EA has released a new video of Syndicate showing 11 minutes of gameplay in direct-feed.
Electronic Arts has announced a number of server closures in the coming months, including Apex Mobile and the 2012 Syndicate reboot.
Syndicate's big saving grace will soon be erased for good. I'll give *some* credit to EA in keeping servers up for 10+ years.
Oh yeah, an actual cyberpunk game. I have fond memories of the old bullfrog Syndicates.
Syndicate was a fun and high quality late PS3 fps that got swallowed in the sea of fps at the time. It was short and it didn't innovate but it had good visuals and fun combat. Starbreeze i believe. Rip Torn and Rosario Dawson.
10 years since the Syndicate series was rebooted as an FPS, perhaps it's time we got another reboot as a strategy game?
was this the game with the cars on rails and you could blow up killing everyone in it? l loved this game, lol
I couldn't get past the first half hour or something. Hard to remember but I didn't play long. I don't know if there was something wrong with the PC version or not, but the bloom was so bad it hurt my eyes. I started getting a horrible headache. I could hardly see anything because there was extremely intense bloom everywhere.
EA always let their PC versions fall by the wayside. The same thing happened with Dead Space 1.
This remains one of my fave hard sci-fi FPS games from the X360 era. A compelling premise with an interesting setting and solid characters, plus outstanding special ability mechanics. Def deserves more love.
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Dirt on the lens (and JJ Abrahms style overuse of lens flare) is the worst, especially in war games like Battlefield. We're not supposed to be a camera! Way to ruin the illusion of actually being the player we're controlling.
Most soldiers today wear goggles or tactical glasses so dirt on the lens isn’t that much of a stretch tbh
Vignettes, chromatic aberration, and that annoying thing where they blur the corners of the screen. Also film grain.
All those immediately get turned off when I load up my settings haha. Unless I’m going for screenshots it’s more than annoying
You are mostly stuck with whatever terrible effects on console. There are some options like motion blur that can switched off but it's not common
Depth of field is annoying. Along with most camera or lens effects.
But DoF will be cool in the future when they can track what you are looking at and apply DoF accordingly.
The Syndicate reboot had the absolute worst bloom I've ever seen. It literally hurt my eyes and gave me a headache just from playing. I could never finish it.
Absolutely. Beyond the distraction and obstruction, it looked unpleasant a lot of the time.
Meh, looks like a rental to me (so far)
I keep going back and forth with this game! this game play video wasn't so impressive!
Seen another one where the action was much more intense! I like fast paced intense action to go along with the Deus Ex feel! This video had too much hall crawling and lame enemy A.i.
STEP ASIDE DEUS EX! i love deus and this feels like it but a lil more hardcore...looks tight, deus didnt disappoint, lets hope this doesnt.
To be honest, it looks very linear and scripted, which isn't straight away bad thing, but something else I wanted/expected for Syndicate-game.
I'm still trying to get over the fact that they changed the strategy game, where you had freedom, and just nameles agent doing your Corporations tasks over the world, to (propably) linear fps shooter, where you aren't the corporation, but an agent within the corporation.
If this serie would be more recent, I would understand to have something different involving the same universe, but this franchise is old, real old. People who remember Syndicate, have been wanting new true sequel, not fps-spin off to please new people to the franchise. Why please them, they don't have expectations for this franchise, "ooo, look, a new fps with mind-control"... When people who really remember the game, are finally getting new one, and it's a slap on face.
Well, we can't get all we want, and true Syndicate sequel might be one of those things.
On final note, wasn't the Gauss-gun a rocket launcher in the original? It was great to take dozens of civilians with you using the Persuadetron, shoot few cops and arm them, and after that blow up the train and release some mass hysteria with Gauss-guns.. Oh good old times.
I might remeber wrong the name tought, long time since I played it last time, but would be weird if they didn't get that right...
Looks pretty cool so far