Syndicate, fuckers.

[DarkPenfold]

No, not the shitty-looking FPS 'reimagining'. The original 1993 classic has just been re-released on Good Old Games.


Making friends and assassinating people


Time out for a barbecue


Barbecue gets out of hand


Bonus: how this looked on the humble Amiga 500 almost 20 years ago. Marvel at the power of 512k of RAM!

Many TMHers probably won't remember when the original came out - ahh, the summer of '93, Ace of Base and UB40 in the charts, Jurassic Park dominating the silver screen, and pubescent power fantasies deliver'd via four mechanised agents armed with curiously phallic Gauss Guns - but dammit this needs your attention, if only so that you don't associate the name with EA's unfathomable 2012 cash-in.

Sure, it's probably* available via less-legitimate means, but if you can spare the princely sum of $6 and want to experience a weird fusion of shoot-'em-up and real-time strategy, I highly recommend trying this out.



* almost certainly**

** oh just Google it

[Zirconium Blade]

Sweeeet. I actuqlly missed the first one and only played Wars on PSone. Hope they re release that too. But totally going to grab this.

[WHEATLEY007]

"All that she wants, is just another baby - she's gone tomorrow, but allllllll that she wants"


Missed this game as no one I knew had a PC and it wasnt available for the SNES. Feck - this was years ago.

[Buglunch]

X-Com with fedoras?

[DarkPenfold]

X-Com with fedoras?

Not quite, no. X-Com (or, as it's properly known, UFO: Enemy Unknown) is turn-based. Syndicate is realtime, albeit with a minor world-map strategy section tacked on where you direct research funding and set taxation levels for the territories you've taken over. Tax 'em too much and they'll revolt, but all that means is you'll need to replay that territory's particular mission to win it back.