Syndicate Wars - Gameplay

Syndicate Wars is a Cyberpunk action/strategy game. It was made by Bullfrog and was published by EA in 1996 for PC and PS1. Syndicate Wars preserves the isometric view of Syndicate, while adding rotation and pitch controls over the view. Control over one’s agents (or acolytes, when playing as the Church) is largely the same as the previous syndicate games, being based on a combination of keyboard and mouse actions. Agents may be commanded singly or in groups, with simple instructions to assume positions, pursue or attack NPCs, collect items, etc. Agents may be set to behave passively, acting only when commanded, or to react to threats through control of brain and adrenal functions (the effectiveness of this autonomous operation may be improved over the course of the game through cybernetic brain upgrades, amongst others). Notably, the player has access to view the entire area of the game map for a level on first entering it; an area of the map need not be “seen“ by the physical characters for its terrain a