Syndicate: What if Cyberpunk came out 9 years ago?

In terms of games that aren't very good, Syndicate is pretty good.
/ oboeshoesgames

[@scrbds]

The gap between Syndicate and Cyberpunk is 8 years. This game is set in 2069 and Cyberpunk is set, well, you know the year.

[@ThatWolfFromHyruleGaming]

Mind blown 🤯

[@tuukkaoforsagd804]

The gap is much bigger Syndicate was around during the Amiga.

[@VimyGlide]

@@tuukkaoforsagd804 he meant the gap between the settings

[@XWXS2]

Well cyberpunk was not the first cyberpunk game just because the name is cyberpunk.

[@nejinaji]

2049?

[@Jormyyy]

Oboe sure knows how to always pick the games I forget existed

[@osuk]

@Matteo Ziegler this game was made by the syndicate development team

[@Stache-Man]

Seriously I played this a ton when I was younger and I completely forgot it even existed until I saw this video

[@KORmatrixmod]

Next, Wolfenstein 2009

[@jameslebus2432]

Yeah, I’m surprised that even oboe remembered the game in his last video. That one is so unknown i sometimes thought i dreamed it or something. So yeah i agree he’s on it

[@0uttaS1TE]

I bet he'll play FUZE next

[@AntiHamster500]

Physical copies were banned in Australia. This was around the time that digital keys were becoming the norm. So I just went to a online game key marketplace, based in the USA, and purchased a valid key. No rules or laws broken, ez az. Though I gotta say that CoD WaW gore is worse than Syndicate and yet somehow it didn't get banned or censored.

[@beeflon]

Interesting, I just pirated it. I did not had the money anyway.

[@papabetadine724]

Thats our glorious nanny state at play. Sometimes I wonder what goes through minds of our pollies

[@amko899999]

I think it was because of the whole suicide thing

[@AntiHamster500]

@@amko899999 Sort of. The Classification Board of Australia stated that the reason was due to the level of decapitation and dismemberment that the player could inflict. Thus why I used CoD WaW as a gore comparison.

[@THICCTHICCTHICC]

@@papabetadine724 well good news, our government has only gotten 100x worse since

[@zombies637]

I played the demo for this game repeatedly and then never bought the actual game

[@Loderyod]

Sigma male move

[@Jormyyy]

I played the demo back on my ps3 but wasn't into it so I never got the game lol

[@osuk]

@Matteo Ziegler this game was made by the syndicate development team

[@1301407gl]

I got it for like 5 bucks not bad

[@INFILTR8US]

if you can't afford the full game perhaps gaming isn't for you

[@Gruntvc]

I bought Syndicate at launch on Xbox 360. I had some fun playing it, but I did think The Darkness 1 was better. Fun fact, many devs from this went on to form MachineGames and make Wolfenstein The New Order and The Old Blood.

[@bludtinge]

Good to know they found success in the end. Sucks that Syndicate flopped so bad. It was a lot of fun.

[@Jormyyy]

The Darkness games are such gem. The first one's gameplay is pretty clunky but the story telling is fantastic. The second one has a weaker story but the gameplay was a vast improvement over the first one, the graphic art style becoming cell shaded was a cool touch too considering The Darkness originated as a comic book.

[@osuk]

@Matteo Ziegler this game was made by the syndicate development team

[@osuk]

@Matteo Ziegler this game was made by the syndicate development team

[@hellcatdave1]

@@Jormyyy nah the first one has way better gameplay than 2. The Darkness 2 is like a shitty wannabe Black Ops gameplay wise.

[@rougestrike4010]

German here. To be more precise, the game isn´t "banned" here in Germany. You can still own the game legaly and stores can sell them legaly. The only thing that stores can´t do is advertise it and have the games openly accessible to the public. Means if a store wants to sell those games, they either have to have a access restricted area in the store, like a seperate room that can be closed off, or keep the game under the counter and only take them out when a customer requests one of those games. That is why the big tech-stores don´t bother to sell the uncensored versions, it would be too big of a hassel to meet all of those requirements. Small gamestores can meet the requirements more easily or get away with selling them openly because no one really cares or does enough controlls due to the authoritys in charge beeing notoriously understaffed.

[@ClassicMagicMan]

That sounds awful.

[@KevinBYee]

@@ClassicMagicMan Really? doesn't sound like that big of a deal for the gamer. Just walk up to the counter and ask for the game. I'm sure it hurts the game's sales in the country though.

[@oboeshoesgames]

that is super interesting thanks for the info

[@elnacho657]

Hi, kannst du mir zufällig sagen wo du das Spiel für den PC her hast? Ich wollte das schon eine ganze Weile mal nachholen, kanns aber nirgendwo finden...

[@ClassicMagicMan]

@@KevinBYee I'm not talking from the customers pov here; the OP says the store has to get a bunch of licenses/ clearance to carry the game in the first place.

[@StuntmanMikeL]

This game isn't forgotten, this game is fucking RAD. It can't be forgotten if I didn't forget it and basically played it a million times and bought it for two different platforms.

[@tacomaneternal6926]

I know love it

[@slavkokozomora8893]

i agree, it was and still is a good game

[@shockmazta3116]

Just because one random person bought it twice doesn't mean it isn't forgotten. It's a forgotten game.

[@Karuzo131]

What does RAD means?

[@galacticupfan7386]

@@Karuzo131 Rats Are Dangerous

[@Alpay283]

I love this game. I enjoyed every minute of it playing. Sooooo underrated, it had so many good dubstep songs

[@matteoziegler7632]

the first person animations are so good. And I there was a way to skip certain walking sections I would play it way more

[@osuk]

@@matteoziegler7632 this game was made by the syndicate development team

[@matteoziegler7632]

@@osuk but was it published by a publisher?

[@theancientsam]

Your comment, Good joke

[@WaveOfDestiny]

One of the best Skirllex songs was made for this.

[@PvtParts-hr4zv]

Ngl Syndicate is still my favorite Skrillex track it slaps hard

[@twat9192]

It’s cyberpunky but it doesn’t break every 3 seconds? Not at all like cyberpunk

[@quint3ssent1a]

It does break at least once, so it's definitely like cyberpunk.

[@Fulcrox]

It literally crashed jajaja

[@ThebaldZ]

Nostalgia hitting hard with this one. Brings me back to the days of waiting for gamefly to send out another game, nice hot chocolate out my Mr. Coffee cocomotion on a school snow day.

[@weirdautumn]

2012 and dubstep Damn, this game brings back memories.

[@renegadexcho1o625]

This game was a literal hidden gem it should have sold way more but you got to remember the hype of 2012 back then was the very famous Black Ops 2 and it already had a future vibe to it so people played that and took the spotlight this game should have came out either a year earlier or a year later and then maybe it would have gotten the recognition it deserves

[@hayato1886]

Eh maybe. Futuristic fps games at that point weren't really too common, but when you had the good COD games, Halo, Crysis, Stalker, Metro, Battlefield and plenty of other fps games around the early 2010's to play most didn't really care much about releases like this

[@sethgaston8347]

Oboeshoes is so proficient with commentary that it actively hides how abysmally terrible he is at aiming in fps games. It's like if moistcritikal was funnier but also a ign journalist!! I love it 😁

[@dixnyomouff6982]

Omg so true

[@darkstormvoyager9281]

This finally pin pointed it💀💀😂

[@amac98]

-Funnier -Ign journalist Pick one

[@3b9x]

dont insult oboe by comparing him to IGN journalists or moist critical

[@irvins8160]

Syndicate is underrated af. I remember playing horde mode back in 2012 with randoms online. So much fun!

[@CrabQueen]

I have never heard of this game before. Sign of quality in AAA

[@osuk]

@Matteo Ziegler this game was made by the syndicate development team

[@Lalasfritas]

@@osuk i think it was also made by the people who made syndicate

[@Dja05]

I remember this game getting out at a time where there was this obsession with big game publishers to dust off old IP's and make generic corridor shooters out of them, regardless of the original genre of said ip... There was this, thiFOURf, a cover shooter xcom game, etc... All of them sold terribly as they were rightly just viewed as empty cash grabs...

[@echodelta2172]

Ahh yes, XCOM The Bureau. A well-regarded classic. Ahh wait no, just another cover shooter from 2011.

[@snailgirl420]

The Bureau has good reviews these days, least in the Xbox store. Apparently it does retain some of the XCom elements, and was more of a spinoff. But yeah, Thief sucked asshole, and the best thing about Syndicate was the soundtrack. Bethesda also did this, but far less egregiously, with Fallout 3. Completely changed the style, retconned the lore, and took out any and all nuance or morally difficult choices the series had before. In Fallout 1 & 2, you really had to think about what you were doing. In Fallout 3, the only choices were, "Do I wanna be a shining paragon of justice, or a moustache twirling movie villain?"

[@kendaldk5634]

It also probably didn't help that another EA game released 2 weeks after this. That being mass effect 3 a game that already had a huge fanbase ready to buy it, and alot of new players coming to the series at the time such as myself. Given the already dedicated fan base yo mass effect combined with the face most people don't buy 2 games within a month this game was destined to flop.

[@isaacbrown7829]

This game really was a product of it's time but god damn did I love playing it when it came out.

[@christopherregan1654]

It feels like a big mashup of FEAR, Crysis, Deus Ex and Call Of Duty.

[@Urkinorobitch]

Cyberpunk 2077 is entirely based on a 1988 tabletop game by the same name. Most of the game mechanics are emulated from the boardgame. Similarly, the first game released as ''Fallout'' was a GURPS tabletop campaign wich BlackIsle developed into a videogame. I'd say the Cyberpunk genre evolution goes something like: Syndicate+, System Shock, Anachronox, Deus Ex

[@IanBlueTheBoss]

The 4 distinct theme songs for this game are come of my favorite tracks in the techno/dubstep/synth scene to this day. All ominous and unique in their own way. The game was fun to the extent I remember.

[@olegcrysis1]

You gotta admit that the Nero one is the best out of those 4. It did age the best

[@sarge691]

Cyberpunk but it isn’t bad

[@christopherregan1654]

FEAR, Crysis, Deus Ex, and Call Of Duty if they were all mashed together.

[@ferdinand12390]

i replayed this game at the beginning of the year and you know what? i really loved it, the co-op was really fun, after we levelled up, we fucked the last level without dying, we had a blast and the game ain´t bad, besides it uses the same engine as The Darkness and it shows, it reminds me of it and makes me nostalgic

[@jkruse05]

Had some pretty fun class-based coop, with differences in load-out and abilities that actually made a difference. I wish it was still available on PC outside of Origin. It would be a good GoG candidate at this point.

[@starstruckp4808]

Regardless of the reception it got, I actually enjoyed it and will admit it is a guilty pleasure of mine. No doubt it could be better, I’m just disappointed they didn’t continue with this franchise.

[@owenliquidnitrogen]

This game deserves a proper remake

[@pclone5019]

8:43 You missed a prime opportunity to say "they can choose which 20$ skin they want to buy, *or they can jump off a bridge."*

[@WolfThorneLives]

Dude I subbed instantly just for exposure you gave this game. Loved it back then shame nobody played it much.

[@kuchom]

cortana is this guy bothering you? yes *straight up kills him and the halo theme starts playing*

[@oofmastercow6945]

This game was so underrated

[@Getfuckeddude]

Underrated at the time. It was an AMAZING time to play! EA made alot of good games in the past that kind of went under the radar. Mirrors edge was one of them as well.

[@makedemocrapsafraidagain4729]

No its not just because you like a game doesnt mean everyone else will, you probably have a really boring life, so you think boring games are good!

[@SyamDaRos-EndoManno]

EA didn't make, EA published. Mirror's Edge, Crysis, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Dead Space, Dante's Inferno, Alice Madness Returns, The Saboteur, Syndicate... All good and original games, messed by this publisher which ruined/closed their developer studios

[@SyamDaRos-EndoManno]

​​@@makedemocrapsafraidagain4729 keep playing Escape from Tarkov instead of boring games

[@0lionheart]

I used to love this game, back in the day. Wasn't incredible sure, but it stood out to me back then and was memorable. I still always remember being able to switch from scope to backup sights on the rifle, first time I ever saw that in a game.

[@lq4322]

there was a time when a game was banned for violence in germany when there was a rude conversation option against a civilian

[@Dexusaz]

Which game was that? Because I doubt it's true. Games only got banned for their violence in Germany.

[@lq4322]

@@Dexusaz This was an exaggaration for comedic effect

[@golden10ful]

The Zuckerberg joke at 4:12 fucking killed me 😂

[@willdavidson8971]

Why does this seem more fun, well designed, and interesting to play in 2022 than 90% of current games lol

[@Cesly-mo3uf]

Some good co-op memories.

[@Karifi]

This game is really a hidden gem. Love the ending.

[@VandergriftMoefies]

If Cyberpunk came out 9 years ago it would look like Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

[@diegogomes228]

Then it would be good asf

[@SirDankleberry]

And people would still compare it to GTA.

[@christopherregan1654]

Yeah, or probably Crysis 2/3.

[@ronaldhohnsbeen3231]

i just found this channel and it reminds me of 2016 iNotorious... good job

[@leukashot123]

i could never forget this game! i watched the trailer a bunch of times because i was like 10 and there was skrillex music. errr never played the game though idk what it's about so im excited to watch

[@funnelingspace9268]

I stumbled upon this game a couple of years back and replayed the campaign 3 times, it's so good

[@seethisth4753]

I absolutely loved this game for some reason. I still replay it every year or so.

[@Tony-1971]

Its an awesome game. The fact that it didn't sell many copies when it released just means a hell of a lot of people missed out on an awesome fps sci-fi game.

[@alexanderhikel2350]

The lamenting in the rocket boots was gold lol

[@WaveOfDestiny]

Played it numerous times and had a blast each time. The shooting and sound design and animations, plus everything was cool.

[@Tony-1971]

Agreed. The game is awesome.

[@NiGHTSnoob]

I'm a huge fan of the original Syndicate, or more specifically Syndicate Plus from like 1994. So I was tremendously disappointed by this game sharing basically nothing but the name. That's pretty much the whole reason its reception at the time was terrible. Taking a unique strategic real time strategy type of game and rebooting it as an FPS at a time when everything was an FPS was not the best move from an optics position.

[@nullvoid6472]

They turned syndicate from an RTS to FPS and failed They turned XCOM into an FPS and failed Every single time it ends up DOA and forgotten that it even exists because no one in the new demographic realized the franchise even existed and executives are shocked brand power didn't exist.

[@frogmastiff8198]

i played the original to death and i loved it like no other game, so much i avoided this game because i knew it would disappoint me, but i've played cyberpunk 2077, i kind of wish i'd played this instead, weird thing this game gives me a feel like your watching someone play in vr

[@AlexanderNash]

Yeah they tried the double cash grab, copying popular thing at the time(cover shooters) + slapping an beloved IP on it.

[@Greenmachine305]

Holy crap! You are genuinely funny! Subbed!

[@AtlasFox]

I find it incredible just how many vaguely alright games came out that I never even heard about

[@GallopingWalrus]

I don't know what genre Cr1t1kal and Oboe fall under as comedians, but I enjoy it heavily.

[@DeRM0907]

I was just thinking of this game like a week ago. Crazy

[@sethgaston8347]

Yeah I beat this game numerous times, the story is complete dogshit, but the mechanics and art work is absolutely amazing. The multiplayer was great too. I remember getting home from middle school and just booting this game up and drawing all the propaganda pieces and logos. It's also a remake where the original is a solid XCOM-like pc game.

[@catsarecute7447]

thank you for making a video about this game, i really enjoyed the game despite its flaws

[@vogs1010]

Such a good game that I played once and completely forget about till a KZbin video about it is randomly recommended

[@WK-47]

I'm pretty sure this is the reboot of the OG Syndicate that came out in the '90s that was an isometric squad-based tactics game IIRC.

[@eeeee6431]

Syndicate Wars, I think it was called

[@thetatn1113]

360 cyberfunk dunk

[@ryanpriscott7028]

Man I absolutely loved this game.

[@NotCerius]

I love this game. I miss GamesTM, I saw it for the first time in the magazine.

[@trailz138]

"that wasn't very preem chooms" had me rolling

[@wajalama]

2:58 that "futuristic" door just folded like cardboard and the edges still remained, lmfao

[@GrinningHalcyon]

My buddy once said that this game "hates your eyes for looking at it" and honestly that's about the most succinct description of its graphics I can think of

[@GrinningHalcyon]

I remember I once saw a door that was reflecting light brighter than the light source. It was like staring into a flashbang visual effect

[@DCGMatthew1]

Actually, I didn't forget it. Edit: It's weird it was banned here in Australia considering the other much more violent games that released here at the time.

[@TaimatCR]

Maybe it had something to do with the suicide thing?

[@DCGMatthew1]

@@TaimatCR We had other games with that and worse releasing at the same time. I don't know. Australia was really weird with games back then.

[@TaimatCR]

@@DCGMatthew1 🤔 I see weird indeed

[@WaveOfDestiny]

Probably because of the """"good guys""""" killing civilians (like "no russian" in mw2)

[@DCGMatthew1]

@@WaveOfDestiny MW2 wasn't censored or banned here though, and tons of games that did the same or similar still released here.

[@KyanoReal]

When you first did the "parkour uncharted puzzle" thats exactly how i finished that portion also, but apparently its not the right way lmao

[@nathancarter2856]

I vividly remember loooking past this game everytime I saw it in GameStop. Probably should have for 5$ might’ve even enjoyed it for a few hours a few years ago

[@sethkeatley252]

6:42 love the Nine Days reference 😂

[@alexanderkidonakis9185]

I had a lot of fun with this game Also final line was priceless (Pun intended)

[@derekperkins57]

Ive beat this game many times. It's quite unique even with boss battles

[@08Darkra80]

I played the demo for this so many times and when I finally bought it I played like one mission lmao.

[@jimmyredd]

I've been waiting for this game to come to Steam for a decade

[@trunks10k]

this game was actually fun back in the day and the coop horde mode was fun as well

[@nathanieljones8043]

What if I told you that cyberpunk was on the super Nintendo

[@johnthehuman7081]

I loved this game back in the day.

[@SirBigWater]

"Smart gun? Did Cyberpunk have any original ideas?" Are we forgetting that Resistance on PS3 had a tracking gun way before Syndicate? Also the fact that Skrillex did songs for this game makes it very 2010 to me.

[@connorisswole]

played this back in the day loved it

[@MechE_Emma]

Such a great soundtrack and gameplay loop; Skillrex did a great fucking job with it.

[@FootJello_]

ive been trying to understand "you've got the am down but you're missing the bush" for a looooonnnnggg time now

[@yourmother863]

Was not prepared to see Brian Cox in a 2012 FPS

[@Chunksacado]

Turns out the Rocket Boots were the friends we made along the way

[@alyctro8158]

This did what cyberpunk does, but much better and way ahead of its time.

[@NeonSuperNovas]

I wish Syndicate got a sequel. It seemed like I was the only one who enjoyed this game.

[@Mikebumpful]

The way you sing the Super Mario theme song tells me you’re old enough to have watched the Super Mario Super Show back in like 1990… I also hum it like that and young people are like WHAAT?

[@valravnsshadow9422]

I really enjoyed this game and loved playing the CoOp with my syndicate. Wish there was a sequel with 60fps.

[@mattc7420]

I will now be referring to Cyberpunk 2077 as "Syndicate 2"

[@HGhellbentALAN]

Ah yes the music of the future Dubstep

[@malikmoore5723]

"That wasn't preem chooms" 🤣😂😂

[@pricklypear1643]

A bloody awesome game. And the co-op was great.

[@dct124]

This game was great. Not popular but omg this was addictive.

[@Zogger568]

Those firearms animations are great.

[@HL3AlcAida]

How was it possible that i missed that game.

[@Besnada]

One of the best fps I ever played,with a fun co op mode as well. Fuck, you re gonna make me reinstall it again

[@Stahl_Amerikanisch]

Literally the funniest KZbinr on here tbh

[@eternity9099]

I remember playing this. It was pretty fun. I liked it.

[@maxkaufmann833]

Loved this game so much man

[@fullmetaljoker666]

I remeber playing this game. It was actually pretty cool and I was surprised it didn't do that well. I mean it didn't really do anything new but it was still pretty fun

[@HugoMcSuave]

That's the coolest pair of raycons I've ever seen

[@pastamug1960]

I love you oboe

[@stolenheart1760]

I have this and completed it in 2 days, it was fun

[@dbateman]

Can you even buy this any more? Only place I found it was a DVD on eBay.

[@stanknight9159]

I loved Syndicate. I would play the overtop game nonstop in the 90's lol. 2012 was good too.

[@morzemus1805]

Reminds of trying out the original games way back then. Have been sitting on my GOG library long eough.

[@TezzRah]

the co-op on this game was cool. and you missed the bit where you mow down civilians in habitation blocks.

[@nesterosan]

This was my favorite game when it came out, it was awesome. And if memory is correct, it was 4 player co-op. Cyberpunk before Cyberpunk XD

[@ianmckenzie6715]

Where did you find that clip of the sledgehammer director?