Syndicate Plus

released on Dec 31, 1994

Syndicate is Bullfrog’s masterpiece of a game in which you aren’t saving the world or protecting innocents. You just make sure that your employers get what they want. At your disposal are four cyborg agents, an impressive arsenal of weapons and gadgets, and a massive selection of cybernetic upgrades. You are free to unleash this power on a highly interactive map where you can blow up buildings, steal cars, light trees on fire, or just shoot stuff. Produced by Peter Molyneux himself, Syndicate is the essence of cyberpunk and, with its great music, stylized visuals, and mind-blowing atmosphere, it has earned its place among the best games of all time. The "Plus" release includes both the original base game and the American Revolt expansion pack.


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Impossible to overstate just how revolutionary this was for its time - now... it's still not bad! Certainly not a masterpiece by today's standards of course: movement can be a chore, driving feels impenetrable, and worst of all precision is way less than ideal in a game that really calls for it in middle/late maps. But this very clearly has its own appealing style, and systems/mechanics that are accessible enough to crack yet fleshed-out enough to always remain relatively intriguing. The American Revolt DLC is essentially a meme.

For some reason I would always be listening to The Shirehorses or Tony Ferrino when playing this, and now they're inextricably linked.

Sometimes this game played like a futuristic edgy Cannon Fodder, which was a good laugh, and sometimes you'd have to carefully position each of your four guys to flush a target out, catch them at the back door, watch for the cops, and drive the getaway hovercar, which made me feel like a supergenius. And then sometimes all you had to do was equip big guns, pump your guys full of combat drugs, and relax. Good stuff.