Andy Chalk said:
EA says the "hero" in Syndicate is not a good guy and gamers shouldn't expect him to become one midway through the game.
Damn straight! Syndicate is, as you said, all about soulless cyborgs viciously murdering rival agents, liquidating (via the use of miniguns) rival corporation assets and employees, using human shields and kidnapping innocent civilians off the street to brainwash them and replenish their own personality-wiped cyborg ranks.
I am forced to wonder who would expect a nicey-nice protagonist in a Syndicate game. Clearly only someone who has no damn clue what Syndicate is.
Mini-rant over, I am taking this as an encouraging sign. Re-boots don't always capture the spirit of the original, but this is excellent news.