Singularity - PlayStation 3 Game | Action-Adventure Sci-Fi Shooter for PS3 - Perfect for Horror & Sci-Fi Gaming Enthusiasts

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Singularity - PlayStation 3 Game | Action-Adventure Sci-Fi Shooter for PS3 - Perfect for Horror & Sci-Fi Gaming Enthusiasts

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Product Description Fight your way through an ever-shifting environment haunted with time ravaged creatures, while sudden time wave hurl you back and forth between 1950 and the present day. Use your wits and the perfect weapon - the Time Manipulation Device - to unravel the conspiracy on the remote island of Katorga-12 Amazon.com Singularity is a first-person shooter developed by the legendary Raven Software and utilizing the power and flexibility of the Unreal 3 game engine. Set in an alternate present of 2010, players take on the role of a US Air Force pilot who while investigating an extreme radiation signature, stumbles upon a top secret Cold War era Soviet program, run amok which not only causes monstrous mutations, but also threatens to alter nature of time itself. .caption { font-family: Verdana, Helvetica neue, Arial, serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; } ul.indent { list-style: inside disc; text-indent: -15px; } table.callout { font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1. 3em; } td.vgoverview { height: 125px; background: #9DC4D8 url(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/callout-bg.png) repeat-x; border-left: 1px solid #999999; border-right: 1px solid #999999; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 10px; width: 250px; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; } Speed up time to reduce enemies to dust. View larger. Or gain from turning back the clock. View larger. Classic FPS gameplay. View larger. A revisionist Cold War storyline. View larger. Story In the dark, Cold War winter of 1949-50 Stalin, the brutal leader of the Soviet Union, had two super weapons: long range missiles and the atomic bomb. But even if his teams of forced labor managed to build a missile powerful enough to carry an atomic payload, Stalin still faced encirclement by the United States and the Strategic Air Command. He knew that he needed another advantage over the United States, one that would ensure Soviet security and superiority. Then came the chance discovery on the remote island of Katorga-12 off the wild Kamchatka peninsula, of a previously unknown material, Element 99 (E99). E99 became the new source of Stalin's hope: a new energy source of unparalleled power. Unfortunately, the new element also yielded a new kind of contamination risk. But these were acceptable risks to Stalin - anything for the advancement of the Soviet people. Even so, on September 21, 1950, driven to complete the project, and in violation of the safety protocols, a Russian scientist, Viktor Barisov, personally triggered a device powered by E99 that caused a catastrophic event that affected the entire island. What happened next is unclear. However, there are reports that Stalin's final dying order was a handwritten scrawl to quarantine Katorga-12. And so the knowledge of the island remained buried...until 2010, when intelligence reports in the west confirm activity on a remote atoll in the Russian Federation's shadow. The world has no memory of Katorga-12. No concept of what may be on the island off the southeast coast of Russia. It is deemed that the world can't afford another Chernobyl - or worse. America's answer is to scramble a stealth flyby of the area. They need recon - and they need it now. Gameplay and Weapons Action in Singularity is a mix of combat mission gameplay and puzzle-solving. Combat is against both modern and 50s era Russian forces, as well enemies mutated through exposure to E99. In this players have their choice of conventional weapons including: pistols, shotguns, machine guns, sniper rifles, rocket launchers, etc., as well as as few Sci-fi weapons very specific to the game. These include the TMD (Time Manipulation Device) and the E99 pistol. The TMD is a gauntlet, which players acquire early in the game that can be integrated with conventional weapons. Its main function though relates it its ability to alter time within a small specific area. The major examples of this are: Reversion - The ability to alter encounters by rewinding the history of an item or entity to the time of your choosing. This can be used to repair broken items, render enemies harmlessly embryonic, etc. Aging - The ability to alter encounters by fast-forwarding the history of objects or entities, rendering the former rusted and worn and the latter decrepit with age or simply dust. Stasis - The ability to freeze time and thus dangerous situations in order to gain an advantage. Impulse - The ability to propel objects frozen in time in a targeted direction. Chronolite - Functionality that allows the player to look back to a time associated with a place, person or object. Players can also utilize the TMD in conjunction with the E99 pistol, a gun that shoots bullets infused with Element 99, to hit targets unreachable due to distance and otherwise indestructible cover. In addition, to the TMD's combat uses, it is also indispensable as a tool for solving the spatial-oriented and other types of puzzles that players will face on the island of Katorga-12. Multiplayer Singularity contains multiplayer gameplay options, that just as in its single player campaign, integrate conventional combat tactics and weapons with the time manipulation elements. Key FeaturesAn engrossing storyline blending Cold War history and science fiction elements.An arsenal of first-person weapons, including conventional firearms and upgradeable, time altering gadgets.Mission progressing puzzle-solving gameplay.Advanced graphics built on the Unreal 3 game engine.Multiplayer gameplay options.PlayStation Network support including PlayStation Trophies.

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Features

Multiplayer gameplay options and PlayStation Network support including PlayStation Trophies.

An engrossing storyline blending Cold War history and science fiction elements.

An arsenal of first-person shooter weapons, including conventional firearms and upgradeable, time altering gadgets.

Mission progressing puzzle-solving gameplay.

Advanced graphics built on the Unreal 3 game engine.

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I haven't really written a review for a game in a long while, but I felt Singularity deserved one. Not many people have played this game, period, let alone on the PS3. It deserves so much more than that, so here is my two-cents.First off, the story: This game is set in 2010, when American special-ops go in to investigate radiation spikes on a seemingly uninhabited island near Russia's coastland. After an EMPlike blast forces our hero, Captain Nate Reinko, onto the ground of Katorga-12, the mysterious island locale of the game, things go the way of epic Sci-Fi. The island is the site of a previously unknown element called E-99, and the Soviet Union devoted huge resources to research of E-99 in the 1940's and 1950's so that they could establish themselves as THEE world power. E-99 is exponentially more powerful than atomic energy AND has trippy time-altering effects. Needless to say, disaster befell them long ago and you're left to figure out what went wrong and how to fix a new problem in the timeline. Singularity's story dabbles heavily in time-travel and alternate-timelines via "Back to the Future" ish story twists. Most stories that attempt to tackle the time-traveling mechanic beast end up muddled and confusing as a result. Singularity does not suffer this fate. The story is actually quite fantastic for what it is, and make no mistake, it is very campy in parts. That's part of its charm. I found myself in awe of just how well implemented time travel and alternate timeline related plot twists are used in the story. I for one am very big on good story in games, and this one does not in any way disappoint. The characters are pretty interesting, the setting and locale are compelling, and the endings are very impactful.The gameplay is solid throughout. All of the mechanics established in the FPS genre are here and implemented well and feel natural. The weapons are very fun to use and are interesting. Using a sniper rifle that can slow down time is awesome, and so is rolling a grenade on the ground into wherever you want. The other, more usual weapons like the assault rifle and shotgun are fun to use as well. The enemy AI is great, and so is their behavior. They act very lifelike, and I found that to be a nice touch. The mutant enemies are both scary and a blast to play with. The real treat is the Time-Manipulation Device, which allows you to do incredible stuff like freeze a giant bubble of time. That way, you can leisurely walk up to your enemies, casually pop off a round, rinse-and-repeat with the others, and when the bubble dissipates, they all fall down. This game really makes you feel like a bad@$$, and that is in large part due to the ridiculously awesome gameplay devices you're generously given.Lastly, the graphics and sound are very well done. The music is moody, while not being overbearing. Each setting achieves its goal of atmosphere, from the clean, distinctly Soviet-communist factory/lab environments of the past to the dilapidated, depressing current state of the island. Some of the native, mutated life of the island really reminded me of the While I haven't played a lot of games by Raven Software, they are fast becoming one of my favorite game developers. Way back in the day when everyone was crazy for Doom, I played the shareware levels of Raven and id's Heretic. I pretty much just thought it was okay. While I enjoy fantasy, the setting of Heretic didn't really work for me in the same way that Doom's sci-fi locales and Wolfenstein 3-D's WWII-era trappings did. Aside from that and a little bit of the demo for Hexen II, I didn't play another Raven game until 2009's Wolfenstein. Long story short, I loved it.I'd wanted to check out Singularity after seeing positive reviews on Gamespot and IGN, and that interest was compounded when I started seeing it show up on game critics' year-end lists. (For instance, Games Radar named it one of the best overlooked games of 2010.) I decided to wait until the price had dropped a bit, and once it did, I snatched it up.So now that I've played it, what do I think? I'll start with the negatives. First, I wish it were possible to use alternate button mapping. I'm really used to using R2 rather than R1 to fire. When I played Killzone 2, I was at least given the option for a different control scheme, but Singularity doesn't allow this at all. This unfortunately led to me accidentally trying to knife an enemy from across the room during the first few levels. I eventually got used to it, but I don't understand why they didn't even offer me a choice.Second, the best boss battle comes at nearly the two-thirds mark, and there really isn't one at the climax of the game. Truth be told, the ending feels a little anti-climactic. That said, I liked the fact that they tried to make the final level feel driven by story more so than action.Last, but not least, the game feels too short. If I had to estimate, I'd say I finished it in about eight hours. Quite honestly, though, this and the previous complaints are more nitpicks, really. This is a solid ride throughout with a compelling story, some nifty enemies and even niftier weapons.I may have made a minor gripe about Singularity's button assignment, but that aside, I loved its control layout. Like Wolfenstein (2009), it uses a shoulder button to aim. I've never really cared for using R3 to aim because I like being able to get back to regular viewing mode by releasing a button I'd been holding. While you're usually given the option to hold in R3 rather than clicking to toggle, I find that I have difficulty continuing to hold it in while moving the right analog stick to adjust my aim. Using the shoulder button to aim just feels so much more intuitive, and I feel like my accuracy is much higher.I know a lot has been made of the fact that the game borrows pretty heavily--some might say "steals"--from BioShock. My initial reaction to that was, "Okay, sign me up! I love BioShock!" Admittedly, I was a bit taken aback by just how much it does take from that modern classic, right down to the kitschy period-appropriate film strips. Once I got past that, though, I was really able to get into the story and enjoy its time-altering craziness.It's probably too much to hope for a sequel, since this one didn't exactly become a blockbuster, but each of the game's multiple endings leaves things open for further stories in this universe. That said, each ending would make for a drastically different story, so unless they just decide to pick one and make it the "official" ending, I think it'd be pretty difficult to make a direct follow-up to this story. (Of course, given the fact that only one ending features a full motion video sequence while the others are mostly still images and narration, I wouldn't be surprised if it's considered the official, developer-approved ending.)So if you like first-person shooters with sci-fi and horror elements, I would definitely recommend this. It may not be the most original thing you'll play, but it's quite a blast for its duration.Note: I haven't tried the multiplayer, and I don't really intend to.Its an underrated gem. Great story, cool gunsロシアの廃棄された施設を舞台にアメリカ空軍偵察隊のレンコ大尉が1955年と2010年を行き来しながら謎を解くサバイバルホラーFPS。このゲームの売りは序盤で手に入るTMDという装置。壊れた階段や装置を時間を戻して修理する。衝撃波で敵を吹き飛ばす。敵を老化させ骨にする。物を引き寄せる。完全に時間が停止する空間を作る。などが出来ます。私のお気に入りの戦い方は複数の敵がいる場所で時間停止をして動かない敵の頭にショットガンを撃ち込むやり方です。時間が動いた瞬間、全ての敵の頭が砕けます(笑) それから液体窒素のボンベは斬新でした。ボンベを撃つorTMDで投げ飛ばして敵が液体窒素を喰らうとカチンカチンに凍り付きます。後はターミネーター2のシュワちゃんみたいに『とっとと失せろベイビー』とショットガンをぶっ放せば粉々に砕け散ります(笑)あ…ターミネーターみたいに砕けたら復活しませんが、凍り付いたままだと時間が経てばまた動き出します。一応、マルチエンディングなのですが、これマルチエンディングにする意味あるのかな?と思いました。それからクリアデータを引き継いで二周目は出来ないし、ステージセレクトもないので一度クリアしたら飽きてしまいます。これが評価を一つ落とした理由です。しかしながら斬新なFPSなのは間違いないので興味がある方はやってみるのもよいのではないでしょうか?

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