TimeShift™

Sorry GOG, love you guys, but an almost decade old FPS isn't worth $20, especially when its cheaper elsewhere

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I do not personally own this game, but I have spent several hours trying to get it to work on a friends machine. The game either crashes with "unhandled exception" error, or just hangs indefinitely at the loading screen. Either way, you won't get into the game. A TON of searching about this issue reveals that mostly hyper-threaded Intel systems have issues, and more people using AMD CPUs report success. This issue persists with the original disc game, steam release, and most disappointingly the GOG release. Some people have had success turning off hyper-threading or forcing the game to run on a single thread using software, but I found the former too cumbersome and the later to not work. I have recommended GOG to people over and over again due to what I thought was a commitment to ensuring the games sold on their platform still worked on modern systems, something sorely lacking from Steam. GOG, please either fix this game or remove it from your library for the sake of your reputation.

Time shift is a game without any character and charm, so much in fact that even in the short hours of entertainment it provides, you feel like you've had enough of it. Everything is lifelessly gray and ugly (to think this game was released in the same year as Crysis...), the story and the world it presents is something you possibly can't care about; everything about the game is so exceptionally dull. The time manipulating gimmick in the game can be its one selling point (and I'm sure this is what the developers thought when they were slowly killing their ambition as the project went on, if there was any in the first place), but the problem is the ability to rewind time is rarely used (and that's just for scripted in-your-face scenarios) and is pretty much useless in combat, the ability to slow time was implemented much more satisfyingly in F.E.A.R. and the ability to stop time... well, yeah you can stop time, go among your enemies and bash them in the face with the butt of your gun. The game's got that going for it. It's not that Timeshift is a bad game. It's just that it's such a wasted opportunity, it's almost infuriating. Timeshift is a game that is completely reliant one single idea, an idea which is not that novel in the first place, and it does so little with it. A game that is so spineless, so much on the safe side, might be worth playing for some cheap hours of entertainment, but it's not worthy of any admiration. So yeah, 2 stars.