Comments on: Speculative Rumour: Is Syndicate Coming Back?

By: lol anon

lol anon — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:55:00 +0000

the above source is VALID i PLOMISE

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:14:10 +0000

it is in fact true – working closely with starbreeze in the last months i can confirm they are developing a new syndicate game

By: ChrisF

ChrisF — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:14:13 +0000

EA don’t own the rights to James Pond, Millennium did, and they went to Creature Labs when Millennium was sold to Sony.

By: megaman

megaman — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:27:19 +0000

I played it then, I played it again a couple of months ago. And I never found out about the banks. How could I miss out on this?

(Although money really never was a problem in syndicate, no?)

By: El_MUERkO

El_MUERkO — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:35:22 +0000

my friend had a pc long before me, i used to go round his house and play syndicate wars and drool at the new 486 DX2s in shop windows

By: harvb

harvb — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:34:33 +0000

I predict it will be awful. I have absolutely nothing informed whatsoever to base this on, so I am bound to be right. Huzzah!

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:10:58 +0000

good god, i’d forgotten about the clown cars, set one on fire and then watch hundreds of flaming boddies pour out of it.

I still think the next syndicate should be a squad based tacical game, but by tactical, i am still remembering these guys are cyborgs not weak fleshy humans, still i’m hoping for multiplayer focus, simply because. single player games wont have missions where the enemies use civilians are cannon fodder. 4 cyborgs in fps with co-op optionally, and counter op (like left 4 dead) but, hundreds of simple AI’s.

By: Cataclysm

Cataclysm — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:53:28 +0000

I remember Syndicate well. I remember having a mob of civilians swarming the city courtesy of the persuadatron and fitting 200 people into a small 2 seat hover car was always funny.

By: phil

phil — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:27:13 +0000

The last time we had a Syndicate thread a programmer from the Amiga version and subsequently Syndicate Wars turned up, which gave us a chance to variously praise his initial masterpiece and enquire whether the squeal was dumbed down for the console crowd.

Will lightening strike twice?
No, no it probably won’t.

Still a 3D direct control Syndicate, perhaps with ‘Goblin Commander’ unit management system, would be ace.

By: th15

th15 — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:12:58 +0000

Whoa, we need James Pond. How can we not have James Pond.

By: Cooper42

Cooper42 — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:49:48 +0000

And when Molyneaux was expressing a desire to go back to syndicate a few months ago…

Now, not wanting to jump the gun here, but I predict that the resulting game from EA and starbreeze will not appeal to any fans of the original games…

That being said, though, if EA are prepared to go back to syndicate – then maybe cyberpunk games are not dead…

By: CUS

CUS — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:26:04 +0000

Friday?

A messianic figure on some underground forum, knew about this on wednesday.

http://www.beexcellenttoeachother.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=117038#p117038

But sadly didn’t get to complete scooping it there – so, kudos to you. Next time Gadget… next time!