Rumorang: Riddick dev helming new Syndicate game

A new report suggests that Starbreeze Studios is working on a new Syndicate game, with Electronic Arts set to publish. Word of the Riddick and The Darkness dev's involvement with the title first made the rounds last October. Possibly related is a new casting call posted on superannuation for actors in an upcoming "futuristic" Starbreeze/EA title called "DART," which according to the post will be set in a "high tech city."

Though nothing has been formally announced, sources tell GI.biz that the Syndicate series is behind EA and Starbreeze's mysterious Project RedLime, which was originally referred to as a "classic franchise" for the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC.

While that project was said to be "already deep in development" in February 2008, don't expect to revisit the classic cyberpunk series anytime soon. According to the report, the new Syndicate title won't be released until Starbreeze finishes up its current project based on Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne. Until then, the four gentlemen in the corner giving us the crazy eyes will just have to wait.

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I heard good things about this game. I'd rather have this than a Bourne game.

Can I start my research now, so that I can have a tech or two by the time the game is released? No? Damn.

GAH!!! THE NOSTALGIA!!! THOSE CUTE LITTLE POD CARS!!! THE FLAMETHROW-*HEADS ASPLODES

Forget that... remember the Guass Gun? Smoked them bitches like it ain't no thang!
I remember fighting my best friend for his Powerbook to play this game.

ya this game kicked BUTT wow, i loved this game back in the day!

i also thought it had a very slick sounding name, Syndicate...

did anyone play Gender Wars? game was hilarious too, gameplay was exactly like Syndicate

this brings back good memories of PC Gaming back in the day :)

LETTHISBETRUE, LETTHISBETRUE! PLZ!
Oh. Also, why do I have a feeling that the plastic 3D of today can only spoil the unique tone and mood of the original games?... :/

hmm... perhaps because for some bizzaro reason you think that all devs must conform to some specific art/lighting style?

Oh Vin diesel you make one good game :)

And when they're done with this they can see about re-making Chaos Overlords. :)

I can't really picture a new Syndicate game working as well as the original did in its day, but then again I'm not a game designer, so hopefully they have a lot more imagination than I do. As long as it's not an FPS or TPS then I'll give it a go.

I'm hoping for something in between a TPS and an RTS, kinda like Full Spectrum Warrior, but with a more RPG feel to the pacing.

The old Syndicate rocked hard. Here's hoping a new one can live up to it's predecessor.

NO FREAKIN WAY! Awesome dev takes on reviving an old cult classic? The only way this could be better in my eyes is if the title said "Riddick dev helming new Shadowrun game; Forgets completely about the last Shadowrun game"

HOLY SHIT! Awesome!

Holy shit yea! Syndicate was awesome!

I beat the first game, I really enjoyed it - and then the sequel arrived and it just didn't feel the same. Hopefully they can get back to what made the original good - without falling into what made the sequel not.

Or maybe I was just crazy - because aside from the fact it felt like you were closer I don't really recall how it was really different.

better be mostly topdown/isometric or it's not Syndicate.

Wait I may get not only Fallout reborn but Syndicate Wars?! HOLY CRAP! All that remains is a Wii version of Custard's Revenge and I'm golden....

Syndicate Wars wasn't 1/10th as good as Syndicate.

Agreed. The original was magical crack.

Which for some reason reminds me of an old school game I played called Relentless...

SELECTED.

Do want.

woah, flashback... it's 4 a.m. in 1993 and the tiny cyborgs have had me glued to the amiga for the past 9 hours

is that a bald zach braff in the picture?

I just thought of this game a few days ago! Man this was one of my favourite games as a kid. The guass gun sure was devastating but oh so sweet

persuadatron

How about a new Syndicate ... and a Syndicate MMO. Yum.

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Rumorang: Riddick dev helming new Syndicate game

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