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Posted on: March 24, 2013
beanchilla
Verified ownerGames: 47 Reviews: 7
It's fun but clunky
I remember liking this a lot when I was growing up but it definitely is showing it's age. The pathfinding is terrible and the controls are a bit difficult at times. I still enjoy the game and it's well worth a shot but having some community mods or something to update the game would do it a lot of favors.
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Posted on: March 3, 2017
iiago
Verified ownerGames: 316 Reviews: 9
Fun for a bit, but overrated
This game is not as good as it's cracked up to be. You'll command a team of up to 4 - and you're supposed to guide them in an RTS-style strategy style with elements of X-Com. What you will actually do is click like you're playing Diablo. The game moves too fast and the interface is too clumsy for any more strategy than "everyone open fire" (or "charm all the other characters on screen". So allright there's two strategies). Yes there's new weapons and upgrades and so on and they add a bit of variety, but the strategy is essentially the same. Fun for a few missions but rapidly gets very dull. Also you'll unlock all of the upgrades by halfway through the game. So once you've got a team that works, you'll barely change your loadout. So...yeah. Interesting in that I now know what everyone was talking about, and it's not bad. But not as good as it's cracked up to be.
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Posted on: October 24, 2017
xman1
Games: 554 Reviews: 89
Great old game, but there is another
If you are unaware, the Devs for the Syndicate series could not reuse the name, but they basically made Syndicate 3 but had to call it Satellite Reign instead. If you want to get your fix of Syndicate on modern hardware, I would highly suggest looking at that one which is also on GoG: https://www.gog.com/en/game/satellite_reign
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Posted on: June 11, 2021
Gecko05
Verified ownerGames: 533 Reviews: 16
Great at first, becomes a chore later on
The concept is really interesting, I don't remember playing something quite like this before and makes me want to give Syndicate Wars a try. However, the missions become quite repetitive really fast, plus the controls, the UI and graphics are not helpful at all. I was left wanting more, overall the gameplay feels rather shallow. Give it a shot if you want to play something innovative, but don't expect to get many hours of fun from this one.
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Posted on: January 18, 2012
gryfon
Verified ownerGames: 340 Reviews: 1
All-time AMIGA classic...actually!
Very brutal game, great fun and brilliantly executed by Bullfrog, which by then had become a by-word for "quality releases". Can't wait to play it again! Yes a lot of people will have remembered playing this on a 386 or 486 but the Amiga version was first. And actually a lot of tricks had to be used to to make it look like more than 16 colours were used (just 16!) in "dithered" modes for the higher resolution on the PC version. Just goes to show how what a poor spec creature a "PC" was back then... Not any more, how times have changed ;-)
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