Syndicate revamp coming in early 2012

Bringing it back as a shooter... Way to be so painfully obvious EA. This effectively kills any interest I had in the revamp. Damn, even I thought you had a bit more creativity in you than this.

It seems that all classic franchises a being turned into FPS shooters not really related to the old games (mechanics wise), XCOM and now Syndicate. I am pretty sure they are solid FPS games but it's a shame that no developer seems to be able to create games that are visceral and gory and still tense and exciting. Anyhow, this is on my radar now.

"Electronic Arts bringing classic PC action-strategy series back as a shooter for PS3, Xbox 360, and PC" ... I think i threw up a bit in my mouth. Another PC game to be turned into a consolized piece of garbage generic shooter on the PC. JUST WHAT WE NEED!!

Hey that Command and Conquer FPS was fun, right??

Just one response to this : face meet palm. Why just why!?

Geez. Cry me a river...

First X-Com,and now this?What the hell is wrong with strategy games turning in to shooters?

@Crash_WL, When you say, "keep on hating EA, it's the current trend," do you mean that nobody genuinely hates the company? They actually like Electronic Arts but are saying they don't because they've been seduced by some bandwagon hate campaign? Is that what you do? Is everything you like and don't like based on trends? Maybe you do the opposite? If it's popular to hate something, you pretend you like it?

MightyWings: The difference there is that Red Faction changed from an average, so-so shooter to a good 3rd person game. Simply put- RF was stagnating and had to try something different to revive itself. But with Syndicate, you already have a truly massive and immersive set-up which kept you hooked for years. EA are potentially sacrificing that most appealing part of the game and rolling the dice on the complete gamble of a genre change where it isn't strictly warranted. I don't want to remember Syndicate as the same average, so-so shooter that Red Faction once was.

Awesome! Can't wait for more RTS games to be horribly mutilated and pressed into generic shooters that don't stand out in the current market of generic shooters!

When I read this news I was initially excited, until I read that they're turning it into an FPS. Here's the deal, I love FPS' and I own a lot of them. But the reason Syndicate was fun, was because it was an RTS strategy game. I'm sorry, but we already have a Deus Ex, Syndicate is obviously trying to bite off of that pie.

I played Syndicate Wars on PSOne. What i dont get is how an you be sure this is going to be a FPS. Red faction changed from FPS to Thired person and came up with two good games. Soo maybe this is just going to a thrid person shooter like resident evil searies with AI partners or players. Dont think that will be bad. Yeah for any smartmouths out there i know they sacked red faction series :P

pardon?

Im with Chemical-mix and FoeCrusher. Syndicate and Syndicate Wars was cool because they were a different kind of game with a different kind of strategy involved. If you are going to turn it into another FPS then you should "move along" the dumb idea and if you think it might work you should "keep moving" past the really dumb idea. I give great big farts and poop sounds for this idea.

Hmm I find it irritating and a clear indication that these developers are lazy that they would stick to FPS despite the series origins being in top down. Unwise move, as you set to likely piss off all the former fans of the series EA.

Well it doesn't say it's going to be a First Person shooter. It just says it's going to be an action shooter so just have faith and cross your fingers the game won't turn into one of those.

Bah! another pointless shooter. Unlike fallout which basically was a top down turn based shooter, Syndicate was an RTS. So its transition to an FPS is basically making an entirely different game. Just like X-com (may it fail horrendously) you don't need to piggyback on old idea that new gamers will never have played and older gamers will resent. Hello game developers there are other types of games that can be made! Anyone listening? Well we all know the answer to that is no. @M-S-M-S you are right the opening movie was one of the creepiest I am disgusted.

Hmmm. As a massive fan of the originals, i'm not sure if FPS is the way to take this series. Already huge, established competition in that market. I reckon that maybe a far-zoom, quasi-tactical shooter would have been a better way forward. Or even just a straight upgrade of the original. Instead, they are going to be effectively starting from scratch, switching the very genre of the game. It may end up destroying the very thing that made Syndicate great. I wish them all the best, but i'm warily hedging my bets with "wait and see" with this one...

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooo ..... .... .... HOW COULD THEY!!!

Whatever EA touches,turns to $h!t,sooner or later.I hate them more than any gaming company.I havent played these Syndicate games,but if I did,I would be really dissapointed by turning a RTS into some stupid FPS like all of you ppl here are.We have more than enough of FPS games lately,and almost all are mediocre copies of one another.Its been quite some time since I truly enjoyed playing an FPS game,but I must admit,I loved Hard Reset demo,guess I will buy it when it comes out(tomorrow).

Nuclear hand grenades all the way!!! Just a shame it's going to be a FPS. Would be much better if they continued with the Syndicate and Syndicate Wars style of gameplay.

oooohhh yeahhhh !!! i doubled my age since the days i last played it !

Yay another FPS, we dont have enough of those already!

Never played it, but it seemed like a interesting RTS... oh well another dumbed-down shooter for the masses!!

FPS, such a shame. were really missing decent rush-free RTS titles these days.

The first Syndicate was amazing. I remember playing this, and how shocked I was by the graphics, sound (still amazing till today) and gameplay. Who can forget the opening movie. I hope EA won't be so greedy and bring this game to Steam.

LAME. It's too bad that developers try to appeal the masses and continued to create FPS after FPS in already over saturated FPS market. IMO it would be nice if a game company decided to release a classic RTS, instead of making an FPS, they should try to make an RTS that is console worthy.

I never played the originals, so I don't know what I am supposed to be missing, but this change to its genre doesn't bother me, considering this would be my first exposure to this series. Perhaps I should pick up the original two games. But I will concur with my gaming brethren below and say I'm sure this game will ruin the series just like Fallout 3 ruined OH WAIT.

Always good to see classic games turned into unrecognizable shooters. It worked so well for Shadowrun. I can't wait to see what Banjo-Kazooie looks like as a first-person shooter.

Why are they calling it a Syndicate revamp when it doesn't sound like they are retaining any of the elements gamers loved about the original games?!

Oh dear. I had been hoping for years we would get an awesome modern day revamped Syndicate. Instead we're having a much beloved franchise butchered and turned into a cookie cutter linear console FPS :( Oh the horror!

Hmmm...The only real problem with the original syndicate was when you went inside a building, why didn't they make it similiar. The technology now allows for detailed environments indoors and outdoors, they really could have made this game a new modern classic for a new generation of gamers. What a waste.

FPS = Fps Pawning Strategy... Please stop this, Gamers do have brains. Let there be RTS

Ah yes.. the Xcom treatment. At least its Starbreeze though!

First X-COM and now this... why don't they just go around and kick every long-time PC Gamer in the head!? And Jagged Alliance going realtime (with pause)... at least it is still a strategy I supose.

Can still remember my agents with miniguns, why transform a great renowned strategy game into a fps? The kids today hardly remember the first one??So??

WTF IS THIS SH*T?! My dreams of having an official modern X-COM strategy game was shattered, and now this?! We already have a cyberpunk FPS already, which is Deus Ex: Human Revolution. What we need is a cyberpunk strategy game!

The only way I would consider accepting them making an FPS based on the franchise would be if they were also working on an actual RTS to properly succeed the IP and release it at the same time (same with X-com) Hopefully when X-com fails , publishers will begin to listen to the consumer base . By the way I am an FPS fan , I just don't want every classic franchise being made into an FPS just because it's a popular genre, that's what ruined the WW2 FPS genre. Next up an FPS based on wing commander

They ruin our classic dream into nightmares.... Why they dont just get new IP without destroying the classic...

R.I.P. Bullfrog. You made amazing games back in the day. I was excited about a revamp till they said fps. It makes me sad. Revamp the original. It was fantastic. Rts is not dead! Command and conquer renegade was a fps conversion of an rts and it was a big pile of fail. Don't do it EA. You already have the BF franchise and already ruined crysis for everyone.

I can understand the need to update some of the features of an old game, but another damned FPS? First XCOM, now this and next it will be be Dune: Spice Warfare

I don't mind it being an FPS/RPG like System Shock or Deus Ex, or even a Third person RPG like most Bioware games, what matters in these sorts of games are the atmosphere, the narrative, storyline and immersion. I think Starbreeze did a good job with escape from butcher bay, and I hope they do the same over here. Something that needs to be accepted is that no matter how nostalgic Isometric games makes us feel, or how better they might be over their successors, for example I prefer Fallout 1&2 over the 3rd one, they are not feasible market wise, and EA is a business like any other who needs to turn in a profit, businesses are not charity cases in the end. There is no point in moaning about it, EA is not going to change their plans, and the game has yet to be released, all we can do is hope that Starbreeze studios do a good job and respect the source material.

This is not syndicate - 'Syndicate's blend of fast-paced, futuristic, action shooter' We do not need nor want another game made into an FPS

It's funny how everyone calls it an FPS, even though it's only mentioned as a "shooter" in the whole article. The studio having made FPS games before doesn't mean this is going to be one. The first Gears was going to be an Unreal sequel too, but Epic changed way for their own good. Just saying, keep on hating EA, it's the current trend.

the whole feeling of the game was based on the fact that the agents were doing your evil bidding & you dictating orders to them from your corporate empire you were never really playing as one of them, the game was never intended to take a personal note of there view point, they are just mindless unemotional drones carrying out your evil desires killing bystanders and performing suicide bombings. There is no room in this game for humanity & remorse thats whats syndicate was about

You do know it´s the same studio that brought us the first Riddick-game. I would say that it was a pretty different experience from a lot of other shooters, so if they´re not getting completely f**ed by EA to make it a "hit-game", I think Starbreeze - if anyone - can deliver something really interesting. I rather think "set in the syndicate-universe" instead. And I´d like to see more of that, like when Sledgehammer said they´ve been working on a TPS in the CoD universe. I´m not a big fan of CoD (anymore) but the idea got me excited anyway.

Again, consoles destroying classics. XCOM anyone?

Such great news, destroyed seconds later with such horrible news. Do the fans justice!

For God's sakes EA, if you want a Cyberpunk RPG/FPS hybrid, you still own the System Shock IP, how about SS3? As for Syndicate I will wait and see, maybe it will turn out good, like Fallout New Vegas, and not Fallout 3.

I share the collective view in the comments here.. I've been waiting to hear news of a Syndicate revival for YEARS, so I thought "Yeahhh!! Finally!". Then I read "shooter"... Oh no. Most of these kids are going to think it's a Deus Ex ripoff, not knowing it's a much older IP. Why doesn't any publisher have the stones to bring it back in its original format with a graphics overhaul and a beefy SP campaign?? Well, I hope Starbreeze is atleast given enough time by EA to do a proper job and not turn it into a generic Deus-Ex/Splinter Cell clone. It would be awesome if they kept the original's ominous musical theme as well.