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Five Great Last-Gen Games You Probably Didn’t Play
up to three power-ups at once,
so you can plan out attacks
and manoeuvres in advance.
It’s got really slick visuals too;
UI elements have a cool neon
design and power-ups are
shown floating behind your
car, allowing you to keep your
eyes on the action at all times.
While the single-player mode
leaves something to be desired,
multiplayer is great fun. I’ve
spent hours playing splitscreen
tournaments with friends,
and the game still provides
intense competition for us four
years after it was released.
Issue 62 • December 2014
Singularity
Before Activision made the
talent-wasting decision to
assign Raven Software the task
of developing DLC for Infinity
Ward’s Call of Duty titles, the
studio had accrued a name for
themselves by creating classic
games like Soldier of Fortune,
Star Wars Jedi Knight II and
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance. The
last of their standalone efforts
was Singularity, a first-personshooter in the vein of BioShock.
Singularity sees you playing as
Captain Nathaniel Renko, one of
a group of US soldiers sent to a
desolate ex-Soviet Union island
called Katorga-12 in order to
investigate an electromagnetic
surge that damaged an
American satellite. Things go
badly from the off though, as
another surge crashes their
helicopter and causes Renko
to begin ‘phasing’ between
present day and the date of a
massive accident in 1955. In
the ‘50s, Renko saves a scientist
named Nikolai Demichev, and
upon returning to the present
he finds that Demichev has
taken over the world. Cue
an intriguing and unique scifi/Cold War adventure.
11 • GameOn Magazine