Singularity

1. Qkumba

   Nov 9, 2010

   10

   This is a Doom 3 inspired game, with a strong dose of Bioshock, and a brush of Half Life 2. I love this game for the gunfights, over-the-topThis is a Doom 3 inspired game, with a strong dose of Bioshock, and a brush of Half Life 2. I love this game for the gunfights, over-the-top powers, and to a moderate extent, the characters and story, but design flaws are aplenty. Firstly TRANSPARENT WALLS!? that's just plain lazy in level designing, secondly every level is closed ended and scripted, which I'm not a fan of. I prefer the Crysis/Farcry kind of approach to an objective. Here's my biggest gripe, this game was very obviously made for the consoles and their low-end hardware, not only are the stock graphics outdated and unimpressive, there are no video options to kick the graphics up, and this game only runs on stereo, anything more(4.1/5.1/7.1) will yield absolutely NO SOUND. The port over for controls are unintuitive as well. However considering all the significant downsides, it's still a moderately decent shooter, and quite frankly Activision, you guys got no right to be disappointed with the sales.… Expand

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2. Dco326

   Aug 2, 2022

   9

   Stvarno dobra igrica, jedina stvar zbog koje joj dajem 9 je sto je na momente na normal bila bas bas prelaka i sto NEMA SUBTAJTLOVA znaci takoStvarno dobra igrica, jedina stvar zbog koje joj dajem 9 je sto je na momente na normal bila bas bas prelaka i sto NEMA SUBTAJTLOVA znaci tako mala stvar moze da unisti celo iskustvo da je to jezivo. Inace sve je bilo top i zanimljivo i zabavno realno.… Expand

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4. Wh40778

   Oct 16, 2010

   9

   Singularity is an excellent game overall. Despite its obvious resemblance to Bioshock and Half-Life 2, it put in its series of innovation thatSingularity is an excellent game overall. Despite its obvious resemblance to Bioshock and Half-Life 2, it put in its series of innovation that made this game very funny and enjoyable to play. The Science-Fiction plot is really something, and game engine is very well-made; there are different upgradable weapons and lots of ways to crush your enemies, and you will actually need them at higher difficulty levels. The game offers alternate finals and lots of background information all around the game world. Multiplayer is not really innovative but it can be really fun. I believe that this was a game i always waited, and Activision gave us a beautiful game to play with.… Expand

   • 4 of 5 users found this helpful
5. Nevermind

   Apr 28, 2012

   8

   This was a pretty good game. The storyline was good, with a nice twist which makes you wonder why this game wasn't polished a bit better. InThis was a pretty good game. The storyline was good, with a nice twist which makes you wonder why this game wasn't polished a bit better. In the game there are a lot of notes that apparently tried to explain how things work in communist Russia, but to best put it they were childish and annoying. The artwork also seems somewhat mismatched in places, for example the crates and posters look like they came out of a cartoon, but everything else is done differently. Apart for that, everything is fine, you get to shoot a bunch of weapons, well, not really by any modern standard, but at least they are functional, well, at least two out of the five are, and you wield the time altering weapon whose name i forget right now. But, apart from this, the game has a good storyline,and once you finish it it will leave you thinking about the story and everything that happened. Trust me, I was surprised, and let's just say i have seen "The Matrix". Oh yeah,and did I say there is plenty of ammo? This game should get extra points just for that. No more "I have one bullet left" moments here.… Expand

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6. The_D4RknesS

   Jun 8, 2022

   7

   game has a very cliché story now the fun is guaranteed 100% But monsters are poorly made

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7. GeorgeA

   Apr 22, 2011

   7

   This game has some really nice concepts(Time Manipulation Device), nice weapons, very badly made, but still interesting setting and passableThis game has some really nice concepts(Time Manipulation Device), nice weapons, very badly made, but still interesting setting and passable (though confusing and not terribly original) storyline. It's also fun to play and gets boring only near the end. But also Singularity has some really ugly graphics: five-year old textures, lighting is nonexistent. Only models and animation are more or less acceptable. Furthermore, TMD only interacts with very limited amount of unscripted objects and therefore it's true potential is never used. Physics are also terrible and sometimes the fact, that you shoot a bottle and nothing happens, is very annoying and makes you wonder, what developers where thinking. The story also has many plot holes and sometimes it's just plain stupid. Still it's fun to play, if you lower your expectations and accept it, as a cheaply made blockbuster about saving the world from evil Russians. What's more important , it ,at least, tries to bring something original in video game industry, unlike Call of Duty franchise, which is still stuck in 2003. My score is 6.7, but 7.0 by rounding it up.… Expand

   • 0 of 0 users found this helpful
8. iseeall

   Dec 17, 2015

   0

   A boring, linear, heavily scripted shooter, with tons of health packs and mountains of ammo scattered everywhere.
   
   Worse, this game isA boring, linear, heavily scripted shooter, with tons of health packs and mountains of ammo scattered everywhere.
   
   Worse, this game is strongly anti-Russian, on a level of a cheap B-movie. Also, it's obvious that not a single Russian native speaker was in the dev team. There are many flags and banners and posters everywhere in the scenery with Russian sentences or words - all of them Google-translated from English. I mean, as a native speaker, I usually was confused by those sentences as they didn't make sense, but after I literally translated them backwards to English, then I understood what they meant. Even the name of the place, katOrga-12, with O stressed, is totally wrong! First, there is a Russian word "kAtorga" (A stressed!) which is obsolete and was mostly used until end of 19th century, and means "imprisonment" (the process of being in prison) or "hard work" and not "prison" itself as a place - I guess the devs meant to call this place a "prison" or "labor camp". Even then, Russians would never name a secret military/sci installation a "prison" ("turmA"), instead it would be something like "camp" or "base" or just "objekt 12345" or something. I could provide tons of other examples.
   
   So that you could understand me, imagine you are playing a Chinese game where everything is in Chinese, and the Chinese devs make a game about the USA, so to make Chinese players feel it's about the USA they insert random broken English sentences which they Google-translated from Chinese in hope that no American will ever play the game, and Chinese don't know English anyway. Yes, it will feel like a nuthouse to you as an English native speaker, should you ever play this game. It will clearly show that devs are amateurs. You would think: are there so few Americans in China so that they couldn't hire a single guy for proofreading?
   
   If I were on the dev team, I'd suggest writing every banner and every poster in Russian purely, as it should have been in reality in a Russian military base. But when the player looks at them, there would be subtitles shown with an English translation. Btw those sentences with mirrored R and N (to look like Я and И) are almost unreadable!… Expand

   • 5 of 12 users found this helpful

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