Singularity: Let's Do the Time Warp Again, Comrades!

CaptainNemo

It's 1950, and those filthy Commies discover a strange element they codename E99 on an island called Kartoga-12. Using this weird fucking rock, they discover unlimited energy and even the ability to manipulate....

TIME ITSELF!

Then five years later the eponymous Singularity explodes, killing most and horrifically mutating everyone else on the island. Cut to 2010, when a Special Forces Operative named Nate Renko finds himself stranded on Kartoga-12, and bouncing back and forth through time. Only the power of the Time Manipulation Device, or T.M.D., can save Nate, and the future as well.

Achievements:

A Salt and Battery (10) 40 AR9 Valkyrie kills in single player campaign
Ashes to Ashes (20) Age 15 soldiers to Dust in single player campaign
Blitzkrieg (20) Travel 585 meters using the Blitzer's Teleport power (public match)
Bombs over Katorga (20) Kill 25 soldiers with the Radion's lob attack (public match)
Central Docks (25) Completed the Central Docks Mission
Creature Hater (10) Renew 25 beacons in Extermination (public match)
Creature Lover (10) Kill 15 soldiers with each creature (public match)
CvS Master (25) Win 25 public matches of Creatures Vs. Soldiers
Don't Touch Me! (20) Kill 15 creatures with the Lurker's reflective shield damage from a melee hit (public match)
Double Barrel (10) 30 Volk S4 kills in single player campaign
Dr. Time (20) Use the Healer's power to restore 25 soldiers to full health (public match)
Drive By (20) 15 Seeker kills in single player campaign
E99 Processing Complex (25) Completed the E99 Processing Complex Mission
E99 Tech Geek (20) Purchased 10 different Hero Upgrades in single player campaign
Extermination Addict (40) Play 100 public matches of Extermination
Extermination Expert (10) Play 5 public matches of Extermination
Extermination Master (25) Win 25 public matches of Extermination
Fastball (15) Kill 15 soldiers with a Zek barrel (public match)
Fire and Ice (20) Kill 10 enemies with Propane Tanks or Cryo Tanks in single player campaign
Fully Armed (20) Fully Upgraded 1 Weapon in single player campaign
Hot Lunch Special (20) Kill 25 soldiers with the Revert puke (public match)
In Yo Face (20) Possess 15 soldiers with tick leap attack (public match)
Killer (15) Get highest number of kills in a public match
Mother My Brain Hurts (15) Discovered the strange E99 specimen and what it morphs people into
Night of the Living Revert (20) Turn 15 soldiers into Reverts in single player campaign
No Time to Bleed (15) 15 Autocannon kills without reloading in single player campaign
One TMD to Rule Them All (30) You chose to live and rule the world alone
Pen Pal (20) Used the TMD to find 15 Chrono-Notes in single player campaign
Pistol Whipped (10) 20 Centurion kills in single player campaign
Put the Dead in Deadlock (15) Kill 10 enemies inside a Deadlock in single player campaign
Rail Line (25) Completed the Rail Line Mission
Research Facility (25) Completed the Research Facility Mission
Return to Sender (20) Kill 5 enemies by grabbing rockets and launching them back in single player campaign
Revert Bomber (25) Killed 10 enemies by aging a Revert and having it explode near them in single player campaign
Roller Derby (15) 20 Dethex Launcher kills in single player campaign
Singularity (25) Completed Singularity
Stay After Class (20) Used the TMD to revert 10 Chalkboards in single player campaign
Talk to the Hand (20) Kill 25 creatures with the Bruiser's Impulse Power (public match)
That Wheel? (15) Found the wheel. Will they ever explain this?
The Good of the Many (30) You sacrificed yourself to stop Demichev
The Needs of the Few (30) You chose to live and join Demichev
The Slower the Better (15) 25 Kasimov SNV-E99 slo-mo kills in single player campaign
The VP Treatment (10) Possess a soldier, then shoot another soldier in the face (public match)
Time Bandit (15) Grab 5 Shields from enemies in single player campaign
Time Master (60) Completed Singularity on Hard Mode
Time's on My Side (20) Purchased 5 different TMD Equipment items in single player campaign
Up Close and Personal (15) Kill 20 enemies with Impulse in single player campaign
Workers' District (25) Completed the Workers' District Mission
You're a Hit (10) 20 Spikeshot kills in single player campaign
Zekky Style (15) Kill 15 soldiers from behind with the Zek (public match)

Haven't played yet, but I love me some Soviet super science, so I'll pick it up.

Tanolen

It's been getting alot of good reviews. People say it is alot like bioshock, with some half-life 2 thrown in. Apparently it starts off slow though, but gets much better.

Dartboy

The most important question:

Does this game have time-traveling quad bikes?

CaptainNemo

It's got a 78 on Metacritic, so it looks like it's good, but not great. Still, I'll buy it. Oh, and it comes with a free copy of [PROTOTYPE].

CaptainNemo

Dartboy wrote: »

The most important question:

Does this game have time-traveling quad bikes?

It has time travelling Russian mutants, is that close?

Nickle

I rented this game and was quite surprised by how much I've been enjoying it. I was wondering if anyone would make a thread about it.

I finished up the single player campaign which was fun from beginning to end, with a lot of awesome moments. A bit short I guess, but longer than most other FPS's that come out these days. The multiplayer is good times too, when you can get into a match. There are way too many people with horrible connections hosting games. There are only two game modes, and both revolve around creatures vs soldiers, and there isn't really anything to unlock like BC2 or what have you (you do level up and get bonuses for certain actions), but it is fun to play.

Basically single player is like Bioshock/Half Life, multi is like Bioshock 2/Left4Dead.

Delta Assault

It looks like Bioshock meets Cryostasis meets FEAR. Which is definitely a good thing.

And these guys made Heretic and HeXen and X-Men Legends 1/2 and Elite Force 1/2 and Jedi Outcast and Marvel Ultimate Alliance and Quake 4 and X-Men Origins Wolverine. That's also a really good thing.

I'll pick it up when I get bored with War for Cybertron, I suppose.

Tanolen

They really need to daily deal this during the steam sale to generate some buzz about this game.

Klash

Wait. Whoa.

1950's? This involves comic book commies?

I need this. I need this bad.

This seems like a good version of TimeShift.


Is there any word on the DRM, if any?

Darmak

Delta Assault wrote: »

It looks like Bioshock meets Cryostasis meets FEAR. Which is definitely a good thing.

And these guys made Heretic and HeXen and X-Men Legends 1/2 and Elite Force 1/2 and Jedi Outcast and Marvel Ultimate Alliance and Quake 4 and X-Men Origins Wolverine. That's also a really good thing.

I'll pick it up when I get bored with War for Cybertron, I suppose.

Heretic and Hexen and Hexen 2 are some of my favorite games ever.

Grislo

I thought it was good fun, if a little short, and perhaps a bit easy (at least on normal). The only annoying bit is that I've found it impossible to get a decent multiplayer game going, but as far as the singleplayer goes, it's worth a playthrough.

It's probably a rental title, though.

I never get tired of snatching a shield from an enemy with my [strike]jedi[/strike] time powers, holding it in the air to block a few shots, then flinging it back in his face for a knockdown.

cooljammer00

Kinda wish the GB QL got to the part with the Time Gun, but it seems like standard affair.

Delta Assault

Just watched some gameplay videos.

Apparently, strapping a wristwatch on is how you heal. Or at least, that's what it looks like. It really really really looks like your character just straps a watch onto his wrist. It's actually a bandage, I think. Apparently, in this game, you're hurting bad from wrist wounds. All the attacks the evil Russkies and monsters inflict upon you are actually directed exactly onto your right wrist. So you have to wrap your bandage or field dressing around it. Stopping your wrist from bleeding out is what keeps you alive.

Except it's not even your bare wrist. It's ridiculous looking, but you don't even have an exposed wrist to wrap the bandage around. Your wrist is actually covered up by your kevlar jacket or outfit. So you're just wrapping a bandage around your jacket sleeve. That's how you heal in this game. Get shot, wrap a bandage around your sleeve covered wrist. It's uh, it's fucking hilarious. I mean, Far Cry 2 was kinda silly looking too with its syringe plunging and pulling the bullet out of your arm with a damn leatherman, but it was a lot more realistic then this! Far Cry 2's healing was the pinnacle of plausibility compared to Singularity's wrist wrapping.

Astale

It's more realistic than healing shotgun blasts to the face with potato chips.

Tanolen

Sounds kind of like Left 4 Dead healing.

Spartan 0092

Healing in just about any video is silly if you look for it.

Cherrn

What the hell is up with Activision and region locking non-Call of Duty games on Steam?

Tanolen

So I have been playing through this. It is pretty much call of bioshock but it's alot of fun. The time powers spice up the combat from just being shooty. The texture streaming bug is pretty annoying though. Haven't had a chance to check out the multiplayer yet.

TheOtherHorseman

Delta Assault wrote: »

Just watched some gameplay videos.

Apparently, strapping a wristwatch on is how you heal. Or at least, that's what it looks like. It really really really looks like your character just straps a watch onto his wrist. It's actually a bandage, I think. Apparently, in this game, you're hurting bad from wrist wounds. All the attacks the evil Russkies and monsters inflict upon you are actually directed exactly onto your right wrist. So you have to wrap your bandage or field dressing around it. Stopping your wrist from bleeding out is what keeps you alive.

Except it's not even your bare wrist. It's ridiculous looking, but you don't even have an exposed wrist to wrap the bandage around. Your wrist is actually covered up by your kevlar jacket or outfit. So you're just wrapping a bandage around your jacket sleeve. That's how you heal in this game. Get shot, wrap a bandage around your sleeve covered wrist. It's uh, it's fucking hilarious. I mean, Far Cry 2 was kinda silly looking too with its syringe plunging and pulling the bullet out of your arm with a damn leatherman, but it was a lot more realistic then this! Far Cry 2's healing was the pinnacle of plausibility compared to Singularity's wrist wrapping.

They're magic ghost bandages blessed by an Iriquois shaman.

together, we are now frolicking in the realism demanded by a game centered on time travelling communist island mutants

Daxon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exga3AHHSe4

Trailer for the game. Also this game - finished it yesterday - is absolutely amazing and sublime. Everyone with a PC/PS3/360 should play it.

edit: people really need to be talking about this game so it becomes an established IP of awesome.

cooljammer00

Uh, Activision left Singularity to die, basically. There won't be a sequel.

Daxon

I hate Activision.

Game was so epic.

Delta Assault

cooljammer00 wrote: »

Uh, Activision left Singularity to die, basically. There won't be a sequel.

Hey now. You're talking like you possess some sort of time manipulation device.

cooljammer00

I might be stealing most of these points from the BombCast, but you can sort of see how this game was sort of left to languish without much promotion. It can't be exploited yearly. MP isn't too big of a draw.

Daxon

But it was so good.

Endomatic

If we can't do something with it yearly, then fuck it?

Is that the mentality that the industry is heading toward?
God damn it.

SyphonBlue

No, just Activision. Hi, Guitar Hero 76.

Captain K

It's not Guitar Hero, but it is Activision, and it is '76!





So at least they've given us something.

Redcoat-13

You see, I'm very tempted to get this game after reading mostly positive reviews.

The problem is, is that in the UK, if you walk into a shop to buy it, it costs £45 (didn't Activision say they would test with MW2 to see if people would pay this amount for a game?).

But because it's gotten so little support in terms of marketting, and because of its price, I know it's not going to sell well, so I might as well wait 3-4 weeks when the inevitable price drop happens, which seems to be the norm for most games now (Lost Planet came on sale at £35, and now it's selling for £18 after less than 2 months of being out).

Verr

Wait for it to drop. It's a great game, but not worth shelling out 45 dollars of monopoly money for.

Synthesis

Game looks interesting--decent visuals, and I do like these sort of mechanics. Everything I've read about the story is kind of meh* at times, but that's just part of the package, and good visuals and good mechanics can cover for that.

May check this out when the prices decline. Or borrow it from someone, if one of my friends picks it up. Still intriguing. No demo on Xbox Live, huh?

*What's meh with a psuedo-Russian accent?

mastrius

Im just here to say I bought it day one (mainly because Amazon gave a 20 sollar video game gift cert with it if pre ordered) and it is fucking amazing and wouldnt have been mad if I paid 60 and got nothing in return. It is an excellent game for something that got no ads and was just suddenly released. I had so much fun I pretty much stopped playing other games I had and just went on that til I beat it. Excellent shooter with great RPG mechanics and I hope they can do a sequel of sorts.

EtherealWalrus

Has anyone gotten the PC version? The system specs seem pretty high, and I'm not sure how it would run on a laptop that can run Crysis on high.

Evil Multifarious

man it would TOTALLY make sense if you healed by strapping a wristwatch on.

taking bullets doesn't actually hurt you but it destabilizes you in the space time continuum, so you have to strap a timepiece on and drain its time energy because it is a locus of temporal awareness for sentient beings

done

BlackDove

EtherealWalrus wrote: »

Has anyone gotten the PC version? The system specs seem pretty high, and I'm not sure how it would run on a laptop that can run Crysis on high.

What.

Hahahaha, this was one of the funniest posts I've ever read.

Sorry.

Singularity runs on the Unreal Engine 3.0

Five year old computers can run it on all settings maxed @ 1080.

Like mine.

Klash

I just watched this quick look from Giant Bomb.

The game looks like it plays much like BioShock. From the high lighted pick-ups, to the ever awesome '50's kitsch and audiotapes.

This is not a bad thing. Is this an accurate representation of this game? Because it looks pretty damned polished.

If anyone knows about the PC version, could they tell me what DRM its using, if any?

Edit: Also, when did FPS games get awesome again? Between this and Bulletstorm, I'm afraid I won't have testosterone to spare.

Metallikat

EtherealWalrus wrote: »

Has anyone gotten the PC version? The system specs seem pretty high, and I'm not sure how it would run on a laptop that can run Crysis on high.

The texture pop-in is freaking horrendous on my PC. Running dual ATI 5870's in Crossfire, and it can actually take MINUTES for textures to fully appear, just standing still and watching. I like the game, but goddamn that's unacceptable.

BlackDove

The game was okay.

A rental or a $20 or so.

BlackDove

Metallikat wrote: »

EtherealWalrus wrote: »

Has anyone gotten the PC version? The system specs seem pretty high, and I'm not sure how it would run on a laptop that can run Crysis on high.

The texture pop-in is freaking horrendous on my PC. Running dual ATI 5870's in Crossfire, and it can actually take MINUTES for textures to fully appear, just standing still and watching. I like the game, but goddamn that's unacceptable.

Welcome to Unreal 3. The engine has been doing that throughout pretty much every single game that used it.

Arrath

BlackDove wrote: »

Metallikat wrote: »

EtherealWalrus wrote: »

Has anyone gotten the PC version? The system specs seem pretty high, and I'm not sure how it would run on a laptop that can run Crysis on high.

The texture pop-in is freaking horrendous on my PC. Running dual ATI 5870's in Crossfire, and it can actually take MINUTES for textures to fully appear, just standing still and watching. I like the game, but goddamn that's unacceptable.

Welcome to Unreal 3. The engine has been doing that throughout pretty much every single game that used it.

Thats what I loved about Gears 2, they made some tweaks to texture loading/streaming so instead of blatant popping it was more subtle fading from poorer to HQ textures. I wonder if that'll ever get out to other devs.

BlackDove

It did. That's why I said "pretty much". Mass Effect 1 was heavy on the pop, but there was almost none in 2.

Working with a pre-existing engine is hard stuff when the coders that are making the game don't know the code base.

There are a few games with Unreal 3 that don't have the pop-in, but by god, most of them do.

Provided you have an overkill of a computer, there is the possibility that fudging with the .ini files, you can force the game to simply brute-load everything immediately, so you generally wouldn't notice if your computer is i7 930 @ 4.3ghz, 5970, SSD MX-25 kind of fast, but still.

Problem's gonna problem.