Syndicate

In May we played Syndicate, the 1993 tactical shooter game by Bullfrog. Set in a futuristic dystopian cyberpunk world where governments have been replaced by corporations, it's quite a bit grittier than many of Bullfrog's other titles. But is it fun? Listen to find out!

Joining host Martijn ("Tijn") for this episode are Rob ("Spoonboy") and retro gaming YouTuber Kim Justice. Sadly our trusty co-host Florian ("rnlf") couldn't join us for this one, but we did receive a voice messages by Canageek, so thanks for that!

[ download mp3 ] (145 mins, 166 MB)

RELEVANT LINKS:

* The Rise and Fall of Peter Molyneux by Kim Justice: youtube.com/watch?v=zFZ92jySWe0

* Sean Cooper's newgrounds flash games: seantcooper.newgrounds.com

* Syndicate magazine scan forum thread: dosgameclub.com/forums/topic/pc-zone-review/

* Cool oldschool syndicate website with old reviews among other things: syndicate.lubiki.pl/synd/html/synd_main.php


01 Jul 2021

4 Replies to “Syndicate”

LaoWai-In-China says:
July 14, 2021 at 7:28 pm

I enjoyed the podcast I never played syndicate but after hearing the podcast I will put it on my play list. Not sure when I will get to it. Right now I’m doing a Fallout series play through on PC, finished Fallout 1 and 2 on Fallout 3 and I have learned my mouse and keyboard skills are not good anymore, playing console games with a controller has diminished my skills with mouse and keyboard.

Evil Taco says:
August 5, 2021 at 6:05 am

I didn’t play Syndicate back in the day, but I did see it over the shoulder at a friend’s friend place (where I also saw Star Control II the first time – now that’s a game I’ve played, but another story) … it was pretty darn cool. I also remember my classmates having some fun “playground stories” about the persuadertron. I’m a bit sad I missed the opportunity to grab the game from GOG.com as it’s currently not available anymore.

Evil Taco says:
August 5, 2021 at 6:06 am

How did I not comment on the podcast itself? Great episode as usual, but extra great with Kim Justice guesting. Thanks to everyone involved!

Evil Taco says:
August 7, 2021 at 5:13 pm

And now they’re back in GOG catalog, and free until 3rd of September: https://www.gog.com/promo/rerelease_ultima_underworld_and_syndicate

Leave a Reply

---
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.