EA's set to release a Syndicate multiplayer demo on Xbox Live and US PSN today.
'Western Europe' sees you and your leather-clad chums infiltrate Cayman Global to assassinate Colonel Enrico Gabron and steal his technology blueprints. As you can see from the trailer below, it's a bit gorey.
Syndicate's set to release on February 21 in North America and February 24 in Europe for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.
Check out our first-look Syndicate preview and interview with developer Starbreeze for more details.
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monkeyface1985 on 31 Jan '12 said:
Gorey?!
StonecoldMC on 31 Jan '12 said:
Ill have a shot of this tonight!
Dont fancy watching the Transfer Deadline on Sky with Jim White, im a Rangers Fan and this day is going to be horrific.
So if anyone else on Live is downloading this, give us a shout.
Niknak106 on 31 Jan '12 said:
As a fan of the snes Syndicate, I'll definitely be having a slice of this. I just hope it lives up to the impossibly high expectations I have in my head.
djreplay on 31 Jan '12 said:
I quite like the look of this, may check it out.
dicky1993 on 31 Jan '12 said:
dunno why but reminds me of crysis/singularity :S
lonewolf2002 on 31 Jan '12 said:
No PC demo
nottsville on 31 Jan '12 said:
Downloaded it and played a couple of games. I looks like with the right people from your friends list it could be a pretty good game.
However, the games I played were with randoms, and they were running around shooting everything in sight like it was Call of Duty. I picked the medic class, and I think everyone else just hit the buttons without looking at the class picks and were all soldiers. I was the last to die every time. You have to take each area very methodically. There are multiple routes through the maps that you can take, and you really have to communicate to get anywhere.
So....COD fans will hate it. Make sure you play it with people on your friends lists....communication and teamwork will see you through the demo.
gmcb007 on 31 Jan '12 said:
Sounds like the usual experience with MP demos. Would have rather tried a SP demo to be honest.
ricflair on 31 Jan '12 said:
I might be cutting my nose off to spite my face, but part of me just doesn't even want to try it. That they've changed one of the fondest memories of my Amiga playing youth into an FPS makes me cry a little inside.
gmcb007 on 31 Jan '12 said:
I've never played the original (yet) but I was annoyed by this game's FPS choice because the devs admitted they're just another bunch hopelessly chasing after the 'CoD Dream'.
bagofbones on 31 Jan '12 said:
Am I going to need a Gold account to d/l this? Probably.....no demo for me
ensabahnur on 31 Jan '12 said:
Well its kinda a MP demo so i'd say downloading it without a Gold sub would be pretty pointless.
freds1 on 31 Jan '12 said:
I didn't think it would be possible that I'd be even more disinterested in this game, but I am. Chasing the CoD dream, did they say that? Oh dear...
richomack360 on 31 Jan '12 said:
No thanks, I am too busy sifting raw sewage by hand with Burger Barry
bagofbones on 31 Jan '12 said:
you make good point
wearing my dumb hat today looks like it
budge on 31 Jan '12 said:
I'll check it out but i'd have much prefered a single player demo.
Fr33Kye on 31 Jan '12 said:
When did they say that? They said they are making an fps because that's what they are good at.
gmcb007 on 31 Jan '12 said:
It was something along the lines of that an FPS route was the only choice because of the present demand for them.
Ahh yes, here it is:
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/318785/syndicate-was-always-going-to-be-an-fps-starbreeze-responds/
Not really a good explanation as to why it has to be an FPS. Ok, so they don't blatantly say they're going after COD but the whole mention of present gaming suggests they want to try and take that COD market again.
Fr33Kye on 31 Jan '12 said:
But they also said:
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/33 ... icate-dev/
Just because something is new doesn't make it an attack on your childhood. I find it odd that people hold a name so closely rather than the experience itself.
TheLastDodo on 31 Jan '12 said:
If EA wanted a new Syndicate RTS they cudda gone out and got a top RTS dev to make it, obviously they didn't, they got Starbreeze to make an FPS because FPS's are all the rage this generation, clearly a business move.
I don't think it's a "CoD Dream" situation, just EA knowing that there is far less demand for RTS's than FPS's (on consoles at least) these days so they go where the money is and hope to cash in on the name, hoping that fans of the "old" Syndicate games that have moved on to other genres (extremely possible considering the average gamer these days is around 35 years old) will return to "get the best of both worlds" so to speak (current trend tinged with nostalgia).
I know it may upset some people but a top RTS would sell less than a mediocre FPS (Homefront 2m anyone?) ON CONSOLES these days and EA know this.
EDIT: Personally I was impressed by the debut trailer, I've never played a Syndicate game, this is basically a new IP for me and I'm treating it as such, I can understand "old" Syndicate fans grievances though.
Metatasian on 31 Jan '12 said:
This x1000 (I frickin' loved my Amiga 500!)
Syndicate is one of the best games I have ever played, EA/Starbreeze have now bent it over and f**ked it senseless to make some quick cash, they should do the right thing and rename it "$¥ndicat£". As Prodigy from Mobb Deep once said "We don't make hits, we make classics" EA could learn a thing or two from that statement.
Barry316 on 31 Jan '12 said:
Just played the demo and i was not impressed.
It started in typical EA online style with 5 minutes of it saying servers full, cannot connect to game and getting in a lobby that doesn't actually ever load the game.
Then finally got into a game and it was just run, shoot, run some more, shoot, open a door with all of you together and shoot shoot shoot.