Eagerly anticipated this release after playing both previous versions of this game many moons ago and I'm disappointed. The geek in me has to confess that I don't like the way the original story line has been changed. EuroCorp agents in previous games were cyborg assassins given to human executives to complete missions set by EuroCorp. In the previous games you played the part of the human executive which made your agents somewhat expendable - and it some parts of the game necessarily expendable. Now it seems you play the part of the Agent in what is yet another FPS that seem to litter the computer game stores.
The game itself... graphics quite good but certainly not the best I've seen on the PS3. A very frustrating part of the game for me is the amount of doors that look like they can be opened/used. But once you arrive at them you find out they're just part of the wall detail - something that was common (and forgivable) in FPS games ten or so years ago but certainly not now. Maybe that's just my gripe! Another huge annoyance is the the fact that EVERY (and I mean EVERY) inaminate object is name tagged!! Why does a beer bottle have to be labelled as "beer bottle?" Why do I need to know that's it's a beer bottle as soon as I walk near it? Another very annoying graphic problem is that with some weapons your remaining ammo counter is displayed in the centre of the screen on top of your gun - right where you're trying to aim!! All in all - the screen seems very cluttered with useless information at times.
Talking of the weapons, they seem slightly uninspired compared with the array of futuristic weapons available in the previous games. Additonally, "Breach Mode" has now replaced Psycho Gas/Persuadatron/etc and gives you option to briefly control enemies. This effect is nothing compared to Syndicate Wars on the PSOne/PC where you could create a small army of 20-30 armed civilians following your agents round on screen doing your bidding.
The single player campaign is quite short and a little bit lack lustre in all honesty. However, the co-op mode in this game is rather good and probably the only thing stops me trying to return or sell the game. The co-op mode is more in the spirit of the older games where each player has a designated role/task. And it uses the original Syndicate maps - nice touch!! :)
As a summary, this is not really a Syndicate game, not as us (slightly) older gamers would know it anyway. I'm sure blevvies of gamers will love this as as sci-fi FPS, but for those of us who remember the original games - I think we wanted a bit more than that, especially after all these years. The co-op mode is its saving grace and is good fun. But personally, I rate Deus Ex as a better game and I would buy that over this any day of the week - especially if the Cyberpunk genre is you're thing, Deus Ex will not disappoint, this has the potential to.