And it's here where things got mildly disappointing, since even with a couple of hours of play we didn't get a chance to really use reverse time very much. It did get us out of a couple of spots where, after walking around a corner into a crowd of enemies, it was possible to duck back behind the corner and reverse time so the enemies "forgot" we were there, thus preserving the element of surprise. For the most part though, at least in the relatively early sections of the game we played, it was all about slow-mo bullet time with the occasional time stop to walk over water or fire. Which, honestly, was a lot of fun- if nothing else, TimeShift appears to be a well-designed and challenging FPS- but not quite up to its potential. Hopefully, later sections have puzzles that take better advantage of the stopping and reversing possibilities.
The voice casting here is also top notch: Dennis Quaid stars as Swift, with Michael Ironside as Krone and Nick Chinlund as General Mitchell (the military overseer of the project). Now, sometimes having such recognizable voices can work against a game, but in this case they actually fit extremely well.
