Today only Amazon.com are selling Major League Baseball 2K8 for the PS3 at $39.99, reduced from $59.99 with free shipping.

All these sports games are starting to blur together, this is equally as ‘meh’ as the last

Today only Amazon.com are selling NCAA March Madness 08 at $14.99/$25/$25.

Reviews show this as a very ‘Meh!’ basketball attempt

Today only Amazon.com are selling The Golden Compass for the PSP/PC/PS2/DS at $14.99/$14.99/$14.99/$11.99.

Four bad ass-games.

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Top of the line baseball for those without the means to get MLB o8

Today only Amazon.com are selling Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity for the Wii and PS2 at $29.99/$25, with free shipping.

Either you love it or you hate it, seems highly prefered by the Sonic fans.

Syndicate lived on many platforms between ‘93 and ‘97 and is perhaps still familiar to most of you, it surely won’t be the last Bullfrog game I’ll talk about in one of these little segments, so I hope you’re a fan of the Molyneux

There are three major games in the series, expansions and numerous versions made several changes, but really we are looking at; Syndicate, Syndicate Gen/SNES and Syndicate wars. The story for the first games is extremely simple, you are in charge of a Syndicate, there are regions of the world that are loyal to other Syndicates, you go to those regions and complete a mission, now that region is loyal to you. There’s no rocket science really involved there. Syndicate wars takes things much further, your syndicate is controlling the populous through mind control when “The Church of the New Epoch” starts ruining your fun and implants a virus in the control chips of many of your civilians, this causes those infected to go renegade and you’ll soon be fighting the church, police and these new renegade civilians who have somehow stumbled on a stockpile of guns and started to group together.

Syndicate

At its core, Syndicate is an isometric shooter set in a quasi 21xx blade runner future, with lots of police to shoot, civilians to shoot and cars to drive/shoot. But Syndicate has a whole lot of style behind itwith a great deal of tactics and variety to keep each mission fresh, you won’t be finding just simple run and gun missions, instead missions will often require you to slip through areas of the city to capture (persuade) a target and try to safely get them out of the city while opposing Syndicates take shots at you from the rooftops. Between missions you’ll be using money that you’ve either collecting by taxing countries out the ass or from blowing up banks, and spending it on some research. Once you’ve acquired a weapon from inside a mission you can take it back to your base and begin research, with the goal of eventually being able to purchase more identical weapons for yourself, or you could throw your credits towards research and upgrades for your cyborgs directly, giving them a better ability to handle the performance enhancing drugs you’ll be pumping into them, or increase accuracy, speed, health… etc. Play poorly and you’ll find your money goes quickly and you may soon be out of new recruits as your poorly equipped drug intoxicated solders stumble into battle you may find your best option is to run into a crowded area and self-destruct an agent or two just so you can loot some guns and continue the fight.

Syndicate GEN

Focusing on the more advanced Syndicate Wars, you’ll often find yourself spoilt for choice between nearly 30 different items that your guys can hide under their trench-coats. Starting with the industry standard pistol, razor wire (stretch it across the city and watch the enemy stumble through it) or get some knock out gas and throw it into a crowd. Later in the game the ballistics increase tenfold with satellite bombardment, nuclear hand-grenades and sentry guns. Syndicate Wars was especially noted for having fast 3d combat with the ability to destroy buildings with large glorious explosions and eventually level large areas of a city, now scattered with debris and corpses.

You can’t go wrong with the Syndicate games, the SNES & GEN versions added co-op but sadly Syndicate wars replaced it with a death-match, I’d love to see a sequel and some online co-op appear in the future, perhaps with Populous DS making an appearance we’ll see other Bullfrog franchises make a re-appearance, if so then Syndicate is the top of my list.

Syndicate Wars

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Check out this youtube introduction of Syndicate wars on the PC.

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Tabula Rasa has already been called a failure by many, but some of its unique mechanics are quite interesting. Really at $10 you can’t go far wrong since your first month should be free.

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I’ve not played much of 08, but from what I saw, I’d recommend going for 07 unless you really are looking for a newer roster

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WTF is almost a parody on mini-game collections, by making them so insanely monotonous that you bleed from your ears. Get tired of the mini-games? How about watching some Asian guy flex for 2 minutes while you cook your cup of raman — WTF!?!?