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Well I hope this one kicks ass.

Remember Haze? Futuristic soldiers hopped up on drugs. Look how that turned out. Tho admittedly that wasn't the biggest problem with haze.

*Chuckles* 

I enjoyed the original and I do believe fully customizable cybernetically and drug enhanced agents can be awesome.  The big question is would it still be a 3rd person isometric view game or a 3rd/1st person shooter?  If you kept it more tactical and less twitchy I think it'd be cool and worth getting.  I don't think it'd do well in the saturated FPS market. 

I've never heard of Syndicate before, so this news has no impact on me.

I hope it is totally goofy and all 80's scifi action movie esque.  I never played the original game...or games...obviously I don't know much about it or them either.  However I've picked up a few details from this beautiful site you've got here and it sounds really cool.  I might go back and try to play it or them but I find a lot of the great pc games of yesteryear just don't translate so well to modern times, heck I even have trouble playing PS2 and Xbox games anymore.

It's a shame the original team couldn't make this... but if it turns out to be true starbreeze is a good fit.

Never played Syndicate, but I think I played Syndicate Wars a bit. Don't remember much from it though.

i remember playing the original syndicate on my old 286.  there was a cool research function that let you upgrade to better body parts/weapons/tools (like the hypnotize tool that let you get a mob of civilians to fight with you).  anyway the research function would continue to build in progress ass long as you played the game or atleast left it in the menu in real time.  i would leave the game on all day while at school to maximize my squad.  great game.  don't know if it could be updated well.. like another poster said it would prrobably need to be in an isometric 3rd person still.  you could atleast make it real 3d with a movable camera though.  i dunno...

The only thing I distinctly remember about Syndicate was that it was mad hard.

Yeah! Syndicate Wars. Make it happen. I remember there was this port to the DS(?) some years ago, part of a EA classic games compilation or something. Did anyone try it?

If they tone down the game with some happy stuff or like, stuff where you can be nice or something, this game is a goner! Syndicate is about owning the world and controlling everyone living in it. Everyone who opposes you, dies!

More Syndicate!

The theme is possibly darker than most of the stuff out now, but I'm not sure you'll be able to have the part of the game where you wander around in a building without seeing what the little dude sees.  Maybe they'll have headcams, and line of sight similar to a tactics game? 

What?

Syndicate games were pretty cool back then but really now..they will need some pretty major changes to even withstand the competition in the genre