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Yep definitely one of the top 20 games ever for the Amiga. There were a few flaws however that need to be pointed out, the main one being the occasional slowdown on the standard Amiga when the screen got busy.
But it was not a crippling flaw.
Another one was an illogical design issue whereby you could research, develop and use certain pieces of equipment long before you had to find and retrieve them on later missions, which didn't make sense.
This spoiled the game logic somewhat.
Navigating inside buildings and using the cars was sometimes tricky as well. Oh and someone here pointed out, what was the use of the access cards and time bombs? Very little from what I could tell.
But anyway despite these issues I give it a solid 9/10
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You play as four soldiers and you have fire weapon.
its best amiga game my number 1 favourite.
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Outstanding game that is hard to place. Tactics? Strategy? Action? It has a little bit of each area.
The dark, unflinching cyberpunk/anti-capitalist atmosphere is thick and very well executed. The game never even questions the civilians you mow down, and it didn't make you do it either. That was up to you.
Human life is obsolete. Move along citizen.
The game is let down a little by having bigger ideas than it can execute. Equipment like access cards and time bombs are intriguing but never really useful, movement indoors is a pain and vehicles are seriously frustrating.
But an ambitious game that tried to be something that had never been seen before and one that few people forget playing.
The Amiga version is oddly yellow, compared to the PC version but it's perfectly playable. An expanded system does help. A straight 500 gets a bit pokey running this.
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Less difficult but more tactical alternative to CF. Action part is similar, but a bit more confusing time to time (you can't see in the buildings neither behind the walls and it's very fast sometimes), strategic part is extra.
It's great game until about its half, but after that, all the equipment is developed & bought. Moreover, it's possible to win most the battles with one agent equipped by minigun or flame thrower.
Anyway, syndicate is very unique game. It's action, brutal and lot of fun. Even after those years
PS: I can't imagine how to finish it on plain A600. At least the last level have been a bit HW demanding
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This seemed like one of the late games I enjoyed on the Amiga. My brother really got into it...once I had persuaded him to play it.
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One of the best games produced on any platform ever, looks great plays great sounds great and has great playability. Has a really good control system and really well implemented learning curve - the difficulty progression is exceptionally well designed with nice simple missions to get you going culminating in the Atlantic Accelerator which is gaming evil incarnate (never managed this without a full four cyborg squad!) and gives huge satisfaction when finished. Also great that we got the American Revolt expansion which I never finished as it has some truly difficult missions. The end game difficulty is why i knocked a point off because (for me anyway) needing at least 4 cyborgs means if have been careless beforehand you have replay missions to try and capture enemy cyborgs which is highly annoying but otherwise a well deserved 9 out of 10.
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Amazing game but unfortunately, Amiga version was a bit reduced in comparison to the PC original. However, the game itself and enjoyment factor is acceptable and you can spend some nice time around this game. There was not so many games that could provide that kind of entertainment.
Thanks to Amiga Format publishers Amiga users can play American Revolt add-on that add 21 new levels with much higher difficulty level.
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I got this because I enjoyed other Bullfrog games and wasn`t disappointed! My Brother and I spent many nights on this one, time well spent! 9/10
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Ever wanted to kidnap people, wipe their memory, install cyborg upgrades, equip various weapon technology, and force them to help you take over the world? If you have, then this is definitely the game for you. The game is set in a futuristic Blade Runner-esque world and harbors concepts and features found in Neuromancer. This game is refreshingly exciting and addictive! 9/10
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You need an A1200 to get the best from this one.
Brilliant game, top notch in all aspects. 9/10.
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A great game. I didn't quite 'get' it when I first played, and it took a lot of badgering from my friends before I took the time to absorb myself in it and fully appreciated its brilliance. 9/10
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Better than the FPS remake......
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This game had bullfrog exellence written all over it.
Maaan...I didn't know what to expect when I booted this game up.
The intro blew me away... I knew had to complete this beast of a game.
I remember how bad-ass I felt when me and my team hit the streets fully loaded with those mini-guns...just pure awesomeness.
Who ever in their right mind want to mess with 4 dudes in long coates armed with mini-guns...luckely for us enough enemies....hehehe
Any way this game mixed up strategy (load out and such, approach to target, research etc...) with bullet spraying!!!.
This game was so different back then, it deserved an 8 only for that...but the way bullfrog tied up everything together almost makes it a 10.
Damn... 4 x 1,44 MB disks and look what they could do!!
And all the gigabytes nowadays and still devs seem to mess up a lot...
And there is a FPS in development under the name "Syndicate" I don't give a d*mn how good the dev is or how much they include of the Syndicate world....This game deserves a far better remake and should NOT be a FPS. A real d*mn shame they always want to ride on the FPS-ca$h flow...
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This game meant a small victory for me when the PC started to kill the Amiga: my friend didn't manage to find a suitable autoexec.bat to run it on his 386 while I could do so on my Amiga without any problems. I loved the game and completed it. I liked how every mission had its own story and how you had to choose a strategy. It was one of the first games to give me a feeling of a virtual reality surrounding my character.
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So many hours i spend on this game. 9/10 from me
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A lot of comments on Lemon Amiga tend to compare the Amiga version to the PC version. Here's a summary of what people posted: The Amiga version has a lower resolution, shorter intro, less colors, and tends to get very slow on an A500. Gameplay and levels appear to be identical to the PC version.
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There's a new one in production, and Molyneux has stated he'd love to be involved if EA would allow him. This original, on Amiga, is one of my favorite games of all time.
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I think the Amiga version(lowres 32 colors) uses more colors than the PC version(hires 16 colors) but the resolution is lower.Amiga intro is shorter and very small screen than the PC.Anyway the Amiga version is not bad,the bad ones are the console versions
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Yes. Liked it very much but I never played it to the end. I am doing that at the moment (but to be honest I use the PC-DOS Version). Nevertheless one of the best games ever played on Amiga. The PC version shows that a game must not be a new one to have fun with. 10/10
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A really good game, I loved doing my characters up with the top upgrades.
Good varied missions and good settings.
8/10
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I really wish that the multiplayer made it into the game. They had it working during testing but decided to cut it.
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True, the graphics weren't as impressive as on a PC (I admit, I was one of those too who were jealous of the PC screenshots
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I would rate amongst the top-5 Amiga games ever: while slightly suffering from low-end graphics and low speed if compared to the PC verions, its unique gameplay is unmatched after so many years.
I completed it in 1993 on an Amiga600HD (HD was supported), in 1995 on a 486 PC, and many years later in DOSBox. The Atlantic Accelerator still gives me the creeps.
My score is 10/10
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Wonderful game, but lets be honest. The PC version has far the best gfx and the most details. Look at PC screenshots.
I was always jealous about the pc version.
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Although a little slow on the A500, i still played it non stop and loved it. Just love having heaps of people with tons of fire power mowing one person down! Hehe!
The only thing i thought was the gfx were a little repetitive... Dont get me wrong, i think it looks awesome, just the colours and styles never change. But that doesn't stop it been one of the all time greats!
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The game was Fantastic . Spend many hours with my frieds to finish this gem . Great graphics and sound and excellent atmosphere . One of the best amiga games . 10/10 for sure .
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It was way too slow to be enjoyable.
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Gaus guns FTW!!!
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It really doesn't get much better than this. Outstanding.
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Very cool and nice strategic, action game.
Graphics: 9
Gameplay: 10
Sound: 8
Addictive: 10
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Just perfect
Maybe some remake, eh?
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One of the best Amiga games ever. Period.
10/10
I remember my PC being to slow for Syndicate Wars. Then I upgraded and the PC was too fast.
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My most favourite game of all time and platforms. 4 bad-ass agents fully armed in streets under my command - that was really messy and lotsa funny. I loved that small citizens and their small habits like dancing in minigun rain, running at fire, flying with rockets... Groovy. I vote it THE BEST GAME EVER.
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Two days ago I finished the Atlantic Accelerator. Could be 10, but why the hell there is no outro in this game. So many hours played and have got nothing for playing this. Only credits. But it's worthy to play and vote 9/10. I am trying to mobilize to American Revolt mission and after that play Syndicate Wars. But after some time.
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This game was sooooo bad-ass when i first played it! The brutality of the shotgun impact on the bad guys was quite new back then... I loved it! Really cool game concept. Nice but sometimes rather slow-moving graphics (on a A500). Extremely addictive. Great game!
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Great game, with alot of missions and guns and mods for your cyborgs.
The expansion disk American Revolt was harder for me (i was maybe 15) something i must try to play now.
I didnt like the part when you enter the buildings you couldnt see your cyborgs or anyone because of the roofs, but apart from that a great game no doubt.
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Great hours spent playing it, and first cyborg game to not disappoint at all
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One of the best games made on any platform. I still play this game. Minigun, rocketlauncher and flamethrower are my favorites!
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What style! 10/10 thx Bulfrog and Lemon for the info!
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I love it!!! One of my favourite games ever!!
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Just one word: Awesome.
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Timeless classic!
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Wow, now this is a classic! I must have spent weeks if not months playing this game when I was at secondary school in the mid 90's! The amount of homework I didn't do because I was glued to this, upgrading my 'agents'!
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Aaaaah, yes, Syndicate was great. How sweet it was to get the cash flowing in and buy some new stuff for the minions, so they would kick even more
Too bad I only played the OCS version, I'd have enjoyed it better with smoother graphics, those ones were a bit poor on the colour side.
Still, great game
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Totally awesome game. So memorable. 10/10
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What a game! A fantastic UI and how much fun was it when you got super legs and arms for your guys..MINIGUN!!! Moving inside buildings was a nightmare alright but this was was the first game where I felt the city was truly 'alive'. The fantastic bladerunner world with all those neon signs was so cool.
As for the atlantic accelerator..as far as I remember you just arm one guy with a sniper and the others with miniguns and run to the corner of one of the walkways....the enemy can only come at you one at a time and then your sniper picks em off before they get in range...
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This game oozes atmosphere. It's a must have. Although tricky in places, you will keep trying due to that fact that it's so damn playable. Play it, love it. 9/10.
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The Amiga version is far better than any other. A game that must be completed. It's one of the most absorbing world domination games ever, and pretty big too. The sheer amount of violence you commit in the name of 'the company' never gets boring. The research and character upgrade elements round off an already perfect action game. I'm currently trying to complete it again.
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Good concepted game, made me wake up what was staring right back at me, a true masterpiece
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One of my all time favourites, Bullfrog are absolute genius (nice one peter!)
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This game has yet to be bettered. I liked 'sabotaging' crowds of people by planting explosives around massive groups of them. Pure chaos when I detonated them, loads of bodies everywhere and people stumbling around on fire, being mowed down by my miniguns.
Atlantic Accelerator was easy once you'd done it once. All you had to do was take your time, coax the enemies out one by one.
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Many places to explore. Great rendering intro and cool sfx.
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A visionary sci-fi-action-rpg-rts-game! But the PC version was better (graphics-wise).
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Loved it.
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More fun than the supposedly better looking PC version (which my friend had and it sounded awful) and far more stylish than the seriously crap and tacky looking console conversions. This game was pure class and had a real evil side to the gameplay at times where it was possible to do things like use the persuadatron on loads of civilians then run them over or something... Evil and fun.
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Great concept, original interface, fantastic atmosphere. A bit too tough to be totally fun however.
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Great fun!! And yes, i completed the game! You have to play this game some time to get into it. Otherwise you wont get much out of it but once you master all the things it's simply a brilliant game. Graphics is bit fast ported from pc version but the game itself is the same. Great, great, great fun!
p.s. If you thought that the original is hard then try out "american revolt" data disk...
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I loved this game. I used to play it until the early hours in the morning.
I remember completing it one sticky summer night. I turned out the lights and had the windows open. There was a thunderstorm outside - it was fantastic.
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I completed this game, it is not impossible. It was a great fun, except that stupid and annoying movement inside the buildings, when you can't see anything and anybody, only randomly move your mouse pointer and hope that you will find your enemy before he kills you. It was really disgusting, more then Grand Theft Auto 1., where was the similar problem.
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This game took 4 years to develope.
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Great and almost impossible. One of the funniest things you could do was to load up with flamethrowers, go into large crowd and then just spray away!! Ahhh those lovely screams of pain.
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Amiga conversion of a classic PC title looks drab and depressing in comparison. Perhaps a bit fitting to the theme but I liked the Sega Megadrive conversion with its anime-ish graphics more. Maybe I didn't give the game a fair chance back then and disgarded it rather quickly. Should give it a new chance, me thinks. Anyone want to part with his/her original copy?
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Brilliant game by Bullfrog. Awesome sci-fi cyberpunk atmosphere, and extremely intense gameplay. Construct, arm and control your team of Cyborgs through the futuristic cities, each with their own infrastructure, police force and transport system. The PC version has better graphics because of its 800x600 resolution mode. The intro is way cool.
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I never completed it, but played for days and days. Well, it was impressive and ultra-violent, but some missions looked really too difficult to me. A friend of mine reached the atlantic Accelerator and finded it "impossible to complete". Dispite all of this, a great game, with the possibility to kill everyone around you!!
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This is the highest pinnacle ever touched by, in random order, Peter Molyneux, isometric environments, violent games and strategy-based shooters. And with a list like this, I guess it would be kinda hard to doubt this gem's real value...
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The atmosphere, the balance, the believebility of city, the violece... Our GTA-III- San Andreas
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No game before or since has matched Syndicate's perfect 'shoot-em-up'/ 'Strategy' balance.
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You know I'm not too sure how well this works as a game. I found struggling to figure out what I was supposed to be doing in some of the missions. On the other hand there can be little doubting the entertainment value of herding 100+ innocent bystanders into a corner and torching them with a flame thrower.
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This game is in one word: "class". When I first played this I found it enormously original. The graphics are very good and the sound is likewise. It's not just a shooter, but there was a big strategy element to, keeping your team fit and strong and building new weapons while you went on the next daring mission. Three thumbs up!
Graphics: 9/10
Sound: 9/10
Playability: 8/10
Overall: 8/10
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Tony.rc: yeah? Better graphics.. So what? As a true gamer I know that gameplay overshadows great graphics and sound in the first place.. Only great graphics doesn't make a great game..
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Violence is fun! I used to kill as many people as possible during every mission. The game offers a fair challenge and looks very polished. Sound FX is great! It's a great game. And was one of the last games I bought for my Amiga. The game play becomes a bit repitive in the long run, though. But it really doesn't matter when you're inside the city limits kicking butt, killing innocent civilians. That flame thrower sure is cool.
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Mo0lyneux at his best. Don't think anyone else ever made the 3/4 view so much fun.
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I can't understand why you comment PC GAMES! This one is an Amiga version, so express yourself to an Amiga one! IMHO this game is good enough.
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The PC versions of a lot of games had better GFX due to them having 256 cols!
Lets comment on the Amiga ver eh!
Super game btw
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The first game I remember where you could kill innocent people just for fun.
The popularity of recent games such as GTA San Andreas can only confirm that this is a good thing
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This game has awsome graphics and sound for a OSC game. One of the best games made, if You like "strategyc" games.
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The PC adaption of this game has better graphics
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