MusicallyInspired wrote:TimeShift. So much potential....so drab and boring. The (back)story is told through cutscenes in between levels.
I like Timeshift, or rather I like parts of it. The time manipulation is really good, the levels look good, the weapons are good, and at times it can be very enjoyable.
On the other hand, the story is told extremely badly, it must be one of the worst games ever as far as story telling is concerned. I mean, I've completed the game several times now, and I still don't know most of the story. I'm not saying the story is bad, it sounds promising, but since you never get a clear sense of it, then even if it is good, you miss most of it since it's told so badly.
Much worse is that parts of the games are dull (this should never happen in a game). Some parts are irritating more than anything else. And the in-game puzzles, that you have to use your time-manipulation abilities to progress in the game, feel contrived and scream out at you "This wouldn't happen in the real world, this is obviously added by the designers to get you to use the game's USP [time control]".
Basically, it's a great concept with very uneven realisation. If they'd have delayed it for a few more months, then they might have been able to make it into a genuinely great game by shortening/changing/improving parts of it. Or if it had had a sequel then that might have been the great game that the first one could have been, but sadly no sequel was forthcoming.
And something else that really irritates me about the game is that the modding tools were never released for it, which is a huge pity, as (good) modders could have made some incredible mods based around the time manipulation abilities.