Singularity

The game begins when an electromagnetic surge from Katorga-12, an uninhabited island once controlled by the Soviet Union, damages an American spy satellite. When another wave disables their helicopter, a group of American soldiers, including the protagonist, Captain Nathaniel Renko, go to investigate. Renko begins to phase between the present and 1955, the date of a catastrophic accident on the island, after they crash land on Katorga-12. He arrives in time to save a scientist named Nikolai Demichev from a fire in 1955. A man tries to warn Renko not to keep Demichev while being rescued; the man is then killed in the fire. Renko returns to the present to discover that Demichev has taken over the world. He is apprehended by Demichev’s soldiers but is rescued by Katheryn, a member of the Mir-12 resistance group. Based on a journal on Katorga-12, they believe Renko can end Demichev’s reign by using the TMD, a time manipulation device developed by Victor Borisov. Demichev killed Barisov long ago, so Renko uses the TMD to save him. In the present, Renko and Borisov decided to correct history by returning to 1955 and destroying Katorga-12 with an Element-99 bomb, the material that caused the catastrophic accident in 1955. Renko and Katheryn find such a bomb, but Katheryn is lost while retrieving it. They use the bomb to destroy the island and, with it, Demichev’s powerful research facility. Renko returns to the present, where Demichev is holding Barisov at gunpoint. Demichev reveals that he rebuilt the facility after it was destroyed to preserve history. Barisov realizes that Demichev’s rescue changed history, so he asks Renko to travel back in time and prevent his past self from saving Demichev. In exchange for the TMD, Demichev offers Renko a position in his empire. He also points out that Barisov’s plan has previously failed – the mysterious man who told Renko in 1955 not to save Demichev was Renko himself. The player has a choice at this point. If Renko shoots Demichev, he returns to the past to prevent himself from keeping Demichev in the first place. To accomplish this, he decides to murder his former self. It is implied in the epilogue that Barisov recovered the TMD and used it to conquer the world himself. If Renko shoots Barisov instead, he and Demichev will rule the world together. After a while, Demichev begins to fear Renko’s growing power, and a cold war develops between Renko’s and Demichev’s lands. Renko allows the world to become chaotic if he shoots Demichev and Borisov. Later, he becomes a new world leader, wielding the TMD to assert dominance. A scene follows in which a wounded Katheryn is pulled into 1955 by a time distortion and begins writing the Mir-12 journal, which will later be used to track down Renko.