Retro Goodness

[Saracen 16]

Anyone remember these?

 

 

I used to play these games religiously... Especially Syndicate wars, while waiting for Red Alert to come out. Lead Producer of these games was the infamous Peter Molyneux..... I really wish EA would give this Franchise a new breath of life... as RPG/RTS Hybrid's go, these games were just pure awesome. As PC Zone UK put in their review for Syndicate Wars at the time.

 

Syndicate Wars is Totally amoral, ultra violent, and more fun than sex!

And it was!

 

So has anyone played them, or at least remember them?

[Alphabear 11]

Yeah i remember them. You had my hopes up there for a second thinking there was a new title or a re-release or something

[Saracen 16]

HAHA, I wish, damn I wish so much.... But EA in their infinite Wisdom doesn't hold much interest in the Syndicate Franchise that they own, and the only guy that really has the team who developed it is Peter Molyneux and his some of his team at Lionhead Studios.

 

The only way you can play these games is if you follow the (small) community's walkthrough for running Syndicate Wars on Single Core machines. Or you find an emulator for the PSone version and stick that in your PC.

 

Syndicate is the same, except for an emulator on the SNES version. The game is also part of the EA Replay collection (which I own) on the PSP. That contains the lesser superior SNES version, but it's still a classic in it's own right.

[sith_wampa 6]

I don't remember that game but I do remember that Bullfrog created the awesome RTS game Populous which I loved and would really like to see another sequel to.

 

Damn, now I want to go play it..

[Saracen 16]

In theory Black & White was the Spiritual Successor to Populous.

 

Populous is another owned EA franchise that could have made them a lot of money, but obviously didn't have the community like this one to sustain the game.

 

Still, I think if EA could get the talent... creating new sequels to these great Bullfrog titles wouldn't be a bad move.

[Alphabear 11]

Yeah a while back I looked at getting emulators to run the old syndicate games. It seemed like too much hassle for the limited playability they offered though

Edited February 14, 2008 by Alphabear

[Saracen 16]

Most of the older games don't stand up to the playability factor that most modern titles do. But the great thing about Retro goodness is the memories they provide. So in many a sense it it very much worth it if you can get a good library going.

 

I can sit playing Syndicate Wars and all the old memories, joys and problems (irk!?) come flooding back from that era. It's great stuff!

 

In fact I was talking to Zee just the other day about a particular favourite:

 

 

And thanks to Zee, I found out that it's been recreated too!

[Alphabear 11]

When i said limited playability i meant the emulators. I'm not sure if there are newer versions now but the ones i looked at for syndicate wars all had major faults to the point where it wouldn't play like they used to