Syndicate is pretty. Your fancy, HD, pixel-loaded TV will definitely get a workout with this game. The standards like lighting and shadows are just very well executed. In addition, lots of details stand out like future magazines that look ordinary until you notice their scrolling text covers.

Fast-forward to 2012 and the game has been given the reboot treatment by Starbreeze Studios (known for The Darkness and The Chronicles of Riddick games). The new, shinier version of Syndicate shares the name, the basic premise, and not much else.

For a game set in the future, EA's rebooted Syndicate is a game very much trapped by the past. At an instinctive level, that's because it's an all-action first-person shooter reboot of a 1993 game that was all about top-down strategy.

In the dystopian future of Syndicate , where massive corporations have replaced governments and turned their populations into their chip-monitored workforces, business is war. That's true enough for Miles Kilo, one of their countless, faceless enforcers, who has "volunteered" to test the new DART 6...

Imagine what might happen if a group of software developers got together to reboot a once-popular PC game franchise. Much like with the re-imaginings that take place all-too often in the world of motion pictures, said game makers would have to perform a major overhaul on just about every aspect of...

I had an outstanding time with Syndicate and really took to the game's cooperative mode in a way that I really didn't expect. The teamwork required there is just enough to get you angry when someone's letting the side down, but not so much that you'll have to organize and coordinate every little...

I initially told my colleagues at BG that playing Syndicate was about as much fun as trying to violate an eel in a hurricane – I was wrong. The initial difficulty, over saturation of lighting and sometimes lengthy loading just turned me off and left me cold.

I really don’t have fond memories of the very first Syndicate, or any memories at all, actually. I never even knew the game existed until this game was announced. Luckily, you don’t need...

+ Good game play; + Amazing customization options; + Thought out and intelligent co-op; + Interesting world

The single player is somewhat short; Overuse of light bloom; Glitches in the coop; Tedious boss battles in single player

Business is War

The end of the world has been talked about quite often lately. All of us have thought about what we would do if 90% of the population became flesh-eating monsters or if Mother Nature decided she didn't like Earth anymore.

You can kill with your mind; not just your gun; Executions in the future are serious business; An extensive progression system; High replay value in cooperative mode

A cover system; minus the cover; Campaign doesn't stand on its own; An extensive progression system