nikki191 said:
the worst part of this is the wasted potential of the IP.. they could of brought it into the 21st century but no they took the IP and wasted it on a bog standard bargin bin fps that people will forget in a month or two.
i never thought i would say this but im glad its banned here in australia at least people wont be regretting their purchase of this
Out of curiousity what was the reason for banning this in Australia.
That said, the review is pretty much what I expected. I am pretty much disgusted with them taking some classic squad based psedo-RPGs of yesterday and turning them into shooters. I considered this Syndicate reboot to be heresy of the highest order, closely followed by the X-com reboot as a shooter.
Really we need fan-sponsored Warhammer 40k-style Inquisitors to hunt down heretics within the gaming industry. Ruthless killers for the Ordo Fanboi to light up the darkness with flame throwers (as opposed to just message board flames) and purify developers and publisher alike with divine excruciation in hopes their successors will learn from their mistake, before sending them off to the foot of the emperor.
Albiet, I suspect the ordo would collapse into civil war over philsophical discussions about whether it's worse to create a crap game, or an unworthy, and out of context reboot of a truely great property from yesterday. The battle between inquisitors over which heretics deserve more pain would probably be never ending, and allow crap games to flourish anyway while they were distracted in theological "debate".... I mean that's one problem with Fanboys to begin with, we generally can't agree with each other about the silliest things.
While I'm rambling insanely, just imagine how awesome it would be to have Bobby Kotick turned into a low-end servitor drone, forced to eternally polish the armor of his umm... saviors, for his crimes against gaming. I'd imagine the servitor skull of Peter Molyneux (condemned to service for failure to deliver on hype) would probably become one of the Ordo's most cherished artifacts, as would the sacred twin flamethrowers inscribed with the names of Saint Gerstmann and Saint Croshaw....