Syndicate Plus™

Syndicate was a game I always wanted to play, but man, what a letdown. I love the world and the concept that this game takes place in, but simply put, the moment-to-moment gameplay just isn't much fun. I can only recommend it to people for whom the game is a source of nostalgia.

Probably biased... Who cares. I love this. Used to play it on my DX2 486 Pc a few decades back. Bought it today, started off with the first two missions. its such a great game, Bullfrog was WAY ahead of their time here. Its basically a looter shooter, squad based isometric RPG. Go bananas and kill everyone, or just off weaponized individuals while clearing missions and steal their weapons and use for future weapon research/ sales. This game is soo good and i love it as much today as i did back then which does not go for many games. But for the name of lords and such, why.... why is there no remake/ reimaging of this... Im not even considering the 2012 game cause it has nothing to do with this brilliant game.

Scrolling thru gog and what do I see, I had to stop and pay respect to this game with a review. I can't even tell you how many hours I spent playing this on my trusty Compaq Deskpro 466. In a dark room with the volume cranked. You control 4 cyborgs, you can move as a group or spread them out to cover separate positions or cover multiple objective/targets. I remember just exploring the city and taking in the atmosphere.. with the background music droning on. do de do, do de do.. do de do de do de do de... wona-na-na-na.. wona-na-na-na.... Then the fight music kicks in and you juice up all your cyborgs for ass kickery.. unleash the miniguns! another fun thing was to use a persuadatron and recruit the entire city into one big mob *evil laughter* This game made me a fan of bullfrog and they are sorely missed. American Revolt is incredibly hard btw.. it's just brutal. This is not a fast pace shooter game, the action can be intense when it kicks off but it's more strategy and most of the time you're just moving into position or planing your attack. If the screen shots interest you grab it, I don't think you'll be disappointed in the game play.

I first played this in a creative labs game bundle that also included Ultima 8, Wing Commander 2, and Strike Commander. Path finding is non existent which is annoying, but barring that the game is stellar.

I bought this and have thoroughly enjoyed playing it again, taking me back to my Amiga days! It's a great game, and very atmospheric... I always loved the "Blade Runner" style visuals and the dystopian future in which you have to battle it out with the other syndicates... This is still one of the best games of its time...