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Co-Op Spotlight: Syndicate

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"What's a Co-Op Spotlight," you ask?  It's our way of bringing extra attention to major co-op releases on launch day, providing you with highlights from past articles, information on co-op features, and plans for our future coverage.

I'm sure you understand that it can be difficult to review a game's co-op features before it has been widely released.  Even when we are granted early access to review copies it can be impractical, and at times impossible, to review a game's co-op features.  Co-Optimus's Co-Op Spotlight will not only keep you up to date on launch day co-op features, it will also let you know when we plan on publishing our Co-Op Review. 

This weeks Co-Op Spotlight goes to Syndicate.  This is a reboot of a 1993 real-time tactical shooter.  Like everything else that's ever been rebooted, it's now an FPS.  As you might imagine, this hasn't gone over well with some old-school fans of the game.  You can see one fan's journey through several stages of grief in our featured stories below.

Syndicate will be available on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC.  We expect to have our Co-Op Review posted on 2.28.2012.

 

SYNDICATE CO-OP DETAILS

Online Co-Op:  Yes   Number of Players: 4
Couch Co-Op:  No
Single Player Campaign Co-Op:  No
Separate Co-Op Mode:  Yes

The Co-Op Experience:  Take the role of one of four different character classes and complete 9 dynamic missions.  You'll earn experience, points and upgrades to customize your character.

SYNDICATE Selected Stories

Riddick Developer Working on New Syndicate Title For EA -  "I have high hopes that Starbreeze can find it in their hearts to include a four player co-op option with the series renewal."

Syndicate Reboot Dated for February 2012, First Trailer Revealed

Syndicate Hands on Impressions, New Screens and Video - "...if the co-op campaign is as tight as the single player level I played we're in for an early treat next year."

Syndicate Co-Op Screens and Trailer are Something to Rave About

Syndicate Co-Op Video Introduces the Team

Syndicate Co-Op Demo Out Now - "Perhaps most surprising is just how configurable your agent and breaches will be to bring online, adding a significant RPG like element to the game..."

Syndicate Provides 50 Hours of Tough Gameplay

Industrial Espionage with Guns; the Syndicate Launch Trailer

If you're not one for clicking links, we've provided the launch trailer for you:

 
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eastx
9:22 AM
2/21/2012

Interesting idea, these spotlights! I look forward to writing one of my own sometime.

As for Syndicate, that stiff difficulty they've talked about scares me more than the switching of the genres.


smurphster
10:19 AM
2/21/2012

i should have my copy today but my wife is under the weather so i'm not sure if i'll be playing today. i'm excited to try it out though! the demo was awesome.


Arionel
10:56 AM
2/21/2012

I have my copy already...hope to find some people online to do the missions with. I've read a couple critic reviews that have panned the single player campaign, but I don't recall a FPS out yet where a campaign is all that great...I got this just for the co-op.


txshurricane
12:00 PM
2/21/2012

Will be interesting to see which games get the spotlight and which get benched.


Macrocephalus
2:08 PM
2/21/2012

--- Replying to txshurricane -----

Do I detect an implicationÂ…?


txshurricane
2:52 PM
2/21/2012

--- Replying to Macrocephalus -----
Not yet.
I'm interested to see if the Spotlights ride the waves with the rest of the industry, or if it takes advantage of the gaps and puts more coverage out there for games that don't get much or get overlooked.

For example: Twisted Metal's online co-op got dropped in January and no one noticed until after release. The Spotlight can be a perfect recap opportunity, where the writer double-checks all of the current coverage and fills in any cracks.


Arionel
3:13 PM
2/21/2012

The co-op mode so far is really fun with a full team, I have done the first three missions so far, only one on hard mode, and the first mission on expert is rather ruthless.


Bruhah_Gand
9:55 PM
2/23/2012

Co-op is a blast. Single Player is so-so. ( I'm a fan of Richard K Morgan, so I was hoping for something a bit meatier. )

If anyone is looking for a Syndicate to join, or just a random teammate, send me a friend request. ( Bruhah Gand ) Syndicate is currently named "Section 6" after an old tabletop RPG group of mine.

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Release Date: 02.21.2012
Genre: FPS
ESRB: Mature

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