Just finished Timeshift. Despite tepid reviews, I still want to check it out just to see the nifty time mechanics. I don't usually mind derivative shooters.

Meh.

It was ok for a bit, but the time mechanics aren't enough to really recommend it due to the rest of the problems. Sometimes when driving vehicles you just die from hitting some random piece of geometry. Other times the game says "Haha. Now that that environmental hazard killed you, you will know that you need to use your time powers when you reload the last check point". Sometimes the suit tells you that something is about to happen, but until you know what it can be pretty hard to avoid these things happening. Enemies can hit you from a billion yards away, and in some firefights it is almost mandatory to use your time powers to survive, and if you happen to run out of juice at the wrong time it probably means game over. I have no idea what the story was about. I jumped back in time to chase some other dude or something, I began helping some random people who didn't seem to care too much that I came from the future, and looked like an overgrown can of sardines, and I shot people when my cursor turned red when I aimed at them. There was a flashback of some woman every now and again. I have no idea why. And then the game ends on an anti-climax. I finished the game, but I thought about giving up a few times. On the plus side, shooting people in the face with a shotgun in slo-mo never gets old.

So there is my short review, I haven't been in the mood to write full reviews lately, I might eventually write one for Eternal Sonata. I'd score Timeshift a 6.0. It had some neat ideas, but they don't save it from paling in comparison to other great shooters of this generation.

I seem to try and play shooters between other games, I think there is just something about shooters that seems to work for me, even if they are mediocre ones like Timeshift. But I'm out of options in the collection. Metroid Prime Gamecube; I'd rather wait til I have the Metroid Prime Trilogy on Wii to play with those controls. Medal of Honor Airborne; tried playing that a couple of times and just get frustrated. Army of Two; have started playing this on co-op so I think I will leave that for when my mate comes over so we can continue on that one together. I can't really justify buying any games at the moment when I have a number of games unplayed or uncompleted in the collection. I'm sure I can do without a shooter for a while, though I do need to finish up Fallout 3, so that should scratch that itch, though it's not quite the same.

So what's next? *peruses collection*

Prince of Persia, I choose you.