I know I said I'd make reviews of the Resistance franchise but I wanted to take a slight break from console games to quickly get Timeshift done. Now it's time for Resistance! If you want to come join me going over the Resistance trilogy then give a follow on twitch, hope to see you there! www.twitch.tv/jarek4gamingdragon

If memory serves, the antagonist is a scientist who stole a time suit and changed the past so he could be a dictator/ruler. Your character, before time is changed, takes a better version of the time suit and follows him.

Timeshift had some fun ideas. Stopping time, taking an enemies gun out of their hands then shooting them with it while they scramble to figure out what happened is great.

I thought I was the only person who ever played this game lmao. I loved it

Bought this game from a kid in my class in middle school for 10 bucks and I thought this game was pretty kool but who really fell in love with this game and it’s time mechanics was my dad till this day I still walk in on him playing time shift he told me it was my best purchase of a game lol

This is actually one of the old games that IO wouldn't mind seeing a remake of, a better clearer story, a bit longer, maybe more uses for the suit powers etc

Hopefully this clears some things up. There's some government-funded future-tech company working on a black project involving time manipulation, which is referred to as, "Metacognition." Their first prototype model is the B.E.T.A. suit and the would-be production model is the S.A.M. suit. You're one of the researchers working on the project under the development head, Doctor Krone. The Government, however, is investigating Doctor Krone on suspicion of ulterior motives and you, as well as a female scientist, are their moles. Eventually, the both of you discover that Doctor Krone indeed plans on using the B.E.T.A. suit, the completed stage 1 prototype, to further his own malevolent ends. He plans to travel back to an undetermined time period and use his knowledge of secret government technologies to build his own dictatorship over Earth whilst using time manipulation to essentially keep himself installed as the immortal, de-facto ruler. He understands that he's being watched and plans to destroy the research facility, as well as the S.A.M. suit, which has yet to undergo trials, in order to prevent anyone from stopping him. You manage to equip the S.A.M. suit and attempt a time jump in order to pursue Doctor Krone, but the damage sustained alongside the S.A.M.'s own system errors lead to a critical malfunction in its capabilities. You are propelled to an alternate, present/future timeline in which Doctor Krone is combating a stiff resistance. Your suit is no longer capable of making long-distance time jumps, so alongside the primary goal of stopping Krone, your secondary objective is to acquire technology from the B.E.T.A. suit in order to re-enable long-distance time jumps. After a hard-fought campaign, you execute a wounded Doctor Krone, re-enable long-distance time jumps, and presumably un-fuck the world by also killing the Krone that appeared in the aforementioned undetermined time period, before he can create paradoxes or accelerate the growth of technology beyond the original timeline. That part, however, is not played nor is it shown in a cutscene. It is merely inferred by the actual end-game cutscene where the player character simply disarms the bomb in the government facility and nothing else really happens. Well, aside from S.A.M. detecting a paradox and forcing another jump, but we never got that sequel.

You should look into getting hold of the Xbox 360 demo disc for the game, it was changed so much i development, it's virtually a completely different game. Quite fascinating.

8:26 That guy's reaction is just priceless. I love that detail. You can just grab people's guns out of their hands while time is frozen!?

My favorite levels were those where you and the rebels were fighting in the city, the atmosphere was amazing. I got a serious war of the world's steam punk vibe, easily left a huge impression on me; the later levels were pretty flat by comparison.

You brought up 4 very important 2007 FPS games... But you didn't bring up Crysis. Surprising omission.

2007 - my favourite year. I got both Time Shift and Crysis at the same time in 2007. They stood out to me for their replayability, their aesthetic. And I played Mass Effect that year too. 2007 was a year to remember - just before the financial crisis, just before a lot of things started to fall apart.

I loved this game, it is underrated. I hope we get sequel one day.

I never played half life, still haven’t, so when I played TimeShift it was unlike anything I had seen prior. At this point I was 13 and played plenty of other shooters. Also I think I bought the game new for $40 usd.

Holy shit I forgot how crazy 2007 was. I didn't realize those all came out that year. I remember getting the Orange Box though, that was probably best deal ever in gaming. Getting HL2, Portal, Counter Strike Source and TF2 for $50. Valve really wanted to get people on Steam

Just subscribed, been watching for the passed few days and it's awesome to see games being review that are unknown to most. If you haven't yet review Fracture and Dark Void.

I love timeshift and I own from 2007 and I Love the makeup of the campaign

Could you review Singularity?

I love watching your reviews on games I've never heard of! It is quite interesting.

I bought this on the 360 for $3 yesterday. I did this because of that outrageous price tag on Steam.

I loved this game so much. I don't know why but everything of that game was so good. It was something new I guess.

Really happy to find out you did a review on this!

The Timeshift manuel which came with my 360 copy of the game told you a lot more about the characters and story. Not a very efficient way of doing it, but... Crone was a horrible person who worked for the scientist guys developing the suit. He was the project lead. Then he stole the suit and went back to the 1930s and started up a Hitlerian regime. Your guy, the beta suit guy, was a spy who had been told to keep an eye on Crone during the suit's development to ensure he didn’t steal the suit...which kinda happened anyway. So your guy jumped in the beta suit and followed him back.

I remember going to my grandpa's house every weekend, looking forward to playing this game (Roughly 8 years ago). I'm pretty sure this game is what sparked my love for fps games. Good times.

I remember playing the first demo for Timeshift over and over. This was like 2 years before the game finally came out. The final game was completely different, it seems like they redid the whole art style and story halfway through development. That's probably why the story is so god awful.

4:35 - There was supposed to be final pre-rendered cutscene before the credits where you return in the facility from the opening, defuse a bomb, then your costume warns about time paradox and warps you into unknown time and place. Literally, your character just disappears, ending this game with cliffhanger. I really want a sequel for this game. I even wrote a TimeShift/MLP crossover in 2013 when I was 16 years old, which follows the ending of this game. It was like the costume warped protagonist into different universe XD

I remember playing the demo right when I got my PS3 and hardly had any games

This was that one mysterious game that i always saw on the shelf at gamestop and never bothered trying.

My dad used to collect discs full of game demos for our Xbox 360, and this was one of the demos I played more than once

This is the type of game i rented on blockbuster on friday with my father and play it for the rest of the weekend

Thanks for featuring this game!

I played the demos for this a lot on 360. I think you and the funhaus demo disk vids are probably the only videos I've seen on it.

I remember playing the demo on the PS3 somewhere around 2008-2009 when I was a kid, and it was awesome, basically the starting level with the bridge section.

One of my favorite games from that time! I loved the whole time shifting mechanic!

I downloaded the demo for 360 back in the day and was hooked. This is an absolute underrated gem imo

I still remember the opening cinematic where the needles shoot into the spine vividly

This game kept me entertained for a lot while I was in my middle/early high school years. Still have my copy of it somewhere. Loved it.

Played it, beat it, loved it!

What I really miss from this era are super aggressive bump maps on every texture paired with hard shadows. Like Timeshift or Stalker. It really just looks perfect to me

God, I remember 2007. There were so many people playing COD and Halo 3 that it crasehd xbox live for like a week. Also, I do remember timeshift. There were quite a few interesting shooters in that era. Timeshift, singularity, prey, wolfenstein. They just got lost in the shuffle of bro shooters.

Basic gist of the story is that krone stole one of two time suits in order to gain power for some reason(that isnt necessarily explained but whatever, he basically holds the world hostage for a couple years because he can control time) You as one of the scientists is running away from the explosion of the lab and you hop into the second suit activate it and you arrive in the future after krone has taken complete control of the world. After that you run into the resistance which takes you in after they see how good of a soldier you are because of your suit, after that its pretty much say hey release this legendary squad of the rebels in order to boost moral and etc etc then it all ends with you fighting krone in his giant mech spider city thing and then you shoot him in the head ending the timeline or something like that and freeing the world . Thats the cliff notes of the story for anyone who is interested

I always used the pause time power to steal enemy weapons, kill them then reverse time to revive them

Rewind time is great in combat if you need to undo a missed opportunity or a bad grenade throw. When they rush you with the shotgun murder maniacs later in the game on harder difficulties its almost a requirement to rewind time a few times just to figure out the exact positions of each one

Would love to see this game remade. Amazing concept.

I had played this soon after it came out and I remember renting it via gamefly on X360 and bought it because it looked interesting and it's sad to see this game never going anywhere but who knows, maybe there will be some sort of a follow-up and I still have a copy on my shelf and I would like to return to play it one day via PC. And seeing you played this surprised me that you got to this. One more thing I kinda find funny, if you were to throw a grenade and reverse time, the grenade does not come back.

Multiplayer was crazy fun back in the days. Instead of using the suit, you had grenades that used the time mechanic in the zone they landed into. You could use the reverse grenade to propulse yourself in the air. Or Stop time in a zone, shoot that zone, and have a MEGA blast at your opponent.

You may not have known this or it probably didn't work anymore, but there was a multiplayer for this game. The demo for it had access to a few maps and game modes. The powers worked as throwable grenades with varying abilities. You would create spheres of time-wapr. I'd say this had one of the most memorable multiplayers because you could shut off vents with a freeze time, jump off buildings with a slow time to catch yourself, fill in an entrance to a tunnel with rockets using freeze time and even have people blowthemselves up or stick themselves with the crossbow using reverse time. If you caught someone in a freeze time, you could run around the warp bubble and surround them in flame or bullets or shells. The'd be gibbed for certain. Needless to say, if the multiplayer made a comeback with modern graphics and combat mechanics, it'd be a big hit.

I played and beat Timeshift at launch...but I’ve played probably 80% of every game release every year since the PS1 launched. Been going since 1980 when I was 6 and my Dad bought my bro and I an Atari 2600. Something I didn’t realize until later is crazy remembering how poor we were, eating cut up hot dogs and pork and beans probably 5 times a week for years as a kid. Later, my Dad worked up to making $40 per hour as a machinist, but back then he supported us with a minimum wage job while going to night school and working for free in an apprenticeship program he convinced a Machinist company to start himself, yet still had to apply for. Crazy. Mad respect now that I’m older.

I still own the demo disc for this game, back when the opening levels looked a bit like a game using the the Doom 3 Engine. The game was delayed, altered, then released. Suffice to say, Saber has come a long way since then (World War Z on PS4, Xbox One, & P.C.) Great video. Thanks for sharing . . .

I'm I the only one who still plays this 💓💓

When you actually use time reverse in combat it is really useful for setting up more efficient attacks especially indoors. Like getting a whole squad to stand back near explosive barrels saving you ammo. Hell I even used it to repair some cover before using time stop to regen my health. Time reverse is pretty underrated.

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One of the first games i finished when i was a kid. I was so young, i didn't know you could finish games or that they even had an ending. Opened my eyes.

When you first see the clone bois that can slow down time; you know shit was getting real.

Wow I just realized this is the game that I sued to see at the video store and eventually was sitting on my dad's desk for along time, always had its vision in the back memory and now I know where its from

I was a little boy when this came out and I remember the live action trailer with the gas station being robbed.. I loved that trailer so much

This game was one of my favorite lauch games

Hey Jarek are you going to do/ever made a review of the timesplitters franchise?

Krone was one of the scientists working on the time-shifting suits. He stole the Alpha suit and went back in time and took over the world with future tech and knowledge. Your character (in the Beta suit) jumps and is essentially working to undo Krone's meddling. Basic as plots go, but it *is* there. I played through it once as a kid years and years ago and I still remember the fundamentals. Love your videos, by the way. Keep up the good work.

"I'm not going to encourage you to buy this game in any other way than the legal way, but I'm just saying it's $20, and y'know, yar har fiddle dee."

I remember playing this game when I was younger, And I thought it was awesome. then one day my dad got pissed off and broke it in half... I never beat it...

when i would come to my dads house and see the cover of timeshift i would get so hyped to play the game and continue to finish the it, it really was the sickest game out and i was like 10 years old

Time shift was so good and blew my mind in some parts back in the day

I love rain in games, if it’s done well.

This game is absolutely awesome. It was the over the top gunplay and effects for something like the fear series, and the creativity and aesthetics of something like HL2. The levels had great designs and setpeices.

I always loved stealing the enemy weapon, walk behind them, start time, then watch they be all *Where'd my gun go*, then BAM. Reverse time was useful in combat when you want to reverse any enemy shots.

I remember buying this from gamestop or EA back when there was more than one game store to buy game. I like the time rewind post since I could live some of these movie scenes I saw on TV and DVDs stunts.

Aww man seeing deathloop made me remind of this game. I remembered having soo much fun dying and repeating different approaches in this game. so challenging. so repeatable. deathloop is a great inspiration out of this. Deathloop is super inspired by bioshock and timeshift im sure of it. albeit missing the timeshifting abilities. but man.. this takes me back I wish i have the same amount of enthusiasm back then now..

I rented this game back in the day and was really impressed by the mechanics of the game as a whole thought they were really on to a cool concept

Damn I remember playing the demo for this on xbox marketplace back in 2010 good times man good times

Cyberpunk edgerunners unlocked my memory if this game😂.. when David use his sandy I thought ,” I remember a game where I can slow, freeze , and rewind time

Great review, like you I loved the game's weapons and found the combat to be satisfying. As for the story... it was rewritten during development, forcing them to get rid of expensive cutscenes featuring the voice talents of Hollywood actors Dennis Quaid and Michael Ironside. The game does still have a backstory, but its only given in the manual! For an explanation of the game's original story, I did a video in which I give a detailed history of the game's troubled development: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/prGJlqd5v7zLfaM.html The subsequent videos are a thorough Let's Play of the entire game, during which I discuss various plot and setting details as and when they occur (those mysterious little flashbacks you get occasionally), but if you want to skip to the finale I give a full explanation of the game's ending during the credits: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zpx3l7BqmrXWeYk.html I've also put up the full backstory and character details (from the original manual) on my page on the LParchive: lparchive.org/TimeShift/

Great video, one of my favorite games of all time. Hopefully they remaster it for consoles sometime in the future

It's often on Steam at 50% off (£4.99 instead of £9.99) and I just grabbed it for the memories. Loved the demo, looking forward to playing more of it.

I remember this game. I bought it when I launched and beat it and because of so many other strong releases that year I never picked it back up to beat it again or look for easter eggs and it just kinda faded away to me

Heh 0:12 Timeshift Titanfall 2 I'm refering to Effect and Cause level that was also called Timeshift during development

Honestly this is one of my favorite shooters of all time. I loved stopping time and putting loading 10 shotgun shells into a dude and turning him to a red mist

i really loved this game its such a throwback seeing this

I remember getting a demo, when it was a thing, from a certain magazine which my dad brought it for me. I dig this game; although it is sad that not many people know this game.

Man I remember playing the demo all day online because that’s what everyone was on I literally looking at the demo on my account and I looked it up to see if I was only person who played it

I like this but I really wish the opening cutscene was more clear. At first I thought it was set in the near-future and your suit protected you when history got altered by Krone so you started at the same point in time Krone shifted from just the new history's version of it. But I've also read that you shifted both back in time and across to the new timeline because your suit being damaged prevented you from jumping to the exact point Krone did, and the reason you end up in a Krone ruled timeline is you didn't jump back as far as he did and most of the game after the opening occurs in an universe Korne created parallel to your own. However the suit was equipped so you could return to your native time and universe at will except the damage to your suit prevents a return jump. So your goal is to get the parts to repair it. Killing Krone just also happens to be a means to get the parts you need from his suit. Edit: to be clear I originally believed it would work like in Terminator. Krone goes back in time and alters history but it takes time for his changes to take hold. So I thought before they took hold you got into a suit that would protect you and were fighting him in the altered present not the altered past. I thought your goal was to find him and kill him in the present then finish your suit, go back in time, and prevent him from altering history.

I never really heard of this game. I saw some stuff in the video that i really liked like the blood splatter and the ability take guns while time is stopped that was awesome

I still have a DVD with a demo of it before they scrapped the entire story and decided to redo it almost entirely

It's interesting how two people can have such radically different experiences playing the same game. I ADORED the "show, don't tell" direction the developers took with this title. Everything you need to know could be gleaned from the world. Dr Krone (chronos) steals a time suit from work, travels back in time, and in so doing, kills your lady. Looking for some getback, you take the less advanced suit and follow him back in time, arriving a good deal later than Krone did. He has used this time to become a technocratic dictator, utilizing his technical knowledge to bring 1939 up to a level of technology comparable, and in some ways superior, to our own. Judging from Krone's public address messages, many citizens are rebelling against being "registered" with his regime, ergo the scrappin'. Hijinks ensue. I loved that, for once, a developer didn't hold our hands and stuff the story down our stupid throats. We arrive, as does our protagonist, in an unknown city, confused as to what the f*ck is going on. I liked that sense confusion, and having to piece it together along with the hero. Different strokes, I guess.

I remember playing the demo for this on my 360 back in elementary, was disappointed to find I couldn't get it to run on my pc when I bought it a few years ago

Loved the trailer for this game

13 year old me loved this game. It was the first 18+ game I was allowed to play randomly, so it'll always have a special place in my heart!

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.

One of my favorite games i played in my life

I had so much fun playing this on the ps3 when I was a lot younger but i recently bought on pc and had more fun then i probably ever would

Glad you mentioned the first level as it is quite memorable. Timeshift is good shooter with sci fi vibes of 80s & 90s movies

I would love to see remake of this game or next episode this game has potential

i still have my copy i got at gamestop in the clearance bin when i was a child and convinced my mom to buy it for me because it looked “cool” and i LOVED game.

I use to mistake this game for Haze. The box art look so similar with the yellow armor.

My dad and I played this game and really enjoyed it. That time neither of us spoke or understood English, so the lack of story wasn't a big deal. I remember being mindblown when I realized Half Life 2 had a story lol

I loved playing this

I got this game years ago and loved it. I really enjoyed the multiplayer too!

The game had multiplayer on xbox. I played it and it's an arena shooter with drops, pickups, and pretty ight maps. One time it was an open lobby with us two and a German guy joied and played with us. Was really fun

Also Dark Sector and Singularity love them

The thing about TimeShift that's most interesting to me, is that it apparently has the same composer as the Legend of Spyro trilogy and Crash Twinsanity.