EA released a lengthy section from Starbreeze's upcoming shooter, Syndicate today and I must say it looks rather promising.
Yes it does look alarmingly like Deus Ex: Human Revolution, but I wouldn't start crying foul. This happens a lot in our industry, usually and the reason is usually fairly simple.
Companies either jump on the 'me too' bandwagon, or they come up with new ideas/settings that other developers have also thought of. I'm guessing in Syndicate's case it is the latter.
I wouldn't be surprised if we start to see more FPS's set in the future, as people finally start to tire of militant shooters (or are they?). Well I certainly am that's for sure.
As much as I am a fan of Call of Duty, their prescence seems to stifle any real progress in the entire genre as more and more developers try and ape their success. It's been said many times before, but they're like the Summer Blockbuster of gaming, the problem is come Oscar season there's rarely a shooter around that's worthy of a nomination.
Hopefully this will start to change because this has been a problem for some time now. In fact I remember discussing this topic three years ago when Starbreeze released The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay and Assault on Dark Athena.
I never got round to playing Dark Athena, but Escape from Butcher Bay was a breath of fresh air in a rotting genre, even if it was a re-release of a five-year-old game.
I was also a huge fan of the The Darkness, another Starbreeze game that was far from perfect, but it was a game where you actually cared for the characters in its story, which was second to none. I was genuinely disappointed to hear that Starbreeze wouldn't be making The Darkness 2, but Syndicate looks like it could be special.
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