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Singularity
A Virtual Reality Art piece, exploring the Law of accelerating returns and the development of A.I.
Details
- Released
- December 21, 2020
- Genres
- Simulator
- Publisher
- Screen South
- Platforms
- PC
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Singularity Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
Singularity pits shooter and sci-fi fans against a devastating fracture in time. As players attempt to unravel a conspiracy, they must fight their way through ever-shifting epic sci-fi environments, occupied by Russian soldiers and time-ravaged creatures, while sudden time waves hurl them back and forth between 1950 and the present day.
This entertaining and varied sci-fi shooter doesn't break new ground; it's just a bunch of goofy, gory fun.
Surprises don't come along too often in the video game industry, but Singularity definitely isn't the flop everyone expected it to be.
Singularity has a kind of Bioshock feel to it with its own unique take involving time manipulation. This first-person shooter brings you back and forth times like the cold war era and 2010.
If you've exhausted the library of stellar games that 2010 has already produced and are looking for something to help bridge the gap into this fall, Singularity isn't a bad choice. The gunplay is solid and there are a few memorable set pieces. It is a game ultimately limited by a lack of imagination where a neat time-manipulation idea is handcuffed to a by-the-numbers first-person shooter.
Dear sir/madam. I am writing to return the enclosed ‘Time Manipulation Device’ I purchased as part of your first-person shoot-them-up ‘Singularity’. I had looked forward to using the tool to rend the fabric of spacetime like a cheap hooker’s tights, but was confused by the results. When assailed by a spindly mutant, for example, I found my TMD simply caused him to turn red, inflate, run towards
The concept of time travel has made for a number of great films and books, but far fewer truly memorable games. There are titles that have dabbled with the idea to good effect, such as Prince of Persia, but for the full blown effect you would have to look at something like Timeshift or even Braid. How can such a great concept be so underused? Here then is the answer to that question, in both the positive and negative respects, as we have a tightly paced shooter that does not quite make the mo...