Review by Eurogamer 8/10

When did it stop being OK for first-person shooters to be silly? Once upon a time you just rocked up, ran down some corridors with increasingly powerful weapons and shot guys. Most of those guys chose to defend themselves by dancing left and right, and they came from places like Stroggos.

Not these days. These days you have to wrestle with mentalist ideologues and make choices with profound repercussions. BioShock gave us Randian objectivism and attacked our notions of free will in video games. Modern Warfare 2 was about… Well, nobody knows what Modern Warfare 2 was about, but you shot some civilians in an airport, which was a bit weird.

Meanwhile, Raven Software has been making Singularity – the first new IP to come out of the studio in a decade. It’s about a guy who is sent to a secret Russian island, Katorga 12, where mad scientists experimented with a rare element called E99 in the 1950s and it all went wrong.

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Review by IGN 7.0/10 Decent

It seems that the Russians are doomed to forever be the villains in American videogames. The Soviet Union collapsed nearly 20 years ago and the Cold War is over, but Singularity still manages to make those dastardly commies the enemy. How you might ask? Time travel, of course!

Singularity asks the question, ‘What if the Soviet Union discovered a source of Element-99… and what if it had special powers that could warp time itself and create monsters?’ It’s a question we’ve all stayed up pondering and now you can live that nightmare through the shoes of American soldier Nate Renko, the unfortunate soul tasked with correcting history. There’s a five minute introduction explaining this backstory in great detail at the opening of Singularity. From there, things continue to be just as corny right through to the end.

Singularity is a first-person shooter that draws inspiration from games like BioShock or System Shock 2. There are lots of meat-monsters and Russian soldiers to blast, plenty of weapons to do so with, and along the way you’ll upgrade Renko with new powers and tools to make him even more super.

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