{"id":4882,"date":"2010-08-14T13:44:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T19:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=4882"},"modified":"2010-08-14T13:44:59","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T19:44:59","slug":"singularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/14\/singularity\/","title":{"rendered":"Singularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/sing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4883 alignright\" title=\"sing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/sing-150x75.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a>Singularity feels a lot like Doom 3 and Raven obviously meant it to. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m writing about it even though I don&#8217;t like it. They achieved their goal with style and panache, it&#8217;s not their fault I&#8217;m sick to death of any game that lazily tries to beguile me with recordings.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There are recorders everywhere and they tell a boring story. This isn&#8217;t Bioshock here. In fairness the plot is a little offbeat, involving old Soviet stuff, time travel, secrets long buried unearthed and the enemy creatures are of the &#8220;pop-out and scare you&#8221; variety. That said, combat is also a throwback and that&#8217;s a good thing. The creatures come at you swinging, there&#8217;s no cover system.<\/p>\n<p>The game is rated M because the environment is littered with dead bodies. Some hanging, some headless or mutilated, some impaled. Combat is bloody too. F&#8212; and S&#8212; are used occasionally ( for no good reason).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/sing2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4884\" title=\"sing2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/sing2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"309\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/sing2.jpg 309w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/sing2-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px\" \/><\/a>The offensiveness of the game doesn&#8217;t stand out. It is bloody, there are corpses, but the effect is creepy rather than lurid. I can see letting Teens play, especially if they can watch horror flicks. If you&#8217;re more sensitive, this one rightly rated M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singularity feels a lot like Doom 3 and Raven obviously meant it to. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m writing about it even though I don&#8217;t like it. They achieved their goal with style and panache, it&#8217;s not their fault I&#8217;m sick to death of any game that lazily tries to beguile me with recordings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}