10 Underappreciated Video Games That Deserve A Sequel

Starting with a doomed helicopter ride into an abandoned soviet science facility with a beefy soldier voiced by Nolan North, you'd be forgiven for mistaking it for almost any other shooter from an Activision studio. But if you managed to push past all this you'd shortly have found out that while Singularity looks like a by the numbers, grunty, musclebound patriotic shoot-a-thon, it's actually a time travelling, grunty, musclebound, patriotic shoot-a-thon.

During development, deadlines caused a big chunk of story content to be removed due to the technical constraints of having to render the world twice in two different states while swiftly moving from one to the other, a'la The Medium. Many time travelling set pieces and entire chunks of finished product were excised just to get it out on time as opposed to spending the required man-hours to work out the kinks. Leaving Singularity feeling gutted and a little bit rough around the edges, like it never really got to explore its own premise properly.

But with the standardisation of super-fast SSDs and Microsoft's DirectStorage a Singularity sequel could have no problem blasting between 50s Russia and 2010 Russia as smooth as butter. Making for a more complete experience, a more enjoyable game, and who knows maybe even greater franchise potential down the line.