Syndicate Plus™

Would be 5/5, but unpurchasable due to Origin's inclusion. If this was simply a rating of the game it'd be 5 stars all the way, however this really how much I could recommend purchasing it in this format. Massive mistake on GoG's part.

Since when has a GoG game required accepting a EULA? I won't purchase this game for that reason alone. But the rumors that EA Origins is required to play just adds to my unease. This is completely against the GoG concept. If this is the way they are heading...I'll be getting my games elsewhere...and I have bought A LOT of games on this site.

Iwassearchingforthisgamefor10years!AndiwasthinkingthatthisgameisforSEGAMEGADRIVEconsole,causeiwasplayingitinmychildhoodonit.AndneverthoughtitisonPC!WOW!

That's my take on the advertising blurb on this game's store page and the seething miasma of positive fanboi reviews, a lot of rectums have shat many a review here! I mean, How the holy F did this get multiple "Best Game Of All Time" awards? The graphics are ugly, as are the sounds and music, the UI absolutely STINKS, you can not see enemies nor your units inside or behind buildings and the difficulty / tedium level goes of the scale after 10 or so missions. It's repetitive too. It's just a much less cerebral Cannon Fodder type game or rather low quality. Ok, maybe in 93 I'd have seen it differently. I did actually play this in the late 90's and was not impressed even then - and had to use cheats all the way through. BTW I wasn't daft enough to actually *buy* this, it came free. Good job! PS/ Other bad review issues such as "Origin DRM", "lack of American Revolt DLC" and "DosBox" - well I've not seen this "Origin" at all, so GOG seem to have removed it, the DLC is now included, and I don't mind DosBox - no my issue is that it is a poor game.

Unfortunately, according to the ‘End User License Agreement,’ EA Origin is required to play this game. Whatever happened to Good Old Games promise that all its catalogue of games would be strictly DRM free?