Syndicate Wars™

This game has solid, chunky graphics that just ooze cyberpunk style and going round shooting people is enormous fun, especially after building up a huge army of civilians using the persuadatron. Later on the missions have stealthy/strategic planning or trap-setting elements and the game is just amazing. It cannot be faulted.

You liked and enjoyed original Syndicate ? SW will blow Your mind ! New graphic and visualization in "Blade Runner's" style with new special effects and missions to complete in much bigger cities ! Must have for all Syndicate fans :]

Period. This is one of the most awesome strategic games you can ever play. I still have this as a boxed game and could not get to play it, even on dosbox, with an accurate emulation speed. The premise is simple; you control 4 agents who have a plethora of gradually more technologically advanced gadgets and weapons at their disposal - you get to wreak havoc on a nuclear scale with weapons such as 'cataclysm' (a sort of mini nuclear bomb), laser pistols, time bombs, persuadertrons (you use these to *influence* bystanders to join your cause, and if you leave enough weapons on the field for them to pick up, they arm themselves with them and turn into expendable killing machines, raising an army of hostile citizens in the process), barbed wire, et cetera. This game is one hell of a definite must have!

First things first: You're comments are wrong in multiple points. One on the things to consider is, the game is very well capable of SVGA graphics and DosBox also supports it. In order to enable it you may have to edit the doxbox.conf file. However, the reason it defaults to VGA graphics instead of SVGA (Super VGA) is a simple one: The game is simply unplayable slow when emulated in SVGA mode. Even on a modern 4-core with 3.2 GHz and powerful graphic card the game only runs with 5 fps in SVGA mode, making it completely impossible to play. The reason for this is, that the game has to be emulated by the CPU and the CPU has to render everything. There is no usage of modern graphic cards etc. When ingame and the mail selection menu, you simply go to System > Visual Depth and change resolution to 640x480 pixel. But as I said it is unplayable. To the game: The game back then was top and it was really fun, especially once you get the nuke grenades and blow up half the city or robbing banks to fund your syndicate

5 Lives Studios is making a true successor to the original series, its called 'Satellite Reign'.... due for release on steam greenlight on the 11th Dec 2014