Yeah, I’m surprised that even oboe remembered the game in his last video. That one is so unknown i sometimes thought i dreamed it or something. So yeah i agree he’s on it
Physical copies were banned in Australia. This was around the time that digital keys were becoming the norm. So I just went to a online game key marketplace, based in the USA, and purchased a valid key. No rules or laws broken, ez az. Though I gotta say that CoD WaW gore is worse than Syndicate and yet somehow it didn't get banned or censored.
@@amko899999 Sort of. The Classification Board of Australia stated that the reason was due to the level of decapitation and dismemberment that the player could inflict. Thus why I used CoD WaW as a gore comparison.
German here. To be more precise, the game isn´t "banned" here in Germany. You can still own the game legaly and stores can sell them legaly. The only thing that stores can´t do is advertise it and have the games openly accessible to the public. Means if a store wants to sell those games, they either have to have a access restricted area in the store, like a seperate room that can be closed off, or keep the game under the counter and only take them out when a customer requests one of those games. That is why the big tech-stores don´t bother to sell the uncensored versions, it would be too big of a hassel to meet all of those requirements. Small gamestores can meet the requirements more easily or get away with selling them openly because no one really cares or does enough controlls due to the authoritys in charge beeing notoriously understaffed.
@@ClassicMagicMan Really? doesn't sound like that big of a deal for the gamer. Just walk up to the counter and ask for the game. I'm sure it hurts the game's sales in the country though.
Hi, kannst du mir zufällig sagen wo du das Spiel für den PC her hast? Ich wollte das schon eine ganze Weile mal nachholen, kanns aber nirgendwo finden...
@@KevinBYee I'm not talking from the customers pov here; the OP says the store has to get a bunch of licenses/ clearance to carry the game in the first place.
I bought Syndicate at launch on Xbox 360. I had some fun playing it, but I did think The Darkness 1 was better. Fun fact, many devs from this went on to form MachineGames and make Wolfenstein The New Order and The Old Blood.
The Darkness games are such gem. The first one's gameplay is pretty clunky but the story telling is fantastic. The second one has a weaker story but the gameplay was a vast improvement over the first one, the graphic art style becoming cell shaded was a cool touch too considering The Darkness originated as a comic book.
This game isn't forgotten, this game is fucking RAD. It can't be forgotten if I didn't forget it and basically played it a million times and bought it for two different platforms.
This game was a literal hidden gem it should have sold way more but you got to remember the hype of 2012 back then was the very famous Black Ops 2 and it already had a future vibe to it so people played that and took the spotlight this game should have came out either a year earlier or a year later and then maybe it would have gotten the recognition it deserves
Eh maybe. Futuristic fps games at that point weren't really too common, but when you had the good COD games, Halo, Crysis, Stalker, Metro, Battlefield and plenty of other fps games around the early 2010's to play most didn't really care much about releases like this
Nostalgia hitting hard with this one. Brings me back to the days of waiting for gamefly to send out another game, nice hot chocolate out my Mr. Coffee cocomotion on a school snow day.
Oboeshoes is so proficient with commentary that it actively hides how abysmally terrible he is at aiming in fps games. It's like if moistcritikal was funnier but also a ign journalist!! I love it 😁
The 4 distinct theme songs for this game are come of my favorite tracks in the techno/dubstep/synth scene to this day. All ominous and unique in their own way. The game was fun to the extent I remember.
I remember this game getting out at a time where there was this obsession with big game publishers to dust off old IP's and make generic corridor shooters out of them, regardless of the original genre of said ip... There was this, thiFOURf, a cover shooter xcom game, etc... All of them sold terribly as they were rightly just viewed as empty cash grabs...
The Bureau has good reviews these days, least in the Xbox store. Apparently it does retain some of the XCom elements, and was more of a spinoff. But yeah, Thief sucked asshole, and the best thing about Syndicate was the soundtrack. Bethesda also did this, but far less egregiously, with Fallout 3. Completely changed the style, retconned the lore, and took out any and all nuance or morally difficult choices the series had before. In Fallout 1 & 2, you really had to think about what you were doing. In Fallout 3, the only choices were, "Do I wanna be a shining paragon of justice, or a moustache twirling movie villain?"
It also probably didn't help that another EA game released 2 weeks after this. That being mass effect 3 a game that already had a huge fanbase ready to buy it, and alot of new players coming to the series at the time such as myself. Given the already dedicated fan base yo mass effect combined with the face most people don't buy 2 games within a month this game was destined to flop.
Cyberpunk 2077 is entirely based on a 1988 tabletop game by the same name. Most of the game mechanics are emulated from the boardgame. Similarly, the first game released as ''Fallout'' was a GURPS tabletop campaign wich BlackIsle developed into a videogame. I'd say the Cyberpunk genre evolution goes something like: Syndicate+, System Shock, Anachronox, Deus Ex
i replayed this game at the beginning of the year and you know what? i really loved it, the co-op was really fun, after we levelled up, we fucked the last level without dying, we had a blast and the game ain´t bad, besides it uses the same engine as The Darkness and it shows, it reminds me of it and makes me nostalgic
Had some pretty fun class-based coop, with differences in load-out and abilities that actually made a difference. I wish it was still available on PC outside of Origin. It would be a good GoG candidate at this point.
Regardless of the reception it got, I actually enjoyed it and will admit it is a guilty pleasure of mine. No doubt it could be better, I’m just disappointed they didn’t continue with this franchise.
I used to love this game, back in the day. Wasn't incredible sure, but it stood out to me back then and was memorable. I still always remember being able to switch from scope to backup sights on the rifle, first time I ever saw that in a game.
Underrated at the time. It was an AMAZING time to play! EA made alot of good games in the past that kind of went under the radar. Mirrors edge was one of them as well.
EA didn't make, EA published. Mirror's Edge, Crysis, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Dead Space, Dante's Inferno, Alice Madness Returns, The Saboteur, Syndicate... All good and original games, messed by this publisher which ruined/closed their developer studios
Its an awesome game. The fact that it didn't sell many copies when it released just means a hell of a lot of people missed out on an awesome fps sci-fi game.
i could never forget this game! i watched the trailer a bunch of times because i was like 10 and there was skrillex music. errr never played the game though idk what it's about so im excited to watch
Yeah I beat this game numerous times, the story is complete dogshit, but the mechanics and art work is absolutely amazing. The multiplayer was great too. I remember getting home from middle school and just booting this game up and drawing all the propaganda pieces and logos. It's also a remake where the original is a solid XCOM-like pc game.
I'm a huge fan of the original Syndicate, or more specifically Syndicate Plus from like 1994. So I was tremendously disappointed by this game sharing basically nothing but the name. That's pretty much the whole reason its reception at the time was terrible. Taking a unique strategic real time strategy type of game and rebooting it as an FPS at a time when everything was an FPS was not the best move from an optics position.
They turned syndicate from an RTS to FPS and failed They turned XCOM into an FPS and failed Every single time it ends up DOA and forgotten that it even exists because no one in the new demographic realized the franchise even existed and executives are shocked brand power didn't exist.
i played the original to death and i loved it like no other game, so much i avoided this game because i knew it would disappoint me, but i've played cyberpunk 2077, i kind of wish i'd played this instead, weird thing this game gives me a feel like your watching someone play in vr
Actually, I didn't forget it. Edit: It's weird it was banned here in Australia considering the other much more violent games that released here at the time.
I vividly remember loooking past this game everytime I saw it in GameStop. Probably should have for 5$ might’ve even enjoyed it for a few hours a few years ago
"Smart gun? Did Cyberpunk have any original ideas?" Are we forgetting that Resistance on PS3 had a tracking gun way before Syndicate? Also the fact that Skrillex did songs for this game makes it very 2010 to me.
My buddy once said that this game "hates your eyes for looking at it" and honestly that's about the most succinct description of its graphics I can think of
The way you sing the Super Mario theme song tells me you’re old enough to have watched the Super Mario Super Show back in like 1990… I also hum it like that and young people are like WHAAT?
I remeber playing this game. It was actually pretty cool and I was surprised it didn't do that well. I mean it didn't really do anything new but it was still pretty fun
3:45 okay I swear to god I’ve seen this lady’s face in a another game before, it was this old mobile COD clone called Modern Combat 5 and it had a female character that looks just like that.
To add to the 2012 vibe of this game, that Dubstep song during the fight with Trenchcoat guy, was written and produced exclusively for this game by Skrillex. Yes. That Skrillex. in 2012 that was literally the only reason I bought this game. It was the "Skrillex" game lmao.
