I can honestly say I wasn't too impressed until they got to the super weapons bit. It looks like the swarm launcher and the bouncing electro gun would be fun to play with. The rest.... I don't know it doesn't really call to me. I know its trying to be a different game then Dues Ex but they look a lot a like. Expect this one appears to be all out tech brawl and Dues Ex is a stealth game.
Yeah, I'm afraid this one doesn't grab me either. One of the things that turns me off is what appears to be the complete immorality of the protagonist. You seem to be going out to kill a lot of people, presumably to punish them for the hubris of trying to stop you killing a lot of people, for the purposes of testing weaponry and stealing brain chips from people, via killing them and stabbing them through the face, all in order to further the control of a company which produces mind-altering weaponry and is willing to commit mass murder to beat its competition.
Arguably there might be a twist, and your character ends up turning on the company and taking them down for being such bastards, but in my experience games rarely pull this off well. I long for a game that sets you down a path and then stops you half way through to let you realise, without blatantly telling you, that you're actually being a bastard and everything you've done so far is horrific. GTA4 did this fairly well, but only if you played to the end, and likewise Bully tried it on a smaller scale. Saints Row 2 was set up to pull it off perfectly but never actually did. Most other games tend to make it too personal; your character might realise they've been working for the 'bad' guys all along and start fighting for 'good', but this usually only happens after they are blatantly betrayed (usually an attempted assassination after the protagonist has 'fulfilled their usefulness') and then the player just repeats their mindless slaughter against a newly skinned enemy who might have slightly different weaponry.
Perhaps I'll be proven wrong, and please do let me know if that happens. If the game ends up being a commentary on out-of-control capitalism, weapons manufacturing and the normalisation of violence in video games, then I will happily accept defeat and will probably go right out and buy it. However, I doubt very much that this will be the case. It would be like the next Smackdown game having a long story about how Wrestling inspires real violence and degrades sports entertainment (not necessarily my view, but just a fitting parallel).
But in any case please don't let my rant dissuade you! I hope people enjoy it! At least it's not Modern Warfare!
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Well, if it's anything like the original Syndicate game was, then it will revolve around corporate warfare. There is probably going to be more to it than that, but it may not be something that you will dig. Either way, I thought that the series coming back was worth the mention.
I recall the original syndicate games. Perhaps the violence wasn't as visceral as it was top-down style combat.
Could be worse however, it could be a 1st Person 'Crusader (No Remorse/No Regret)'. But that would just play out like most Deux Ex or Red Faction.
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