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The legendary Syndicate will take over GOG.com on the 19th of January.

The original sci-fi strategy Syndicate will be released on GOG.com for $5.99 this Thursday. This gritty cyberpunk treasure shows up here with some bonus content: the game manual, dark SF artworks, and avatars.

As you can read in this review Syndicate is “A modern masterpiece. The self-respecting gamer should ensure they have Syndicate nestling snugly on the games shelf as soon as possible.” Follow the wise advice and get Syndicate in just two days for $5.99.

While you’re waiting, we’re having a fun contest to keep you guys occupied until Thursday:

Syndicate is a game set in a grim future. As the world’s multinational corporations grew, their profits began to rival those of small countries. Soon they owned small countries and corporate influence was felt at the highest level of world government. Smaller corporations were swallowed up like plankton in the wake of behemoth mega-corporations.

GOG.com needs your help to take over the world. You and three friends--real or imaginary, past or future--are going to form a team that you’d recommend to us to lead the charge to make GOG.com the world’s biggest Syndicate.

We want to know if you’re up for the challenge.

Mission:
Assemble your team of cyborgs, give us your Team Name, Method of Operation, and any other relevant information you'd like.

Go on, spread your influence across the globe and tell us how.

Bounty:
1 free copy of Syndicate for the 10 posters who have the best Syndicate team. We’ll be reading through all of your posts (Hello, discordiac, our new marketing manager who “volunteered” for this job!) and picking the ones that we like best.

Rules:
1. Only one entry post per user. Feel free to comment & edit until the contest closes.
2. You may enter into similar contests that we are running on Twitter and Facebook, but only once via each different channel.
3. We will be picking 10 of our favorite teams from this thread to win their free copies of Syndicate.
4. The contest will end on Thursday the 19th of January 2012 at 7:00 AM EST.
Excellent I've been waiting for Syndicate, I used to have it on CD and it went missing.
Good to get the old one, as the new one is not going to be available for sale in Australia. The censors wanted it edited to fit our lack of decent ratings system, the developers said stuff it and rightly so too.
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grviper: Oh, look, it already has reviews.
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jamyskis: Tell me about it. I facepalmed when I saw that.
Well, the game was released years ago so it isn't exaclty crazy for people to review it already.

And it is already perfectly playble in Dosbox, which is what GOG will use to run it anyway, so talking about performance isn't farfetched either. But I suspect all the reviews are along the lines of ... this game is great, you must buy.
Post edited January 17, 2012 by Ravenvolf
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Ravenvolf: But I suspect all the reviews are along the lines of ... this game is great, you must buy.
Quite
I just shat

Posted on 2012-01-17 10:02:33 by SirPoopalot's avatar SirPoopalot:

myself.

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TEAM NAME: R. Goldburg 2.0

HISTORY: Created in 1883 in San Fransisco, Team Goldburg had operated undercover for 87 years before disbanding in 1970 and their vault of complex contraptions was sealed away. Team Goldburg was resurrected exactly one hundred years later after a complex device flawlessly completed its worldwide trek with the culmination of a secret door opening by the dropping of a bowling ball. Inside, his secret devices were revealed to a new generation, and Team Goldburg 2.0 was born.

Team Members:
Rube IV: Leader - Always completes his mission, though has tendency to take many unnecessary steps along the way. Draws extensive 'cartoons' while planning out the mission; fortunately, if one of these plans is found by the enemy, by the time they figure it out, the mission would have already been completed.

Allen "Chain Reaction" Yvette - Mastermind in creating explosives out of paper clips and other mundane, non-explosive materials. Once killed a target with the targets stapler and a bowl of cereal. The resulting explosion from the cereal caused an electrical blackout. This forced target two to be summoned to work at the electrical plant where he died from an accidental electrocution when the power plant suddenly went live while he was working on high powered conduit line within the plant. Two days later, during his funeral procession, the lead car hit a man running across the street, killing him instantly. The man was target three.

Jane "Mouse Trap" McGee – Due to her small frame and extensive bio implants, “Mouse Trap” specializes in capturing their mark (rather than killing) for interrogation or bringing them back to their employer. She employs small, remote controlled mice to remotely set off devices developed by Rube IV. In this way, she is able to accomplish her mission without threat of being caught in the vicinity. One ingenious, yet overly complex plan was set off while “Mouse Trap” was hiding three blocks away from the mark. She turned a crank, which slowly pulled back a tree branch, which upon release snapped forward and smacked into a shoe hanging from the lamp post, the boot knocked over a bucket, sending a cannon ball zig zagging down the street before dropping into a gutter. The cannon ball quietly weaved its way along the gutters path before hitting a bar attached to a small tower. The bar, knocked over a second cannon ball, and guided by the aid of a bathtub, dropped onto a catapult, launching an unsuspecting man into a barrel. Upon hearing the screams of the man, the target stepped outside where a net dropped and entangled the mark. The mark was extracted for interrogation.

Paul “The Cog” Juarez – Where Rube devises the plan, Chain Reaction creates the events and Mouse Trap sets up the traps, The Cog is who brings it all together by doing extensive recon work. The Cog is instrumental in making sure everything goes according to plan, and it is well known that if The Cog is not present, the trap cannot go off. Using code “Monkey Wrench” the Cog is also the only team member capable of stopping a plan once it is set in motion.
*tears of joy* Thanks!
Name: The 01000001 Team

Roster:
Hannibal
Bad Attitude
Face
Howling Mad

Method of Operation:
- Not flying.
- Getting on the jazz.
- Loving it when a plan comes together.
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grviper: I can't be arsed to assemble a squad called The Spanish Inquisition. I expect somebody to do it, though.
Method: Nobody expects them!
/Launch Team Assembly Protocol... OK

1- Arnold Schwarzenegger kidnapped while protecting a child.

/Cyberize/Subject Terminator... OK

2- Kurt Russell blackmailed with pictures of him having intercourse with CD Projekt's founders Marcin Iwiński and Michał Kiciński.

/Cyberize/Subject Pliskin... OK

3- T2xx brainhacked while playing a legally bought, DRM-free copy of The Witcher.

/Cyberize/Subject T2xx... OK

-4 Sylvester Stallone captured during a counter-op against Eurocorp.

/Cyberize/Subject Rambo... OK


/Initializing Team...


Team Name: All-Star Squad


/Team Assembly Protocol... COMPLETE


/Launch Team Method AI... OK

/Initializing...

Agents are to protect the free world from other corporate greed (DRM) by any means necessary.

-Seek and Destroy everything and everyone that values DRM as a proper way to deal with pirates and honest and hard-working citizens alike.

-Capture and Brainhack publishing studio heads to assure the DRM idea is never to be accepted and put to work again.

-Mass Brainhack citizens to buy games from GOG.com, a Eurocorp subsidiary, for an income boost and DRM-free gaming.


/Team Method AI... COMPLETE



/Launch Operation DRM-FREEDOM
low rated
Yet another "Not what you want, but buy this so we can encourage publishers to release what you want" bait and switch. Of course it wasn't going to be System Shock, because GOG will NEVER have System Shock, but you know, all but coming out and saying it was SS is a ripoff. Yay, a 20 year old TBS! OOOrrrr I could just play CivRev, or Defense Grid, or anything relevant.
My team: The Incredible Machinas Against Digital Rights Management (TIMADRM) (Pronounced "Tim-ad-rem.")

Members:

Adam Jensen (Deus Ex: Human Revolution)
T-800 Terminator (Terminator franchise)
Alex Murphy (Robocop franchise)
Walter Shriev (Batman Beyond)

Modus operandi:

The TIMADRM's have always been a four-man squad. Their various styles of upgrade makes each one uniquely suited to the missions they take on. They often engage in mercenary-for-hire operations in the manner of the A-Team.

Adam Jensen is the team's infiltration specialist. His biomechanical augmentations are custom-tailored to make him nearly undetectable while moving. He is also a skilled computer hacker, able to defeat nearly any security system with ease. When stealth is not an option, Adam Jensen, a moral man, incapacitates his enemies from long range with a custom sniper rifle designedto fire tranquilizer rounds, or from short range with a taser.

Alex Murphy, rebuilt into Robocop by OmniConsumerProducts, is the squad's go-to cyborg when brute force is required. His armor plating can absorb the impact of any small-arms fire with no ill effect, and from most rifle cartridges as well. He has a pair of burst-fire pistols in holsters built into his legs.

The T-800 Terminator is the middle ground between Alex and Adam. Living tissue over a metal endoskeleton, he is more a machine than a man, but is fully capable of learning. This has served him well in the fight against DRM.

Walter Shriev was a sound engineer in Gotham City in the mid-21st century. He invented a metal alloy which had the unique property of amplifying sound vibrations; he called this alloy "acoustium." He also created a suit with acoustium amplifiers built in, for unknown purposes.

Shriev's acoustic suit has a variety of functions. First, it provides him the ability to hear, after his natural hearing was destroyed in a confrontation with Terry McGinnis, Bruce Wayne's replacement as Batman. Second, the acoustium amplifiers can be used to generate sound waves strong enough to blow a hole in a wall. Third, those same amplifiers can be used to neutralize ambient sound, allowing Shriev to mask the approach of one of his comrades. Finally, the suit can disrupt the vibration of air molecules on a local level, rendering human speech in the area unintelligible.
Post edited January 17, 2012 by boct1584
Team: The Four Horsemen.

Members: James, Kirk, Lars, Cliff.

Tactics: Kill 'em all.
Post edited January 18, 2012 by MrAlphaNumeric
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anjohl: Yet another "Not what you want,
Not what who wants? Not what you want? It was in the top 20 requested titles so a few people wanted it.

http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/wishlist_updated_1_50/post21
Team: X-COM
Members: Colonel Spencer Johnson, Captain Sigourney Crossett, Sergeant Henri Lefevre and Rookie Marielle Marcelle

Operations: X-COM is a four person squad that goes to fight aliens. Spencer Johnson is their leading officer with signature Guile-like hair, Sigourney Crossett is the no-nonsense hard as nails Amazon whose eyes could drill through you like the Heavy Plasma that she carries, Henri Lefevre is the team sniper, capable of taking out a Chrysalid from across the map with a laser pistol and Rookie Marcelle is the new girl on the team, after a series of rookies have met unfortunate demises, ranging from being made into Chrysalid zombies, shooting themselves in the foot with a Blaster Launcher and eloping with a Snakeman.
Team Name: Sex on Legs

Team Members: Me, Kerrigan, and Nova.

Tactics: To ride Kerrigan and Nova on my big toy, called, The Hyperion, and play dirty in the Holodeck.

Who cares about corporations, really?
Team name: APPLE - (Amazing Plan to Predominate Luscious E-products)


Operative 1:
Name: A-POD

Mission: Kill the Portable music giant corporation "Sloney Jogman"

Method: Ditch those stupid tape thingy's and hold all the music in the world in one tiny device...Moooowhahaha!


Operative 2:
Name: A-Phone

Mission: Make people think they cant own a phone unless it can also take a picture, record a video, play miusic and tell their friends that they have "gone shopping for the latest A-Phone"

Method: Make an expensive computer very small and tell people its a phone.


Operative 3:
Name: A-PAD

Mission: Convince people that a very expensive computer is ALWAYS better than a piece of paper and a pen.

Method: Show doctors and other highly respected figures using them in place of a piece of paper, like a patients chart etc


Operative 4:
Name: A-CLOUD

Mission: Take over the world

Method: Once opperatives 1-3 are in place, convince people that it is much better for our corporation to own all your data. Once we have everyones information......WE WILL RULE THE WOOOOOOOORLD.......MOOOOOOWHAHAHA!

p.s. this is top secret.....do not tell ANYONE!