Not-Very-Butch Cassidy and the Midnight Kid
17-01-04
Ah, Syndicate. God of games, GOD I tell you. Peter Molyneux may have stunned people with Black & White, but Syndicate was a world beater.
I'm telling you, give someone the chance to work that concept into a TV series... paranoid future where shadowy mob-like Syndicates secretly rule, bribing, persuading and shooting their way to the top of the heap. The bleak, wasted architecture that felt like all my 1984s come at once. The joy of gunning some twat down with miniguns on full auto, or shooting a politician's wife through the head with a long range rifle from a rooftop on the other side of the city.
And that last final suicide dash on the Atlantic Accelerator... four agents under your control versus wave after wave after wave of mad bastard agents with miniguns, gauss guns, and a metric shitload of uzis.
If it wouldn't get me sued, I'd fuck this all off tomorrow and start a Syndicate webcomic instead.