TimeShift

 PlayStation 3
User Score
6.5

Mixed or average reviews- based on 33 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 33
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 33
  3. Negative: 7 out of 33
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  1. JalexD.
    Jan 27, 2008
    7
    It's very fun most of the time, but the frustrating moments happen too frequently to make this a truly great game. Still a great concept, though.
  2. Mothmaan
    Feb 10, 2013
    5
    Timeshift is a decent shooter, with some interesting time-manipulating abilities. However, the graphics are not too great, and the timeshifting becomes boring because of the repetitive and linear gameplay, not to mention the story, which is a great mess.
  3. rcoberle54
    Apr 27, 2020
    6
    I am about 3 levels from the end of this game. If you've never played this game before I would describe it as a mix of Singularity and Resistance: Fall of Man. It's got the time travel/time power abilities of Singularity with the alternate World War aspect of Resistance and it's weapons with secondary fires. It also has some Wolfenstein like aesthetics. Some of the guns are fun but onesI am about 3 levels from the end of this game. If you've never played this game before I would describe it as a mix of Singularity and Resistance: Fall of Man. It's got the time travel/time power abilities of Singularity with the alternate World War aspect of Resistance and it's weapons with secondary fires. It also has some Wolfenstein like aesthetics. Some of the guns are fun but ones like the EMF and Thunderbolt are so OP they make the rest of the weapons moot.

    Like Fracture, the game I played before this, it's pretty one note that gets old quick. You simply slow time, shoot bad guys, move through linear level. The use of reversing time and completing stopping time are hardly ever used. Slowing time is the best option so you do it over and over again. There are only a few very remedial puzzles to solve and it could have done a lot more with this concept. I was thinking of Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time as an example of a much better shooter game with puzzles that required you to use your time stopping powers. This game needed more of things like that. It also has next to no story what so ever and has the tropes this era brought along of no sprinting and a voiceless playable character. Also there are no collectibles, secrets, or map pickups other than weapons. I think a nice element that could have been added to spruce it up some would have been a pickup that allows you to reverse time before your death to help avoid going through a tedious load screen again and starting back over at the checkpoint. There could have been one or two of these sprinkled throughout every level. Would have given you reason to explore the map and incorporated it's time element a bit more. You actually die surprisingly easily even on the easiest difficulty which becomes frustrating and annoying. The most annoying aspect of this game was the jumping mechanic which i think is the single worst jumping mechanic in any FPS ever.

    Overall Timeshift is fine. Singularity uses its time elements much better in it's story, setting, and atmosphere yet Timeshift holds up okay 13 years later. I would have found it much better around the time of release, especially if I was able to play it's multiplayer, but it's certainly been done much better since.    … Expand
  4. HuevoAlce
    Jun 26, 2022
    7
    Some of my favorite multiplayer moments came from this game. While the story is lackluster, the game is nothing but fun online.

Awards & Rankings

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#62 Best PS3 Game of 2007
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#41 Most Discussed PS3 Game of 2007
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#29 Most Shared PS3 Game of 2007

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Metascore
70

Mixed or average reviews - based on 16 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. PSX Extreme
    59
    The epitome of mediocrity; it brings a few nice features with it, but ultimately adds nothing to the very crowded first-person shooter segment. Its A.I. is absurdly dumb, but requires more than a fair share of bullets to kill.
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  2. IGN
    76
    A great deal of work was done to bring the look and feel of TimeShift up to date, though an equal amount of time should have been spent on the design and presentation.
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  3. Armchair Empire
    70
    It doesn’t make TimeShift a bad game, it edges slightly above average thanks to the time powers.
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