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  • i have the original game and have dosbox but is there any option in the dosbox to reduce the FPS? i want to play it again but i cant cause the game run too fast:(((

  • @lironk1 You can hit Ctrl-F11 to slow down DOSBox and Ctrl-F12 to speed it up.

  • @ViridianGames

    yea thanks i found but still....that game will never be the same :(((((

    graphics are strange ....i miss my pentium 1 computer:P

  • This game gave me some of the best gaming-experiences ever!!! =)

  • The difficulty curve in this game is all over the place, which is my only real complaint. One minute, you're mowing down enemies without taking a scratch - the next, one guy with an electron mace flattens your entire crew.

  • Very nice commentary!

  • Brings me back ;-) Love this game! Found it on PSN!!

  • I miss this =[ PSN...please obtain this game as a ps one classic. ill pay anything

  • Now SYNDICATE returns finally...

  • Is this playing a bit too fast?

  • My favorite quote from the commentary: "Now, we've got four miniguns, and that should see us th- yes it does."

    Great stuff man. :)

  • @SoulFox0 they are exactly the same as for pc :)

  • Peter Molyneux made some completely killer games.

  • wish this came out for the ps3 so we can play online with ppl

  • I remember my dad used to play the original Syndicate a lot. I never really understood it cos I was about 7 or something, but I've always thought that group of cyber agents were some of the coolest motherfuckers around. Im a Deus Ex fan aswell, and this game DEFINITELY has a similar vibe to it. CLASSIC, I might buy this on PSN cos its only 2 quid, but I hope the graphics ain't too bad compared to the PC version

  • Wow its like fallout tactics meets blade runner, this game looks totally awesome,

    i like squad based tactical games

    holy crap dude, i think i might like this game, i heard about long long ago and never really looked into it, didnt this have a fully destructable environment ?

  • We just killed a punk. She had an oozie. Now I have two guys with oozies!

  • I remember when I first played the demo I had my guys running out of the building with the scientist to get to the car I had parked out the front. The Zealots flew in but I had the Electron Mace too and made short work of them.

    Then in an unrepeatable moment of hardware straining slow-motion they careened into the pyramid as the bomb I left inside earlier exploded simultaneously. My getaway car driving triumphantly away from the shockwave as I fist pumped.

  • @NewcastleGrind

    Shortly after as I made it back to base, a 2nd flying car swooped in and gunned my boys down before they got in the door. A poetic end to a perfect 10min of gameplay.

  • Cool move!

    Pretty cool game :D

  • Syndicate Wars can be exactly like what gta is now point

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  • Very good! Reminds me how much I miss Syndicate Wars. We need another one, nao!

  • Starbreeze is making a Syndicate game. They made Riddick and The Darkness (both FPS). Before those they made 3rd person action games.

    Syndicate can only be a point and click game like it was back then, or a shooter. And what do people like right about now? Shooters, so that's what it's gonna be. And Starbreeze have produced successful first person games, making it an FPS.

  • @SuckItLily I thought project Redlime wasn't 100% confirmed if it was a Syndicate game or not yet? Where did you read that because i have been trying to dig more info up on it.

    Your right on the FPS thing though. I'm thinking a FPS in a GTA style sandbox environment.

  • @supafly1983 They copyrighted some stuff and even a supposed script has been leaked. It is just a rumour but to me it seems like a safe bet.

  • nice retro review

  • Jesus Fuck.. Its the terminator.. with a Gatling gun..

  • "Everybody's life is cheap. Including your own." As an emo, I'm going to remember that quote.

  • They have pruple robes and red robes not hairs but ok.

  • what is up with ultra fast gamespeed, is that normal?

  • @OBSysteme Ultra fast on a modern day system on low detail settings. High detail makes the game a lot more manageable and prettier.

  • ENDO-skeleton.

  • I would love to see a new syndicate game for the iphone / ipad, I thinkthat the touch controls would be very suitable for this kind of game.

  • I can't get the guns & body parts to appear in the game (when buy'n & sell'n). I hear the 'scan' sound, but it just repeats.

  • The best menu presentation and animation in a game ever.

  • This is where "proprietary", "patent" and "digital rights management" will lead to.

    This game is HUGE ahead of the time.

    With information being privitized and electronics working as black boxes, no wonder we expect THIS kind of future in 120 years.

    I love linux <3

  • i wanna see mission on moon

  • @RobloxTixMan I've been there. ;)

  • Someone should remake this game ^^

  • @Bartreligion i think somebody is doing exactly that atm...

  • @PlaySyndicateNews Yeah, I just read that Starbreeze is doing a 'reinvention' of the series.

    Since Starbreeze makes FPS games, I wonder if they're gonna do it like X-Com. Turn it into a some sort of FPS.

  • @PlaySyndicateNews

    Are you company representative or you will be making it on your own?

    What platforms do you target? Will you use SDL and or OpenGL?

  • Cool vid thanks for sharing, I think I'll have to give this game a go. My brother used to play it but I was too young to figure out how it works :)

  • @VidrianGames

    The Unguided are the third fraction in the game.

    They are headed by 1 or more scientists.

    I think it was one of those gone out of control.

    I heard a rumor that you can play them if you

    complete the game with either the syndicate or

    the church.

    Maybe you even have to complete both.

  • VidrianGames you don't really know the game.

    The Unguided are the third fraction in the game.

    They are headed by 1 or more scientists.

    I think it was one of those gone out of control.

    I heard a rumor that you can play them if you

    complete the game with ether the syndicate or

    the church.

    Maybe you even have to complete both.

  • @jangirke sorry, they were the third faction but did't made it into the final version. To play them- that's possible- you have to unlock every single mission by hand, there are guides in the web. But there is no campaign for them in the game. I speak to you as a person that finished both campaigns. :)

  • They need to make another cyberpunk game like this. By now the best that came out in this genre are the Deus Ex 1 & 2 And the third game is comming soon :)

  • Sounds like our future.

  • they don't make video/computer games like this anymore

  • I always loved blowing up banks for money ; ).

  • I uploaded a video with some glitches and bugs of it.

  • ... and blow it up MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHa

  • cooper team is where it's at!

  • There is a version of syndicate for sega genesis and a better version of this one for ps1. This game is really fun , i played it on amiga , pc , genesis and ps1 lol.

  • I loved this game up to the mission in Hawaii/Honolulu which still haunts me to this day. Oh and the second to last mission for the Coroporation.

    Still an awesome game though. Way ahead of its time.

  • @tkhushrenada I had trouble with honolulu too.

    but I learnt to just spam the trigger wire on the roads, and lure them in haha

  • @filostyliZticZ Yes, rows and rows of triggerwire and LR Rifles were a staple for me in later levels.

  • @filostyliZticZ Rows and rows of razorwire at a chokepoint and LR rifles were a staple of mine at later levels ;)

  • This game has atmosphere 

  • For everyone thinking of buying this game, DO IT! it is one of the best games of all time! He also have the graphics on low detail so it looks a lot better than it does here :-)

  • @LachoDroogie That's true; I couldn't capture the video at high detail at full frame rate, so this video only shows the game's low detail (320x200) setting. The high detail version runs at 640x480.

  • @ViridianGames "L. R. RIFLE!"

    Sorry mate, just had to say it. I grew up playing this game but could only play during the holidays when my mum would bring a laptop home (we have had macs all our life and it didnt run on macs). I bought it off ebay a few months ago and have been running it on my mac through a program called 'boxer', I think i might have to crack it out again this afternoon hehe, one of the best computer games of all time!!!!

  • @ViridianGames

    A new syndicate wars is on the way acording to wikipedia. I played this game to death on the ps1, cracking! Lets hope we see a great new installment into a fantastic series.

  • @ViridianGames wow your pc must be shit.

  • @LachoDroogie no syndicate wars sucks... syndicate was one of the best games ever... but syndicate wars just sucked so bad, thats why it didnt have so much ports anyway.. dont listen to him, dont buy it, he probably sells the game... syndicate wars sucks... just look at it syndicate was portet to nearly every system but syndicate wars not, why?? also after syndicate wars no sequels came because it was so bad

  • Great vid! I loved the first Syndicate game but never got in to the second one.

  • Thanks, great video!

  • awesome video. very informative. i remember wanting this game sooo bad when i was a little kid, but alas i never got it. makes me cry. here's to hoping gog will sign with EA some time soon

  • have to admire that game engine, which bullfrog also used for Deungeon Keeper. Like how the cars in this game were also from Bullfrog's own High Octane race game (which was sadly rubbish)

  • You shouldn't use agent 1 for both the electron mace and persuadatron, also, use the persuadatron to get human shields before going to persuade the scientists..

  • Baldur's Gate style gameplay in a Blade Runner setting? AWESOME.

  • I want to play this again but on pc how would i go about getting and it getting it too play with sound as well?

  • @nuroe1

    I just played it under XP with sound and all the stuff. Works perfectly under DosBox. For the music: I just ripped the CD's audio tracks as mp3s and played them in Winamp while playing.

  • @nuroe1 The game is easily enough found on Amazon or ebay. I am on a mac and and running it through a program called 'bullfrog'. Since games like this have a cult following, any problems you may encounter could probably be solved by just going online and looking up a forum. Get this game mate, i promise you that you will enjoy it!

  • ohh man I so rember this game, many great times playing it. I rember one mission where you had to sneak on tp a dump truck to get into a building and then blow it up .. but have to get out befor it does :D

    I so need to get this game again .. anyone know where I can get it from.. shareware maybe?

  • @PoppieXL ebay or amazon

  • Well thank you for Uploading,i have a really really great time with that game,long time ago :)

    its a really amasing game

    I wish a remake of it

  • Thats great game. Awsome work!

  • excellent commentary

  • really good cyberpunk game

  • Syndicate wars still has the most badass GUI ever. Needs GTK engine!!! Would really LOVE to see it on linux!

  • Can you please do a complete walkthrough? Also, can civilians pick up weapons and use them as hitmen, like the original Syndicate game?

  • Lots of persuaded folks make good body shields.

  • Both syndicate games where som awsome at it time..

    spent alot of hours playing both games..

  • It's fun how the 2D sprites in this game looked worse than in the original.

    But the 3D maps where nice. At least in the SVGA mode.

  • You should have activated your shield and pumped them full of red mist

  • just wondering what you are using to run this?

    ive had it running with dosbox but im unsure what to set the cpu cycles to so its the correct speed, plus whenever i do set that it seems to reset them every level change

  • Yup, way!!!!

    Side Meier and Fireaxis are also working on a new X-Com turn based strategy game too!!!! :)

  • EA is working on a new Syndicate game.

  • Proof. Now.

  • If you can't be bothered to read the news items on gaming sites, I am not going to be your slave!!!!

  • Fail.

    : (

  • Lazy. Found google news items in 5 seconds....

  • With no original people from synciate or bullworking working on it, and with the general low quality rushed releases of EA... great.

  • I am thinking the same way - but at least hoping I may be wrong. After all, Fallout 3 turned out better than I thought it would be!

  • EA bugs? It's in the game!

  • They should do a 3rd person perspective remake of this game, it is awsome!

    Love the fire graphics as well in this game

  • ur reaction at the end is soo funny ;DDD

    nice vid :* reminds me @ looong nights :D

  • *_*

  • lol you got owned at the end - didnt expect that. :x

  • Reckon they could do a GTA III style remake... FPS or TPS... the intro looked quite neat with that style...

  • This game would be great both in a Gta style remake and FPS :D

  • This needs a massive UPDATE & remake for the modern stage. It was a game I use to play all the time back in the day.lol

  • @SteveBrownOfficial

    Starbreeze is probably working on a new version of it, its rumored 2011.

  • @zauii89 I hope it blast's back onto the game stage in a massive way. It was a great classic game on the Amiga 500. Push that PS3 to it's graphic limit. Maybe have a view point change ie:From the sky to the FPS view.

  • @SteveBrownOfficial no they should remake the first syndicate... syndicate wars was just bad

  • This game will forever be in my heart.. thank you for posting.

  • Syndicate Wars remake anyone?

  • Yes please !!

  • @conyo985 fuck ya!!

  • @conyo985 I would love it. I want it!

  • @conyo985 no syndicate remake.. syndicate wars just sucked

  • did you play the game in ultra fast?

    Dude i love the game, i have still the original CD+CDCAse with the metal head on it.

    You can still play the game and the demo with dos-box but dude you need to slow down the game with Ctrl+F8 and Ctrl-F12 you need to do that!

  • Love this :P

    I remember in the first map i think ^^

    if u got one of thoese things so u can control ppl and you got some ppl u control with u on a platform :P u could play a nice game ^^

  • this is much like cannon fodder

  • I loved how this game was very realistic in that you can kill people very fast but at the same time you can die fast too.

  • awesome game, i was always the mighty Eurocorp

    some of those levels were so hard to beat when you get swamped by like a million punks and ten cars all coming at you like rutger hauer.

    also in this game if you pay attention to the video screens you can see the porny trailer for ghost in the shell and that other game dungeon keeper... haha!

  • me 2 and same with everyone else who wasn't superhuman, geez playing the church was so incredibly difficult

  • I loved the The Church of the New Epoch, I always liked playing as them. At first I thought they were the supposed 'good guys' that wanted to take down Ero Corp Syndicate. Due that in the beginning you feel that the Church was out to show the people what the Syndicate really is, later on however.

    To take one life is sin. To take a thousand is religion.

    Bravery will take you into the most dangerous of places. Overwhelming firepower will see you safely through them.

    - The Book of Cataclysm.

  • man, still looks good after all these years. The load-out screens look better than a lot of much newer games.

  • IT IS TOO FAST

  • Lol I never really understood this game, I used to just shoot stuff.

  • yeah whe i played this they dint run that fast

  • Wow, this game looks really awesome, I really like the graphics too, you can tell they'd have been really impressive back in the day

  • actually, back in the day the graphics are what turned most people off about this game. Even at the time people complained about how everything including the characters looked pixelated. It was a time when 3D accelerators were just gaining ground. For some reason Bullfrog didn't put any resources into taking advantage of any of the latest 3D hardware. It was almost too ambitious for it's time. If it was released a year or 2 later it could have been mind blowing.

  • hmm, interesting. I still like the way it looks though.

  • These people run waaay too fast. I remember back the first game the city seemed a little less jerky and people didn't zip around like they were on a sugar rush.

    It looks like it could have been an ok game but the people look shitty, and the city is a little too closed in on itself to permit the ole birds eye angle

    None of that chip story stuff makes any sense either since there are TV screens and neon signs everywhere... so who are they targeted at if the people can't even see them????

  • A chance to do some tongue-in-cheek promos for the gamer. hehe

  • I agree that the gameplay, and the isometric 3D of the original, though less fancy, was more pleasant. As for the story of these chips, I don't see your plot hole. I think it makes little sense to assume that the chips somehow directly modify the visual perceptions of those implanted with it. More likely, the chips work by modifying people's emotional state, making them happy and content, an effect rather like what one might achieve through the use of anti-depressant drugs, only more potent.

  • I disagree, in the cut scene at the start priot to the manfunctioning chip, the world is clearly a very diffrent place..

  • Nice video mate!

    I used to love that game - seeing it and hearing it again brings it all back :)

  • And...?

  • Do you HAVE to say? Must you?

  • *shrugs*

    he just sounds like a guy talking about Syndicate Wars to me.

  • Curse you laser-wielding spider drones! Aah, fond memories, good times...

  • I thought I had played this game. Looks absolutely amazing for the time. I guess it was just the original I played. Anyway, thanks for the vid, very cool stuff.

  • Great overview of a great game! You forgot to mention how stupidly hard it was to get the DOS Extender to even run it though ;).

    Also, EA are currently funding a new Syndicate game but I don't think Lionhead (formerly Bullfrog) are involved.

  • i played this game when i was 4... an i can still remember blowing up those buildings with some kind of bomb w/c explodes maybe 9x?...

  • I remember being disappointed by the lack of detail in the graphics for this demo back when I first got it, so I didn't bother getting the game. Part of my problem was I felt like I was less in control than before, having to mess with the camera. Looks like the missions were crazy detailed, though. I had no idea.

  • would love an updated version for 360 along with seious sam and bruce lee!!!

  • isnt it possible to run any dos emulator (e.g. dosbox) on xbox/xbox360?

  • best game ever they have 2 make a new 1 for the ps3 it would blow u away if done right

  • This game is siiiiiiiiiiiiiick. I want a sequel for ps3 or something.

  • where download this game plz some body i try on syntiate wars website i downloaded demo 12 m

    and when i download i goo to play setup i want log in than it lagg off plz some body tell where download normali

  • seems to run a bit fast?!

  • Fucken greatest game ever. Great story idea. Imagine what they could do with this these days.

  • i loved this game ^^ they should make a sequel!

  • I thought Syndicate1 was a bit better. Mostly because SW,when it came out,I though was a bit blocky,even if it was "state or the art" back then.

    But there where a few things that bugged me about this game.Most important one to me was the you couldnt select everyone to hide there weapons. You had to do it one at the time. This was tedious and resulted in that you just killed every cop instead...,unlike S1.

    You can get the PSX version on PSP now from the Sony store.Its a bit more arcady than PC.

  • actually, you can, if u have grouped hte units... if u right click on the gun... all the gruoped agents will select or deselect their weapons~

  • Also if u played it at 640 res the graphics were very crisp I thought, back then at any rate

  • I loved Syndicate on the Amiga (and the American missions). I've never had a PC that can run the DOSbox version (1.9 gig and its not enough to play these old games! Oh, the irony..) - so got the Playstation version.. Its ok but feels more like an action game (with the pad), you also don't have as much control over your weapons as a mouse driven game (instead of shooting where the mouse is pointing your men just shoot in the general direction - it feels a bit loose in comparison).

  • Can you save this game whenever you want? It's on the PS Store and that's what made me find this vid.If it can be saved whenever, I will buy it.

  • I have the PSP version and you can only save between missions. But you can always just turn your PSP off to "save state".

    The controls for the PSP version are good. Just use Setup 2, not the default since it thinks you have two thumbs on your left hand lol.

  • does anybody know any game such interesting like this? but it must be played on 2 Ghz

    i tryed to play this with dos box

  • i wish my game want play fluent. but dosbox dont work fine :(

  • I love this, it was so before its time. Barb wire, robbing banks, fucking shit hot. Could never completer it though. Last level

  • If anyone enjoy the PSX version of Syndicate Wars like I did, my friend and I are about to submit a in depth FAQ at GameFAQS for this game. There is currently only one written FAQ for the PSX version already there, but the one I been working on is MUCH better. Do you have a lot knowledge or questions about the PSX version? Please send a PM to me and I'll like to hear it.

  • Syndicate is one of the greatest games of all time and though this game is not as good it is still brilliant!!!

  • haha i love the first one, but it was hell long ago when i played the game... i am not afan with dosbox its to complicated :(.

  • i remember when i was a kid playing this at my friends house it put in a code that u could get evry gun it was awesome we were blowing up shit with the "graviton gun" omg! and setting razor wire traps i still rember that code - " pooslice"

  • omg, i really love this game, i have been searching it for long time. I used to play it alot when i was still little...eheheh

    anyway where can i download this game again? does it still work on winXP?

  • I've finished Syndicate SNES, never heard of this !! NEED TO PLAY THIS ! lol. When the bank exploded I was like "damn.... !!"

  • this is the best game ever..... but i like ti better on the ps1, controls are way better and the screen is zoomed out further so you can see what is ahead of you..

    great video

  • a very good game!

    i almost finished syndicate 1!

    i had syndicate 2. but it was much harder

    nice review

  • You so would have had it if you had given the Electron mace to number 3.

    But it's all good.

    Great video : )

  • I really only had the chance to play the SNES version.

    I played the PS version when it came out, but only as a rental and couldn't afford (or later find) the game to really invest the amount of time I wanted into it.

  • What a great game¡¡¡. I have downloaded this game on iso but i have a problem, the game goes too fast and is imposible to play it . I think is because of the computer system and this is an old game . Anyone have the same problem? , somebody know any solution for this problem?. Thanks

  • Are you running it on a emulator? they normaly have speed settings

  • A month late, but you want to google DOSbox.

  • Hah, good video! This actually looks better than I remember!

  • nice nice game man =DD very funny =PPPPP

  • BEST GAME OVER

  • I would like to see a gameplay-demo with somebody blowing up some... what do say in english... lamps, lights?

    The exploding environment made SYNDICATE WARS exciting. Very nice demonstration!

  • This game seems sickkkk- like an action game rts....and rpg....

  • hahah i was a weird kid.

    loved playin this n listenin to KMFDM.