by Steve Watts, Feb 01, 2012 12:00pm PST
Unlike many of EA's other games, Syndicate won't use an Online Pass system, the publisher has confirmed. Partners titles, like Syndicate and Crysis 2, aren't required to carry one. The move is being touted as a means of encouraging players to try out all of the game's features, including its co-op play.
"We want as little resistance or barriers to entry as possible," EA Partners executive producer Jeff Gamon said.
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by Steve Watts, Jan 17, 2012 9:30am PST
Syndicate is launching in February, but you'll have a chance to preview it alongside friends later this month with a co-op demo. It features one full mission, putting players in the shoes of Wulf Western. The goal is to infiltrate a competing syndicate, Cayman Global. Once there, you'll have to assassinate Colonel Enrico Gabron, steal some blueprints, and high-tail it back across the Atlantic with his people in tow.
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Posted Feb 15, 2012 11:17am PST - 4,160 views
Mega-corporations, having divided the Earth into competing syndicate strongholds, fight over remaining natural resources and technology with armies of bio-engineered warriors. You are Miles Kilo, a prototype agent, charged with enforcing EuroCorp's will upon the world.
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