Reviewers Liked
- A host of inventive customization options support both stealth- and action-oriented gameplay
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Early missions are restrictive and frustrating
Satellite Reign
76
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Expert reviews and ratings
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When Satellite Reign is on and all the parts decide they want to work together, it is a blast. Infiltrating a base without setting off any alarms and stealing new guns and money from under the enemy's nose is tense and satisfying, and you have to be willing to take risks to succeed. I just wish you didn't have to slog through the uninviting early hours and the game's regularly busted AI to find those thrills.
By GameSpot on
85
If you, like me, at one point in your very earliest days of gaming owned a Sega Mega Drive you may have stumbled upon a game called Syndicate (Yes, it was on PC too!). I, the lad that I was at the time, had no idea what renting out this game from a...
By CriticalHit on
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I can still remember the first time I played Syndicate. It was after school in late 1993, and I was messing around on an office computer while waiting for my mother to finish a meeting and take me home. I remember the cool mission music, and largely...
By Destructoid on
80
These quibbles aside, Satellite Reign has infiltrated our hearts. It's a handsome tribute to a much-loved game series that also functions as a unique RPG and a tactical combat game. As a revival, it takes its place alongside Shadowrun: Dragonfall and...
By Trusted Reviews on
80
Satisfyingly freeform missions and rich systems to play with, set in one of the prettiest cyberpunk cities on...
By PC Gamer on
60
While long devoted Syndicate and cyberpunk fans may be in hog heaven, Satellite Reign does not do much to entice new players with its keyboard shattering combat or lifeless world. On the occasion it does work, the experience is fantastic but these...
By videogamesuncovered.com onSatellite Reign is the spiritual successor to Syndicate, a real-time tactical game released in 1993, which I loved playing back in the day. In the game, you control up to four cyborg agents who will bribe, steal and hack to help your syndicate achieve...
By AsiaOne onThe future will be imperfect. All great science fiction shows this, from the ever-widening wealth disparities of Neal Stephenson, through the anthropological miscommunications of Ursula Le Guin to the consumerist, drug-addled dystopias of Philip K....
By eurogamer.net onI'd been led to believe that Satellite Reign was a modern-day Syndicate. Turns out it isn't. Phew.I mean, I love Syndicate as much as the next person who loves Syndicate, in that I grew up thinking it was one of the best games of all time. I still...
By kotaku.com onNeon, synth, Tron -coats, rain and grime. All you need for a cyberpunk adventure.Satellite Reign ran a successful Kickstarter campaign back in 2013. Programmer Mike Diskett, who worked on the original Syndicate and was lead on Syndicate Wars , and...
By Destructoid on
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