Satellite Reign Reviews

Syndicate wars reborn

completed

Great Game!! If you ever knew Syndicate, you will love this game!!

Awesome corporate warfare Syndicate Wars succesor

Is this still broken for Linux? I loved the old Syndicate games, so I was super stoked when I learned about this. Unfortunately, I can't get past the tutorial because I can't figure out why force action doesn't work. Should be alt + shift + right click. That doesn't work. Well it worked exactly once after I got frustrated and starting mashing keys. I've more deliberately tried various other key combos including right and left shift and alt keys. This action also doesn't appear in the key bindings menu, so.... unplayable. Is this just me? Or do other Linux users have this issue.

All I can say about Satellite Reign is that everything about the game felt underbaked. The story certainly existed into a climax that came basically out of nowhere. The gameplay started to get formulaic by the second district. Every district will have you unlock your respawn/fast travel points, hack every ATM to get passive income, break into the bank for increased passive income and one time cash injection. Break into military compounds, steal loot, escape. There are three factions. None of them feel different. They'll all use armour, they'll all use shields, they'll all use robots. I think some of them favor certain weapon types? It never felt like any of them actually had any difference. The actual gameplay itself offers several approaches, but the stealth is inconsistent. I have inputted movement commands to watch the pathfinding send my squad in the most batshit directions. I have inputted them to hide behind cover and they'll decide to just... not? Moving somewhere else nearby where I selected instead. Similarly, combat is more micromanagement than any RTS I've played. There is no automatic targeting for your squad, you must manually target each enemy for each member. Once that one is dead, you need to target another one or they'll just stand there doing nothing. So as soon as I managed to unlock strong enough weaponry, I immediately moved to the death ball approach of slaughtering my way through enemy bases. The brute force method worked wonderfully and only got stopped two or three times by the end of the game. There's an entire mechanic where you need to spend around 20-ish minutes per item you loot to research it to be mass produced along with money. So if you really want to use that item, you'll be AFKing. Except it will auto pause the game if you're AFK, so you need to toss on an auto clicker as well if you want to just wait out some research to install a new augment or use a new weapon. Alternatively, you can use the prototypes on their own but risk losing them if your agent dies. Which also means you can't use multiple. This mechanic is just kind of annoying padding and you still need to pay money to equip the gear, so they could have just made money a bit tighter in exchange. The gameplay loop overstays its welcome by about ten hours and by the time I reached end game, I was absolutely burnt out.

A fun if not buggy and sometimes irritating game. I have always been a huge fan of both Syndicate and Syndicate Wars and Satellite Reign is a worthy spiritual successor. The gameplay is often repetitive and the story, which is actually pretty good, is told in a very non linear fashion which can certainly lead to gaps by the time the credits roll. This game is a lot of fun, despite some of it's short comings, buy on a sale and play with friends...if you have any.

Its a modern interpretation of syndicate era in the 90s. like it a lot!

Ok some of you well lol those that are a bit older, may have forgotten about a pc game called Syndicate well this is it with upgraded graphics and mechanics! This is strategy meets James Bond meets RPG meets fun!