After having read some peoples' reviews about how the original syndicate was better I "obtained" the syndicate plus CD and finally got it to work on XP and man... this game is nowhere near as good as Syndicate Wars. The sprites and buildings look crisper but there's like 3 frames of animation per sprite, it's pretty bad. The music and sound effects aren't nearly as good as Wars and I noticed that the agents don't run when you double click. Wars just has a much darker feel to it and a better storyline. And I think whoever said that most reviewers acted like the high rez button didn't exist was right. You have to compare the original syndicate with Syndicate Wars in HIGH REZ. For all the good things about Syndicate Wars you can't say that crappy sprites are unforgiveable. Like, wtf? It's just too bad most systems couldn't handle it very well at the time. The only think I liked better in the original Syndicate was the crisper sprites obviously and the aquasition of ammo. Ammo was eliminated in Wars for some reason. It ads another element of strategy and should be there...
By the way if you want Syndicate, Syndicate Wars or any old DOS games that use dos4gw.exe to work on XP just go here
http://dos32a.sourceforge.net/. Rename dos32a.exe to dos4gw.exe, replace the old one with the new one and bam, you got yourself win32 compatibility. If something isn't working right, then use DOSBox (DOS emulator) as well as dos32a and everything should work albiet possibly too slow depending on your system.
Once again the mandatory *meep* you EA suits, you pieces of muck... and BRING BACK THE SYNDICATE!.... which most likely, dispite all our *meep*en god damn cries, will go on deaf ears of course. If EA won't do it why not do it ourselves. If they complain about their precious IP then just *meep* em to hell. Just *meep* em... I'd love to do some kind of remake project. If anyone knows anyone who is interested e-mail me @
negativeions101@yahoo.ca
Hell, how about a Bring back the syndicate campaign for a real sequel!? If we can get just one bastard from the gaming press to mention something, someone will notice. It's time somebody did something about 10 years of denying the world another Syndicate! Who's with me? ....
Ya, because a rarely visited Abandonia forum is the perfect place for recruitment...