This review will likely contain large amounts of spoilers, annoyances, rants, and possibly some form of humor.
This review will likely contain large amounts of spoilers, annoyances, rants, and possibly some form of humor as I decide if a game is worthy of the triumph/tribulation title…. Or…. "Triumbulation" which would be somewhere in-between the two.
Singularity begins with you flying towards your objective in a helicopter, and of course if you play many FPS games you know where this is heading. A wave of energy hit the helo causing it to crash.. just once I would like to have something pleasant happen to me while flying in a helicopter.
The first hour in Singularity is greatly different than what follows, almost reminiscent of the experience you receive in dead space. Evil humanoid creatures jumping out of spooky environments with you wielding only a pistol with limited bits of ammo. Though once you find your first assault rifle the game changes, now you blast away without a fear of running out on ammo which seems to take that creepy sensation right out of the game.
After Renko (your character) mistakenly messes with the "temporal prime directive" you must find a way to stop the giant singularity of doom. This is done with the help of supporting characters, and a device you gain access to called the TMD (Time Manipulation Device). This device add a good deal of fun to the game allowing you to hurl objects, age people to dust, and even turn enemies into the evil mutated creatures that wreak havoc on your attackers.
The TMD also allows you to repair or destroy certain items which can be used to help solve some of the rather noobish puzzles. Fix another crate… use crate to jump up to higher area, now I feel smart… smash crate, place under door, repair crate to lift door… Rinse… repeat…
Now most games you play tend to scale up the difficultly towards the end of the game. Singularity does the absolute opposite to an extreme level, making the last 45 minutes of game play extremely easy as you run about with unlimited power for your TMD.
The finale to the game adds in the only element of choice Singularity presents you with. Allowing you to make a good, evil, or I'm Darth Vader screw the world and all its fluffy creatures' selection.
Throughout Singularity Film and audio logs you discovery add interesting bits of history to what happened in the past to cause these issues. They also sometimes add a level of nervousness to what is going to be around the next corner.
Sadly I haven't been able to experience any of the multi-player game play due to the lack of enough players to even allow a match to begin. So if you're looking at this game you likely have to write this off as something you won't be able to experience much of.
Now even though I beat on this game a bit I un-expectantly gave this title a Triumph score of 8.0. Well worth the time if you are looking for a new shooter while waiting for the next Bioshock game.