TimeShift is a sci-fi first-person shooter developed by Saber Interactive and published by Sierra Entertainment for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It was developed using the Saber 3D engine, v.S-3 and Havok. On Aug. 31, 2007 (5 years ago) a demo of TimeShift was released on Xbox Live Marketplace. Following this, a PlayStation 3 demo was released onto the PlayStation Store on Nov. 1, 2007 (5 years ago). The game was released on Xbox 360 and Windows on Oct. 30, 2007 (5 years ago) in North America; Nov. 1, 2007 (5 years ago) in Australia; and Nov. 2, 2007 (5 years ago) in Europe.
PlotScientists from the near future have begun work on creating a viable time machine. The project results in the creation of two devices, the Alpha Suit, a less advanced prototype jump suit, and the Beta Suit, a more advanced, so-called military grade model with features the Alpha Suit lacks such as combat-related timeshifting abilities and an integrated artificial intelligence to prevent the creation of temporal paradoxes.
The director of the project, Dr. Aiden Krone, takes the Alpha Suit and travels into the past. Once there he alters the timeline, placing himself as the ruler of the Krone Magistrate that controls a dystopic world.
The protagonist, a fellow scientist whose name is never spoken (never mentioned in the game or manual), then takes the Beta Suit and follows Dr. Krone back to the year 1939 (73 years ago) (in an alternate timestream) to a place called Alpha District. He then proceeds to assist the Occupant Rebellion against Dr. Krone.
He is confronted eventually by Krone in giant war-machine which nearly destroys the Occupant Rebellion, but succeeds in destroying it. As an incapacitated Krone emerges from the wreckage, the protagonist walks up to him and kills him. He is thanked by the Occupant commander and returns to the beginning of the game to save his girlfriend who had been killed by the explosion Krone had caused. He shuts down the bomb and walks up to his girlfriend, who begins to wake up and reaches out to him but does not know who he is. As he begins to remove his mask the AI in the suit cries out the alert that a paradox is imminent, and transports him away.
GameplayThe key feature of TimeShift is the player's ability to control time: slowing, stopping or even rewinding time more or less at will. This allows a player to stop time to dodge an incoming projectile or steal an enemy's weapon. Specific time-related puzzles also require these abilities. The player's abilities also affect the color of their environment in such that slowing time produces a blueshift, rewinding it produces a yellow haze, and stopping time creates a white filter "haze".
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