Hi folks!
Here we are again with another entry, the third, of the [Game of the Week] column and this time the game featured is Singularity for Xbox 360!
Developer: Raven Software
Publisher: Activision
Platforms: Windows, Xbox 360 (pictured), PS3
Genre: FPS
Release Date: 19 January 2010
I do like a lot time travel. It’s that part of the science (or better of the science fiction) that is based on suppositions and theories that trascend the “human” experience and let you think that someday somehow there will be the possibility to travel in the past or in the future. I won’t start a lesson about the science behind the time travel (even because I don’t have the competence to do it) but everything that for some reason is connected with this worls fascinate me.
Take for example the movies: there is an immense filmography of sci-fi masterpieces based on time trivel like, just to cite the more recent and the ones I’ve watched the most, Predestination, Donnie Darko, Primer, Interstellar and Looper. Of course if there are games that talk about time travel, the first thing I do is try to secure them. When I started my collection, the “modern” games (please nothe that for me the PS2 was considered modern) were out of my interest because I simply didn’t own the actual hardware, but after I’ve bought my first Xbox 360 I began to amass a small army of games for it.
One day as I was watching online auctions I stumbled upon Singularity and the name itself immediately caught my eye. The singularity can be grossly described as that region inside a black hole we know nothing about. It’s a point with infinite desity where the physical laws as we know them lose all its meaning and what happens there is a mistery. The sci-fi movies jumped onto this notion and even some games decided that the singularity coul be a good starting point for an adventure.
Singularity is primarily an FPS but the setting is the real core part of the game. I can even say that sometimes it sends shivers down your spine because of the atmosphere of a desert environment inhabited by strange “presences” coming from another time.
I’m not an hardcore fan of the FPS so I can’t really judge the technical aspect of the game (for me even Duke Nukem 3D graphics and gameplay are still enough for an FPS even in 2019…) but the setting along with the story plot make the game a must have, at least in my opinion.
Do you own this game? Have you ever played it? Tell me more in the comments section, let’s discuss!
I played this back in the day and really enjoyed it. I like how you’re presented with two options at the end to determine your conclusion, and I decided to test out if they’d programmed a third option. I was pleasantly surprised to see they had!
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Ok, this makes me want to play it even more. I’ll surely try the third option!
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It’s a bit generic in spots, but fun. It’s a shame it didn’t do better. There were some spots of originality here, and there, but it didn’t do enough to make itself stand out from everything else at the time.
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