- Multiplayer gameplay options..
- 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..
Product Description
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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
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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
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Speed up time to reduce enemies to dust.
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Or gain from turning back the clock.
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Classic FPS gameplay.
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A revisionist Cold War storyline.
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. 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, s, machine s, sniper s, 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 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 Features
* An 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.