For those looking for a little something off-the-beaten-path in their first-person shooter this fall, you might have to look a bit harder. Activision has revealed that Raven Software's title, Singularity, has been moved out of 2009 and into 2010.
Why? We're looking at you, Modern Warfare 2.
"The level of excitement for Infinity Ward's Modern Warfare 2 coming out of E3 well exceeded our expectations and therefore we have decided to move Raven's upcoming sci-fi first person action title, Singularity, from 2009 to Q1 2010," Activision said in a statement. "We believe that the March quarter will provide a better opportunity to establish the new cutting-edge action IP as a 'must-have' title and clears the way for Modern Warfare 2 to dominate this holiday season."
It's hard to argue with their logic -- anything going up against Infinity Ward's monster this holiday is in for a rocky road. But it's disappointing to see that the title -- which looked to have an original and interesting on the FPS genre -- won't see the light a day for a bit longer.
We hope the delay gives Raven some breathing room and time to put some extra shine on the title. In the meantime, we'll be playing Modern Warfare 2, we guess. We hear that game won't be that bad.
Contest:
5:28 PM on 07.08.2009
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a) You can pretend to be excited for it, but you weren't going to play it anyway because you were going to be too busy playing Modern Warfare 2.
b) Now it'll get more attention.
c) It'll ultimately be a better game. Killzone 2 got the extra polish delay because of Resistance 2, and R2 turned out poorly and K2 turned out really amazing. In this case, MW2 is still going to be the better game, but hey, I'm all for making Singularity better.
Anyway, regardless of which game comes out in which order, I'll end up playing them both. So, this is fairly neutral news for me.
He's talking graphically and gameplay problems. Gameplay was fun, single player was mediocre, online was great.
Hopefully Singularity gets the same treatment.
Fucking Rico.
Let's not have an FPS that does things a bit differently, we don't need another one of those thank you very much.
Looking good there Activision! I doubt they'll spend money on "making singularity better", Activision isn't that kind of company (see law suit against Tim Schafer and Brutal Legend), once a game is done, the devs go on to something else.