Jun 9, 2009

Singularity

Categories: Microsoft | Sony | Video's & Trailers

The basic story line is you typical fringe science experiment set back in the good old 50’s Russia that has gone terribly wrong. The Russians have discovered a substance called Element 99 (which doesn’t come with a flake..!) that has the ability to manipulate the time state of any object, like making something very old or very new! Now as you would guess, there was an explosion of this E99 happened and the whole island facility has been put in a sort of temporal flux between 1950 and 2010.

Now this is where i’m getting the feeling ive played a game like this before as you play a U.S. recon soldier that has been shot down while on a mission to investigate the source of these strange anomalies on the island. Yup this is starting to feel I little like “Resident Evil Code: Veronica” that came out on the dreamcast all these years ago, as you are forced to unravel its mysteries if you hope to survive and escape this island of time. The enemies on this island are a mix of Russian soldiers & creatures that have been mutated by exposure to E99 (bad times).

The game does look great and some of the ideas of this game are very unique like one of the first weapons you get in the game is the “Time Manipulation Device” or TMD for short which will allow you to age anything at all forward or backwards.

Take for instance an enemy is trying to attack you why waste ammo when you can just turn him to dust! or how about you don’t have a key shaped like a shield well you no longer need a key when you can just age it backwards to before it was built. Other tools & weapons include the Chronolight which allows you to see objects that are out of phase with you pull them through time so you can use them and the E99 Pistol which slows time and give you the ability to guide you bullets in mid-air..!

Below is a video of the game.

Singularity is due out in the Fall of this year (2009) for both PS3 and 360 and I believe this is yet another game to be added onto my ever growing list of games to buy.