought the second half of game had to many industrial areas (factories and the like) that felt kind of similar.

[@Missony74]

WAS A WOW AT THAT TIME!

[@mzealtb]

Man those multiplayer bubbles that change time. The nostalgia

[@Texshy]

I remember playing a demo for it before it changed its general look, main character and story.

[@TheForsakenEagle]

Another excellent review, man. Sharing this one.

[@MightySavagE]

I remember this game for its first level, where you would slow down time and observe the dense rain slowly falling from the sky.

[@dedicateddark]

About-time man.

[@cyborgsoup8753]

Aw sweet I always thought you should review this

[@thomastischler1297]

i finished the game today, a 2007 game in 2022 so much fun ,a crossbow with explosive arrows and timeshift/timeslow was my favourite element in the game

[@alexlokanin3312]

I've been waiting to see a review of this game!

[@querpmuerp]

didnt timeshift was released years before singularity?

[@gtabro1337]

Good remark.

[@bluntmore_2823]

Just bought this game for a dollar at gamestop. Pretty good so far.

[@andrewzvara3123]

I love this game. I still play through it at least once a year

[@TheVeganBear]

Wow I remember the ads from this game and the magazine pics it ended up shite

[@paulvenn4447]

I bought this game from EB on sale one day, still have the disc somewhere about.

[@mindisfrozen]

I remember playing this when it came out and the online was dead. Managed to find one other person and did a one on one. Instead of a time suit, you had time grenades that controlled time in the blast. That being said, stop grenades were fun because I would catch people in it, cook a normal grenade, then toss it into the stopped area.

[@simonsimons1252]

This was my first PS3 game. So much nostalgia and I still enjoy it to this day.

[@tiboosters9668]

whats your favorite fps game other than doom ?

[@peppermillers8361]

I think it's F.E.A.R.

[@tiboosters9668]

whats yours pepper millers

[@peppermillers8361]

Azz I don't have one.

[@spankrocketgaming294]

mine is GoldenEye 007 on the N64, imo its the most replayable shooter ever , I could finish it in a few hours and I still want to replay it because the shooting just feels right, and I love the animations when enemies are hit, the groin shot animation is too funny, it looks so painful lol

[@Armageddon-yt3so]

besides Doom, probably Quake 2, F.E.A.R, TimeSplitters 2, Turok 2, and Perfect Dark. there's more but those were the first ones that popped up in my head.

[@Riverten]

You want a remastered version of this game ? PC mods

[@arthangregory1197]

Great review, i really liked timeshift back in 2007. Im still waiting for the Necrovision Review, or some other obscure eastern eur FPS like the Mortyr series

[@JangianTV]

Great review Gggman. Glad you got around to reviewing this one. If you can, will you review Turok the 2008 game please? Not sure if it's a reboot or a sequel, but it may be worthwhile.

[@MadMaxBLD]

This game uses the LithTech Jupiter engine from FEAR 1. You can clearly see the visuals, text and even gameplay are extremely similar.

[@TheHowdyBeansPodcast]

This is one i sadly missed out on, but hope to come back around to on back compatibility

[@EarFarce4]

I remember this. You'd need an 8600gt to get it working properly when it came out.

[@RetroDeathReviews666]

I love you for making this. (and every other review you made) But the only thing I have to say against this is that Timeshift came out in 2007, while Singularity came out in 2010, so it's more singularity borrowed some light elements from timeshift. While singularity does use time altering powers, it's diffrent from the way it was in timeshift, they're both (for the most part) completely different fps games.

[@LoudSodaCaleb]

I remember loving the multiplayer when I was a kid.

[@NoRizzMaker]

This was the first game I played on Xbox 360 when it just came out. I loved every bit of it especially when I was a little kid waking up and unboxing it with my Xbox early 2010 or earlier. Nostalgia at its peak.

[@Reloaded2111]

So you did it! A TimeShift review, yay! Now the only game I will be waiting for is Cryostasis, and I'm pretty sure you will initially hate that one too.

[@darthplonker1940]

Are you ever going to review the game 'Bodycount'? I like to think of it as a mix between 'Black' and 'Bulletstorm'.

[@SnipeMD]

Fun Fact: the developer Saber Interactive used the engine from this game to create the remastered graphics in Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary.

[@spankrocketgaming294]

I remember downloading the Timeshift demo for ps3, it also had two maps for online play, Timeshift wasn't the first online game I played , but it was the first I played on ps3, a few weeks later, I got CoD4 and the rest was history

[@yhe100]

Are you ever going to review the suffering and ties that bind?

[@MrEdcar007]

I could have sworn I played a demo of this game once, that was completely different than the final game....

[@ghost085]

At first, during its development, this game was kind of cartoony and had a steam punk setting, heck I think it didnt even use shaders back then. Then they decided to update their engine and so the game you see here got released.

[@sfmn2396]

Crysis and Singularity were released after TimeShift

[@CyberVirtual]

What's funny is that I saw a poster of TimeShift in a teacher's classroom in my Highschool who I forgot the name of because I was never assigned to his class. I was only in his room because I was an IT Computer Student that needed to fix his old office pc. I was thinking the whole time how fucken cool his helmet was but I sadly I had no time to chat as I needed to fix half the schools computers that day. If I were one of his students I would ask bruh do you really like this game? That single poster has been there for so many years and it still may be up there till this day. Rarely do I see teachers express their appreciation for gaming so that was kind weird for me.

[@slice2219]

One of my all time favorite shooters, wish they made a sequel honestly.

[@Lowen264]

The explosive bolt crossbow was my favorite weapon.

[@cvstlebeats]

The live action commercial for this game was actually badass as fuck.

[@williamgarcia9858]

I live in Australia and I've never heard "sunny jim" being used. Ever.

[@ConkerTS]

Timeshift is a very under-rated game. It has real flaws, such as some boring to play through areas, not enough enemies at times, the game doesn't make a lot of use of the potential that your time control powers grant you, the enemies who are the most fun to fight against only appear near the end of the game, and the story is so badly told by the game that even after mulitple play-throughs you still won't understand too much of the storyline (seriously, it feels like the story's cut-scenes were mostly omitted from the game, and what cutscenes remain tend to be too short and lacking in detail or meaning), but the game has some really good points. The time control mechanics are fantastic. The graphices are sometimes very good, including the weather effects (such as when you pause or reverse time when it's raining), and the buildings and areas often have a great not-quite-our-reality look that really does gel with the whole parallel timeline theme. The game is long, and can be very enjoyable. I've played through it often, and no doubt will go through it again. And I would recommend it to anyone looking for a fun science fiction themed first person shooter. But I do wish the'y spend a few more weeks tighening the game's design (some of the areas and situations aren't too enjoyable; more and better enemy placement would really help), and if they'd actually employed someone to look at the story and who would then actually create text or cutscenes to tell the player what is going on), and I *really* agree with GManLives, that it would be better if you could upgrade your suit to increase things such as: - The number of seconds you can pause time, - The number of seconds you can slow-down time, - The number of seconds you can reverse time, - The number of seconds it takes to restore your health, - The number of seconds it takes to restore your energy, - How many grenades you can carry, etc. As it is, the length of time that you have control over (about seven to twelve seconds, depending on the power you choose) is too short to do eveything other than basic actions, so you don't get the chance to experiment and really feel like you're beinding reality to your will. And it really needed a sequel to build upon this game's strengths and use the time control mechanics for even more impressive results. I would still recommend this game, though.

[@kkarx]

The game feels like a missed opportunity. I think the biggest flaw is the tempo is always the same because it lacks any real story (just a random bad guy trying to control the world is not really a good story). It seems to be unfinished in certain ways.

[@LurkingCrassZero]

I loved this game. Starts off quite boring, but gets good once you're about an hour or so in as you say. Surprisingly gory as well ;-)

[@cnlbenmc]

Forgot to mention the Awesome music it had in parts too...

[@yukich6957]

TimeShift was the Episode 3 we deserved but missed completely

[@QuantAlan]

The online team death match was fun back then on xbox 360.

[@Dja05]

This game was panned at release, so I didn't gave it much glance, but this arose my interrest...

[@wickedcaitsith]

This is one of those games that I bought on a Steam sale and still haven't played.

[@laurentscasino3244]

Hey sonny jim, are you going to review Bodycount anytime soon? I'm surprised I haven't seen it on your channel yet.

[@videolookertube]

If you mean Operation Body Count, check his retro reviews playlist he put it in a list with Corridor 7, Witchaven and Alien Invasion.

[@Gggmanlives]

I own Bodycount, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

[@laurentscasino3244]

+Gggmanlives glad to hear, I'll be looking forward to it.

[@Viljami32]

Love your videos mate

[@Cyclobomber]

Time reverse is also a cool mechanic to either get rid of a sticky grenade or, if you're being sadistic, make the same enemy *you* tagged with a grenade die twice (let him asplode, rewind, watch the action replay). Got the game for about 10bux in 2010 and has quite a bit of fun with it on my 360, I'll happily play again, just because, while not being memorable enough to be called a great game, it's a good game, maybe a bit too adequate, but all in all solid and well-rounded (the guns are really cool, albeit a tad underpowered). Also, the game has a flamethrower. Gotta love flamethrowers.

[@Cephalopod51]

You sound like you need to review a first/third person shooter with some variety. I can think of a few classics that are worth revisiting and reviewing. There's Giants: Citizen Kabuto, Alice, and Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath.

[@OllieMctwist]

Thanks so much for the great work you've been doing.

[@maltereyer9048]

i saw a comment were you say that you dont own a copy of vietcong 2 could you please try to get one i would like to hear your opinion of this game also i freakin love your channel

[@TevyaSmolka]

I remember playing this game a long time ago and it was really fun In my opinion

[@F2bnp]

Thanks for this review, I should probably give it another shot seeing as I did give up during the first hour with all the hit-scan enemies. Sounds like it really picks up after that.

[@peterbakos4137]

Gggmanlives, since you looked at the Ghostbusters Doom mod and mentioned the new movie you should check out Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy as the new Jason Bourne movie is out now.

[@stefciok]

Good review as always. But will you review Chronicles of Riddick, game runs on the same engine i think(the way ragdoll looks). And I believe it's only case in history when videogame was better than movies that game was based from.

[@TeddyOnTheSpot]

Great review, as always.

[@flashlightfreek]

Still, waiting for a second one!!!!

[@GranamyrKhan]

The end is a little abrupt but, this is one of the best games i played. Criminally underrated.

[@monadomaster2182]

Can you please review We Happy Few next? It just released recently as an early access game.

[@Gggmanlives]

Yes, video soon.

[@UROSSSSSSSSSSSZ8]

Review Area 51 and BlackSite?

[@Gggmanlives]

Maybe.

[@TYTMOC]

Hey man, thanks for another interesting review! While I was watching, it accidently reminded me of the shooter called "Syndicate" from 2012. Are you going to review it? Though I've heard it was banned in Australia...

[@Gggmanlives]

I don't own it.

[@uncledeath2246]

will you review Oddworld:Soulstorm(when it comes out), or any of the older games?

[@Gggmanlives]

Don't even know what that is.

[@uncledeath2246]

+Gggmanlives Oddworld is a series of adventure platforming games placed on a planet where the inhabitants are enslaved by aliens.The first games appeared for the PS1 while Oddworld:New n Tasty and the upcoming Oddworld:Soulstorm are remastered versions of the original 2 games, Oddworld: Abe's Oddysey and Oddworld:Abe's Exoddus respectively.:3

[@allisknu11]

"TimeShift is what happens when you combine Half-Life 2, F.E.A.R., Singularity, and Crysis into one game." He didn't say it "borrowed" ideas or imitated these games. Keep in mind, this is a video review published in 2016 for a game that was released in 2007. He didn't say anything wrong or incorrect.

[@brandon17760]

6:30 yes he did say it borrowed shit from games that weren't even out lol crysis came out in November,13 2007. This game came out October 2007. And singularity came out in 2010

[@Kywool2K]

Any plans to review Legendary?

[@Gggmanlives]

Doesn't work on my computer.