Syndicate Remake Revealed as a Shooter - UPDATED

[JesterRaiin]

Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, Men of old, stop whining.
Newest Syndicate will be a very good game. Different from its predecessors, but still, very good.

 

[JoshuaMadoc]

FPS: This generation's Space Shmup.

I'd choose no Syndicate, thanks. Like I'd want people to give me the "put up or shut up attitude" with this inanity.

 

[Ariseishirou]

Dude, I love FPS games and the last thing they should have done with Syndicate is make it into one. What were they thinking?????

 

[b3nn3tt]

Brand recognition people. A game with a name people will recognise will sell better than a brand new IP. If you want evidence of this, look at all the original games that are brought out, get rave reviews from the critics, but crash and burn in the sales charts.

I don't know why it always surprises people when companies do this. It's the same reason games with completely unrelated stories and characters will retain a franchised name. For example, look at Final Fantasy: different characters each game, no over-arching story. Very little, in fact, to tie the games together. Yet they are still called Final Fantasy, because if they came up with a new name each time, they wouldn't sell nearly as well.

 

[Phishfood]

I'm a lot more willing to see how Syndicate turns out as an FPS than XCOM.

However its a moot point because FUCK ORIGIN.

 

[[zonking great]]

It's not supposed to be a damn shooter!

 

[teh_gunslinger]

I perfectly understand people being upset about this one because of the genre change.... but the majority of escapists here are console gamers. Why don't you guys understand that Consoles WON'T have over-the-top squad based strategy games. It's just NOT going to happen. Just get the fuck over it.

Alternatively if this was a PC exclusive: (which no big developer will make nowaydays anyway) A)it would undersell like dogshit. B)The majority of people here will whine about not being able to play it! It's a lose-lose situation.

Hence it's either THIS Syndicate or NO Syndicate. Choose.

No Syndicate, then.

EYE was closer to Syndicate than this is shaping up to be. EYE also is miles better than this is shaping up to be.

And let's not even get into the fact that the four agents in the original were remote controlled drones, not Sgt. Miles Ekworth or whatever his name was.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

I can bet you that most of the people who are bitching about how they changed it into an FPS probably haven't even PLAYED the originals.

I won't be playing this cause it sounds way too much like Deus Ex: HR

 

[Jake Martinez]

Hey guys, will it have CHEST HIGH WALLS?

It better have CHEST HIGH WALLS OR ELSE!!!22oneone!!

Who ever is making these decisions over at EA needs to die in a fucking tire fire.

 

[individual11]

Hey guys, will it have CHEST HIGH WALLS?

It better have CHEST HIGH WALLS OR ELSE!!!22oneone!!

Who ever is making these decisions over at EA needs to die in a fucking tire fire.

Heh, you'd better be able to quickscope as well.

 

[Trikeen]

Goddamnit, I wish that RTS would stop being remade as FPS. Did nobody see how well Starcraft 2 sold? :/

 

[Lordmarkus]

I perfectly understand people being upset about this one because of the genre change.... but the majority of escapists here are console gamers. Why don't you guys understand that Consoles WON'T have over-the-top squad based strategy games. It's just NOT going to happen. Just get the fuck over it.

Alternatively if this was a PC exclusive: (which no big developer will make nowaydays anyway) A)it would undersell like dogshit. B)The majority of people here will whine about not being able to play it! It's a lose-lose situation.

Hence it's either THIS Syndicate or NO Syndicate. Choose.

NO Syndicate

And in other news, Civilization, Total War and StarCraft are being remade into FPSs because of their abundant lack of sales and not being relevant enough in todays cancerous gamingindustry.

 

[BloodRed Pixel]

syndicate you played a corporate executive in charge of brainwashed cyber enhanced agents that slughtered and brainwashed everyone in their path in the name of corporate expansion.

so will we get to walk in to a level and mow innocent people down by the hundreds just for kicks? slaughter police left right and centre? brainwash and abduct people enmass and turn them in to cyborg agent killing machines? will we get to assassinate politicians who are in a motorcade by setting a bomb then slaughtering everyone on the route?

this reboot is missing the thing that made syndicate a classic. there were no heros, there were no good people, no good companies.it was a world of dark grey and neon. it was cyberpunk at its true essence a cyber enhanced world of darkness where people chose to be chipped so they saw the world as a fantasy of all things bright and cheery rather than the darkness and misery that was reality around them.

this is a generic cyberpunk fps cashing in on the latest trend that happens to have the name syndicate. but it isnt THE syndicate.

People who say the SYNDICATE Reboot FPS will be good have obviously no clue about about what you are saying, as they have never experienced the originals and def. don´t get the sarcastic humour of it either *sigh*.

 

[ExileNZ]

Because Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel worked out so well...

I'm disappointed already, but if they manage to decently expand on the world (instead of just rewriting it into Deus Ex) then I'll wait for reviews before I judge it too harshly.

Now, obviously, we'll be expecting fully destructible terrain and the Cataclysm atomic grenade, since those were delivered in 1996...

 

[BoogieManFL]

How very disappointing. There are too damn many shooter games as it is, Syndicate was unique. Why ruin that?

Not nearly as excited about this any more.

 

[Moromillas]

Aw wtf. What a goddamn waste... What kind of moron makes these kinds of decisions. Ah well, at least there's Skyrim and Diablo 3 to look forward to.

 

[ExileNZ]

I perfectly understand people being upset about this one because of the genre change.... but the majority of escapists here are console gamers. Why don't you guys understand that Consoles WON'T have over-the-top squad based strategy games. It's just NOT going to happen. Just get the fuck over it.

Alternatively if this was a PC exclusive: (which no big developer will make nowaydays anyway) A)it would undersell like dogshit. B)The majority of people here will whine about not being able to play it! It's a lose-lose situation.

Hence it's either THIS Syndicate or NO Syndicate. Choose.

Syndicate and Syndicate Wars both came out on consoles: the former on the 3DO and the latter on the Playstation.

So no, being a strategy game doesn't require a PC.
Plus, you know, Halo Wars (1 million sales in 2 weeks). Just sayin'.

Also, it's more than a little presumptuous to assume that the majority of Escapists are console gamers. By all means, look it up in the numerous forum polls, but I'm not going to do it for you - it's your claim, it's your fucking job.

Finally, FPSs are relatively new ground on Consoles - they never really worked until Halo.
Yes, I've played Golden Eye and Turok on the N64, the controls were shit and unwieldly.

 

[Andy of Comix Inc]

Richard Morgan also wrote Crysis 2. So that's what his videogame writing credentials are so far; and as everyone knows, that script was clearly the best part of the game. "(Threat/superior enity) invades (city/country/planet)."