Syndicate 3 game being developed in secret at Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts are set to resurrect Bullfrog’s cult classic Syndicate series with a new sequel currently in development at Starbreeze.
A source inside has leaked this secret of a supposed “Syndicate 3″, while hinting the Electronic Arts deal with Starbreeze had the sole purpose of bringing back this “classic franchise”. Internally known as Project Redlime, it was confirmed in March 2009 that the studio had been working on the game with EA since August 2007. It won’t be released until their other partnership with EA, a new game based on Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne, is finished.
The first Syndicate tactical shooting RTS game was released in 1993 and was followed up in 1996 by Syndicate Wars. The game put players in charge of a militant global corporation, and tasked them with leading (drugged out) cyborg agents around a gritty cyberpunk world rescuing captured allies and assassinating rival syndicate executives.
According to Wiki, the original game’s creator Peter Molyneux has said that “Aside from the licensing complications, some sort of next-gen online version of Syndicate would certainly be popular with gamers.”
Let’s hope development is completed and the game is popular, so we can see lots more classic franchises revisited. And if you want to revisit the original on a current-gen system, get EA Replay for the PSP that includes Syndicate.
