Anyone in the know have any concept of how long the single player campaign will be? The world and wubwubwubdubstep music look cool enough to spend more than a few hours in hack-suiciding corporate drones. Starbreeze has created some pretty lengthy and entertaining campaigns, and I'm really hoping they've brought that to Syndicate.

I don't know either, but I'm hoping it will be a nice, lengthy game.

I have a feeling its going to be short and linear.

@falserelic said:

I have a feeling its going to be short and linear.

Don't be crazy. This is a game made in 2012...oh wait... :(

@falserelic said:

I have a feeling its going to be short and linear.

What makes you think that? Is it Starbreeze's track record of having a decently lengthy and typically very good single player campaign in their games...or just because there's an EA logo on the box?

@jakob187: I just feel like nowadays alot of shooters ends up being short, and alot of shooters feels the same. But that's just my opinion.

Maximum 4 hours.

@jakob187 said:

@falserelic said:

I have a feeling its going to be short and linear.

What makes you think that? Is it Starbreeze's track record of having a decently lengthy and typically very good single player campaign in their games...or just because there's an EA logo on the box?

Haven't the GB staff said many times that the crew at Starbreeze now aren't the crew of old? Something about them leaving and creating a different studio, so the people staffing Starbreeze now are like a new entity. I guess only time will tell.

Jim Sterling on twitter said 6 hours. He also didn't seem very impressed.

Here's a more recent tweet talking about the story/ending: Jim SterlingJimSterling

Ali_Hayas It's just ... there, for the most part. One of the most "okay" games you could play.

@Zacagawea said:

Jim Sterling on twitter said 6 hours. He also didn't seem very impressed.

Here's a more recent tweet talking about the story/ending: Jim SterlingJimSterling

Ali_Hayas It's just ... there, for the most part. One of the most "okay" games you could play.

But Jeff is really enjoying it. So I'll take his word over Jim Sterling.

@Barrock said:

@Zacagawea said:

Jim Sterling on twitter said 6 hours. He also didn't seem very impressed.

Here's a more recent tweet talking about the story/ending: Jim SterlingJimSterling

Ali_Hayas It's just ... there, for the most part. One of the most "okay" games you could play.

But Jeff is really enjoying it. So I'll take his word over Jim Sterling.

Yeah, I just read his twitter feed after I posted that. Gives me some hope!

Confirmed: 4/5 for GB and 4/10 for Destructoid.

About six hours.

Read 4-6h.

I bought OG Syndicate on GOG instead.

I bought OG Syndicate on GOG instead.

@niamahai said:

@Jimbo said:

I bought OG Syndicate on GOG instead.

oh you so rebel!

Word.

@Jimbo said:

I bought OG Syndicate on GOG instead.

Now that's a 4 hour campaign, tops.

@Jimbo said:

I bought OG Syndicate on GOG instead.

Now that's a 4 hour campaign, tops.

Hopefully pretty short. Too many games to play right now.

this is one reason why Deus Ex was one of if not THE best FPS and RPG of 2011

I seen the ign review of this game. They said it was short and the co-op is the best thing about the game.

I don't care how long it is, I just hope it's good. I'd rather play a great, short game than a long boring one that overstays it's welcome.

@jakob187 said:

@falserelic said:

I have a feeling its going to be short and linear.

What makes you think that? Is it Starbreeze's track record of having a decently lengthy and typically very good single player campaign in their games...or just because there's an EA logo on the box?

Ahem.

Riddicks takes like, 5 hours tops to beat. Masterpiece though, but super duper short.

To me dropping 60 dollars on a short game with little content isn't worth it. I can see myself getting bored of it quickly. I rather wait for a price drop.

Kotaku somehow finished it in 15 hours ?!? What were they doing running on the spot or something.

@fivegreenaliens said:

this is one reason why Deus Ex was one of if not THE best FPS and RPG of 2011

Yeah everytime I think about that game I remember just how awesome it was. If it wasnt for those boss fights it would have been even better. If anything it makes me really excited to see where they go from here because you know they are going to make another one eventually.

Jeff says 6 hours

Jeff's review is up the on site now, he said it is around 6 hours, and he seemed to enjoy it quite a bit.

@NTM said:

About six hours.

That's about how long it took me.

Is this a legit single player campaign or will it feel like L4D single player, where the AI of my team makes me want stab myself in the eyes? In other words, is it really a co-op game that they allow you to play by yourself?

@BionicRadd said:

Is this a legit single player campaign or will it feel like L4D single player, where the AI of my team makes me want stab myself in the eyes? In other words, is it really a co-op game that they allow you to play by yourself?

Its a full on legit singleplayer campaign. The co-op is a completely seperate beast.

@Tennmuerti said:

@BionicRadd said:

Is this a legit single player campaign or will it feel like L4D single player, where the AI of my team makes me want stab myself in the eyes? In other words, is it really a co-op game that they allow you to play by yourself?

Its a full on legit singleplayer campaign. The co-op is a completely seperate beast.

My interest in this just went up. sweet.

The campaign, altough short, is pretty good i felt. I failed miserably at the boss fights, and didn't actually beat the last one (gave up) but I'm afraid that says more about me than the game. I did feel like the campaign gave me good action, and lots if situation where you feel like a badass, and the combat is really fluid.

It was ok, forgettable story, short campaign but the action did get real sexy, oh yeah

7.5