Hey Jarek, I saw your video on Singularity about a year ago, and I really liked it. If you have time, then can you check out my review? ua-cam.com/video/xczKJ81DmYg/v-deo.html
Forgot about Prey. I wish we could get a remaster of that game for modern operating systems and resolutions. I never got to finish it. Raven was a damn good developer.
yeah! a remaster with raytracing and DLSS in UE4 would be soooooo sexy ! i loved those two games, old school fps are the best !( man ! do you remember the guided sniper bullet gameplay ? it was awesome )
Bro Timeshift was amazing. I remember going to an EB games store (Australia but same thing as gamestop I believe) and looking at the back covers of xbox 360 games just to see the pictures and try to figure out if the synopsis was something I would care about so I bought the game on a whim basically and it turned out to be a hidden gem imo. It was a pretty unique and cool game for me at the time when I only really played the more mainstream games like bad company 2 and cod lol. EDIT: Just repurchase it on steam, it's on sale right now btw ;).
One of the most underrated shooters and an absolute gem of a game. It's also one of the few games, maybe even works in general that managed to get time travel right without making it overly-complex or convoluted.
@@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi While I kind of agree on the textures. I still find it an impressive looking game, but that's more because of the art direction. Environments really looked impressive because they often had a strange sense of grounded reality to them. Otherwordly (sci-fi/horror) at times, yet still with a sense of reality to it. It's difficult to explain, but for me it absolutely hit the mark when it comes down to the overall visual style. Visual fidelity on the other hand... UE3 really started to show its age by then, and this wasn't even one of the best looking ones in terms of textures etc.
@@thegreatape884 You dont want to know how much I wish for a game with good proper enemy feedback The mix of its scenario with the glove powers were also fresh instead of the 10th copy of COD or BF or similar games which are always the exact same games no matter if WW1, WW2, WW3
Yep it was so good when the VR headsets started popping up it was one of the early games I got working using VorpX. The moment your first tackled to the ground a screaming maw in your face, firing rounds in a panic. I knew it was coming and it still felt like the first time I played through it.
Yeah I totally agree. It's one of those storyline that Singularity has that makes one think, what if stuf like that were true? They don't make that much stories like that in games anymore. Only game I know with that kind of vibe is the hitman world of assassination trilogy.
In my twenties I moved to a new city for a job, and I was living in a crappy apartment without any furniture. I rented this game on whim, and loved it. Good memory from a tough time.
@@lawlessx9 It has 3 diferent endings if i remember well. You don't have to replay the whole game to get them. Just save before making the final choice, just like a real life TMD, and go back to it to make diferent choices and see the other endings.
@@lawlessx9 Yeah. I mean, they're all decided right at the very end of the game, so it's not like what you did earlier mattered, but they were still interesting. The means you could use to set off the endings though could lead to some really funny situations though. ("Thank you for making the right choice! You're truly a goo--" ** SHOOTS IN FACE **)
@@jamespaul6315 Seems like a situation in where we didn't know what we had until it was too late. I supported them too. Don't know why so few others did too.
Definitely not that underrated. Nothing even remotely Resident Evil about it, more a rip-off of Bioshock, Half-Life, COD and Portal. There is no horror
Honestly one of my favorite games from that era. I played it many many years later after buying it for next to nothing and was floored that this game was practically ignored
I remember being stoked for this to come out. I live in Wisconsin and toured Raven soft for a field trip. We got to see motion capture being done and i asked too many prelaunch questions and was politely told to stop trying to steal their secrets. These days Machine Games seems to be the new Raven in a way, what with their hands on Wolf and the expansions theyve done for Quake.
back when Raven where still worth their weight in gold, largely ignored game for no reason that was nothing short of a masterpiece, clever mechanics with a nice story and a nice little twist at the end that keeps u engaged.....a remaster of it would be amazing.
@@Skullkan6 not at all , own it on steam, i still play it at least once a year , it is fun, same for many others in my library , some games were and still are good , binary domain , inversion , bullet witch ....
I remembered when I was addicted to this game for a time. Think it was during the twilight years of the PS3. I was all for a sequel based on the ending with the good scientist that got the TMD. Try to fix things all over again.
I'd love to see them pull a bait and switch. A teaser trailer comes out that begins like it's implying a continuation to CoD Cold War. Then the music shifts. The letters begin glitching into cyrilic. Cue narration talking about the incident on Katorga-12. And then the reveal. "And now, it's bleeding over into our world."
@@slickysan i beg to differ. The best games are the one of the Heretic/Hexen series. Wolverine as well as Quake and Wolfenstein reject titles did very poorly.
They never will cause guys responsible for that went to Human Head Studios, today known as Roundhouse Studios. This was their biggest mistake, after that Raven was continuously on downwards trajectory.
I started a studio with the guy that ran Raven's motion capture studio until the Singularity layoffs. Most people I know from Raven lost their jobs because of this game.
Singularity is the kind of popcorn shooter you play through in an afternoon or two and don't pay much thought after that but it leaves an aftertaste in your mouth that makes you wanna go back to it every now and then because it's just pure, unfiltered fun. A damn shame what happened to Raven Software; imagine all the fun shooters hey would've kept making had Activision not demoted them to a meager support team.
I remember this game because i almost got it like 3 times but never did. I still remember the games i picked instead of it. The first time it was red dead redemption, the second time it was bioshock 2, and the third time was fallout newvegas. Then the blockbuster that i bought my games from closed and i forgot that this game ever existed until now.
It suddenly occurred to be that you could sometimes just make a "History of XYZ game developer" without the focus on a specific game. The format focused on a specific game is still probably best for the majority of videos, as you can pick and choose some interesting tidbits of a devs past in relation to the game being talked about, but it might be a nice thing every once in a blue moon to release a longer video covering a forgotten dev company or publisher, or even overviews of how certain devs became big and changed overtime.
I remember playing Singularity on the 360 and it was a pretty fun game! Timeshift was awesome, I played it a ton, it pushed my poor PC at the time. And Mageslayer was also a cool game when I gave it a chance many many years ago. I didn't even remember these last two were from Raven. Good memories...
The 2000’s were groundbreaking when it came to fps games, so many innovative titles dropped in that decade that propelled the genre to the top. No One Lives Forever, Soldier Of Fortune, Unreal Return To Castle Wolfenstein, Halo, Battlefield, Medal Of Honor, Doom 3, Far Cry, Half Life, F.E.A.R, Quake 4, Prey, Bioshock, Crysis, Stalker, Timeshift, Killzone and so many classics were released during that decade. The decade ended with a bang, that being MW2 which became one of the best selling games ever and it was agreat game tbh. When you look back on the past decade, what memorable fps titles did we get ? The games felt all the same with just a different skin over it, the core is almost always the same. I miss the era of the story driven, single player campaign focused fps games. You can keep your weapon skins, upgrades and and barren wasteland with nothing in them grinding simulators, I’ll choose something like Singularity over it any day.
Raven software one of the MVP of star wars games, Jedi outcast and Academy gameplay and combat mechanics are the best ever for a star wars game still to this date. no one has done lightsaber combat better or even come close to it.
I very much remember the trailer song, Stormbreaker by Vasco and Paul Reeves, being one of my first favorite pieces of music that wasn't lyrical. Really opened me up to the piano as the amazing and beautiful instrument it is.
GVMERS loves its viewers. I would love to see a History of Sly Cooper. Rise and Fall or whatever. That feels like an important franchise to revisit in this documentary
One of my favorite games of that generation. I can’t believe so many critics destroyed it, yet praised all them yearly call of duty entries..... I’d throw away every single call of duty game, in exchange for a proper Singularity sequel.
I remember buying this at best buy for 6 dollars new. Never heard of it till that day, still one of my favorite fps shooters. Wish raven was given another chance to do their own ip again.
after having played the game years after its release, i sincerely believe that it just got released at the wrong time when people thought that the linear story-driven shooters were the way to go, so the game was butchered by critics and players. well, it's 2021, and we don't really have linear story-driven shooters anymore. and that honestly sucks much more than Singularity.
So frustrating we never got a third darkness game, that’s all we needed to wrap the whole story up ! It could’ve become one of the coolest and best ever FPS trilogies
When I was younger, Singularity was one of the games that I would constantly see at my local GameStop. It always caught my eye, but ultimately never bought it. One day I finally said "You know, it's about time I give this game a chance. It's only $5." I regret not buying it sooner. Still to this day one of my favorite FPS games. I recently bought it on Steam too to relieve the memories. lol
Playing through Quake 4 right now, great game. Probably my favorite of the entire franchise. Singularity and their M rated Wolverine game were pretty good too.
idk why but the title of this randomly reminded me of "Dark Sector" its such a good classic game and i feel like nobody really knows about it/played it. the game has its flaws sure but i 200% recommend it as a must play for any gamer
It's always Activision or EA huh, I wish we could rewind time to save them. RIP Raven Software, being sent into CoD Hell is a scary fate. I guess this is why games are creatively bankrupt nowadays.
Everyone that actually played this usually only has good things to say, sadly that wasn't many people. I miss B-game shooters, the 360 era Syndicate was great too.
I went on a field trip to Raven Software in Madison Wisconsin. This was back in 09 and got to see them make Singularity and Wolfenstein. Its pretty cool especially when I saw them perform in mocaps. At least 200 cameras surrounding the room programed on one computer. The building is split into two facilities one makes one game and same with the other. I did see a guy testing the multi-player for Wolfenstein. There's a lot to tell if you wanna know more.
I loved playing this game, the time manipulation made it so unique and the multiplayer was fun too! Unfortunately no one knows this game when I bring it up and it's honestly a shame.
Watching these GVMERS documentaries feels like looking into the future in which cultural historians can look back at the current generation with the benefit of perspective that usually only decades of hindsight can provide. Very enlightening and entertaining.
Great video as always. Really glad Raven finally got a chance with BOCW´s campaign after a decade of serving as mere underlings for the CoD franchise. Hopefully we´ll see more of them in the upcoming years.
@@danielfield1606 Agreed, just bought the Xbox One version this year on sale and really enjoyed it. Well worth a buy if you haven’t played it and enjoy single player focused games!
@@Symbrio I play the new Dooms. ID software still makes games I like. I wasn’t impressed with the last Wolfenstein game though (The Youngblood). I just miss when everyone was releasing linear shooters, all the time. Xbox 360 and PS3 have my favorite kind of games in way higher numbers than the PS4 era did. I hope things change for the better soon.
I remember working at Ativision when this was on the test floor. Word from the other testers basically said the same thing. Middle of the road FPS with interesting ideas that got boiled down into gimmicky set pieces and an underutilized time mechanic. Though I'm curious to hear a break down of TimeShift. Another time based FPS that DRASTICALLY underwent huge changes. I knew alot of people who worked on that project. Alot of people sleeping under their desks. I even got to briefly test the build after it changed hands from Atari to Sierra . They worked on that game for a year before they scrapped everything and redid everything from scratch.
I miss seeing Raven Software develop cool and original games. Seeing them chained up to the Call of Duty franchise as a support studio for the rest of their lives is such a infuriating thing to see. I want new I.P.'s and a new Serpent Rider game from Raven Software, not hyper generic and creatively bankrupt military shooters, dammit!
I’m so glad you guys did this game, one of my favorites that I never thought would be, especially after seeing it on the shelf at GameStop all the time
I remember slightly younger me picking this title up several times while browsing GameStop looking for a hidden gem. I’d always put it back in place of something more known. But it always looked interesting. One day I bought it and little did I know it would turn out to be a gaming experience I still bring up to this day. I was blown away by the alternate timeline. I still have my copy to this day. Incredibly underrated.
I remember what couldn't have been more than a year or 2 after the games release, having never heard about it despite being an avid console fps lover, I found this game inside an abandoned and destroyed trailer I was contracted to remove from its lot, ended up keeping it instead of throwing it away with the other junk and garbage inside. I didn't even expect it to work let alone actually be a good game, but I can honestly say it's one of my most cherished and favorite fps games of all time. You can just feel all the love and passion that went in to this game in a time where that was something all too absent from other fps of the day. It makes me so sad to know that the guys who made this and x men origins wolverine are nothing more than a hollow shell of its former self slaving away endlessly at the call of duty slag pits.
I recall seeing the release trailer of this game and thinking it looked terrible for 2010 graphics - the talk was all about the prettiest games 10 years ago.. When it came out I gave it a try and really did learn not to judge on graphics anymore. That was the most fun I had in a game at the time. Short, no filler, great story/immersion, solid pacing, and most importantly alot of fun
YOU DID IT. You finally covered this hidden masterpiece. If Singularity had more character mobility and had it been a little longer it would have been the perfect *commie slaying* game.
It's sad too see such innovative ideas being shafted in exchange for the same run of the mill games. Thank you for not allowing this game to be forgotten.
Singularity, also known as Raven Software swansong before being sent into Call of Duty printing machine. They were undoubtedtly an awesome game studio that mixed the controls of modern games at the time with some old school elements. I would love a spiritual successor to Singularity, maybe with less dialog than Atomic Heart and with more BioShock elements into the mix.
As a 14 year old singularity sucked me in like no other game. I was absolutely terrified after the first mission and quit for a while because I was so scared but a few years later remembered I had never gotten past the first half and replayed it and the atmosphere was just as good as I had remembered it even as a late teen. Raven really showed they were a worthy studio of developing their own IPs, says a lot about Activision that they've had them shuttered for a decade now
Thank you so much for making this video. Singularity is SERIOUSLY underrated. I've also looked up to Raven since I was a kid both living in WI and being in the Games Industry.
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It's a shame what happened to Raven. I really miss original, linear shooters. They're incredibly hard to come across now a days.
As always, Jarek here.
Btw Prey 2017 is amazing 😑
Hey Jarek, I saw your video on Singularity about a year ago, and I really liked it. If you have time, then can you check out my review? ua-cam.com/video/xczKJ81DmYg/v-deo.html
same. everything's open World le procedurally generated nowadays
yeah raven was the best
Ah, yes. The last game Raven made before sent to the Call of Duty salt mines.
:(
Yup, pretty much a dead dev at this point.
Many of the people who made their best games are long gone now.
Same for Monolith Productions too sadly.
😆😂
I'll always thank them for Ultimate Alliance 1
Yes chewed up in the Sequel factory..sahem
The original Prey and Singularity feel like two underrated cousins.
They're made by guys that all know each other. Human head was a bunch of guys that quit Raven to go solo.
@@AdamMann3D they were laid off, cause Raffel bros didn't want to do any more Heretic/Hexen games. After that Raven sank.
There's another game where you start with limited controls...was with mythical creatures in a NYC like city.
Forgot about Prey. I wish we could get a remaster of that game for modern operating systems and resolutions. I never got to finish it. Raven was a damn good developer.
@@michaeldraiden9603 the darkness?
Singularity and Timeshift stay forever in my heart.
I really liked that game!!! I am so sad What happend Raven software :(((
Timeshiiiiiftttttttt
yeah! a remaster with raytracing and DLSS in UE4 would be soooooo sexy ! i loved those two games, old school fps are the best !( man ! do you remember the guided sniper bullet gameplay ? it was awesome )
Holy shit forgot all about Timeshift - I had just got my pimping 9600GT as well xD
Bro Timeshift was amazing. I remember going to an EB games store (Australia but same thing as gamestop I believe) and looking at the back covers of xbox 360 games just to see the pictures and try to figure out if the synopsis was something I would care about so I bought the game on a whim basically and it turned out to be a hidden gem imo. It was a pretty unique and cool game for me at the time when I only really played the more mainstream games like bad company 2 and cod lol.
EDIT: Just repurchase it on steam, it's on sale right now btw ;).
One of the most underrated shooters and an absolute gem of a game. It's also one of the few games, maybe even works in general that managed to get time travel right without making it overly-complex or convoluted.
Got a bunch of stuff wrong like the ugly textures but a bunch of stuff right like actual enemy feedback.
@@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi While I kind of agree on the textures. I still find it an impressive looking game, but that's more because of the art direction. Environments really looked impressive because they often had a strange sense of grounded reality to them. Otherwordly (sci-fi/horror) at times, yet still with a sense of reality to it.
It's difficult to explain, but for me it absolutely hit the mark when it comes down to the overall visual style. Visual fidelity on the other hand... UE3 really started to show its age by then, and this wasn't even one of the best looking ones in terms of textures etc.
@@thegreatape884
It had a bunch of qualities it did better than shooters nowadays still and innovations we still badly need.
@@thegreatape884
You dont want to know how much I wish for a game with good proper enemy feedback
The mix of its scenario with the glove powers were also fresh instead of the 10th copy of COD or BF or similar games which are always the exact same games no matter if WW1, WW2, WW3
Yep it was so good when the VR headsets started popping up it was one of the early games I got working using VorpX. The moment your first tackled to the ground a screaming maw in your face, firing rounds in a panic. I knew it was coming and it still felt like the first time I played through it.
Singularity was a piece of art unlike many games that came after it.
Yeah I totally agree. It's one of those storyline that Singularity has that makes one think, what if stuf like that were true? They don't make that much stories like that in games anymore. Only game I know with that kind of vibe is the hitman world of assassination trilogy.
@@soccreyes4647 and metro?
In my twenties I moved to a new city for a job, and I was living in a crappy apartment without any furniture. I rented this game on whim, and loved it. Good memory from a tough time.
I had a similar situation with the game.
You know you're old when you say "rented a game".
This was a bloody great game. Replayed it for the different endings and enjoyed it each time.
Wait..it had different endings?!
@@lawlessx9 yes, try finding them on youtube
I got all three in one run.
@@lawlessx9 It has 3 diferent endings if i remember well. You don't have to replay the whole game to get them. Just save before making the final choice, just like a real life TMD, and go back to it to make diferent choices and see the other endings.
@@lawlessx9 Yeah. I mean, they're all decided right at the very end of the game, so it's not like what you did earlier mattered, but they were still interesting. The means you could use to set off the endings though could lead to some really funny situations though. ("Thank you for making the right choice! You're truly a goo--" ** SHOOTS IN FACE **)
And now Raven are relegated to the Call of Duty slave pits. A fate worse than death.
@sofitional J. There's a way but they need tons of money to break their contract. Which they don't have.
But it’s a job. It sucks but having a desk job beats the hell out of working in a coal mine
Yes, a steady income is truly a horrible existence. Just ask Obsidian!
Making yearly Call of Duty reiterations is not a job
@@YouSoSpice I'm sure the employees at Raven completely agree with you, that's why they haven't all quit en masse.
Singularity is one of my all time favorite FPS campaigns
I love this game so much, and I want to see Singularity 2 so bad. I never forget that I play it.
@lero marle1 What?
I'd really like to see a rework of the game for modern consoles to improve its mechanics as well as a sequel eventually
@@nightterrors2976 Interesting.
RIP Raven Soft.
Punished for trying to be creative.
Pretty much the fate of any dev that gets purchases by the big soulless corporate AAA companies.
See EA especially...
Yup. All the people that left when Activision purchased them knew exactly what was up
You also gotta blame the audience for not supporting it. I know I did, why didnt anyone else?
@@slinkbradshaw8674 which is ironic considering that Activision was made by people who had enough of greed and souless work in Atari
@@jamespaul6315 Seems like a situation in where we didn't know what we had until it was too late. I supported them too. Don't know why so few others did too.
Massively underrated and awesome game. Got it for Christmas many years ago, no idea what it was but I loved the hell out of it.
Underrated game. A mix of Bioshock, time shift and resident evil.
Definitely not that underrated. Nothing even remotely Resident Evil about it, more a rip-off of Bioshock, Half-Life, COD and Portal. There is no horror
@@lutherheggs451 wrong.
@@lutherheggs451 There is so much wrong in your comment it's actually funny.
+ Metro/Stalker/Half Life 😁
More like Metro + Bioshock to me
Honestly one of my favorite games from that era. I played it many many years later after buying it for next to nothing and was floored that this game was practically ignored
Same I remember seeing it in a bargain bin in a Kmart. I bought it because a youtuber loved it so much
I liked this game. This made me sad we probably won't get a sequel.
Singularity is one hell of a game. So glad you guys did this.
Why is the narrator so daft? Is it ai? Every time he says “IT developer,” he pronounces IT as “it,” or “ed,” and not as “eye-tee.” For example, 3:43.
@@anti-ethniccleansing465"ID developers" not IT
He's talking about ID Software, the makers of Doom and Quake
I remember being stoked for this to come out.
I live in Wisconsin and toured Raven soft for a field trip. We got to see motion capture being done and i asked too many prelaunch questions and was politely told to stop trying to steal their secrets.
These days Machine Games seems to be the new Raven in a way, what with their hands on Wolf and the expansions theyve done for Quake.
damn shame this game didn't get more love. absolutely loved this title
It's truly a hidden gem.
back when Raven where still worth their weight in gold, largely ignored game for no reason that was nothing short of a masterpiece, clever mechanics with a nice story and a nice little twist at the end that keeps u engaged.....a remaster of it would be amazing.
That's easily overstating the quality of Singularity through nostalgia
@@Skullkan6 Definitely. Its a fine game and all, but its just a fine game.
@@Skullkan6 not at all , own it on steam, i still play it at least once a year , it is fun, same for many others in my library , some games were and still are good , binary domain , inversion , bullet witch ....
@@Skullkan6 no, it was a damn great game
Exactly!!!
I remembered when I was addicted to this game for a time. Think it was during the twilight years of the PS3. I was all for a sequel based on the ending with the good scientist that got the TMD. Try to fix things all over again.
Make one on Wolfenstein 2009. I think it is underappreciated.
That was a great shooter. I loved it. Sadly it faded away!!
Great game!
Machine Games agrees. The New Order straight up canonized it.
I'd love to see them pull a bait and switch.
A teaser trailer comes out that begins like it's implying a continuation to CoD Cold War.
Then the music shifts. The letters begin glitching into cyrilic.
Cue narration talking about the incident on Katorga-12.
And then the reveal.
"And now, it's bleeding over into our world."
Ah yes, yet another tale of a legendary studio destroyed by a greedy gigantic publisher.
They have destroyed themselves when they stopped making Heretic/Hexen series and laid off people responsible for them way back in 2000.
@@Symbrio Ha? their best games are the later ones. They are still the ones who made the best xman/star wars games to date.
@@slickysan i beg to differ. The best games are the one of the Heretic/Hexen series. Wolverine as well as Quake and Wolfenstein reject titles did very poorly.
You realize that someone has to pay for their development?
In this case, it's more of a legendary studio destroyed by zoomers... or whatever idiot kids with bad tastes in games were called back then.
I miss Heretic and Hexen. Kind of wish Raven could make more of that franchise.
They never will cause guys responsible for that went to Human Head Studios, today known as Roundhouse Studios.
This was their biggest mistake, after that Raven was continuously on downwards trajectory.
Imagine hexen III
@@ee-fq2dj you can play a "sort of" Hexen 3. You need Doom 3, then download mod called "Edge of Chaos"
Raven can't make anything now.
They are just a festering eviscerated husk on the mortician's slab of Bobby Kotick's insatiable greed and lust.
I started a studio with the guy that ran Raven's motion capture studio until the Singularity layoffs. Most people I know from Raven lost their jobs because of this game.
Singularity is the kind of popcorn shooter you play through in an afternoon or two and don't pay much thought after that but it leaves an aftertaste in your mouth that makes you wanna go back to it every now and then because it's just pure, unfiltered fun.
A damn shame what happened to Raven Software; imagine all the fun shooters hey would've kept making had Activision not demoted them to a meager support team.
singularity, resistance, and dead space are the 3 franchises I hope one day will return.
Yeah, and Metroid is making its way off the "hope to see" list.
Dead Space will. Not too sure on the remake so far tho
I played through Singularity at least three times. Highly underrated game.
I remember this game because i almost got it like 3 times but never did.
I still remember the games i picked instead of it. The first time it was red dead redemption, the second time it was bioshock 2, and the third time was fallout newvegas.
Then the blockbuster that i bought my games from closed and i forgot that this game ever existed until now.
Go back and play it. It still holds up today
This game is so underrated!!! Thanks for the video
The last time I have been positively surprised by an Activision game.
I come for the soothing voice and stay for the history.
It suddenly occurred to be that you could sometimes just make a "History of XYZ game developer" without the focus on a specific game. The format focused on a specific game is still probably best for the majority of videos, as you can pick and choose some interesting tidbits of a devs past in relation to the game being talked about, but it might be a nice thing every once in a blue moon to release a longer video covering a forgotten dev company or publisher, or even overviews of how certain devs became big and changed overtime.
I remember playing Singularity on the 360 and it was a pretty fun game! Timeshift was awesome, I played it a ton, it pushed my poor PC at the time. And Mageslayer was also a cool game when I gave it a chance many many years ago. I didn't even remember these last two were from Raven. Good memories...
I actually played Singularity for the first time only a couple years ago. It was fantastic, and I can't believe I waited so long.
The 2000’s were groundbreaking when it came to fps games, so many innovative titles dropped in that decade that propelled the genre to the top. No One Lives Forever, Soldier Of Fortune, Unreal Return To Castle Wolfenstein, Halo, Battlefield, Medal Of Honor, Doom 3, Far Cry, Half Life, F.E.A.R, Quake 4, Prey, Bioshock, Crysis, Stalker, Timeshift, Killzone and so many classics were released during that decade. The decade ended with a bang, that being MW2 which became one of the best selling games ever and it was agreat game tbh. When you look back on the past decade, what memorable fps titles did we get ? The games felt all the same with just a different skin over it, the core is almost always the same. I miss the era of the story driven, single player campaign focused fps games. You can keep your weapon skins, upgrades and and barren wasteland with nothing in them grinding simulators, I’ll choose something like Singularity over it any day.
Extremely underrated, damn near a masterpiece
Raven software one of the MVP of star wars games, Jedi outcast and Academy gameplay and combat mechanics are the best ever for a star wars game still to this date. no one has done lightsaber combat better or even come close to it.
15:59 this is probably the best death animation I have seen in anything ever !
I very much remember the trailer song, Stormbreaker by Vasco and Paul Reeves, being one of my first favorite pieces of music that wasn't lyrical. Really opened me up to the piano as the amazing and beautiful instrument it is.
I picked up Singularity a few years back. Awesome game, just like the Metro series I loved the game. Really would like to see a Singularity 2.
GVMERS loves its viewers. I would love to see a History of Sly Cooper. Rise and Fall or whatever. That feels like an important franchise to revisit in this documentary
One of my favorite games of that generation.
I can’t believe so many critics destroyed it, yet praised all them yearly call of duty entries.....
I’d throw away every single call of duty game, in exchange for a proper Singularity sequel.
It wasn't a high selling game.
They usually side with high selling games.
Ok, Im liking the upload speed. I was conditioned to look forward to my GVMERS vids for a least a few weeks to a month. I appreciate the commitment
Loved this game on my ps3! A remaster would be great! Thank you for doing such amazing videos!
I remember buying this at best buy for 6 dollars new. Never heard of it till that day, still one of my favorite fps shooters. Wish raven was given another chance to do their own ip again.
At least Singularity lives up to the name since there is no sequel. It single handedly remained its own singular game. 😆
after having played the game years after its release, i sincerely believe that it just got released at the wrong time when people thought that the linear story-driven shooters were the way to go, so the game was butchered by critics and players. well, it's 2021, and we don't really have linear story-driven shooters anymore. and that honestly sucks much more than Singularity.
I still have Singularity in my steam library, such a underrated game.
Its been 14 years and I still think about this game atleast once a week, wish it was Backwards compatible on the new xbox 😢
i'd love to see a history of the darkness
This comment makes me sad. I need to know what happened between The Darkness and Angelus. Plus, I need more Jackie and Jenny.
So frustrating we never got a third darkness game, that’s all we needed to wrap the whole story up ! It could’ve become one of the coolest and best ever FPS trilogies
Gvmers please never replace this narrator. This chanel is a true anthem to videogames history.
The game with the best action story I've ever played. Such mystery and adventure. Shame it did not get more parts.
Gem of the action genre.
When I was younger, Singularity was one of the games that I would constantly see at my local GameStop. It always caught my eye, but ultimately never bought it. One day I finally said "You know, it's about time I give this game a chance. It's only $5." I regret not buying it sooner. Still to this day one of my favorite FPS games. I recently bought it on Steam too to relieve the memories. lol
Always liked this game, and most of Raven's work, like Quake 4, Hexen, Soldier of Fortune, Heretic... they don't deserve to be in the COD mines.
Playing through Quake 4 right now, great game. Probably my favorite of the entire franchise.
Singularity and their M rated Wolverine game were pretty good too.
Right, forgot the Wolfenstein from 2009. It's also a underrated game.
idk why but the title of this randomly reminded me of "Dark Sector" its such a good classic game and i feel like nobody really knows about it/played it. the game has its flaws sure but i 200% recommend it as a must play for any gamer
It's always Activision or EA huh, I wish we could rewind time to save them.
RIP Raven Software, being sent into CoD Hell is a scary fate. I guess this is why games are creatively bankrupt nowadays.
Out of all the games on my shelf, this one cries the most of all
Everyone that actually played this usually only has good things to say, sadly that wasn't many people. I miss B-game shooters, the 360 era Syndicate was great too.
Syndicate was amazing
one of the best games I've ever played. I remember this one and necrovision aswell, masterpieces.
Damn I loved their Wolfenstein. Too bad Activision removed it from digital stores.
You can get it on high seas.
@@lostalx I probably have a bootleg DVD somewhere
I went on a field trip to Raven Software in Madison Wisconsin. This was back in 09 and got to see them make Singularity and Wolfenstein. Its pretty cool especially when I saw them perform in mocaps. At least 200 cameras surrounding the room programed on one computer. The building is split into two facilities one makes one game and same with the other. I did see a guy testing the multi-player for Wolfenstein. There's a lot to tell if you wanna know more.
friendly Raven chaps. Remember Jedi Knight 2?
I loved playing this game, the time manipulation made it so unique and the multiplayer was fun too! Unfortunately no one knows this game when I bring it up and it's honestly a shame.
I hope someone can catch John Romero's hair and store it away for scientific study. Before it gets tired of this planet and goes back home.
I love you GVMERS! I've had a hole in my heart for this type of content since "Icons" on G4TV
Singularity wasn't perfect but there was potential for a perfect sequel.
Watching these GVMERS documentaries feels like looking into the future in which cultural historians can look back at the current generation with the benefit of perspective that usually only decades of hindsight can provide. Very enlightening and entertaining.
The sad story of Singularity:
Bioshock was released first.
I adore this game and was so shocked and happy to see Singularity calling cards put in CoD later. Another great vids, guys. Big thumbs up.
It's a terrible shame that we kill off creative ideas in order to fill the market with more mediocrity.
Great video as always. Really glad Raven finally got a chance with BOCW´s campaign after a decade of serving as mere underlings for the CoD franchise. Hopefully we´ll see more of them in the upcoming years.
The Raven has flown into a Singularity.
One of the best channels talking about one of the best games. My evening is saved
Yeah singularity was the best FPS I ever played
That voice man. Its been years. Great job . Great narration. One of my fav contents.
I miss linear, campaign-focused shooters so much.
Bulletstorm was another great one
@@danielfield1606 Agreed, just bought the Xbox One version this year on sale and really enjoyed it. Well worth a buy if you haven’t played it and enjoy single player focused games!
Play new Doom.
@@Symbrio I play the new Dooms. ID software still makes games I like. I wasn’t impressed with the last Wolfenstein game though (The Youngblood). I just miss when everyone was releasing linear shooters, all the time. Xbox 360 and PS3 have my favorite kind of games in way higher numbers than the PS4 era did. I hope things change for the better soon.
I remember working at Ativision when this was on the test floor. Word from the other testers basically said the same thing. Middle of the road FPS with interesting ideas that got boiled down into gimmicky set pieces and an underutilized time mechanic.
Though I'm curious to hear a break down of TimeShift. Another time based FPS that DRASTICALLY underwent huge changes. I knew alot of people who worked on that project. Alot of people sleeping under their desks. I even got to briefly test the build after it changed hands from Atari to Sierra . They worked on that game for a year before they scrapped everything and redid everything from scratch.
I miss seeing Raven Software develop cool and original games. Seeing them chained up to the Call of Duty franchise as a support studio for the rest of their lives is such a infuriating thing to see.
I want new I.P.'s and a new Serpent Rider game from Raven Software, not hyper generic and creatively bankrupt military shooters, dammit!
Blame the Casual Normie audience, They are the ones that lap up anything and that give Activision and others the big money.
Finally a new video and Singularity!! Man I like the stroryline of this game. There's even videos about this game the Katorga 12 conspiracy
A facking Masterpiece.
I’m so glad you guys did this game, one of my favorites that I never thought would be, especially after seeing it on the shelf at GameStop all the time
Intro: "Gamers..."
me: ಠ_ಠ
I remember slightly younger me picking this title up several times while browsing GameStop looking for a hidden gem. I’d always put it back in place of something more known. But it always looked interesting. One day I bought it and little did I know it would turn out to be a gaming experience I still bring up to this day. I was blown away by the alternate timeline. I still have my copy to this day. Incredibly underrated.
Activison: To gulag!
I remember what couldn't have been more than a year or 2 after the games release, having never heard about it despite being an avid console fps lover, I found this game inside an abandoned and destroyed trailer I was contracted to remove from its lot, ended up keeping it instead of throwing it away with the other junk and garbage inside. I didn't even expect it to work let alone actually be a good game, but I can honestly say it's one of my most cherished and favorite fps games of all time. You can just feel all the love and passion that went in to this game in a time where that was something all too absent from other fps of the day. It makes me so sad to know that the guys who made this and x men origins wolverine are nothing more than a hollow shell of its former self slaving away endlessly at the call of duty slag pits.
Jesus what a shame this looks like an early Metro almost.. I literally NEVER heard of this game, never!
Grab it. It is amazing
I recall seeing the release trailer of this game and thinking it looked terrible for 2010 graphics - the talk was all about the prettiest games 10 years ago.. When it came out I gave it a try and really did learn not to judge on graphics anymore. That was the most fun I had in a game at the time. Short, no filler, great story/immersion, solid pacing, and most importantly alot of fun
"IT'S AN EMP!"
Helicopter loses control
"MAYDAY MAYDAY! WE'RE GOING DOWN"
My last thoughts before dying: "The radio doesn't work, dumbass...."
I love your Documentaries! Takes me back to the GameTrailers days!
YOU DID IT. You finally covered this hidden masterpiece. If Singularity had more character mobility and had it been a little longer it would have been the perfect *commie slaying* game.
I loved this game! Out of all the remasters recently, I would love one for this. Definitely underrated.
Read this as the History of Singleness... Lol.
It's sad too see such innovative ideas being shafted in exchange for the same run of the mill games. Thank you for not allowing this game to be forgotten.
This was one of my favourite game growing up. I replay it over and over again
Singularity, also known as Raven Software swansong before being sent into Call of Duty printing machine. They were undoubtedtly an awesome game studio that mixed the controls of modern games at the time with some old school elements. I would love a spiritual successor to Singularity, maybe with less dialog than Atomic Heart and with more BioShock elements into the mix.
As a 14 year old singularity sucked me in like no other game. I was absolutely terrified after the first mission and quit for a while because I was so scared but a few years later remembered I had never gotten past the first half and replayed it and the atmosphere was just as good as I had remembered it even as a late teen. Raven really showed they were a worthy studio of developing their own IPs, says a lot about Activision that they've had them shuttered for a decade now
Thank you so much for making this video. Singularity is SERIOUSLY underrated. I've also looked up to Raven since I was a kid both living in WI and being in the Games Industry.