Re: "8 Classic Games You Haven't Played (but should)"

On Sat, 01 Feb 2025 19:26:46 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

IIRC, there was also an official addon to add more even harder levels! I
never got far in the original game since it got hard. :(
>

Yup, "American Revolt". I finished both the original game and
-eventually- the add-on. The former got extremely difficult near the
end; the latter was absolutely brutal (it's first level was as hard as
the main game's last level, and it only just got worse from there). I
enjoyed the original. I can't say the same for the expansion pack. It
was not a good game.

Wasn't there another Syndicate clone that was good? I can't remember its
name! I never played it, but my friends told me that it was fun like the
original game.

There were a number of games from that era that tried to follow up on
Syndicate. The one that always springs to mind is "Gender Wars", which
was NOT a good game, but there were others. None of them were
memorable.

However, the one you are probably thinking of is "Satellite Reign",
which came out a full 22 years after the original "Syndicate" and does
its best to ape that classic. It's...okay. Like too many games, it
tried adding extra levels of compexity (hacking, traps, NPCs) to the
core idea and I think it made the whole thing top-heavy; it didn't
have the same accessibility that made the original so fun and
addictive.