Syndicate

Description

In the future, the world is controlled by a handful of global corporations (syndicates). You are the Marketing director (hit man) for one of these companies. It is your job to take control away from the competitors. The job is not one of diplomacy, but one of brute force and physical control. Advance your way to the top of the corporation by successfully completing your missions and managing the money you make from your territories.

The gameplay is visually reminiscent of X-Com, with an angled top-down perspective, but it is real time rather than turn based. You have missions ranging from infiltrate and capture, to seek and destroy. In each of these you direct a team of four agents as they move through the world shooting at anything that gets in their way.

You can upgrade and modify your agents, as well as equip them with tools you have researched or liberated from opposing syndicates. As you complete missions, you gain more funds to use for purchasing agents or researching upgrades and equipment.

Alternate Titles

• "Higher Functions" -- Working title
• "BOB" -- Working title

Part of the Following Group

• Syndicate series

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User Reviews

Another classic Bullfrog game, this time set in a cool cyberpunk dystopia.	DOS	Evan Kerr (10)
Bullfrog’s Masterpiece	DOS	saladpuncher (21)
Very good and sometimes very frustrating game	DOS	phlux (4157)
Interesting at First, then Repetative	DOS	Tony Van (2707)
Simply The Best	DOS	Tony Chaplin (1)
It left a great taste in my mouth........ for almost 8 years.	DOS	oh noz (5)
Perhaps one of the most addictive action/strategy games of all time...	DOS	tritium4ever (33)
An excellent and innovative game.	DOS	Tomer Gabel (4476)
An original, addictive game...	DOS	Brian Hirt (9991)

The Press Says

CU Amiga	Amiga	Aug, 1993	94 out of 100	94
CU Amiga	Amiga CD32	Jun, 1995	91 out of 100	91
Amiga Power	Amiga	Aug, 1993	91 out of 100	91
AmigaInfo	Amiga CD32	Aug, 1996	8 out of 10	80
Video Games & Computer Entertainment	Jaguar	Apr, 1995	8 out of 10	80
High Score	Macintosh	Aug, 1994	4 out of 5	80
Game Players	Jaguar	Apr, 1995	78 out of 100	78
Video Games & Computer Entertainment	3DO	Sep, 1995	7 out of 10	70
Sega-16.com	Genesis	Oct 29, 2009	6 out of 10	60
Video Games & Computer Entertainment	Genesis	Feb, 1995	6 out of 10	60

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Trivia

Bullfrog did a special feature with UK games mag PC Format, at the time ('93) in which they wrote a C Programming tutorial based on some of the Syndicate code. The tutorial involved using the internal graphics libraries from Syndicate to animate and move agents on the screen. Although the C tutorial was largely useless it was a fairly interesting read for those interested in the way Bullfrog operated.