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Singularity
borrows a little bit
of everything from
all kinds of hit
shooters. Ranging
from
Half
Life 2
to
Bioshock
to
Fallout
to
Dead
Space.
The end creation, is
a game that is more
or less good
bordering on decent.
You
are Nate Renko, an
American soldier
sent to the island
of Katorga 12 to
investigate some
mysterious
happenings. When the
shit hits the fan
and the course of
time has been
shifted and altered
terribly, it’s up to
you to correct the
order of things and
restore things to
normalcy. Here
you’re fighting the
Russians. In
Singularity,
the story goes that
the Russians took
power over the world
during the Cold War
by discovering a
powerful element
known as E-99 on
Katorga 12 that can
alter time and space
and can make normal
Communist loving
Russians into
super-evil monsters.
It’s up to Renko to
kill all the Russian
monsters he can and
set things right.
When
I say that this game
borrows from
different games, I
mean that in the
nicest of ways. The
style of the art and
the atmosphere and
the detective work
involved screams of
Bioshock.
The Anti Gravity
portion of your EMD
device has
Half
Life 2
written all over it,
the presentation of
the storyline is
done in the style of
Fallout
and the evil
monsters look a lot
like the creatures
from
Dead
Space.
Sure, you would have
liked to have seen
some original ideas
tossed out, but at
least they took some
of the best concepts
from all of these
games and put them
to good use.
The
main gimmick in
Singularity
doesn’t have too
much to do with any
of these previous
qualities. This game
is about time
travel. You travel
in time through
shifts to right
wrongs and you have
a special device
known as an EMD that
can alter the age of
objects restoring
them or decaying
their form. You use
your EMD to navigate
around the island of
Katorga 12 solving
some puzzles that
have to do with
aging objects so you
can get around.
Singularity
isn’t a bad game.
It’s actually pretty
decent. The end
product of all of
these great ideas is
a decent one. As
noted before,
something new would
have been preferred,
but this does a good
enough job that it
can keep you
entertained. The one
thing that should
have been done
better is the
storyline. It was
pretty straight
forward, and even
though you’re
supposed to get a
dramatic surprise at
the end, it’s not
all that surprising
if you’ve done the
leg work throughout
the early stages of
the game.
Singularity
wins, but it doesn’t
win big. It’s a
decent game that
will keep you
entertained while
waiting for
something else to
come out.
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