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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.
Team name - Beat Um Up Boyz

Members - Members are Myself, The Jackman, Ben the Bear, and Squeezy Mc Sqoozer.

What we do is dress up like the people from the Michael Jackson Beat it Music video, and we tie our wrists to our enemies wrists and have a knife fight to the death. The method is slow yet sure in wiping out a wave of enemies.
Team Name:
FTE (Feed Them Éclairs)

Team Members (all of them IRL):
1. FTE BJWanlund
2. FTE Kaz-Ka
3. FTE BubbleGumTager
4. FTE Nebs

Method of Operation:
To bring people together through games to create the world's largest Syndicate for the total eradication of DRM. But if that doesn't work, force-feeding the relevant parties éclairs would be the last resort, hence the name.

Other Relevant Info:
All four of us are friends in real life and we would bring quite the team of buddies to bear, including all of our friends that I didn't mention above.

BJ
Team: XI
Members:
- Nejaf
- Rocky
- Pip
- X-2-N

Modus Operandi:
Following a code of conduct we call S.C.P, we get the job done when and where it needs to be done. as an unknown entity our movements and locations cannot be detected or disclosed for that matter. We pry, steal, listen, communicate, infiltrate, coerce, and bargain for the clients behalf, keeping it clean and efficient working as one team unified towards a single precise goal. (lethal implements can also go a long way if the situation requires it )








did you find out what S.C.P meant?
Team name: B.O.B (Stands for Bob, Oprah, and Bob.)

Team members:
Bob Barker: The former host of The Price is Right.
Oprah Winfrey: The woman who own the TV channel OWN.
Bob Ross: Painter and host of The Joy of Painting.
Me: Who else could assemble this team?

Method of Operation:
Destroy any opposition through the sheer force of happy trees and women's television. We also help control the pet population.
Team: Cosby, Stills, M*A*S*H, & Jung.

Team Members:
1) William Henry "Bill" Cosby, Jr.: Cosby uses his wits and linguistic aptitude to handle social situations, and can achieve through charisma what can't be accomplished with guns or tools.

2) Chris Stills: The son of guitar legend Stephen Stills. When the Stills' island nation was invaded by DRM, Stephen sacrificed himself to buy enough time for his son to escape with the sacred texts of his people. Stills formed the CSM&J syndicate so that he could use his powers for justice and eventually avenge his father's death. The heavy hitter of the group, Stills wields his guitars with deadly precision and is anyone's equal in combat.

3) Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce, M.D.: Hawkeye's nimble fingers served him well as chief surgeon of the 4077th MASH unit. After leaving Korea, he stayed in touch with his war buddy Cosby. He provides medical help to the team when it's needed, and also has considerable technical for bypassing complex devices (and occasionally for playing harmless pranks on the rest of the team.)

4) Carl Gustav Jung: The father of analytical psychology, Jung uses his expertise to analyze hostile situations before the team deploys. His intelligence is what gives the rest of the team its edge. Jung's knowledge of the human mind has also helped him develop his latent psychic powers for use in the field, and his vast knowledge of a variety of academic areas also serves the team well.
Post edited January 17, 2012 by benjijohnson
CRhyme Syndicate {CRS}
Ernie C
Vincent Moon
Mooseman
Bob Bond

Mission statement:
Better you than me.
Team Name: The Dragons' Ire

Squad:

Soltanis - Persuadertron
UmbrellaExile - Persuadertron
Niaz - Persuadertron
DreadJesterBatt - Flamethrower

Objective : Brainwash the world or watch them fry
Team Name: THE BRIBES

Members:
- Money
- Hooker
- Booze
- Animal Crackers


Method of Operation: To play upon the desires of GOGs staff members, and persuade them that my entry is the winner.
Name: Operation Red tree Green forest
Members:
Team Member 1
Name: The Prankster
Description: Ever wonder why all the traps in the ancient temples always work or why objects are illogically place all around the place. Wonder No more. The Prankster is the answer he is the one sneaking into all temples and tombs to reset or even place traps. He is the one who places flints in everybody’s wardrobe, the one that places fresh food in long lost ruins, and the one that places the, might artefacts that can save the world, in hard to reach places. His amazing stealth abilities allow him to do this right before or even while the self proclaimed heroes explore the dungeon. The only drawback is that old habits die hard and he simple cannot stop hiding things in hard to reach places.
Cybernetic enchantment: increased strength: With this very handy upgrade The Prankster can now carry 2 antonplex kilograms instead of 1 antonplex kilograms.

Team Member 2
Name: Sir Earlybird the third
Description: Sir Earlybird the third is the most persuasive man in the world. When he speaks all man listens, all animals obey his command, all bacteria bend to his words. He can even convince the sun the stop setting. The only minor problem is that he is mute.
Cybernetic enchantment: speech enhancer: increases Sir Earlybird the thirds speech ability with 50 words per day.

Team Member 3
Name: public void insertNameHere (jr++);
Description: Son of public int insertNameHere (jr); and private void doStuff();. Public (jr++); Is the world best computer programmer unfortunately he is also the world slowest programmer.
Cybernetic enchantment: increase speed: increase Public (jr++); programming speed from one function a week to one function a day.

Team Member 4
Name: Me
Description: well I am me and my job is… well it is mainly getting food for the rest of the team
Cybernetic enchantment: Right index finger of speed: this wonderful device increase me left-click speed with one extra click per hour.

Method of Operation
The plan is to utilizing the unique ability of each member fully.
Sir Earlybird the third will use his abilities to sway the game companies to stop using drm.
public void insertNameHere (jr++); will lead by example, he will make the best game in the world and sell it drm free
The Prankster will use his stealth abilities to sneak into the companies that resist our other attempts. And he will then manually remove the drm for each and every game copy.
And me I will get some more food

Current and past Mission Statues
Plan: the world best game
Report: public void insertNameHere (jr++); has been working the last thirty years one making the world best game and yesterday he manage to finish it. However his computer crash and he had to delete all the data on his hard disk and start over fresh.

Plan: Sell the drm free games
Report: we manage to convince the companies that had made the five games with worse drm. To give us one copy of each of the games with no drm and we will sell them for one million dollar each. But unfortunately the Prankster got drunk and hide them, one of the is currently somewhere in the Amazonian rainforest, another in the Sahara desert, one is on top a mountain in the Himalayas, there are also on located on the dark side of the Moon and the last is has left the solar system onboard voyager 1

Plan: convince the masses
Report: for once I can report a positive result Sir Earlybird the third has successfully convinced the neighbours to never make a drm filled game.

Plan: get three pizza a two larges colas and one cup of tea
Report: currently ongoing
Team:

Mike McCary
Nathan Morris
Shawn Stockman
Wanya Morris

Method:

They'll make love to you.
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anjohl: Yet another "Not what you want,
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kodeen: 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
Someone shat in his cornflakes.
Name: 73 79 6E 61 70 73 65 ||synapse||

Method: using magnetic waves that the team can control with emitters off over there bodies they use them to influence and control those around them and gain access to very secret places. The team uses there mental influence to gain control over strategic military and private firms a crossed the globe and stage the beginnings of a thermal nuclear war. with this precedent set they exhaust the resources of there controlling patches of soil and use them to create pieces of a space station. Upon that station they build a large thermal weapons platform based off the radiation put out by the sun. one by one over the span of a decade the pieces are shot into space as this "cold" nuclear war rages on propagated by the agents. Eventually they build the station and migrate the the base, with access to the entire planet they release control, and begin the next step...

"when you own the biggest gun, and you cant be touched... then the fun begins" ~Lode

Members:
Lode - mastermind with an ability to see 30 moves ahead
Zed 13 - Photographic memory and mathematical genius
Calypsis - only female, sometimes called mom, she is the wetwork team
Cloud - able to interface to any machine, can compile any code in his head
Post edited January 17, 2012 by Starkrun
"Rob a Bank"s team of cyber-mercs code named "Copper Top" will simply be three hobo's found on the street, with Chuck Norris programming implanted into their brains. With $100 million dollars (Which was a lot in 1993, that's $150 million today!) and everything unlocked (Let's be honest, we'll juts go all Uzi's), we'll round-house kick every opponent without opposition.

So because we all like lists:

Company: Rob a Bank
Team: Copper Top
Member 1: Me (With Chuck Norris Enhancements, of course!)
Member 2: Chuck Norris Enhanced Hobo #1
Member 3: Chuck Norris Enhanced Hobo #2
Member 4: Chuck Norris Enhanced Hobo #3
Method of Operation: Round-House Uzi Kicking
Objective: Win a copy of Bullfrog's 1993 hit, Syndicate
Likelihood of mission success: 110%
Post edited January 17, 2012 by zebulan
Team Name: Metalico Magic

Members:
Stephen Hawkings
Ted Turner
Scarlett Johanson(sic)
Wesley Snipes

Stephen Hawkings would go for jobs at the corporations in the IT department (of course) and I'm sure that somewhere on that wheelchair he would have something that he can just plug into a computer and hack it with his mind, he is the first true cyborg as far as I'm concerned. Scarlett Johanson(sic) would be the smooth over, she would distract anyone if they started suspecting anything or just generally come in on any situations that need negotiation. Ted Turner would have a duel role, firstly as the financial backer (Stephen Hawking shouldn't have to risk his money as well if he's doing the hard inside work) and he would also use his vast business influence and refer Stephen Hawkings for jobs at the corporations we need hacked. Although Ted Turner could be considered to own the type of corporations we're taking down, he's always seemed to me that he's trying to do so anyway. Wesley Snipes is our emergency guy, so that if the shit hits the fan he's in charge of safely extracting the team and not leaving any witnesses.
Team: Team Mórderfisch

David "Dark" Mórderfisch: The eldest of Quadruplets, Dark is the evil leader of the team. His speciality is MAD SCIENCE, and his weapon of choice is his custom made Quantum Gauntlet. Despite claiming to be "evil", he's actually friendly, helpful, and has frequently saved the world from his fellow Mad Scientists under the dubious claim that he was "getting rid of the competition" He also has a slight height complex.
Dark stands at 5'8'', has shoulder length straight black hair, pale skin, red irises, black sclera, and a traditionally required evil goatee. His Cyborg Power is Technopathy, the ability to talk to machines.

Rachel "Fey" Mórderfisch: The only female member of the team, Fey is the wild child, often acting in a manner to provoke a reaction out of her brothers. Her team role is Security and Stealth, and her weapon of choice is a composite crossbow.
Fey stands at 5'6'', has strawberry blond hair in a pixie cut, green eyes, and her ears have a definate point. Her cyborg Power is Active Camouflage, which renders her difficult to see to even highly sophisticated systems.

Bruce "Danger" Mórderfisch: Unlike his siblings, Bruce goes by his first name rather then his nickname, waiting for the day to pull out the line "Danger is my middle name". His role on the team is the muscle, and he favours no particular weapon, but is well trained as a martial artist. He's also the one who stabilises the other three, and keeps them on target, providing a much needed voice of reason.
On off days, he discusses philosophy at his local university.
At 7'0'' Bruce is a giant, and towers over his siblings, he shares Dark's hair colour, but prefers to keep it cut short. Although he is muscular, it is not in a body-builder manner, rather that of a professional martial artist, favouring a leaner look, whilst still having definition. His Cybernetic Ability is Hyper Awareness, which increases all of his sense to an absurd level.

James "Fingers" Mórderfisch: The baby of the group, Fingers is eccentric as all get out, dressing in clothes that feature different articles from different eras of fashion, and often drifting into his own little world. A World of shiny explosives and bright warmy fires. He is the team's Demo-man, and often handles the explosives he carries with a nonchalant manner that puts his siblings on edge (especially when he prone to "testing" them in their vicinity)
Fingers is 6'2'', lean, with scraggly long brown hair and a mess of facial hair that he claims is a beard. His hands have been completely replaced with Cybernetics, partly because it gives him greater dexterity, but mostly because he accidentally blew them off trying to "fix" the team's television.

Modus Operandi (MO): The Team takes any and all missions using their special talents to deny resources and sabotage a company into ruin, then picking up the rights to their past and future games cheaply, re-programing them and releasing them DRM-free for all!