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| TimeShift Review by Luke |  | | PALGN Review: Not necessarily worth your time. | | [View Article] |
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did you find many people online?
thats the problem i'm having with shadowrun, picked it up for 25$, can't find anyone to play, which is unfortunate as i'm enjoying it's take on multiplayer.....
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I was supposed to review this game for the magazine I was writing for, but I hated it that much that they wouldn't let me due to a TimeShift full page ad in the same issue XD
So I had to send it to someone else to do.
This game is not very good.
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This advertising beats review thing has got to stop, i love it in the paper when they review a movie and say it's the biggest load of crap, but have a 2 page feature on one of the stars promoting the film in the same issue saying how good the film is......Freedom of Speech doing it's job
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| Fetidchimp wrote: | did you find many people online?
thats the problem i'm having with shadowrun, picked it up for 25$, can't find anyone to play, which is unfortunate as i'm enjoying it's take on multiplayer..... |
Shadowrun is a fantastic game but I doubt many people are still playing it because the studio that created shut up shop, that and there are so many online shooters that shipped over the xmas period.
Pity, such an awesome game that wasn't well recieved for some reason.
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This has only just come out here? I bought the Asian version for $50 months ago... I quite enjoyed the demo so thought I'd give it a spin. Haven't gotten around to it yet 'cause of all the other awesome games on the 360 atm though.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:28 pm Post subject: |
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| LeonJ wrote: | | wasn't well recieved for some reason. |
because it shat on 20+ years of the franchises conventions and lore, and resulted in something totally wrong for the brand.
Shadowrun fans were expecting an RPG because of the name, and bought an FPS they were unused to.
FPS fans would've seen the name and assumed it was an RPG like EVERY OTHER Shadowrun titled item in existence.
they would've been better off calling it something else, at least then the appropriate markets might've noticed it.
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| Mr Waffle wrote: | | This has only just come out here? I bought the Asian version for $50 months ago... I quite enjoyed the demo so thought I'd give it a spin. Haven't gotten around to it yet 'cause of all the other awesome games on the 360 atm though. |
It was out on 360 months ago as well. This review is just late for whatever reason.
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| ObsoletE wrote: | | LeonJ wrote: | | wasn't well recieved for some reason. |
because it shat on 20+ years of the franchises conventions and lore, and resulted in something totally wrong for the brand.
Shadowrun fans were expecting an RPG because of the name, and bought an FPS they were unused to.
FPS fans would've seen the name and assumed it was an RPG like EVERY OTHER Shadowrun titled item in existence.
they would've been better off calling it something else, at least then the appropriate markets might've noticed it. |
I don't see why a game should be marked down because it's not what the fans expected. It was set in the 'universe' but never promised an RPG elements at all so I don't see what the problem is.
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I don't think he was saying it's a shit game, just that no one bought it because they were confused, which leads to the problem i'm having, no one to play. I was expecting more like an updated version of the megadrive game, so i was one of those that was confused by it. So i waited to get it cheap and was pleasantly surprised i must say, the magic is implemented so well.
Still they needed a campaign, FPS with RPG elements would have been dandy. The more i play the bots the more i want to play online arggg....
maybe shadowrun 2.....
wasn't this a review of Timeshift 
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I played through the entire campaign in a few short days and by the end only finished it to finish it. It was awful, ugly, and easy. The review mentions it's quite difficult but I beat the game through on hard without much effort to be honest: your powers are WAY to powerful. If it's hard you just freeze them... thus no competition!
I wouldn't recommend this game to ANYONE... ever.
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| Fetidchimp wrote: | did you find many people online?
thats the problem i'm having with shadowrun, picked it up for 25$, can't find anyone to play, which is unfortunate as i'm enjoying it's take on multiplayer..... |
I found matches fairly easily, but to be honest I only really managed to find international hosts so my connection hindered the experience. The online community is, however, tiny compared to that of say COD4 and Halo 3. Given how the game has been recieved critically, I think the online community will only get smaller over time, similarly to Shadowrun (which I also loved.)
The game *is* easy if you use the same repetitive strategy I mentioned, but if you actually try to experiment and have fun with the game, you'll find yourself getting killed more often than not. Which ain't fun.
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You two nailed it on the head.
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ZzZzZz,
I played the timeshift demo and i LOVED IT , will buy the full game one day.
All because it didnt get promoted and "l33t people" didnt like it doesnt mean its a bad game, i dont understand how someone can hate that game so much...i found bioshock more boring.
I dont understand why people hate the game they never give a reason
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welcome to having an opinion.
it's fine that you like something no one else does, likewise not liking something that everyone else does.
but if you're going to be critical of people not leaving a reason, at least be sure to leave a reason for the things you don't like, especially when it's all in the one post. 
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\/ Fair enough.
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Whats that got to do with any of this...
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| MazzarX wrote: | ZzZzZz,
I played the timeshift demo and i LOVED IT , will buy the full game one day.
All because it didnt get promoted and "l33t people" didnt like it doesnt mean its a bad game, i dont understand how someone can hate that game so much...i found bioshock more boring.
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First: you played the DEMO and loved it. WOW good for you. I'll get to why that means absolutely NOTHING in a moment.
Okay let me say a few of my reasons for giving this game a bad review... first and foremost slow time, kill as many people as you can and get back in cover before it runs out. Repeat. For the whole game. If you do not get back into cover in time, consider yourself dead. This is the only battle strategy that works effectively in this game. Pause/slow, leap out, shoot, hide, fail and die. Die. Die. Die. Over and over.
The first level is also quite misleading. Many people play it (the demo is the first level btw) and think wow this game looks and sounds great. No. The first level does, but it looks like a completely different GAME. All that beautiful lighting? Gone. Those fantastic ambient noises and surround effects? Gone. The rest of the game is barely average and almost comparable to an original Xbox game.
You also have glimpses at huge open areas and think WOW, I'll get to explore. Not so. I point to one level set in a snow field. The field is absolutely enormous, but as with the rest of the game you are shuttled through tiny corridors and ditches not once getting to do anything than progress through a corridor and then engage in combat and repeat.
Speaking of this snow field, it is home to one of the most pathetic sequences in the game: you have to run from one side of the field to the other with little cover in a straight line (because you're stuck to the linear corridor remember). Ok...but theres about 15 guys shooting at you. And you won't make it. So you snipe them. Then they respawn. 6-10 times. So once youve spent a good 10-15 minutes standing in one spot picking guys off, then you can casually stroll to the next corridor. If you get sick of it and move on without killing them, hah, you'll probably die and have to spend another 15 minutes. It is utterly boring and sequences like this have no place in a fast paced genre.
Due to the length of my post I won't list any more dislikes, but yes... this game is quite flawed. And not fun.
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 awww ,
Thanks
Still i might get it
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