GameSpot previews TimeShift, an upcoming first-person shooter that will allow the player to actually control time.

    Manipulating time is hardly a new feature in first-person shooters. "Bullet time" or slow motion has been a popular staple in games ever since The Matrix introduced the world to the cool visual concept. TimeShift wants to go much further than bullet time, though. This sci-fi shooter from Sierra and Saber Interactive will let you really mess around with the flow of time. You'll get a chance to play with a demo of the game this August, but we got an early hands-on play through of what to expect.

    To make a long story short, TimeShift is about a scientist who steals a top-secret time suit and alters the course of history, and your character is packed into a "beta" version of the suit and sent after him. Your suit has its own artificial intelligence personality that helps guide you through the game, as well as three powers: It can temporarily stop, slow, and reverse time. Of course, the suit keeps you and your weapons immune from all its effects, so you can use your time powers to your advantage. Are you being attacked by too many enemies? Then stop or slow time and quickly unload a few rounds into several opponents; they'll drop dead as soon as time is restored. Or run up to a frozen enemy, grab the weapon out of his hands, and then restore the flow of time and blast him at point blank range with his own gun. With the suit, time is on your side.

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