Using time powers in firefights is fun, but the AI in the game is such that you can beat it without too much difficulty without using your time powers. For example, you can take out a courtyard full of enemies simply by hiding around the corner and waiting for them to come around the corner one by one.

I'm not trying to be overly harsh on the game, overall I had fun playing it, it's just that a feature as cool as time manipulation should have a better game built around it. It's disappointing to see that at its heart, TimeShift is a relatively generic shooter. Shooter fans will want to check it out, but it's not going to tear anyone away from Halo 3 or Call of Duty 4 for long.

The game does include a multiplayer component. As you can probably imagine, a game in which all the players can pause time wouldn't really get anywhere, so the time suits have been replaced with chrono grenades. Everyone within range of an exploding chrono grenade is affected by it and is either frozen, slowed down, or moved backwards in time. It's a cool mechanic that makes for some unique gamplay, but as you can probably guess these grenades are lobbed all over the place during a match. TimeShift has an impressive number of multiplayer modes. Besides the classics such as deathmatch and capture the flag, there's a mode in which one player holds a time sphere that makes him or her impervious to chrono grenades until killed and another in which one team must defend a countdown clock while the other tries to stop its countdown with chrono grenades. There's certainly some fun to be had with the game's multiplayer, and the number of optional features and variants is impressive.

In The End, This Game Hath Been Rated: 76%. TimeShift has its moments, but you'll wish that you could rewind time and re-release the game with more imaginative level design and smarter AI.

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