As for the multiplayer, Lee-Creel could only confirm, "It is time-based and you do have some of the time stuff integrated in there, some cool stuff that we're doing right now. I've played if it's a lot of fun. How much fun Singularity will be to play remains to be seen, and we'll have to fast forward to later in the year to find out.
Do you see what we did there? Sophisticated people like you and me are immune to hype. Perhaps immune is the wrong word; we're prone to notice the difference between information and hype, mulishly hardening ourselves to the product being fingered into our mouths. If you're so cool, we think, we'll see that for ourselves. Unfortunately for us, and happily for the manipulative scum that forms the nation's ranks of marketeers and advertisers, we'll probably end up buying the mush anyway, just so we can bitch about it in on the internet with a more educated sense of resentment.
The complete absence of hype, however, is slightly more puzzling. Are we supposed to like it? Feel like it's a rare discovery? Rescue it from its neglectful tormenters? Singularity had a short burst of publicity, but that was over a year ago.
Since then, Activision has been silent about its time-bending shooter. No review copies were sent out. There were no visits to the office from an Activision public relations lady using words like "unique" while the hypnotic Activision giraffe looked in through our third-floor window. Poor Raven - Singularity doesn't deserve this level of brutal neglect.
That's not saying this is a masterpiece, but slipping an original title so far under the radar implies an inappropriate level of disinterest and embarrassment. So, Singularity. The game in which you, Nate Renko, visit Katorga, a Russian island that was the home to many peculiar experiments in the '50s.
After your helicopter is brought down by a massive crackling explosion, you return to consciousness in the flaming ruins of the island complex's welcome foyer. This is the place where scientists brought their families to work on Element 99, a time-deforming isotope that Kruschev hoped would give Russia the upper hand in the Cold War. The experiments failed, and no advantage was gained.
But they did build an odd bridge between and , one that slings you unwittingly into the time of the original explosions that ended the '50s experiments. Being a hero, you decide to help people out. Unfortunately, the guy you carry to safety is one of those people who died for a reason.
His life creates a new, and substantially crappier, timeline in which Element 99 is harnessed, Mother Russia dominates the world, and Kruschev is deposed by someone ever so slightly more evil. Suddenly, it's your job, with the help of the original E scientist and a group called Mir, to reinstate the original timeline. Don't ask too many questions. Don't ask how Mir are aware of any branching timeline. Don't ask why people in the feverishly oppressive atmosphere of Communist Russia are so keen to record their treacherous thoughts on audio cassettes.
Let's get this out of the way: There are a lot of ways in which Singularity is derivative. And I'm not just name-dropping a few shooters to create a spurious sense of knowing what I'm talking about, I'm trying to hedge around spoilers, even if they are spoilers you've already seen in different games. There are times throughout Singularity where you'll notice what a patchwork quilt of influences and rnagpied ideas it is. But here's the important thing - you'll enjoy yourself anyway.
But let's switch and get complimentary. There's a streak of well-concealed originality running through Raven's half-buried game. The time-manipulation device allows you to age and renew items that have been imbued with Element This is the last big shooter that Activision has released before focusing on its entire team on the Call of Duty series, taking us to a Soviet-controlled island called Katorga, where the electromagnetic system on one of the American spy satellites was grounded.
Is and now is the opportunity to search. A group of US Navy soldiers head to a remote island to find out how the satellite crashed.
The captain of the group you will play plays suddenly rescues a scientist named Nikolai Demi Chu from the fire and tells someone else that he should not have saved him and he burns himself in the fire. This is where your work will start and surprises will hit you in the face like a slap in the face.
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