"Few games have gone through a development cycle as strange and convoluted as TimeShift's. After four years of development, three extensions, two publishers, three re-recordings of voice acting, three iterations of the story, two sets of discrete FMVs and multiple iterations of Saber's technology base, the game finally made it to the shelves for Holiday 2007"
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"We were literally seven bugs away from finishing the game and then [Sierra president Mark] Tremblay comes in and asks us -- what would you do with this game if you had more time and money?" Sierra representative Erik Reynolds says, watching the gunfight on the LCD TV sitting in front of him, "Then we had all these ideas..."
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The TimeShift developers must feel like victims of their own time-changing technology. Over a year ago they showed off the "finished" product as an Atari title. But when Sierra bought the rights, the publisher saw a game that failed to live up to its potential, bit the bullet, and put it back into production. Now here we stand once again, playing a nearly final version of TimeShift with its release just around the corner.
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Pros: Great A.I. for a FPS title. Time-control elements are implemented very well. Offers a good deal of difficulty. Cons: Reeks of generic FPS hallmarks. Online multiplayer is something that seems tacked on and you probably won’t use it. There’s a lot of potential here, but it seems partially unfulfilled.
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