Syndicate release date pushed up; 11-minute gameplay trailer released
Syndicate is actually coming sooner than you'd expect.
We were surprised when EA announced a February 21, 2012 release date for the just-announced Syndicate. It's pretty rare for a games publisher to start cranking the gears of marketing so close to release. Well, it appears the gears are going to turn a bit faster, as EA has announced Syndicate's release date has been pushed forward.
You'll now find Starbreeze's FPS take on the franchise available on February 12th.
EA has released a new trailer to commemorate the new release date. It offers 11 minutes of narrated gameplay, showing protagonist Miles Kilo on a mission to 'retrieve' a chip from a scientist's head.
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Syndicate is actually coming sooner than you'd expect.-
hmmmm... I dunno.
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I think it looks interesting
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Yeah, I kind of agree.
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Generic fps.
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I love how not releasing any info until it's ready is "rushed"
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Holding the pistol in front of you at all times was annoying, hopefully that was just a bad player.
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It's an FPS, what do you expect?
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not enough futeristic shooters for my prefrence so i am looking foreward to this game.
What i really want is another dues ex, but this and prey 2 might be able to tide me over for future shooters with quest like gameplay. -
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as someone who beat deus ex 1 and Human Revolution as pacifistically as possible, I don't think I could force someone to not only commit suicide but kill the person they are interigating to further the game plot. maybe this game isn't for me.
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*shrugs* this game reminded me of something like deus ex HR, so that's my frame of reference. If this were a pure shooter where morality wasn't a factor, i wouldn't have any issues with it, but for some reason i don't like playing pure assholes.
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There is or isn't morality in any shooter. You're always gunning down hundreds of dudes. You can choose to think of it as mass murdering people with lives and families, or you can think of it as video games.
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but that's not how I played deus ex because they gave me that option. Whenever I have an option of not killing someone in a game, I usually take it.
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me too, but it's funny you say that about deus ex because it tries real hard to paint a morally ambiguous world where no matter what choice you make you are unfortunately in some way or another culpable for the deaths of others by the sheer fact of what you are and what you're tasked with doing.
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well, i was too young to enjoy the original Syndicate when it came out. I remember not having enough patience for it or something, i was only 15 at the time..
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i know right?
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i think it looks good.
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it's amazing to me that a project like this has quite obviously had countless thousands of hours of work put into it, so much technical expertise and talent, and yet is so utterly derivative aside from the nostalgic universe it could be any game.
i guess it's no different than blockbuster actions flicks or whatnot. still, you'd think at some point someone on the multi million dollar project would stand up and accidentally expel an original idea. -
Ahh... I love the original music that starts playing at the end!
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mine too... and abraham lincoln.
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not a fan of the overlay design. It should never be possible for two vital pieces of information, in this case ammo in clip and ammo total, to be on top of one another so they become unreadable.
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Looks like it has potential to be great.
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John Gunbro, use your cyberimplant to activate bullet time and hack the cover system!
It's really really slick, I enjoy the look of the game a lot, but that feels rather choreographed, not like someone just playing the game, so I can't tell what the actual gameplay will be beyond just pressing X when the hint UI tells you to. -
It's pretty, the sound is great, and the shooting looks fun. Any sort of depth looks superficial and that's unfortunate. Games play themselves these days.
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That trailer was a snooze-fest. I went in trying really hard not to be cynical, but...that just looks amateur. Bland, futuristic office environment with no imagination. Check. Grandma-slow movement speed. Check. Enemy AI that appears to move like wooden dolls. Check. Combat situations that don't appear to be even slightly dangerous...looks like you can just stroll through and occasionally click the mouse on the enemies at your own leisure. Check.
Compare this to something like the Bioshock: Infinite E3 demo. It's like the difference between Terminator 2 and Transformers 2.-
I think it's difficult to judge from the video, it all looks so choreographed and played for the camera so to speak, not an actual gameplay video but instead a video of someone playing in such a way as to show of all the game features rather than showing how the game plays IRL. Which is shitty, because these videos used to work like that, and you could properly see what the gameplay was about from them.
Hopefully more (and longer) playthrough vids are released.
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This game looks familiar.
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