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Syndicate Reloaded!

StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
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[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewwtznVkSxA"]A cool trailer if I ever saw one.[/URL] :cool:

Never played the original game(s). I guess I was too young to appreciate an 8-bit Deus Ex type game back then. ;)

Comments

  • WORFWORF The Burninator
    The original Syndicate games were completely different from Deux Ex, they were squad based tactical games. You have four agents which you control on various missions around the world.
  • Lord RefaLord Refa Creepy, but in a good way
    That ain't Syndicate.

    I mean.. I dont think I saw anything even resembling it.. even the music was wrong. Yea.. So sue me, but I already have a heavy distaste for that game and most likely will not be buying it no matter what.

    Instead, i'll load up my original Syndicate Plus and Syndicate: Wars, and play them like they were meant to. :)

    There is a swedish game company making a unofficial remake/sequel to Syndicate.. supposedly. Same company that made Magick.
  • StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
    I gathered as much, the reboot is a FPS, so it differs quite a bit from the originals.
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    From the looks of it, they're just using the Syndicate name to sell another FPS.
  • WORFWORF The Burninator
    The original games had humor in them in the sense they were extremely over the top.

    This seems to take itself very seriously.
  • CurZCurZ Resident Hippy
    It looks like it might be a fun game. But I was also hoping for something with the atmosphere of the original games, particularly SWars. It also looks very linear, while I think Syndicate would lend itself very well to a sandbox game.
  • Lord RefaLord Refa Creepy, but in a good way
    [url]http://plaza.fi/s/f/editor/images/X-20110912115627984.jpg[/url]

    That is the only thing I kind of like so far. The jacket and the mask. The hair's good too.

    Otherwise the game could be called SINO. Syndicate in name only. :)

    Kind of like Fallout 3+adds are FINO. (New Vegas is quite fun tho, if very, very ugly..)
  • StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
    I can see how you may not like the reboot. Jagged Alliance 3 will also be quite a departure from the original as was Fallout 3.

    It's going to be different, that's for sure.
  • Lord RefaLord Refa Creepy, but in a good way
    How is JA3 differing from the originals? Only information I can remember seeing, or that i found just now was that it would be more or less the same but with 3d engine?

    It was still a strategy game. :)

    And apparently dead in the water being nibbled on by hungry hungry fishies..

    There's JA online too, but I've read or heard even less about that.
  • StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
    As far as I know, JA3 will be made up of a new cast of characters. The scifi aspect is gone as well.

    It will not feature the same arsenal of guns and explosives, so yeah, this is going to be pretty much the same as the previous games. ;)

    Still, I'm going to look forward to the game, because at its roots it is based on sound game design.
  • Lord RefaLord Refa Creepy, but in a good way
    Doesnt sound too bad to me.

    True, I might miss Ivan.. but I am sure I can find some mercs to relate to. :P

    And make my own.

    Losing the sci-fi.. well, there was no sci-fi in Deadly Games which was the first game in the series that I played, and it never bothered me one way or the other in JA2 either.

    Speaking of games like these.. Just bought Commandos and Desperados on gog.com. :)
  • croxiscroxis I am the walrus
    Paradox recently announced cartel which they think is a truer successor of syndicate: [url]http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/09/21/paradox-announce-cartel-interview/[/url]
  • MessiahMessiah Failed Experiment
    [url]http://www.oxm.co.uk/33611/why-the-syndicate-remake-is-a-first-person-shooter-starbreeze-talks-changing-history/[/url]

    ..I really like the trailer.
  • WORFWORF The Burninator
    Cartel sounds not only closer to Syndicate but also a more interesting game.
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    If I can't persuade every other person on the map to follow one of my men into a single car, followed by firing a guass round inside the car, it's not Syndicate.
  • Lord RefaLord Refa Creepy, but in a good way
    I wish I could "like" that post other than by typing my liking here.. but yea.

    Persuadetron for the win.
  • WORFWORF The Burninator
    From what I saw of the trailer, the persuadertron is scripted :(
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    Then it's not Syndicate.
  • CurZCurZ Resident Hippy
    If I can't level an entire city with satellite rain and nuclear grenades, it's not Syndicate.
  • MessiahMessiah Failed Experiment
    [QUOTE=Biggles;193838]Then it's not Syndicate.[/QUOTE]

    You are not Syndicate! :p ;)

    No, but seriously, its the background theyre after, not a remake of the game. Its like Warcraft -> World of Warcraft. It might as well have been called Warcraft 4. Nothing says a sequel has to be in the same genre. The same can be said about films. You cant rightly say that Fellowship of the Ring and Return of the King is the same genre even though it is in the same setting. Fellowship is an adventure, and King is a war-movie. When the prequel An Unexpected journey comes out, that will be a more akin to a fairy-tale. Even changing view points to different characters.
  • WORFWORF The Burninator
    The Agent doesn't appear to have a proper trench coat either.
  • Lord RefaLord Refa Creepy, but in a good way
    And how will they implement adjusting the agents drug dosages?

    They say there will be bullet time in it, is that so that he gets injected with speed or something which makes the world seem slower?

    Seriously.. They kind of lost the ball, the bat and the referee's pants with how they've started going on with this, based on the information they have put out so far.

    Fanboy rage!
  • MessiahMessiah Failed Experiment
    [QUOTE=WORF;193833]From what I saw of the trailer, the persuadertron is scripted :([/QUOTE]

    How do you figure? From what I heard, that is all in-game.


    [QUOTE=WORF;193847]The Agent doesn't appear to have a proper trench coat either.[/QUOTE]

    Both agents in the trailer wear trench coats..
  • WORFWORF The Burninator
    In game yes but scripted to happen when you reach certain points.

    The coats aren't like the ones in the [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrruSboN1bQ"]original[/URL] though.
  • MessiahMessiah Failed Experiment
    [QUOTE=WORF;193865]In game yes but scripted to happen when you reach certain points.[/quote]

    Not from what Ive heard. Still rumours though.

    [QUOTE=WORF;193865]The coats aren't like the ones in the [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrruSboN1bQ"]original[/URL] though.[/QUOTE]

    Thank goodness no. I remember, those were ridiculous. ;)
  • StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
    [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJY58Kq1UJg"]More Syndicate footage.[/URL] ;)

    In a way I'm glad I never played the originals, that way, I won't compare this FPS game to them.

    Looks like a Deus Ex game on steroids.
  • WORFWORF The Burninator
    I watched about two minutes of that video. Agents are supposed to be drones remote controlled from an executive's office. They don't have personalities, they don't make friends. They are basically terminators.
  • StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
    I believe the consensus in this thread is that it's indeed NOT a Syndicate game. The kid in me is still looking forward to it though.
  • WORFWORF The Burninator
    Another [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh0tStI2Xfw"]trailer[/URL]. They are really trying hard to make the game appeal to fans of the original, so they must be aware of the complaints. Unfortunately all it's doing is making me wonder when Syndicate and Syndicate Wars will be put on Gog.com.
  • MessiahMessiah Failed Experiment
    [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCFclriQtBU&feature=relmfu[/url]
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