Timeshift

Plot Summary

Scientists from the near future have begun work on creating a viable time machine. The project results in the creation of two devices, the Alpha Suit, a less advanced prototype jump suit, and the Beta Suit, a more advanced, so-called military grade model with features the Alpha Suit lacks such as combat-related timeshifting abilities and an integrated artificial intelligence to prevent the creation of temporal paradoxes.

The director of the project, Dr. Aiden Krone, takes the Alpha Suit and travels into the past. Once there he alters the timeline, placing himself as the ruler of the Krone Magistrate that controls a dystopic world.

The protagonist, a fellow scientist whose name is never spoken (never mentioned in the game or manual), then takes the Beta Suit and follows Dr. Krone back to the year 1939 (in an alternate timestream) to a place called Alpha District. He then proceeds to assist the Occupant Rebellion against Dr. Krone.

He is confronted eventually by Krone in giant war-machine which nearly destroys the Occupant Rebellion, but succeeds in destroying it. As an incapacitated Krone emerges from the wreckage, the protagonist walks up to him and kills him. He is thanked by the Occupant commander and returns to the beginning of the game to save his girlfriend who had been killed by the explosion Krone had caused. He shuts down the bomb and walks up to his girlfriend, who begins to wake up and reaches out to him but does not know who he is. As he begins to remove his mask the AI in the suit cries out the alert that a paradox is imminent, and transports him away.