Super Time Force (Game)

Super Time Force

GAME » on May 14, 2014

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In this pixel-styled retro shooter from the makers of "Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP", an elite team of totally extreme heroes called the Super T.I.M.E. Force must travel through time and use heavy firepower and the ability to manipulate time to overcome their enemies.

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Overview

Super T.I.M.E. Force is a retro side-scrolling shooter on the onset set in the year 198X, in outer-space, that focuses on time-manipulation. It was released on Xbox 360 and Xbox One on May 14th, 2014, with a "Ultra" edition PC release on August 25, 2014. The Playstation 4 and Vita version released on September 1, 2015.

Gameplay

Total mayhem

The game is a side-scrolling shooter, that has a unique time-manipulation mechanic. Every action a character takes (e.g. jumping, running, shooting, acquiring one of the various collectibles) is recorded and upon death, or at the press of a button can be rewinded and plays out again parallel to what is happening in real time with another player character.

This leads to multiple clones of player characters running and gunning at the same time. Another important mechanic is, that the player can save themselves from death. If an enemy shoots the player character, and the player rewinds to an earlier state and then proceeds to kill the enemy before he actually kills the first player character, that character is saved and can be picked up to stack power ups.

Every character has a normal attack and a special charge shot. There are multiple starting characters, and 13 unlockable characters.

The different levels feature two types of collectibles:

Shards, that upon shooting/collecting slow down time. They only show up after rewinding past the point they are to be collected. There are 3 on each level.
Glorbs, that serve no gameplay purpose. They can be found in the level, or be killing enemies/destroying objects. When falling out of enemies/objects, the player has to be quick to catch them, because they shatter upon hitting the ground. There are 10 on each level.

Most levels also feature Looker Shards that can only be obtained when the player reaches the Shard in a certain time. If the time limit is not met, collecting the shard will make a counter appear indicating the target time.

Upon completion of the game a new difficulty setting called Super Hardcore Mode is unlocked. In this mode each member of The Super Time Force can only die once.

Story

The story tells the exploits of Prof. Repeatski, later known as Cdr. Repeatski, a loser scientist who discovers time travel.

He uses the power time travel gives him to build a special time corps known as The Super Time Force. He recruits people from several periods in time to serve under him and his goal is to rewrite history to his liking. Which includes unsinking the lost city of Atlantis, so it can be used as a holiday resort, and preventing the extinction of the dinosaurs, because they are awesome.

Repeatski is opposed by the mysterious Dr. Infinity, who calls The Super Time Force terrorists, who don't care about the repercussions that come with changing the past.

Playable Characters

Starting Characters

Jean Rambois

Weapon: Machine Gun
Charge Special: Rapid-Fire Spread

Aimy McKillin

Weapon: Sniper Rifle (bullets bounce off walls)
Charge Special: Laser Shot (shoots through walls)

Shieldy Blockerson

Weapon: Shield (melee bash attack/deflect projectiles)
Charge Special: Shield Orb (invulnerability inside a halo)

Unlockable Characters

Jef Leppard

Weapon: Bazooka (shots drop)
Charge Special: Rocket Shot (no drop, splash damage)

Zackasaurus

Weapon: Bite (Zack can also jump on enemy's heads to kill them)
Charge Special: Goo Spit

Lou Don Jim

Weapon: Laser Sword
Charge Special: Laser Sword Throw

Melanie Gibson

Weapon: Shotgun
Charge Special: Bigger Spread/Range Shotgun Blast

Cleo

Weapon: Multiple Boomerangs surrounding her
Charge Special: All Boomerangs are charged and fired at the enemy

Merlin

Weapon: Staff
Charge Special: Damage Rune

Stash

Weapon: Chainsaw
Charged Special: Charged up Pump Action Shotgun

Squirty Harry

Weapon: Magnum
Charge Special: Gas Cloud

Dolphin Lundgren

Weapon: Squeak
Charge Special: Gatling Gun

Cdr. Repeatski

Weapon: Holo Fist
Charge Special: Chest Beam

Da Vinci

Weapon: Arrow
Charge Special: Hovering Arrow Turret

Re-Bot

Weapon: Machine Gun
Charge Special: Multiple Target Seeking Rockets

The Looker

"Weapon": Target Indicator
Charge Special: Several lasers that home in on the target indicator.

Stages

198X

Due to the discovery of time travel Philadelphia has been destroyed and invaded by Blounbots. It's up to the Super T.I.M.E. Force to defeat these sinister robots and find out why the world has gone to heck.

1,000,000 B.C.

In an effort to create a human-dinosaur society, Commander Repeatski sends the Super T.I.M.E. Force back in time to save the dinosaurs from extinction.

9600 B.C.

In order to save the city of Atlantis from sinking into the ocean, Command Repeatski dispatches the Super T.I.M.E. Force back in time to discover the cause of the fabled city's demise and to reverse it.

673

Repeatski's favorite medieval themed restaurant franchise is going out of business and he's very angry about it. In order to save his beloved eatery, he sends the super time force back to 673 to steal the Holy Grail which he plans to sell online and pay off all of the franchise's debt.

199X

With the realization that babies are boring, Repeatski sends the team in to the future in order to find his grown up daughter and see how she is doing. However, once they get there, it seems that the future isn't quite what Repeatski thought it would be. It's up to the team to fix this post-apocalyptic landscape and return Cleo back to her father.

3072

The President sent Commander Repeatski a hilarious cat video but his browser does not have the right plug-ins to play it. To help quell his frustration he sends the team to the far future to get all of the plug-ins for ever.

Dr. Infinity

After the Earth explodes, The Super Time force sets out to finally put a stop to Dr. Infinity, who they think is responsible for the Earth's destruction.

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