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Singularity (PS3) |  | From: Activision
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List Price: £49.99
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 914
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Platform: PlayStation 3
Genre: sci-fi-action-games
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Media: Video Game
Operating System: No Operating System
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.2 x 0.6
MPN: PS3SINULARITY
EAN: 5030917070464
ASIN: B00284AMT0
Release Date: June 25, 2010
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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• Singularity PS3-DUPLEX | Release BB
by OMEGA
6 Sep 2010 at 9:00am
Singularity PS3-DUPLEX. September 6th, 2010 OMEGA Leave a comment Go to comments. In Singularity, you fight your way through an ever-shifting environment haunted with time ravaged creatures, while sudden time waves hurl you back and ...
• Singularity Impulse Power Trailer [HD] | NextBiGSpace
by space
9 Sep 2010 at 9:30pm
Click Here to Watch the Singularity Deadlock Trailer: www.youtube.com Singularity Impulse Power Trailer [HD] Developer: Raven Software Release: 6/29/2010 Genre: Third-person Platform: PS3/X360/PC Publisher: Activision Website: ...
• Singularity (PS3) on sale for $40 on Amazon today | Joystiq
by David Hinkle
15 Jul 2010 at 10:40am
Who pays $60 for a new game? Not you, because you know about deals like the one Amazon has on Raven Software's time-twisting shooter, Singularity. The PlayStation 3 version is currently on sale for $40. If Amazon isn't really your thing ...
• Singularity (PS3) Review - gamrReview
by Zack Cain
6 Aug 2010 at 11:49am
To say that Singularity borrows heavily from other games within the FPS genre is a massive understatement. Indeed, I think you would be hard pressed to play Singularity without name checking some of most iconic games of the generation. ...
• Playing With Swords: Singularity PS3 8/27 ? One Of Swords
by Dan
27 Aug 2010 at 2:38pm
The last Singularity event went so well ? and was attended by Raven Software developers, no less ? that it only makes sense to do another, this time to share the love with the PlayStation 3 gamers. If you haven't tried Singularity ...
• Singularity PlayStation 3 Review at GamingExcellence
by unknown
3 Aug 2010 at 6:00am
Ahhh, Summer... That wonderful time of year where the sun shines bright, clothes get skimpier, and the great outdoors come beckoning. It's a great time of year, unless you're a hardcore gamer. Releases get spaced out, AAA titles are ...
• Singularity (PS3) Review « Brutal Gamer
by Harry
7 Aug 2010 at 8:25am
This wasn't just an anomaly either: I have played Singularity on both the PS3 and 360, and on both systems the multiplayer refuses to work. A shame really, as I would have liked to see how the TMD works online ? Timeshift utilised its ...
• Singularity Cheats (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)
by unknown
23 Aug 2010 at 5:51pm
Singularity Cheats (PC, PS3, Xbox 360). Monday August 23, 2010. If you're looking for some good 'ole fashion fun and you enjoy first person shooter video games then Singularity just may be the next diversion to keep you entertained. ...
• EL33TONLINE: Review - Singularity (PS3)
by unknown
12 Jul 2010 at 4:40pm
EL33TONLINE: Review : Singularity (PS3) ... This atmosphere lends itself to the extended periods of exploration you'll be getting up to during Singularity, which again would remind one of Bioshock, with strings of Half-Life 2. ...
• PlayStation Cheats, PlayStation Hacks, PlayStation Walkthroughs ...
by Talk Playstation
31 Aug 2010 at 5:16pm
PlayStation Cheats, PlayStation Hacks, PlayStation Walkthroughs. Singularity playthrough part 33 (PS3)
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Product Description
Time is your weapon. Time is your enemy. Time is collapsing.
It's 2010. A powerful and wealthy Russian mercenary has reopened a mysterious research base on Katorga-12, an island off the coast of Siberia. This island was the site of Soviet experimentation in the 1950s that led to a catastrophic, Chernobyl-sized accident - the Singularity - that fractured time itself. Katorga-12 was abandoned, locked down and shrouded in secrecy until today.
You play as Nate Renko, a U.S. Air Force pilot sent on a recon mission to investigate new, wild readings coming from Katorga-12. Your plane is brought down, and you quickly find yourself in the middle of a massive Russian cover up that started during the Cold War and that threatens all of humanity today. You fight to survive, and to stop the Singularity from spreading and destroying the world. - Intense Combat: Fight your way through an ever-shifting environment haunted with time-ravaged creatures, while sudden time waves hurl you back and forth between 1950 and the present day.
- Time as a Weapon: Use the TMD - the Time Manipulation Device - to change the age of objects and enemies for your combat advantage.
- Conspiracy-Driven Storyline: Unravel the mystery behind this top-secret Russian military experiment before it's too late.
- Epic Sci-Fi Environments: Explore a graphically rich, fully interactive world with Unreal 3-powered lighting, physics, and effects.
- Compelling Multiplayer: Test your skills and strategy in unique, time-based multiplayer action spanning across two eras.
Amazon.co.uk Review
It's time for a new spin on the first person shooter, with this innovative new adventure that gives you control of not just three, but four dimensions. Parachuted onto a mysterious island, that has fallen victim to a failed Soviet experiment, you find the whole areas is constantly moving backwards and forwards in time between 1950 and 2010.
The TMD has a devastating effect on living enemies |  Repair this bridge instantly by moving it back in time |  A Cold War experiment gone awry could destroy the world |  Russian Spetnaz troops are also on the island with you | Russian soldiers are the least of your worries though, as you discover bizarre new mutant animals and plant life that has its own ability to move through time. Luckily you gain a TMD (time manipulation device) which gives you your own powers, including rewinding time and instantly aging any object. The TMD can also freeze enemies in place or throw them about like a gravity gun, giving you a unique set of tactical options in combat and when figuring out the island's secrets. When you do it's a race to defeat the time singularity from destroying reality forever. Key Features - Singular story: Uncover the mystery behind island Katorga-12, as you battle modern and Cold War era Russian soldiers and the bizarre mutants created by the time singularity.
- Time control: Unique TMD (time manipulation device) lets you turn back time, freeze enemies and instantly age objects.
- Creative control: Destroy an enemy's cover by aging it to dust in front of them or recover ammo by pulling supplies back through time with the TMD.
- Puzzle time: Use the TMD to open a lock by instantly rusting it or return a collapsed bridge to its original state in the game's many ingenious puzzles.
- Time to die: Utilise the unique time controls in the game's equally innovative multiplayer modes as you manipulate the battlefield to your advantage.
About the Developer: Raven Software
Although this American developer was acquired by Activision in 1997 they have a long history of working with Id Software on games such as Hexen, Quake 4 and Wolfenstein. They've also been behind the Soldier of Fortune and Marvel Ultimate Alliance series, plus the new Singularity.
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A pleasing action game in a summer of games drought August 21, 2010
Barry leslie (Peterborough)
I bought this game during the summer (which usually has little in terms of big titles available). I was really surprised by how much I enjoyed this game. The game is a good mish mash of lots of different games that puts you in control of a soldier who is investigating a former USSR test facility, which has a compound that allows you to bend time and space.
The games works well as a straight forward shooter and then develops into a more interesting story with the use of the TMD (which manipulates the aforementioned compound into a weapon and tool system). The game is reminiscent of 2009's Wolfenstein, which I loved, but this does things better.
The game is a linear level game and has masses of save points and upgrade stations (like in Dead Space). I found this a welcome relief from bigger epic games that take 40+ hours to complete. From start to finish, this took me 10 hours max. to complete.
I would recommend this for anyone wanting a slightly creepy shooter, but who doesn't want to get bogged down in yet another open world scenario. Lots of fun! (especially the seeker bullets that can be steered into headshots!!)
 excellent game August 19, 2010
Zdybal
Hi,
This game is underrated. It's an excellent game and I had a lot of fun. This game is between half life and stalker. It's for me one of the realy good surprise of this year.
Fab original game August 8, 2010
Mr. A. K. Crook (Manchester, UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This game has a great storyline to it, the game makes you feel like you are in control & makes you feel that you can change the story/outcome..... I wish Activision went full out with the marketing on this game, because it is a awesome game if you like plot twists and time hoping. The only niggles I have is the texture streaming issues at one point in the game but that was just a small hiccup (its running on the unreal engine), the scond is that there isn't any chapter reply menu so if you wanted to see something but didn't you would have to play the game again until you got to the point in the game where you wanted.
The game mechanics are simple to learn & most importantly FUN... The AI/NPCs are fun to kill and each environment in the game has character and 1 or 2 stories to tell.
All in all this is a fantastic game to play & the multiplayer modes are fun as well. Hopefully RAVEN Software will make a Singularity 2, 3 & 4 (thats a clue for the end of Singularity 1 :P )
A little bit of Bioshock and Half-Life can go a long way! July 30, 2010
Mr. Luke Harrington (Cardiff, Wales)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Singularity is without a doubt, to my mind, one of the most underrated games released this year. It's seemingly derivative nature, combined with a glut of recent top-tier shooters has seen it slip under the radar of many gamers. I, however, would encourage anyone who likes sci-fi, and FPS' in general to check this one out. You'll be pleasantly surprised.
Singularity starts with a bang. And a slight sense of Deja-vu. The island of Kartorga 12, an abandoned research complex where the Russians discovered a new element (E99) has the U.S.A worried. It's emitting energy spikes, and a crack team of US soldiers are sent in to investigate. However, before you can take breath, the team's helicoptor gets hit by what appears to be an EMP, causing them to crash. You wake up, and set out to find the remaining members of your team.
Now, i'll try not to spoil the remainder of the story. But needless to say, it involves your character 'Nathaniel Renko' traveling through time to 1955 and back again to 2010, seeking to undo damage done in the past that has caused a catastrophic chain of events that has left the world royally screwed.
The reason I have cited both Bioshock and Half-Life as influences on this game in the title, is well, because, the game takes elements liberally from both. The Time Manipulation Device (TMD) that you recieve about an hour into the game functions like plasmids do in Bioshock. It is powered by E99 which you are constantly accumulating and using throughout the game to do a number of things. You can reverse time on an object, like a staircase, and in doing so return it to it's original useable form. You can use it on enemies, to age them to dust, or revert them to horrible disgusting monsters that attack and puke on other enemies (I kid you not). It can be used to freeze enemies in a time bubble, making them almost stationary targets there to be picked off. There's nothing more satisfying than freezing an enemy in a bubble, shooting them, reversing the bubble, then watching the enemy crumble to pieces. There are more powers besides these, but I won't spoil them. Needless to say, the TMD is a delightful tool, that while not wholly original is incredibly fun to use. It helps to elevate the game above your standard shooter.
The other way it 'borrows' from Bioshock is through it's pack rat mentality. You are constantly picking up E99, or new weapon upgrades, health packs, or audio logs documenting what happened on the island in 1955. It may sound like i'm deriding the game for this. However, it's been done so well, and so confidently that it fits seamlessly. It helps create an atmosphere akin to Bioshock or Half-Life. One where for the first 6 or 7 hours of this 10 hour game, the atmosphere is almost as enthralling as the gunplay. You'll love seeing what's around the next corner, whether to see what new locales await you, or to be scared senseless by the game. Again, this dark brooding atmosphere in FPS' is nothing new, but done so well that you won't even care.
Singularity was developed by Raven Software, a seasoned pro in the FPS genre. A developer, also known for there creation of brilliantly wacky weaponry. Sure, you've got you usual assortment of guns such as Assault Rifles, shotguns, miniguns etc. But, what would you say to a Rifle known as the Seeker, which enables you to steer you're bullets manually in slow-mo at your targets, allowing you to witness there ridiculously silly and brutal annihilation close up? Or a Sniper rifle that allows you to slow down time when aimed down the sight in order to line up the perfect shot? It's all a bit silly, especially combined with the gore, (dismemberments, blood everywhere etc) but is so much fun that the silliness only makes it better. The guns control beautifully, and become even more fun to use, gaining more power as you progress and improve.
It's not all perfect in Singularity however. I'm not sure what it is, maybe it's just super easy to use in development, but here is another game that uses the Unreal 3 engine. It doesn't look bad as such. Some of the environments are brilliantly detailed, and creatures in particular look fantastic. However, most of the game looks ordinary, with a lack of detail and an over reliance on dark colours being the primary problem. The sound as well isn't great. While some of the music can be spooky it too often feels a bit cliched, and the Russian accents hover somewhere on the scale between horrible and adequate. It just goes to show in many ways how good the game is, because with sometimes cliched music and elements that can pull you out of the game, it still manages to be consistently jumpy and oftentime scary.
The single player should last you about 10 hours on your first run through, a decent length for a game these days. My advice would be that if your a seasoned FPS gamer, then play the game on hard. On Normal, it can sometimes feel just a bit too easy. Especially near the end. Once your done with the single player, there is a multiplayer to fall back on. Don't go in expecting to be playing for long, because the lack of people playing it, combined with only 2 game modes means it wears a little thin after a while. However, what's here is fun. You have a team deathmatch mode, where teams take it in turns to play as either creatures or soldiers, and a capture the beacons mode, where the creatures aim to defend their territory from the humans. Playing as the creatures is superb fun, as there are different classes with different perks and abilities. The same also applies to the soldiers. Again, while it may not hold you for long, it's a great added bonus on top of the single player, and exciting in short bursts. The single player, however, was undoubtedly the main focus for the developers.
So in the end, what are we left with? Singularity is a shooter which borrows elements from several different games yet still manages to feel fresh and original. The fun sci fi story, TMD, satisfying weaponry, and superb atmosphere combine to create a game that you shouldn't miss. I just wish Activision had advertised this game at all. It's one of my favourites of the year so far, bested only by Mario Galaxy 2 and Bioshock 2, yet at this rate we won't be seeing a sequel. And that saddens me greatly. Pick it up.
short and sweet July 20, 2010
Mr. A. Richardson
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Just like my review this game is short and sweet great viuals/gameplay/controls weapons pretty good the seeker is superb fun and the main weopon the tmd is fantastic buy play enjoy
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