The 2012 Syndicate was EA wanting their own Deus Ex and scraping through the archives on if they owned any relevant IP's they cold slap on the front to disguise the fact.
I will never forget the first time I fired that Gauss gun on the PC version. Awesome game series! (Well, apart from that FPS, but it wasn't bad... just so average and divergent from what made Syndicate, Syndicate, that it really should have been it's own IP).
Saw it for the first time in '94, at the house of the teenager who was tutoring me in math. After completing our session we would play a map together whilst sipping the honey-lemon tea his mother would make for us. I was mesmerized by the graphics, which blew away the games I'd been playing on my 486 (Duke Nukem, Sim Ant, etc.). I miss the 90s so much...
I loved this game as a young un, the atmosphere and style of the game... the concept is great... you had a mission to complete, a target and a squad of four with weaponry you choose and it was up to you how to go about achieving the mission. I remember one of the missions was an assassination of an important figure who would be escorted with his security as crowds of people stood on the paving along the roads watching. I positioned a sniper on a bridge, then used a guy in the crowd who would pull out a minigun and spray the crowds in order to cause the security detail to stop and engage the shooter, then in the confusion I used the sniper to blow the head off the target... the other concealed minigun guy in the crowd would open fire on the security detail, backing up his mass murderer buddy and the 4th agent would follow behind the security entourage in a car to quickly scoop his team and evac them. Or else that's how I remember the mission playing out in my mind.
I remember the 3D graphics in Syndicate Wars as a disappointment. The original graphics were much sharper and the atmosphere and lighting was way better. Imagine if you created a 2D version of the original game, but with 4K graphics. That would be awesome.
I wish they would do a director's of Syndicate Wars. I read somewhere they originally planned an Unguided campaign in addition to the Eurocorp and New Epoch campaigns but it got cut due to development time issues.
Haha my buddy and I persuaded whole cities and granted all of them to laser guns “syndicate wars”.. it was hilarious and one of the best moments in gaming ever.. just hearing thousands of lasers go off at one target and break the game lol.. best moments
Just some side info: When Syndicate released there was no SVGA. The graphics mode 320x200 by 256 colors was too less for a strategy game and was only used for the movie sequences and the menu. For the actual game they used 640x480 with only 16 colors. Yes you heard right: ONLY 16 COLORS
I got fired from HMV in 1993 for playing Syndicate to death, I was head of games for Virgin, got hired to set up "Level 1" on Oxford Street, At the the time the worlds largest games store. And then - along comes Syndicate. And I get fired..... I beat Metro at Street Fighter II (one round). But yes, sacked for playing Syndicate too much......
I remember installing the first Syndicate on my Amiga 1200 back in August 1993. And staying glued for countless hours behind the screen, persuadotroning everybody.
@@dannyboyc3poplaying Syndicate on the 1200 was great. You could install the game on the hard-drive and the game ran smoother than on the 500, with barely any loading times.
my opinion of Satellite Reign, is it's too colorful, kills the dark vibe. Modern devs can't do cyberpunk very well, they focus on the cyber part and ignore the important punk part. 90's graphical design understood grittiness and appreciated it, nowadays everything is overly cleaned up, rounded corners, soft gradients, there is no male influence on the art design.
Syndicate as a game is pretty basic and it just becomes a matter of keeping your squad together and hitting the panic button when the enemy charges at you mindlessly. Where it really shone was the atmosphere. The grimy, dangerous feeling of everything really stands out. It’s easy to see they had to leave a lot out when you read the mission briefings. They put some real depth into tactical guidance but the game doesn’t play out like it’s described. American Revolt is a bad expansion which just ups the problems to insane levels but it’s still enjoyable to watch the absolute chaos unfold now that your enemies are packing Gauss Guns and Airstrikes. It’s hilarious that 5 seconds into some missions you have large groups of agents and civilians running around on fire everywhere. It’s worth mentioning that the manual was awesome, in a time where manuals were great. It was a shiny black booklet with greyscale inside and it gives some cool details on the other Syndicates and the current world climate. The Aussie Syndicate running their finances on the sale of cheap lager and being bad at aiming because they’re always drunk is hilarious.
You don't do the console versions justice here. In a time where most games are stupid ports that lack identity Syndicate for SNES and Mega Drive were purposely made to suit the control style of these devices. I have played both the SNES and the PC version and they are great games in their own right and the SNES version does not lack anything. The setting, the violence, the music, the different aspects of the game, it's all there. Be glad that people on the consoles did not have to move a cursor around but could control the cyborgs themselves. Syndicate Wars aged very badly because its game speed was somehow linked to the CPU speed. It ran badly on a friend's PC and the missions were failing within 1 second of starting it on my 1 GHz Athlon.
Ask just about anyone who's played games and they probably have played and loved at least one game from a studio that EA has shut down. R.I.P. Pandemic Studios...
I haven't played the original. I know it's on GOG, and I'll buy it when I've worked though the huge list of other games I've bought and not played. But Syndicate Wars... I loved that. It was just amazing. It's one of a tiny number of games I've written ideas down for sequels that I know I will never have the chance to make. I miss that game.
Violence? What violence? Ooooh... wait, right. Where I live we got the german version... They also literally translated the "Ghost in the Shell"-commercials that played on the screens in Syndicate Wars. (For those interested and know german: they call it "Der Geist in der Muschel")
There was quite a lot of tie-in action between them-my VHS copy of GitS from back in the day had a long ad for Syndicate Wars on before the movie. I think Manga Publishing paid for some of the game, or something.
I played the original and Wars so much as a kid, countless nights sneeking downstairs after my parents had gone to bed. Happy memories! but like so many childhood memories EA unzipped their trousers as pissed all over them 😭 maxis, bullfrog and Westwood were my childhood.
I played the syndicate wars for hours as a teenager i still remember the cheat to unlock weapons and mission skip "pooslice" lol i even leveled a whole city completely fucking destroyed it what memories i loved the second one!
Holy hell! I didn't realize the _Syndicate_ connection to _Sattelite Reign._ I had heard the name, but couldn't think of where. I looked it up on Steam and, surprise! It's already in my library. It seems I picked it up in a random key sale through Fanatical and, not really knowing what it was, kind of forgot about it. Off to install and play! 😊
As fan of org. Syndicate, I did not want to smell FPS Syndicate, but this year I gave it a chance. It is linear story FPS game, put in Cyberpunk universe, and I quite enjoyed it.
3:05 retro engineered persuasive salesmen was the best for me 8:21 the way the church of the new epoch guys ran at you while having lights on, made them look scary alien like to me as a kid. they didn't look like guys with hoods to me but sort of ufo enemy unknown like creature
I'll never forget the first time I set a crowd of civvies on fire with a flamethrower in Syndicate. Oh God it was amazing... And I beg to differ, Syndicate 2016 stayed FIRMLY on the rails. The entire game was a narrow tunnel from beginning to end.
I loved this game as a kid...would be so cool if it was remade all updated. Loved how you could make your own agents with different arms legs and hearts
Searching for Cyberpunk 2077 stuff and ended up here. I loved Syndicate and played/completed it so many times on the Amiga but oddly not a huge fan of Syndicate Wars. The Syndicate FPS wasn't Syndicate but I still enjoyed it. And Starbreeze CEO wasn't incorrect when he said it was a no win situation if you look at Satellite Reign (A game which I like a lot but quickly died after release)
@14:20 It wasn't a bad game at all... it's biggest flaw was the fact that it did, indeed have the Syndicate name. It carried a lot of expectation from fans, being carried forward after so many years. It was an enjoyable romp, but it should have been it's own franchise, then it could have been free to develop some of the game mechanics more. I wish there was a true sequel to Syndicate, picking up from Wars.
I played this game on DOS as a kid before I learned to read, never knew the name of it but I played it a lot just cause of the chaos and novelty of a cyberpunk city.
There is still plenty of potential for revival of Syndicate game. Sometimes, I can imagine Syndicate does a crossover with the following: Robocop: When Eurocorp tries to take over Delta City, Ghost In The Shell: Major Motoko and Batau defend Tokyo against Eurocorp, Terminator: Skynet vs Eurocorp, Judge Dredd: Mega City overrun by Eurocorp, Batman Beyond: villains of Gotham City approach Eurocorp, Avengers: Ultron and Eurocorp gang up (involving Iron Man, Spiderman, Captain America, X-men etc) Altered Carbon: Takeshi Kovac fight with Eurocorp, Cyber City ODEO, Appleseed
Clicking l and r together sets all 3 bars to the right. I remember the last lvl was so hard but with 32 laser guns and placing each guy a cm after eachother it was a breeze (otherwise all 4 would shoot the laser gun and would run out) i also remember how great and metallic the minigun sounded or people on fire.
EA sucks so hard. Bullfrog was my favorite company and we missed out on some crazy games because of EA. (Did not like Satellite Reign at all for what it's worth.)
To this day I have a hard time of finding the PC version which was one I feel I really missed out on. I was really excited when they announced "Syndicate" for the ps3, I was extremely dissapointed when I found out it was nothing like the Syndicate Wars series so for those of you out there, you're not alone lol
I disagree with your opinion on the Genesis -& Snes- port. In fact, I really liked Sega's port of the game, which allowed direct control of your agents, issuing basic orders with simple button combinations and 2-player coop. While a lot of things had to be scaled down and censored (robots instead of policemen and guards, for one), it was still fun to play and faithful enough to the original, imo. Still, it's a good retrospective and an entertaining video, so you get a like from me. :) EDIT: I recently got to play the Snes port and it's just *terrible* (even compared to the Genesis version). Controls are wonky, missions have loading screens (they start practically instantly on Genesis), AI is laughable (for one, robo-guards just ignore the player's agents instead of shooting them), most weapons have ridiculously nerfed ammo capacity (yet cost the same as they do in other versions), you can only persuade up to *6 people* in a mission (compared to a dozen or 2 on Genesis and basically unlimited on DOS), there are no agent commands like the ones on Genesis (Panic Mode, Guard Mode, Sleep Mode), persuaded civilians can't be armed with weapons, Flamer is renamed to Chiller (and its red effect is recolored light blue) - yet they forgot to change mission briefings that mention flame throwers,...
@@RyumaXtheXKing The SNES version I played only allowed up to 2 players (like the Genesis version). I haven't heard of any way to play it with 4 players. :/
Great point. I grew up with Genesis version and really love it still, having played MS-DOS original. Recently got to try Snes version and was just as shocked as you are. And I always thought that it was somehow superior to the Genesis version, as is usually the case with that generation. Just what the hell happened there?
starbreeze's syndicate was a literal cashgrab that had a cheap cliffhanger ending that set up a sequel that never came also not enough cyberpunk also also a corpo war starts and you don't even fight in it and it seems that corpo war doesn't get resolved because of crappy ending and crap twist
Just did the usual Steam brain fart, "oh Satellite rain looks like more sort of game" checks Steam oh I already purchased it 3 fecking years ago and not played it.
The SNES version was the entire reason I fell in love with the series, later picking up the PC version with the expansion along with SWARS. I still love the SNES version, it's great, freezethrower and all.
I even had the part 2 of the game and it was still cool. The username hack was super great and gave tons of money. Truthfully though the Amiga version was better than the pc version as the pc version always crashed a lot.(not they were not pirated)
we are talking about a 1990s PC game series made by a defunct 1990s game studio, so rather normal and 'it' (or rather 'Bullfrog') has already been dead for nearly 25 years. You can still play the games anytime.... and someone can still make a game like it in the future (like one of the Bullfrog old hands did with Satellite Reign not too long ago...)
What did you think about Satellite Reign??? I bought it when it came out, 5 years ago, and just now have been actually playing it. They absolutely nailed the atmosphere but, something is missing that the original had...
I agree. The atmosphere is there in droves, but something is missing. The ambient sound is terrible, where most of what you hear is fans. Fans, fans, and more fans. The sounds of the crowds, individuals, traffic and the general sounds of the city: nonexistent. I also think the general open world felt less interesting. It would have been better if you went to your headquarters in one city, and you would fly or drive to new cities and new maps, or segmented parts of the map that felt separate, until you needed to escape, then it would open up to the wider map. Not like the four quadrants with different colour schemes, the game ultimately gave us. It needed to be like syndicate and syndicate wars. This mission is in an industrial area. But you won’t be stuck here. The next mission will be in downtown London, under the hammering rain, and oversized screens. Etc.
Syndicate Wars was so good, it's such a shame the series effectively died there. The only 2 improvements I'd like to see in a remake/remaster/sequel are more missions and a lot less linearity to the them. It was almost impossible to research all the cool late game items because it seems like you run out of time due to a lack of missions. Also my personal favorite strategy: Razor wire + sniper rifles.
What Peter Moly said is actually true. He CAN make his guy throw a Frisbee or find the owner of a car. He is the creator after all. He didn't say he will put them in the final game.
Syndicate fans should give Aliens Dark Descent a shot, I am hoping for a more gritty Satellite Reign 2 with all features from the first two games there (using flying cars, destruction etc.)
Honestly they should have just remade Syndicate Wars except open world first person and be able to transfer between agents to be able to work together and complete a mission. Additionally have options to have different views Fps, and top down it would be amazing 👌
It was decent enough. People are just mad that it wasn’t an open-ended tactical simulation. It did fine capturing the story and atmosphere of the Syndicate cyberpunk world.
This hits so many memories from 90s, I think I played all or almost games of the series (tactical ones, before 2002), but never really understood what needs to be done. Like never. Always was a mistery. And these "flying" characters on the game with violet HUD and hookers as enemies... damn, it still looks ridiculous! :)))
The problem with satellite reign is that its hardly the same genre as syndicate wars. Syndicate is a tactics shooter game, satellite reign is a stealth game
The reboot was fine for what it was doing. An actual plot and plenty of cyberpunk atmosphere. People wanted a tactical murder sim; Syndicate had something more than just tactical murder sim. But sure, we could’ve used a proper reboot of the original concept as a whole.
XCOM 3 Apocalypse lets you play in a Pause play mode which imo is superior to the turned based element. As the XCOM style game became more complex, the maps got larger and the aliens more varied in their method of attack. The Turned Based style simply ends up becoming to cumbersome in XCOM3.
As a die hard Syndicate and Syndicate Wars fan this was thoroughly a fun watch. And I’m glad I never played Syndicate 2012. Btw when will Starbreeze make Into the Shadows? (That’s back when they were the Triton demo team) :)
I completely forgot about the 2012 version! I'm pretty sure I own it... I feel like I have it on Origin. Gonna install Origin now and have a look.. I feel like maybe I neaerly finished the game? I wish they carried on the style of the Amiga game instead of just another FPS.
Ahhh, I remember playing the original Syndicate game to death during a blizzard (1990?). My installation played sound effects, but not music (I wouldn't know for years that the game even had music), so I would cue up "Age of Consent" by Bronski Beat while I played. The cut "Love and Money" ( ruclips.net/video/6yU3rPQJS7E/видео.html ) seemed particularly fitting. RIP Mike, the man who introduced me to this, my favorite game of all time.
The kind of scenario depicted in the Syndicate game from Starbreeze studios could well become a reality if certain trends continue and Corporations become ever more powerful!
Hm... Im in the minority of ppl that really liked the 2012 game. And Im old enough to have played both the orog8nal and Wars. The first is the best bu apart from the technical sides I don't really like Wars. I would prefer the same conquer the world style as the first one and not the a semi set series of missions we got. And 2012 Syndicate is a good shooter, completed the game a few times (like the level with the miniguns the most), had nice hacking mechsnics and interesting boss fighta. And the coop mode was also really nice. Managed to play it with mu son a few times before they close the severs in 2024.
6:35 ARE YOU KIDDING, American Revolt is one of the best expansion packs in the history of gaming!!! It's freaking amazing! Syndicate Wars was overall pretty shit in my opinion. The 3d viewpoint was a downgrade to the brilliance that the isometric viewpoint gave. I just don't agree with this.
The game is called Satellite REIGN, not Rain. Played for a couple of hours and it is just another generic neon cyberpunk game with no soul. Wanted to like it as a successor of the good old Syndicate, but it fell short. Way too repetitive, way to much focus on stealth and hacking, the R&R took forever to develop new stuff and the money was always in too short supply. The biggest problem, however, is the fact that going in Syndicate style with tank-like fully augmented agents or terminators with miniguns, supressing fire by a sniper, gauss gun havoc and just annihilating any opposing firm's agents was NOT a viable option. Add to that braindead AI for both the enemy and your own troops and, way worse, the cardinal sin of ENDLESSLY spawning guards in the enclosed "mission areas" and you end up with a formula that just doesn't taste well.
If that's in relation to the chapter titled 'Satellite Rain', it was automatically titled by RUclips. I did not write it. So address your complaints The Algorithm's way.
16:21 you decided to spell out ex see oh em.... one day philosophers will be able to puzzle out why but for now I'm just left scratching my head. Why not spell out every word? How does spelling out XCOM help in anyway?
I can't disagree more about this. Syndicate was a great game, but, as someone who bought pretty much every subsequent game at launch, they're all messes EXCEPT 2012. Syndicate Wars was a nightmare letdown of a clearly unfinished game. Like, I'm pretty sure there are menu UI buttons that simply do not do anything. It felt unfinished at launch and it feels unfinished today. It was a bad game that you had to play with a guide to make sure your company had enough money to actually engage with the systems. Satellite Reign is a game I backed and ... it's not disappointing because it's not Syndicate, it's disappointing because it's systems are uninteresting and bland. Like the abducting people from the street to turn into agents but then became worse the more you respawned. Like, that you can respawn is ridiculous for a tactics game. It's a big open world game, but it feels cheap. Syndicate 2012 was, yes, not a tactics game. But it was far from a generic shooter than you'd forget while playing. I think about that game all the time and its interesting guns and the hacking system and all that. I think about it a lot. Evidenced by the fact that I am here now. 2012 was a really cool game that actually respected the Syndicate property more than anyone gives credit for. Like everything in that game is taken from a briefing from the original syndicate. It's crazy. And the multiplayer campaign was pretty fun to play with a bunch of friends and coordinate your hacking and weapons. I even pitched a few months before my "dream game" being a four person first person tactical shooter remake of Syndicate. Would I preferred that? Maybe, but people just hated that game because they couldn't accept it for what it was-- which was the second best Syndicate game.
The last official syndicate, dice, the multiplayer felt more like.the original.syndicate. short snappy multiplayer missions,.with upgrades To your.character.
The 2012 Syndicate was EA wanting their own Deus Ex and scraping through the archives on if they owned any relevant IP's they cold slap on the front to disguise the fact.
EA is like Disney for Games. They just SUCK!
EA is one of the real life syndicates in the cyberpunk dystopian future we live in now
am I that guy
yeah am I
You're not wrong but the game is still better than it deserves to be in spite of that at least imo
The original on PC was ahead of its time, can't forget those sweet painfully sharp SVGA graphics.
I still find it absolutely astonishing that the actual gameplay graphics only use 16 colours.
I will never forget the first time I fired that Gauss gun on the PC version. Awesome game series! (Well, apart from that FPS, but it wasn't bad... just so average and divergent from what made Syndicate, Syndicate, that it really should have been it's own IP).
@@makrostheblack4791 the gauss gun! I can relate, it was great with the sound it made
Saw it for the first time in '94, at the house of the teenager who was tutoring me in math. After completing our session we would play a map together whilst sipping the honey-lemon tea his mother would make for us. I was mesmerized by the graphics, which blew away the games I'd been playing on my 486 (Duke Nukem, Sim Ant, etc.). I miss the 90s so much...
SVGA - I was just thinking the same thing, whilst looking at a 4k monitor!
I loved this game as a young un, the atmosphere and style of the game... the concept is great... you had a mission to complete, a target and a squad of four with weaponry you choose and it was up to you how to go about achieving the mission. I remember one of the missions was an assassination of an important figure who would be escorted with his security as crowds of people stood on the paving along the roads watching.
I positioned a sniper on a bridge, then used a guy in the crowd who would pull out a minigun and spray the crowds in order to cause the security detail to stop and engage the shooter, then in the confusion I used the sniper to blow the head off the target... the other concealed minigun guy in the crowd would open fire on the security detail, backing up his mass murderer buddy and the 4th agent would follow behind the security entourage in a car to quickly scoop his team and evac them.
Or else that's how I remember the mission playing out in my mind.
I remember the 3D graphics in Syndicate Wars as a disappointment. The original graphics were much sharper and the atmosphere and lighting was way better. Imagine if you created a 2D version of the original game, but with 4K graphics. That would be awesome.
I wish they would do a director's of Syndicate Wars. I read somewhere they originally planned an Unguided campaign in addition to the Eurocorp and New Epoch campaigns but it got cut due to development time issues.
Haha my buddy and I persuaded whole cities and granted all of them to laser guns “syndicate wars”.. it was hilarious and one of the best moments in gaming ever.. just hearing thousands of lasers go off at one target and break the game lol.. best moments
Old games rock
Just some side info: When Syndicate released there was no SVGA. The graphics mode 320x200 by 256 colors was too less for a strategy game and was only used for the movie sequences and the menu. For the actual game they used 640x480 with only 16 colors. Yes you heard right: ONLY 16 COLORS
the original pc game was great... but man.. that atlantic accelerator mission was a bear.. i mean.. a grizzly bear...
With fully leveled up agents stuffing every coat pocket full of gauss guns it was a breeze lol
I got fired from HMV in 1993 for playing Syndicate to death, I was head of games for Virgin, got hired to set up "Level 1" on Oxford Street, At the the time the worlds largest games store. And then - along comes Syndicate. And I get fired..... I beat Metro at Street Fighter II (one round). But yes, sacked for playing Syndicate too much......
What a hero
I remember installing the first Syndicate on my Amiga 1200 back in August 1993. And staying glued for countless hours behind the screen, persuadotroning everybody.
I only had the amiga 500 you lucky guy lol
@@dannyboyc3poplaying Syndicate on the 1200 was great. You could install the game on the hard-drive and the game ran smoother than on the 500, with barely any loading times.
my opinion of Satellite Reign, is it's too colorful, kills the dark vibe. Modern devs can't do cyberpunk very well, they focus on the cyber part and ignore the important punk part. 90's graphical design understood grittiness and appreciated it, nowadays everything is overly cleaned up, rounded corners, soft gradients, there is no male influence on the art design.
And Ill still gladly take todays bad art direction over the 2010s era of everything being a boring grey modern military shooter
Seeing the ad for Syndicate Wars at the start of the Ghost in the Shell VHS was a highlight of my life
Came here to say the same. Was so hyped for it as I had a Saturn too at the time. Then it was canned which upset me so I got a PC.
Syndicate as a game is pretty basic and it just becomes a matter of keeping your squad together and hitting the panic button when the enemy charges at you mindlessly. Where it really shone was the atmosphere. The grimy, dangerous feeling of everything really stands out. It’s easy to see they had to leave a lot out when you read the mission briefings. They put some real depth into tactical guidance but the game doesn’t play out like it’s described.
American Revolt is a bad expansion which just ups the problems to insane levels but it’s still enjoyable to watch the absolute chaos unfold now that your enemies are packing Gauss Guns and Airstrikes. It’s hilarious that 5 seconds into some missions you have large groups of agents and civilians running around on fire everywhere.
It’s worth mentioning that the manual was awesome, in a time where manuals were great. It was a shiny black booklet with greyscale inside and it gives some cool details on the other Syndicates and the current world climate. The Aussie Syndicate running their finances on the sale of cheap lager and being bad at aiming because they’re always drunk is hilarious.
That impression of Peter Molyneux was scarily accuratea
Bransdfield, you've easily become one of my favorite go-to channels. You nail it. Keep up the great work, and best your way fellow creative ✌️❤️🎮
Played it first in 94 and still miss this format❤
You don't do the console versions justice here. In a time where most games are stupid ports that lack identity Syndicate for SNES and Mega Drive were purposely made to suit the control style of these devices. I have played both the SNES and the PC version and they are great games in their own right and the SNES version does not lack anything. The setting, the violence, the music, the different aspects of the game, it's all there. Be glad that people on the consoles did not have to move a cursor around but could control the cyborgs themselves.
Syndicate Wars aged very badly because its game speed was somehow linked to the CPU speed. It ran badly on a friend's PC and the missions were failing within 1 second of starting it on my 1 GHz Athlon.
Syndicate 2012 was a great shooter, the only thing i didn't like about it is that it was too short.
EA games. How you have ruined so much over the years.
Ask just about anyone who's played games and they probably have played and loved at least one game from a studio that EA has shut down. R.I.P. Pandemic Studios...
I haven't played the original. I know it's on GOG, and I'll buy it when I've worked though the huge list of other games I've bought and not played.
But Syndicate Wars... I loved that. It was just amazing. It's one of a tiny number of games I've written ideas down for sequels that I know I will never have the chance to make. I miss that game.
They're free on GOG right now!
@@soldierforchrist631 Are they? Awesome. Thank you for the tip - I'll go and get them now!
I fucking _love_ GOG.
@@hansellius Cheers bro. Enjoy!
Violence? What violence? Ooooh... wait, right. Where I live we got the german version... They also literally translated the "Ghost in the Shell"-commercials that played on the screens in Syndicate Wars. (For those interested and know german: they call it "Der Geist in der Muschel")
There was quite a lot of tie-in action between them-my VHS copy of GitS from back in the day had a long ad for Syndicate Wars on before the movie. I think Manga Publishing paid for some of the game, or something.
Also in Italian is translated in "Fantasma in Conchiglia"
I played the original and Wars so much as a kid, countless nights sneeking downstairs after my parents had gone to bed. Happy memories! but like so many childhood memories EA unzipped their trousers as pissed all over them 😭 maxis, bullfrog and Westwood were my childhood.
I played the syndicate wars for hours as a teenager i still remember the cheat to unlock weapons and mission skip "pooslice"
lol i even leveled a whole city completely fucking destroyed it what memories i loved the second one!
"Cooperteam"
Such a special title. Hope that somebody will make a dark remakw of this. Satellite Reign wasn't really what I expect from a Syndicate successor.
Holy hell! I didn't realize the _Syndicate_ connection to _Sattelite Reign._ I had heard the name, but couldn't think of where. I looked it up on Steam and, surprise! It's already in my library. It seems I picked it up in a random key sale through Fanatical and, not really knowing what it was, kind of forgot about it. Off to install and play! 😊
I LOVED the original Syndicate but couldn't get into Sattelite Reign. Idk it just kinda didn't make sense to me.
As fan of org. Syndicate, I did not want to smell FPS Syndicate, but this year I gave it a chance. It is linear story FPS game, put in Cyberpunk universe, and I quite enjoyed it.
3:05 retro engineered persuasive salesmen was the best for me
8:21 the way the church of the new epoch guys ran at you while having lights on, made them look scary alien like to me as a kid. they didn't look like guys with hoods to me but sort of ufo enemy unknown like creature
We've used syndicate references and sounds in our companies internal systems as we loved syndicate wars so much.
I had this on PC, I loved this game, I liked the 'Bladerunner' atmosphere of it.
The persuadertron was a terrible weapon.
The indoctrinator, now thats a weapon.
I'll never forget the first time I set a crowd of civvies on fire with a flamethrower in Syndicate. Oh God it was amazing...
And I beg to differ, Syndicate 2016 stayed FIRMLY on the rails. The entire game was a narrow tunnel from beginning to end.
I loved this game as a kid...would be so cool if it was remade all updated. Loved how you could make your own agents with different arms legs and hearts
Searching for Cyberpunk 2077 stuff and ended up here.
I loved Syndicate and played/completed it so many times on the Amiga but oddly not a huge fan of Syndicate Wars. The Syndicate FPS wasn't Syndicate but I still enjoyed it. And Starbreeze CEO wasn't incorrect when he said it was a no win situation if you look at Satellite Reign (A game which I like a lot but quickly died after release)
@14:20 It wasn't a bad game at all... it's biggest flaw was the fact that it did, indeed have the Syndicate name. It carried a lot of expectation from fans, being carried forward after so many years.
It was an enjoyable romp, but it should have been it's own franchise, then it could have been free to develop some of the game mechanics more. I wish there was a true sequel to Syndicate, picking up from Wars.
I played this game on DOS as a kid before I learned to read, never knew the name of it but I played it a lot just cause of the chaos and novelty of a cyberpunk city.
There is still plenty of potential for revival of Syndicate game. Sometimes, I can imagine Syndicate does a crossover with the following:
Robocop: When Eurocorp tries to take over Delta City,
Ghost In The Shell: Major Motoko and Batau defend Tokyo against Eurocorp,
Terminator: Skynet vs Eurocorp,
Judge Dredd: Mega City overrun by Eurocorp,
Batman Beyond: villains of Gotham City approach Eurocorp,
Avengers: Ultron and Eurocorp gang up (involving Iron Man, Spiderman, Captain America, X-men etc)
Altered Carbon: Takeshi Kovac fight with Eurocorp,
Cyber City ODEO,
Appleseed
Clicking l and r together sets all 3 bars to the right. I remember the last lvl was so hard but with 32 laser guns and placing each guy a cm after eachother it was a breeze (otherwise all 4 would shoot the laser gun and would run out) i also remember how great and metallic the minigun sounded or people on fire.
EA sucks so hard. Bullfrog was my favorite company and we missed out on some crazy games because of EA. (Did not like Satellite Reign at all for what it's worth.)
To this day I have a hard time of finding the PC version which was one I feel I really missed out on. I was really excited when they announced "Syndicate" for the ps3, I was extremely dissapointed when I found out it was nothing like the Syndicate Wars series so for those of you out there, you're not alone lol
I disagree with your opinion on the Genesis -& Snes- port. In fact, I really liked Sega's port of the game, which allowed direct control of your agents, issuing basic orders with simple button combinations and 2-player coop. While a lot of things had to be scaled down and censored (robots instead of policemen and guards, for one), it was still fun to play and faithful enough to the original, imo.
Still, it's a good retrospective and an entertaining video, so you get a like from me. :)
EDIT: I recently got to play the Snes port and it's just *terrible* (even compared to the Genesis version). Controls are wonky, missions have loading screens (they start practically instantly on Genesis), AI is laughable (for one, robo-guards just ignore the player's agents instead of shooting them), most weapons have ridiculously nerfed ammo capacity (yet cost the same as they do in other versions), you can only persuade up to *6 people* in a mission (compared to a dozen or 2 on Genesis and basically unlimited on DOS), there are no agent commands like the ones on Genesis (Panic Mode, Guard Mode, Sleep Mode), persuaded civilians can't be armed with weapons, Flamer is renamed to Chiller (and its red effect is recolored light blue) - yet they forgot to change mission briefings that mention flame throwers,...
And the SegaCD version has an incredible soundtrack!
I've read that the SNES port offers 4-player multiplayer though. That would be neat at least.
@@RyumaXtheXKing The SNES version I played only allowed up to 2 players (like the Genesis version). I haven't heard of any way to play it with 4 players. :/
@@nijunikuro Probably just wrong information. There isn't a whole lot of talk about the console ports. Not even the CD soundtrack. Plebs.
Great point. I grew up with Genesis version and really love it still, having played MS-DOS original. Recently got to try Snes version and was just as shocked as you are. And I always thought that it was somehow superior to the Genesis version, as is usually the case with that generation. Just what the hell happened there?
starbreeze's syndicate was a literal cashgrab that had a cheap cliffhanger ending that set up a sequel that never came
also not enough cyberpunk
also also a corpo war starts and you don't even fight in it
and it seems that corpo war doesn't get resolved because of crappy ending and crap twist
Just did the usual Steam brain fart, "oh Satellite rain looks like more sort of game" checks Steam oh I already purchased it 3 fecking years ago and not played it.
I basically did the same thing the other year. It came out so quietly.
The SNES version was the entire reason I fell in love with the series, later picking up the PC version with the expansion along with SWARS. I still love the SNES version, it's great, freezethrower and all.
"Uzi, Minigun, Ready !"
I even had the part 2 of the game and it was still cool. The username hack was super great and gave tons of money.
Truthfully though the Amiga version was better than the pc version as the pc version always crashed a lot.(not they were not pirated)
I enjoyed the video, good amount of detail and nice length.
Great summation of my fav game setting and psyberpunk universe
Well that was a downer. "Here's a lovely thing and now it's dead". Pretty much on brand now I think about it.
Original Syndicate is available at origin dot com.
we are talking about a 1990s PC game series made by a defunct 1990s game studio, so rather normal and 'it' (or rather 'Bullfrog') has already been dead for nearly 25 years. You can still play the games anytime.... and someone can still make a game like it in the future (like one of the Bullfrog old hands did with Satellite Reign not too long ago...)
14:42 Starvreeze game has some interesting lore expanding from the original
I agree with Nermark... I was really disappointed with the lack of innovation at Sega when Sonic 2 came out and it wasn't a first person shooter
This game was my childhood. Along with others like Twisted Metal
What did you think about Satellite Reign??? I bought it when it came out, 5 years ago, and just now have been actually playing it. They absolutely nailed the atmosphere but, something is missing that the original had...
I agree. The atmosphere is there in droves, but something is missing.
The ambient sound is terrible, where most of what you hear is fans. Fans, fans, and more fans. The sounds of the crowds, individuals, traffic and the general sounds of the city: nonexistent.
I also think the general open world felt less interesting. It would have been better if you went to your headquarters in one city, and you would fly or drive to new cities and new maps, or segmented parts of the map that felt separate, until you needed to escape, then it would open up to the wider map. Not like the four quadrants with different colour schemes, the game ultimately gave us.
It needed to be like syndicate and syndicate wars.
This mission is in an industrial area. But you won’t be stuck here. The next mission will be in downtown London, under the hammering rain, and oversized screens. Etc.
Syndicate Wars was so good, it's such a shame the series effectively died there. The only 2 improvements I'd like to see in a remake/remaster/sequel are more missions and a lot less linearity to the them. It was almost impossible to research all the cool late game items because it seems like you run out of time due to a lack of missions.
Also my personal favorite strategy: Razor wire + sniper rifles.
CAN WE JUST GET A REMASTER PLEASE??
Syndicate will never die
Wow a "recent" video about my favorite videogame series.
What Peter Moly said is actually true. He CAN make his guy throw a Frisbee or find the owner of a car. He is the creator after all. He didn't say he will put them in the final game.
Syndicate fans should give Aliens Dark Descent a shot, I am hoping for a more gritty Satellite Reign 2 with all features from the first two games there (using flying cars, destruction etc.)
Honestly they should have just remade Syndicate Wars except open world first person and be able to transfer between agents to be able to work together and complete a mission. Additionally have options to have different views Fps, and top down it would be amazing 👌
the one game series no one ever review is jagged alliance, would you kindly?
The 2012 Syndicate wasn't even bad.
It was decent enough. People are just mad that it wasn’t an open-ended tactical simulation. It did fine capturing the story and atmosphere of the Syndicate cyberpunk world.
This hits so many memories from 90s, I think I played all or almost games of the series (tactical ones, before 2002), but never really understood what needs to be done. Like never. Always was a mistery.
And these "flying" characters on the game with violet HUD and hookers as enemies... damn, it still looks ridiculous! :)))
The problem with satellite reign is that its hardly the same genre as syndicate wars. Syndicate is a tactics shooter game, satellite reign is a stealth game
The reboot was fine for what it was doing. An actual plot and plenty of cyberpunk atmosphere. People wanted a tactical murder sim; Syndicate had something more than just tactical murder sim.
But sure, we could’ve used a proper reboot of the original concept as a whole.
Not dead, still playing it 🥰
I would love a turn based tactical/management syndicte game like Xcom.
XCOM 3 Apocalypse lets you play in a Pause play mode which imo is superior to the turned based element. As the XCOM style game became more complex, the maps got larger and the aliens more varied in their method of attack. The Turned Based style simply ends up becoming to cumbersome in XCOM3.
I was thinking like civ only the start is a dystopian world already there and the mechanics geared for infiltrating countries etc
hey whats that new game called again, the one thats supposed to be syndicate's successor?
Sounds made it so special 😄
As a die hard Syndicate and Syndicate Wars fan this was thoroughly a fun watch. And I’m glad I never played Syndicate 2012. Btw when will Starbreeze make Into the Shadows? (That’s back when they were the Triton demo team) :)
Wow I had no idea this was on snes, genesis, and a sequel on the psx
I completely forgot about the 2012 version! I'm pretty sure I own it... I feel like I have it on Origin. Gonna install Origin now and have a look.. I feel like maybe I neaerly finished the game? I wish they carried on the style of the Amiga game instead of just another FPS.
Ahhh, I remember playing the original Syndicate game to death during a blizzard (1990?). My installation played sound effects, but not music (I wouldn't know for years that the game even had music), so I would cue up "Age of Consent" by Bronski Beat while I played. The cut "Love and Money" ( ruclips.net/video/6yU3rPQJS7E/видео.html ) seemed particularly fitting.
RIP Mike, the man who introduced me to this, my favorite game of all time.
I so want Syndicate ported to iOS, or rereleased. Syndicate Plus got the balance wrong, and Syndicate Wars was a mess.
I still have the original install disks.
The kind of scenario depicted in the Syndicate game from Starbreeze studios could well become a reality if certain trends continue and Corporations become ever more powerful!
Wait.. Syndicate has his own game? lol just kidding hahaha
I had the Amiga version which sounded better, but boy was I envious of the colorful SVGA PC version.
There is a PSP version that looked like that at 6:12 but i think bit different but im not sure tho it's been long
Yeah, it was the Mega Drive/Genesis version being emulated - part of the EA Replay collection on PSP.
That sequel graphically looked like dogshit
Sometimes it's Quite difficult to differentiate between mature and violent in terms of video games
Nothing is trully dead in a gaming world.
3:40 I miss those magazines! PS: Is Peter Molyneux the most prolific liar in Gaming? Can't think of ones that lied more often, off the top of my head?
if not due to this game I won't ever knowing about Ghost In The Shell
Thanks to Mimimi Games there is a resurrection of that genre. EA will be utterly stupid having the Syndicate Franchise and not release a Syndicate 3.
Never played the console "versions", always on PC, and still haven't played anything but the original
Hm... Im in the minority of ppl that really liked the 2012 game. And Im old enough to have played both the orog8nal and Wars. The first is the best bu apart from the technical sides I don't really like Wars. I would prefer the same conquer the world style as the first one and not the a semi set series of missions we got.
And 2012 Syndicate is a good shooter, completed the game a few times (like the level with the miniguns the most), had nice hacking mechsnics and interesting boss fighta. And the coop mode was also really nice. Managed to play it with mu son a few times before they close the severs in 2024.
I some how managed to get Satellite Reign for free and am yet to try it out but it does look like a nice update to Syndicate.
Heard it wasn't great, at least at launch.
Blade runner 2049 has that syndicate vibe
The original game was great. I played it frequently. I would be glad to play it again.
Free on GOG
6:35 ARE YOU KIDDING, American Revolt is one of the best expansion packs in the history of gaming!!! It's freaking amazing!
Syndicate Wars was overall pretty shit in my opinion. The 3d viewpoint was a downgrade to the brilliance that the isometric viewpoint gave. I just don't agree with this.
Syndicate Wars is still a very enjoyable game to play now. The original's AI is simply horrific and doesn't hold up to today.
The game is called Satellite REIGN, not Rain.
Played for a couple of hours and it is just another generic neon cyberpunk game with no soul. Wanted to like it as a successor of the good old Syndicate, but it fell short. Way too repetitive, way to much focus on stealth and hacking, the R&R took forever to develop new stuff and the money was always in too short supply.
The biggest problem, however, is the fact that going in Syndicate style with tank-like fully augmented agents or terminators with miniguns, supressing fire by a sniper, gauss gun havoc and just annihilating any opposing firm's agents was NOT a viable option. Add to that braindead AI for both the enemy and your own troops and, way worse, the cardinal sin of ENDLESSLY spawning guards in the enclosed "mission areas" and you end up with a formula that just doesn't taste well.
If that's in relation to the chapter titled 'Satellite Rain', it was automatically titled by RUclips. I did not write it. So address your complaints The Algorithm's way.
SEE-LEC-TED
holy shit you could rotate the 3d?
I want to make one
“Jellected!”
16:21 you decided to spell out ex see oh em.... one day philosophers will be able to puzzle out why but for now I'm just left scratching my head. Why not spell out every word? How does spelling out XCOM help in anyway?
a clue pops up on the screen when I say it
Someone just needs to make more of the games and just call it , not syndicate.. but itl be syndicate.
I have a syndicate plus cd. 👍
I can't disagree more about this. Syndicate was a great game, but, as someone who bought pretty much every subsequent game at launch, they're all messes EXCEPT 2012. Syndicate Wars was a nightmare letdown of a clearly unfinished game. Like, I'm pretty sure there are menu UI buttons that simply do not do anything. It felt unfinished at launch and it feels unfinished today. It was a bad game that you had to play with a guide to make sure your company had enough money to actually engage with the systems.
Satellite Reign is a game I backed and ... it's not disappointing because it's not Syndicate, it's disappointing because it's systems are uninteresting and bland. Like the abducting people from the street to turn into agents but then became worse the more you respawned. Like, that you can respawn is ridiculous for a tactics game. It's a big open world game, but it feels cheap.
Syndicate 2012 was, yes, not a tactics game. But it was far from a generic shooter than you'd forget while playing. I think about that game all the time and its interesting guns and the hacking system and all that. I think about it a lot. Evidenced by the fact that I am here now. 2012 was a really cool game that actually respected the Syndicate property more than anyone gives credit for. Like everything in that game is taken from a briefing from the original syndicate. It's crazy. And the multiplayer campaign was pretty fun to play with a bunch of friends and coordinate your hacking and weapons.
I even pitched a few months before my "dream game" being a four person first person tactical shooter remake of Syndicate. Would I preferred that? Maybe, but people just hated that game because they couldn't accept it for what it was-- which was the second best Syndicate game.
The last official syndicate, dice, the multiplayer felt more like.the original.syndicate. short snappy multiplayer missions,.with upgrades To your.character.
this game was the bomb !!