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User Rating: 7 | Syndicate PC
Syndicate is a high tech first person shooter (Single player campaign). All the people are installed with Dart chip in their heads or you can say they are programmed for what tasks each one has to perform. It is 2069 New York.

You play as Kilo; mute soldier, going against his own company Euro corp. He has been installed with a chip so we can see an advanced HUD on the screen.


The game-play is somewhat different. You can hack systems, robots and kill enemies via wireless transmission using DART overlay chip which is displayed on the screen. There are three special skills suicide, backfire, persuade which you can operate easily using a button on the enemies in combat.

The guns feel nice (solid) while shooting, the impact of fast paced shooter easily experienced. Many guns have two modes of shooting one normal and second as sniper or any other. You get upgrade points when you extract chip from the head of the target. There are different kinds of enemies some are normal, immune: so first hack them, and then shoot them otherwise their health wont decrease. Third are with mini, electric gun and the invisible ones.

The boss fights are hard on normal mode. You cannot use the special skills during boss fights, only dart overlay ability. To defeat bosses you may require many rounds of bullets with precise aiming.


The mouse controls are really smooth in this game. Only one button i.e. 'F' is used for many actions suggests that it is a console port.


The graphics for PC are sharp & colorful. You will get a good frame rate if you have a good configuration.
The only fault in graphics is the bloom effect. The eyes really pain if we play more than an hour continuously on pc. The motion blur effect can be turned off by tweaking the config file. By this at least you can complete the game and have fun.