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    Syndicate reboot (video game)

    Wasn't the original an isometric strategy game? Wasn't that part of why it was successful?

    http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/62...Again-XCOM-2-0


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    Yes and yes.

    Making this an FPS will destroy the whole idea. This is a "God" game first and foremost. Your supposed to build up your syndicate into the most powerful. This is like making 'Napoleon: Total War' into an FPS.

    Pity Bullfrog are no more. They were great at putting out games like this. Used to do a bit of testing for them back in the 90's.
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    Quote Originally Posted by shootemindehead View Post
    Yes and yes.

    Making this an FPS will destroy the whole idea. This is a "God" game first and foremost. Your supposed to build up your syndicate into the most powerful. This is like making 'Napoleon: Total War' into an FPS.

    Pity Bullfrog are no more. They were great at putting out games like this. Used to do a bit of testing for them back in the 90's.
    As a FPS it's a totally different concept!? Shame!
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    They did the same thing to the Fallout and X-Com franchises.


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    At least Fallout worked as an first person adventure game though.
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    Wouldnt an FPS of Syndicate just be Deus Ex?
    I loved the original game though, I first played it on a friends Amiga & then got it on my Atari Jaguar, spent a long time on it! I liked how you could upgrade your cyborgs & use cool weapons like the Gauss gun & laser, Syndicate Wars was good as well, I've still got that on my PS1 & play it from time to time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shootemindehead View Post
    At least Fallout worked as an first person adventure game though.
    To be fair, we don't know that this won't.

    I might be, for example, an RTS where you can deploy units and then move in and actually play as one of them. Or it might simply place you within the same world as the RTS. World of Warcraft did something similar and now WoW is more popular and better regarded than the series from which it came.
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    I hope they keep the squad-management stuff and getting to invest in your syndicate. As for it being a FPS, I don't mind really. Just keep it gritty and cyberpunkish. And the squad gameplay.

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    Quote Originally Posted by krakenslayer View Post
    To be fair, we don't know that this won't.

    I might be, for example, an RTS where you can deploy units and then move in and actually play as one of them. Or it might simply place you within the same world as the RTS. World of Warcraft did something similar and now WoW is more popular and better regarded than the series from which it came.
    Aye, that's true. But, the concept for the two games are very different. I think Fallout lent itself to an FPS/advernture type setting. Syndicate was essentially a management game.

    Although, it might still work. Who knows.

    What would have been great though is if they'd just remade the same game, with todays graphic standards.
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    Quote Originally Posted by krakenslayer View Post
    To be fair, we don't know that this won't.

    I might be, for example, an RTS where you can deploy units and then move in and actually play as one of them. Or it might simply place you within the same world as the RTS. World of Warcraft did something similar and now WoW is more popular and better regarded than the series from which it came.
    Yes, if you have very good AI units you can control and give commands to while pausing the game for example, it might sort of capture some of the elements of the original. So there is still some hope!
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    More footage from this game that's called itself Syndicate, although it's nothing like Syndicate?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWI53Q5Uwbk
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    Why all the hate, Neil? I think it looks cool and apart from the fact that it's FPS it seems like it's rooted in the Syndicate universe.

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