Anyone thinking that the recent FPS reboot of Syndicate might look a little bit like Deus Ex will feel especially vindicated by the first trailer: it does.
There’s lots of bloom lighting, men in long coats, neon lighting and – well, shooting. Sometimes with bendy bullets – which is lovely but, you know, I quite liked the old Syndicate.
Still, bang bang sells, right?
Tuffcub
I’ve got a feeling this is going be an epic fail, even if its a great game it’s just not Syndicate.
Klart
I don’t know Syndicate, but this trailer looks very good.
cnutard
I’m not familiar with Syndicate either but I’m quite intrigued by the trailer.
wuntunzee
bloody youngsters! this is the game the Syndicate remake should’ve been – http://kotaku.com/5843718/retro-ghost-recon-looks-more-like-the-syndicate-remake-of-our-dreams
Klart
Haha, I’m no youngster. I’m probably older than you are! Just never played it, was always more of a console player.
shields_t
Persuadatron – Check
Tranchcoats – Check
Pumped up remix of old music – Check
Minigun – Check
FPS – Sadly, Check.
I’m still very sceptical about this release. I have bad memories of what Microsoft did with Shadowrun.
OriginalJonty (Aran Suddi)
Looks interesting but as said in the article, pretty similar to Deus Ex Human Revolution but without the story.
Kennykazey
And with blue instead of gold.
colossalblue
FPS… More like FFS… AMIRITE?
Looks pretty cool though. Still, not really Syndicate.
Jakster123x
I’m not really familiar with the ‘old’ Syndicate so I don’t really feel hard done by.
This Syndicate does look a lot like Deus Ex but it does look pretty damn good. I’m interested.
Sympozium
If they actually risked combing both genres of Syndicate and Syndicate: Imposter then maybe it’ll be cool….
moshi
Well I am interested.
skibadee
looking good to me like the track as well.
MadBoJangles
Yeah I am liking the music too :)
I liked the FB page like it said on the trailer and can’t find where I can download the track…
DaveyJam
Go to facebook.com/syndicate and then on the left menu click Syndicate DJ Download
MadBoJangles
NVM found it lol
MadBoJangles
Cheers DaveyJam, I found it, posted the “NVM” comment and then the page refreshed and I saw ur comment…
Didn’t mean to sound like an ass :P
The Lone Steven
It looks like it could be a cool game but it risks getting buried in the flood of FPSes that are out there atm.
It’s not sydincate and i can understand why a lot of fans would be annoyed by the change of genre. If there is more focus on the stragey side then it may just win those fans back. However if it focuses more on shooting everything in sight then it will fail to do so. Graphically, it looks good but the gameplay look a bit cool.
TSBonyman
Aren’t all games syndicated now ;) … except for the platform exclusives that is… anyway this looks good to me.
hazelam
for a generic future fps, it looks, well, a bit meh actually.
for a syndicate sequel?
oh god no.
it’s nice they’re reusing some ideas from mirror’s edge, but that not frakking syndicate.
why not use those idea in the mirror’s edge sequel that people actually do want rather than desecrating the corpse of a once beloved franchise with a title that just doesn’t suit it.
it’s not such a bad case of bandwagon hopping as the so called “X-Com” game, but still, it’s not syndicate.
i expect Deus Ex does everything this game will do, and a lot better i’d bet.
hazelam
bet you somebody turns chess into an fps before the end of 2012.