Singularity™

Singularity is often lauded as a hidden gem of 2010, & in many ways I can see why. The guns & powers are all rather good fun to use. Its super entertaining pausing time & shooting the heads off of every Russian soldier in the room. Or throwing a tank of liquid nitrogen into a squad of enemies before smashing their frozen bodies to bits using a shock wave. Or turning people into mush with your minigun, especially after time resumes & a wall of bullets hit a guy all at once. The puzzles in this game are decent; they're never too difficult & serve as breathing room between fights. However, the story & graphics are both very much a product of their time. It has many of the negative hallmarks of an Xbox 360 game. The story is uninspiring & the characters flat, & it has that awful "shoot one of 2 characters at the end to determine the outcome of the story" trope. Moreover, whilst the weapons look okay & the lighting can be rather nice, all of the environments are dark & muddy; another trend of that era of games. The zombie style enemies are also pretty uninteresting to play against & very exactly like every other zombie enemy forced into every game back then. Singularity had a few texture streaming problems for me, and also there was a difficult part where lots of tick-creatures rush you; impulse & pause time are your friend here. Bulletstorm was released shortly after Singularity, & you can certainly see some influences. They both have the same bullet-steering mechanic & they both have a very similar grenade launcher type weapon. I definitely think Bulletstorm has aged much better than this solely because its brighter, doesn't take itself seriously at all (whereas Singularity is kinda cheesy), & the combat is better refined. I struggled to get into this game when I first played it at the start of 2025, but giving it a second shot was worth it. If you like 2010 era games & want to try a quick, polished experience with some the opportunity to butcher Russian soldiers in several creative ways, & solve a few puzzles then I'd recommend this. Do be prepared for a lame story & some boring zombie bits through.