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TimeShift video now available

For your downloading pleasure.

Atari has released a new video of PC, Xbox and Xbox 360 title TimeShift - and it's now available for download.

TimeShift is a first-person shooter set in the near future that sees you playing as test pilot Colonel Michael Swift. The US Government has tasked him with testing two exciting new inventions - a time-control device called the Quantum Suit, and a time machine known as the Chronomicon.

After popping back to 1911 to plant an experimental probe, Swift returns to the present only to find everything's different - and that he's an enemy of the state. Oh boy. Expect lots of time control trickery, fast-paced shooting and groundbreaking graphics, according to Atari.

TimeShift is due out on Xbox later this year, with the PC and Xbox 360 versions to follow in 2006.