History VideoGame / TimeShift

** There's a bug in unpatched versions of the game where the helmets on Krone soldiers (the guys wearing green armor) don't work properly; as a result, they can be killed with a single headshot. This makes the later levels significantly easier. For some reason, the UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} version of ''Timeshift'' still has this bug, even though it's supposedly patched.

* ObviousBeta: A lot of the in-game loading screens refer to missing features, and the rewind power is disabled a lot to prevent minor bugs; they "justify" this as a security measure.

* TimeStandsStill: One of the three time powers you can use in the game is the ability to freeze time.
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* SuperPrototype: Zigzagged. The Alpha suit is capable of feats of time travel greater than the Beta suit. However, this is largely due to failsafes and automated systems added to the Beta suit which makes it safer and more convenient to use.

* SuperpoweredMooks: The cybernetic Quantum Guards; there are 3 different types (Flash, Storm, and Warp), and 2 of the 3 have a special time-bending ability similar to your own. The only non-time-bending superpowered Mooks, the Storm Guards, [[ShieldBearingMook actually use shields]] not unlike the Jackals from ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''.

* HarderThanHard: Elite difficulty.

* BaldOfEvil: Krone is bald.

* GlassCannon: You can carry various weaponry and dish out all the damage you can to take down {{Mooks}} while in your time-bending Beta Suit, but its shields are rather weak and once they're out, [[OneHitPointWonder you're toast in one hit]].

** The concept is good, but they could have done so much more, both with the time powers and the general setting and storyline.

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* [[Cyberpunk]]: Krone's reality in a nutshell, with hints of Steampunk.

* Cyberpunk: Krone's reality in a nutshell, with hints of Steampunk.

** The Alpha suit is the root of the Beta suit, which is prototype of a design that is supposedly being designed for military use. Apparently the army are sane enough not to give their soldiers the ability to travel back several decades.

* BittersweetEnding: The Time Traveler manages to defeat Krone and repair the timeline, including undoing the murder of his lover Dr Marissa Foster, returning to his proper time. Before he can reunite with her, remove the suit, it picks up a temporal distortion, and sends him away to an unknown time and location.

* BookEnds: The ending takes place at the same location and point in time as the intro. Only difference is, things are going well for the Occupants, thanks to your efforts.

* ASpaceMarineIsYou: You're ''supposedly'' a scientist, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that something is amiss. [[spoiler: Cutscenes reveal that you're in fact a government spook planted to keep an eye on Krone.]]

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* FacklerScaleOfFPSRealism: The gameplay is generally ''VideoGame/FarCry'' influenced (three weapons only carry system and a few hand grenades) but with several differences. First, you are clad in a PoweredArmor with time-bending powers similar to ''VideoGame/{{FEAR}}''. Unlike ''FEAR'', you have a more complex time-bending system ([[BulletTime Time Slow]], [[TimeStandsStill Time Stop]], and Time Reverse, all [[ColourCodedTimestop Colour Coded]] [[ColourCodedForYourConvenience For Your Convenience]]) and it is pretty much ''mandatory'' to use your time-bending powers as playing the game in an old-school, Rambo-like manner will get you killed very quickly, thanks to how EXTREMELY aggressive the AI is and how VERY fast-paced combat is. There are various puzzles in the game which pretty much require your time-bending powers to pass through and with a careful amount of precision. Your suit has shields that can regenerate as long as you are in cover and not taking any hits. However, your health is static and your health is a whopping one unit of health, meaning taking any hit when your shields are out is instant death. Finally, because of the one unit of health, there are no health pickups to come by, forcing you to use strategy.

* MysteriousPast: Cutscenes reveal that [[spoiler:you may, in fact, be a plant; a special agent sent to keep an eye on Krone ''just in case'' he tried this.]]

* WhereItAllBegan: The final level is the same as the tutorial level, but since you've spent the rest of the game changing history leading up to that point, things are radically different.

* {{Jerkass}}: Commander Cooke, the rebellion leader, is incredibly far from polite and thankful during gameplay, considering you are pretty much the ''[[ItsUpToYou sole reason]]'' the Occupants are getting anywhere in their resistance efforts, though this is more of a case of AnnoyingVideoGameHelper due to bad programming. He's actually a pretty decent guy in the actual cutscenes, but during gameplay he'll often radio you the same 2 or 3 "Get your ass in gear!" lines [[WelcomeToCorneria OVER]] and [[MostAnnoyingSound OVER]] again, even if you're going through the level as fast as humanly possible.

* EliteMooks: Some of the Krone soldiers encountered in the later levels have subtly different armor, and are much more durable, being able to survive almost a full clip of assault rifle fire or even a direct hit from a rifle grenade (although they can still be killed quickly with late-game weapons like the ThunderBolt, Hellfire, or Surge Gun). Many of them also carry E.M.F. cannons.

* EvilMinions: Throughout the game, you often come across enemy workers, who are usually seen sitting at computers or going through toolboxes. When the player appears, they pick up the nearest weapon. They wear no armor(making them weak), usually carry low-level weapons, and have bad combat tactics

* SecondHourSuperpower: The first suit you get.

''[=TimeShift=]'' is a 2007 ScienceFiction FirstPersonShooter game developed by Saber Interactive and published by Sierra. Their second game after ''VideoGame/WillRock''. The general plot is that the Bad Guy, Dr. Krone, uses a prototype time-travelling suit (known as the Alpha Suit) to go back in time and rewrite history as they see fit, with the protagonist (an [[MysteriousPast unknown "scientist"]]) travelling back to stop him in the Beta Suit. Is notable for its focus on time altering powers.

* BookEnds: The ending takes place at the same location and point in time as the intro.

* MysteriousPast: Cutscenes reveal that [[spoiler:you may in fact be a plant; a special agent sent to keep an eye on Krone ''just in case'' he tried this.]]

* OneManArmy: You, obviously. What with your time-altering suit and all. Despite the fact that you sometimes fight alongside allied Occupant insurgents, the only allies you really need are you timeshifting abilities. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in one later level where one of the {{Mooks}} says, "What, just one guy?".

* TheMissingno: At the end of the first level, it is possible to find an occupant with Commander Cooke's face.