only 150K sold? Should I feel like a "sucker" for buying a copy on release day? Granted, I didn't keep it, but, IMO, the game sold itself short. It could have been great I suppose, the co-op was good when it ran smoothly, the campaign I never really cared to finish..but, hey, maybe we'll see something in the future that will far surpass it. (Overstrike, maybe?)

I didn't saw Syndicate selling...
Ohhh... Wait... Is selling primary at Origin...
What a shame... I don't ever buy something at Origin...

That's a shame. Syndicate is a great game. I'd still fire up the co-op missions if anyone else played. It's one of those co-op games that force you to help each other out.

Hopefully (though very unlikely) this'll be a wake up call to show transforming everything into a shooter won't automatically create a success. I played some of the game and did not like it. They had some interesting things going on with the style, but the actual gameplay was bland and forgettable.

The part where he defends his decisions doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
"If we didn't do an exact copy of the game, they'd hate us. If we did do an exact copy, they'd say we didn't innovate. They were never ours to win; it was a lost battle from the get-go."
Funny how good that X-Com game is looking huh? Though I have no idea how that game will turn out, it's obvious those people respect the source material.

The only reason these people went with the Syndicate title was to attract existing fans. Changing the whole game into something the fans probably wont like scares them off. So what was their user base? They should've went with a new IP for this production.

Such a shame, really. I liked the co-op a lot, and I want to 2nd everything Smurphster said.

EA ruined fun game, ruined good developer, and now they are complaining about it. How pathetic
If BF3 or ME3 can stand this (because everyone loves it no matter what), but Syndicate had mixed expectations beforehand. It turned out as great game, but EA's policy put it to dust.

p.s. and talking about turning some oldschool stuff to fps... it IS different year, different game, different people. And as much as I love franchise - I don't need Syndicate HD, let the classics rest in peace. This reboot had essence of original, it was FPS-spinoff, and it was good shooter. And no one bought it thanks to EA. Forced marketing isn't good for gaming.

That's what happens when you go screwing with a classic game built on strategy and not "shoot everything that moves" in first-person.

matsol - you're absolutely right. I read that part about there decision and thought, gee, you completely left out option number 3 Make an updated version of the original games 3rd person isometric view and throw in new gameplay elements. $&#@* the HD graphics alone would have been worth it and I'm sure they could have thought of some innovations that would add to the core gameplay without altering the game into something completely different.

*their*

Personally, I would have bought it but ...

* Not available in .au
* I don't use Origin.
* Seriously, not here and I cbf'd importing.

"If we didn't do an exact copy of the game, they'd hate us.
If we did do an exact copy, they'd say we didn't innovate."

A dishwasher is neither an exact copy of an oven, nor is it an innovation of the same.

Innovate means doing something new. Considering the current market, a copy of the original game would actually have stood out as fresh and unique, where as Yet-Another-Shooter (TM) is indeed "a copy".

Making Yet-Another-Shooter (TM) out of every possible IP in history isn't innovation but assimilation. And it's so damn boring to play the same game over and over and over again with only different models and textures.