Singularity (2010 Video Game) User Reviews

what Wolfenstein should have been

[nujuv · 9/10 · 25 July 2010]

I may be jumping the gun - only a nth through this game - but the simlarities are far more than the software houses.

It blends the steam punk style of Wolfenstein and the action of CALL OF DUTY.

It drops the player in the deep end and spins out a solid yarn.

The only draw back is it linear - but refer to the CALL OF DUTY comment.

This deserves more attention than it will get, mainly because of games such as the suck fest that was Wolfenstein.

The puzzles are in keeping with the time travel shenanigans and the look and feel goes beyond the Unreal engine as time travel commences.

Jolly extra premo good.

An underrated masterpiece

[noah_white · 9/10 · 22 October 2015]

This game was a great game, and I don't understand why it wasn't popular. I played this game and almost peed my plants for the first five levels. The story is compelling, and with a time manipulator on my wrist, I felt like a mini god. The game play was much like call of duty, with time traveling and aliens. The voice acting, while good, was easily forgettable. But the game itself was not forgettable. It made me regret not picking up ammo, or not saving my time traveling powers for later use, because it would punish you if you didn't. I found myself, though, completely unimpressed with the endings (yes there are more than one). It seemed to swallow itself all at once and just end. But the story driven campaign makes you want to try the different endings. And while the graphics were great, they were not black ops level. Overall, this game is an entertaining game about time travel in a different light, and is a hidden masterpiece under an unknown name...

What's not to like

[kieran-fennelly · 10/10 · 3 February 2020]

This game is up there with my all time favourites. It's got mutated humans, evil commies and a time manipulation device. It's a bit linear but who cares, I loved every scary, jump scaring, holy crap where did that come from moment of it. I hadn't played it for a good few years but decided to dust off my 360 and I'm glad I did as I'd forgotten how bloody good it was. Like one other reviewer said, I can't believe it's not more popular.

A mediocre shooter with potential

[mrseriously · 6/10 · 4 August 2010]

First off, the graphics had some fairly serious issues. Texture quality and detail level just seems subpar to other titles released around the same time. Some games from last year even look better. There also seems to be a bug which makes certain sections of the game fail to load textures at all. It's tolerable but doesn't really do anything for the game's ability to immerse the player in it's world.

The story works decently well, but it suffers slightly from being too complicated for itself. Among other things the actions performed by the main character would be enough to generate several time paradoxes. I much prefer the "show, don't tell"-style of storytelling early on in the game as opposed to the more blatant "in your face"-style which seems to dominate later on.

Gameplay ranges from passable to good for the most part. Gunplay is smooth and only a few short segments really stand out as frustrating. The main problem in the weapons department is that half of the arsenal consists of gimmick weapons, which are only useful in a few situations where they are shoehorned onto the player. I think there would be a larger potential for variation and enjoyment out of the gameplay if these gimmick weapons were more widely applicable. The time manipulation powers turn out to work better. Although they too suffer from being somewhat gimmicky, they at least have a wider field of application.

Atmosphere in large parts of the game is what it does best. There seems to be something about creeping around in old Russian ruins that makes it impossible to fail at creating tension. In it's best moments I would almost put it on par with Metro 2033 in this aspect.

In summary, the plot, graphics and gameplay problems pull down the overall score quite a bit. Without these issues, maybe with a few innovative ideas added for good measure, this game had potential to be more than mediocre.