EA - Syndicate announcement expected soon

Trailer looks friggin' BOSS. I knew Starbreeze would not let us down.

That said, I think there's still room for a true sequel of the original, more strategic game. Surely the kiddies aren't so impatient these days that slower tactical games rather than full-on run-and-gun are seen as economically unviable?

 

BOSS ! - are you english ?

 

That's cool, but why is that called Syndicate if it shares no gameplay similarities with the original games?

 

Marketing. A well known name gives them a pigeon hole for the game.

 

Yeah, I would have been perfectly happy to have Syndicate setupped onto the Commandos-engine.
Somehow there is no innovation for isometric games by game-developers (NWN doesn't count, TOEE counts just half) ... too sad even something like Google Earth creates appropriate innovations for that kind of games.
What could you reach in the art-department driving Lightwave-rendered BG environments to the top - a la mapping it onto geometry and making it navigatable, which has been attempted in Commandos 2 ...

Anyway, who cares about the memory and conditioning on the specific Syndicate we had. We're dinosaurs.

 

If it is a fps they should do it evolva style where you can switch between team members and see from their viewpoint

 

The only people who know the name are the very same ones who are now pissed at EA. On the other hand, the audience to which EA is actually catering now may have read the name Syndicate in some random top 100 list, but even that's doubtful.

 

I didn't say it made sense, but the marketing people have got this name as company IP, and so they want to wrap the game up in it. It's not just for those of us who remember the original game in the distant past, but for the possibility of re-starting a franchise with this old IP name.

 

EA better release this game on Steam, because otherwise I won't buy it. I'm only going to jump on ONE ship in the direct download business, and "Origin" wasn't exctly first there, so...