This marks the scientist as someone to watch, and while you're assigned to monitor the scientist, you are swept up in a much larger conflict. You'll also encounter a number of agents like yourself who work for other corporations, and these encounters are usually represented by the occasional boss fight.Īs the game begins, you are embroiled in treason at the hands of a lead scientist for EuroCorp, who is apparently selling secrets to another company, Cayman Global. They employ multiple agents like your character to do so, and you'll interact with them at various points in the story. Most corporations engage in espionage and outright murder to keep themselves ahead of the game and their secrets safe. There's a subset of human society that isn't chipped, and because of that, they're off the grid and cannot interact with the majority of the world.Īs an agent for EuroCorp, you're involved in all sorts of nasty business. People have become so hardwired to tech that they're chipped with a device that allows them to interact to a certain degree with most electronics. In the near distant future, corporations like EuroCorp have essentially replaced governments. The story revolves around an agent working for a global corporation called EuroCorp. There are definitely elements that stand out as great, like the online co-op mechanic, but the single-player campaign feels a little flat and uninspired. It's certainly a fun shooter, but it really lacks what I'd call the Starbreeze touch in comparison to their previous releases. Syndicate doesn't stand out to me quite as much.

Some of the game sequences that are burned into my memory involve no real action, and that's saying something when it comes to video games.

The Darkness, on the other hand, stood out because of how well it handled the quiet moments more so than the actual shooting. It was a pretty unique console game at the time and remains so today. Riddick was noteworthy for its mix of traditional FPS gunplay and heavy stealth mechanics that allowed room for improvisation. I'm a pretty big fan of Starbreeze's efforts in both games.

Syndicate 2012 review