EA: Syndicate reboot as FPS "the right choice"

Eurogamer:
EA's decision to reboot the Syndicate with a first-person shooter was "the right choice", the gargantuan video game publisher has insisted.
Both publisher EA and Swedish developer Starbreeze have discussed the development of the game, which launched last week.
EA's decision to go first-person for today's Syndicate angered many fans of the much-loved strategy series and this, Starbreeze admitted, added pressure to the development.

[Lone]

It was the right choice, for them, because it was the easy way to make money with very little risk. No genre / platform conflicts. Slap the name on a generic FPS base and call it good.

[Saryk]

Why call it Syndicate?

[lelo2play]

Is it only me that thinks Syndicate (FPS) is an average FPS, and EA ruined the franchise ?

[AllroundGamer]

to me it was also just another generic fps game, couldn't finish it either... (and i played the classic Syndicate on my Amiga500 :) )

[NYC_Gamer]

EA loves to ruin established franchises with garbage reboots.

[THILLREBORN]

As soon as I get a chance I'm jumping on in!

[Jdoki]

Syndicate was a cash-in, and a missed opportunity. Starbreeze are a far better developer than this game would indicate.

I really think EA/Starbreeze missed an opportunity here.

The original Syndicate games were always about tactical planning in real time.

What I would have loved is a game that fused elements of RTS (if you can call the original games RTS), and TPS (not FPS). So the player(s) would start with a 3D / isometric view where they could have done all the cool tactical and planning from the original games (possessing civilians, setting ambushes, infiltrating, stealth and so on), but when it came to the action bit (i.e. assassinations, or if the player was discovered by enemy agents), then it would switch to TPS for the battle scenes and specific other events.

I'd have bought that game.

[NYC_Gamer]

Starbreeze should have made another Riddick game instead

[gypsygib]

I only played the demo but I thought from shooting mechanics alone, the game isn't more than a 6/10.

It's just so generic.

[admiralthrawn87]

i can't wait till devs are forced to innovate the shooter genre again.

[Sidewinder-]

Last I heard the main dudes from Starbreeze moved out to form their own company.

Sure it's EA's influence it's a crap game, but there may be other factors as well.

edit: Yeah. Machinegames.

http://www.machinegames.com...

[kma2k]

Looks like im the outcast here, but i had never even heard of the original, but i really enjoyed it. Ill admit it is definatly a rent over the weekend bea it quickly & probably never think of it again, but i found the 6+ hours i played enjoyable!

[CrazyRap]

Yeh coz we are short of FPS's...

[edgeofblade]

This kind of thinking killed the Shadowrun FPS... and that was a damned fine game with astounding depth.