Syndicate is the re-imagination of a cult classic franchise from 1993 - a unique action shooter set in a not too distant future, where Business is War.
2069 – No longer governed by politicians, the developed world is divided up into regions controlled by megacorporations known as Syndicates. These Syndicates have revolutionized how the consumer interacts with the digital world. No longer does the consumer require a device to access the world¡¦s data and control their technology, they can do this at the blink of an eye via neural chip implant. Civilians flocked to be ¡§chip¡¦d¡¨ and enjoy all that their selected Syndicate has to offer; housing, medical, banking, insurance, education, entertainment and jobs. One complete package. One complete lifestyle. In return, the Syndicates gained unprecedented insights, and control, over the individual and their behaviour. With little governmental oversight, business has become war. The Syndicates will stop at nothing for ultimate market dominance. At the front line of this war are the Agents, the Syndicate¡¦s bio-engineered and chip-augmented enforcers. They can breach anything in the wired world including their enemies, their weapons and the environment that surrounds them, making them the most efficient and deadly technological weapons in the world.
Take on the role of Miles Kilo, Eurocorp¡¦s latest prototype agent, and embark on a brutal action adventure of corruption and revenge.
• Chip Enhanced Gameplay: Slow down time, see through walls, and breach your enemy and everything digital in the world with Dart vision – A neural DART6 chip implant that allows you to interface directly with the Dataverse.
• 4-Player Online Co-op: Assemble your Syndicate for global domination. A 4-player, online co-op experience like no other, with chip enhanced gameplay and 9 missions re-imagined from the original Syndicate.
• Visceral FPS Experience: Utilize an upgradable arsenal of futuristic weapons, armor and gear to annihilate your enemies and harvest their chip technology for personal advancement and sinister corporate greed.
• Sci-Fi Fiction: Immerse yourself in the world of Syndicate 2069, with a world-class sci-fi story experience, written by bestselling author Richard Morgan.
No, I'm making NO assumptions, other than I think it's idiotic that people are crying over a name.
It'll probably be a lot of fun, though not a strict Syndicate game.
Really?
The only examples to come up so far are Wolfenstein, Fallout and Shadowrun.
Verno wrote on Sep 13, 2011, 08:56:
I like how you're accusing people of judging the game based on the name but you're doing the same thing in reverse. Already assuming we'll get a fun game based on zero evidence of it and the only thing to go is a set of press quotes.
At least as often as not when the industry dredges up old IP they do badly with it so there's merit to peoples concerns.
You CAN'T make a new Syndicate in FPS mode.
T:A looks even worse than T:V. At least T:V retained the freeform loadout system and weapon carry limits of the previous games. T:A has predefined loadouts, each with a two-weapon limit. And they added unlockables. And health regen. And nerfed the speed down to T2 Base levels. And added a bunch of hitscan weapons. I'd rather Tribes stay dead than see it raped like T:A appears to be doing.Well, frankly I disagree but then I was a great fan of T2.
J wrote on Sep 12, 2011, 07:34:
I don't like CoD, but CoD in karts? Well yeah!
Mad Max RW wrote on Sep 11, 2011, 14:59:Well a fps Planescape can easily appeal to the emo crowd. Plenty of self mutilation, cutting, and self-inflicted vivisection's.
Baldur's Gate and Planescape are next.
Beelzebud wrote on Sep 11, 2011, 19:04:
You didn't play Fallout so you didn't give a shit if they removed the core Fallout gameplay, and you were happy with a watered down action game with RPG-Lite aspects. They could have called Fallout3 whatever they wanted, and you still would have liked it. .
Semantics. The reality is that Syndicate was a dead brand that has been revived, just like Fallout 3. Nothing was being done with them. Now you could argue that they're better left dead than remade like this but Fallout 3 was very well received and it remains to be seen what happens with the new Syndicate.
Afterall, Tribes: Vengeance was crap but the poor reception and criticism lead on to Tribes: Ascend, which looks to be much better.
There's a pretty big difference between the games you listed and games like Fallout 3, XCOM and Syndicate. Renegade was never considered a sequel or reboot of the C&C series. It was a spin-off released while more traditional sequels were still being made.Semantics. The reality is that Syndicate was a dead brand that has been revived, just like Fallout 3. Nothing was being done with them. Now you could argue that they're better left dead than remade like this but Fallout 3 was very well received and it remains to be seen what happens with the new Syndicate.
swaaye wrote on Sep 11, 2011, 22:33:
Regarding the tangential X-Com bitching, the catch there is that all of those games have been shit since Terror from the Deep. Even TftD wasn't super awesome so the original is really the only purely excellent game in the whole series! Enforcer and Interceptor were already shooters and not so great. Maybe the new game will at least be better than those. Anyway, there have been a ton of X-Com tact-strat clones so go get your fix there if the DOS games aren't doing it for you anymore.
Anyway, there have been a ton of X-Com tact-strat clones so go get your fix there if the DOS games aren't doing it for you anymore.