A Possible what if scenario.... Commies rule the world
By RelentlessKnight 1 Comments
Late Impressions I know but when I'm playing games like P3P, I didn't have the time to play it earlier.
In a short summary, Singularity is a neat game even though people think its too similar to Bioshock or Dead Space, it really isn't. The controls are a bit similar to Modern Warfare with the exception of E99 Power that you'll grant later - the sprint button feels too much like that game. The game-play, its quite alright - the starting is somewhat a tutorial where you get antiquated with the controls and the story of a island off the coast of Russia where nasty experiments are created and where E99 was founded. The starting, you, Renko get introduced to Devilin voiced by Nolan North is on some mission sent by the US Marines to discover the mysterious anonymity in this island but a EMP blast soon knocked down their helicopters and you are strangled away from your buddy. Before that, there's a opening cinematic about Russia discovering this new source of power to rival the American Atomic Bomb and conquer the whole world with it. But when you transverse through this abandoned island, from the evidence of voice recorders and film archives - you discover that everyone in this island is dead due to the horrific experiments, scientists are conducting resulting on mutants rampaging through the facilities, killing everyone including kids who came here to get education.
Oh earlier on, you somehow warp back in time to save some scientist from dying in flames and then in the future he becomes a hero and receive a merit to propose a statue of him.
In the game, E99s cores are somewhat currency to purchase/upgrade your weapons. You start with a Centurion Pistol which later will be discarded by the Valkyrie Machine gun, making it useless to have it. The mutants are not that hard per say, but sometimes if you aim somewhere not by the head and use your knife which is often tedious for me to use it, they will seriously cause some damage. Ammo and Health packs/Stimpacks are somewhat scarce but there are enough for you to survive, plus when you and Devilin hold the position in some place, there's a shit-ton of ammo and health packs to kill an army of Commies that want to kill you. But before that, the Sniper rifle has a slow-down feature which slows down time so that you could place head-shots, kinda like when you hold your breath in Modern Warfare but it lasts a tad longer. Also, there are upgrading stations, kinda like the ones in Dead Space where you get to upgrade your weapons (extend clips,damage or faster reload), I will suggest upgrading the Valkyrie and the Shot-gun because later on, there's no time for Sniping.
The story.. after being swarmed by Commies, you and Devilin attempt to escape but you then got knocked off, waking up tied with Devilin and some evil General with a cape kills Devilin and wants something from you but was interrupted by a girl. You then proceed to run your ass off to her, following her introductions down to the basement and get more history about your character and the past of the island. After that, you have to get to Barisov's lab to go back to time but first grab the TMD gauntlet which the mechanics is similar to the gravity gun in Half-Life 2 but you could age/renew objects, as a part of puzzle solving, only those with E99 stuff inside them. Anyways, after getting the device and solving a starter puzzle with renewing columns which had fallen and the vault door being closed, you get to time-traveled to the mid 50s where the chaos is starting of the government sending their soldiers to this island and killing the scientist and you are required to rescue Barisov from death. When you rescued him, with a new mechanic of utilizing the Dead Space tracking thingy, he gives you some kick-ass weapon called the Seeker which the title implies, is some sort of homing bullet that can you have control over and can deal splash damage.
Later on, killing Commie after Commie - you then travel back to your time where Barisov survived and he needs you to go to the tower and rendezvous there with the help of that girl of course. There are new monsters who are smaller but you have to use your Impulse power to knock back them and go for the kill, and plus gravity manipulation is used often especially when you pickup a explosion barrel and launch onto the mutants.. its quite spectacular and remembers the times playing Half-Life 2. Though sometimes these monsters throw barrels at you like Donkey Kong and you have to catch it, sometimes it tend to be tedious to catch them especially when you get to face the first boss.
Yeah the first boss, he wasn't too hard - I haven't died but got hit by his barrels a few times, but I managed to kill him and the girl returns to ask you to follow her to the tower where Barisov is located. The part before going to the elevator to Barisov tower was by far, a fun part - renewing the electric fences to electrocute the mutants without using your guns is a relief. And then, when you are on top of the tower, you meet Barisov in person and tells you about after saving him that Russian invaded the world and you need to stop him or something.
That's pretty much it after playing a few hours of this game..