10 Games To Celebrate Being A Capitalist

6. Syndicate 1993

syndicate 3 When someone talks about how hard games are these days, my first thought is how doomed we are if God of War 3 is considered difficult (The game TELLS you which buttons to push!). The second thought is that this child wasn€™t around for games like Syndicate (also known as: You€™ll Never See The Ending), the most infuriatingly hard game I€™ve ever loved to absolute death. Tom Clancy€™s Shadow Watch would have made this list, but Syndicate fits better in terms of the subject overall. The moment I heard that this title was to receive an update, and then that said update would be just another FPS I never even bothered. Syndicate was one of the few games that allowed players to experience turn based, strategic action without muscular little people, fey creatures and dragons. But it also featured a take on capitalism if followed to its seemingly obvious conclusion, a conclusion that sucks admittedly. In the future, corporations have risen to control the entire world not from behind the scenes but right out in the open. Syndicates fight for control of the populous in the streets as well as the boardroom. The player€™s job is to win at the business war by killing everyone, with the goal of winning Super Hyper Turbo Death Monopoly Alpha.... 2!!! (Brownie points to anyone that gets that)
 
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Dante R Maddox got started in writing about pop culture in 2007. He developed his conversational style majoring in English and minoring in speech communication, his desire to write as if he were speaking to the reader face to face was the bane of many professors. An odd blend of geek cred and regular fella chic', you're just as likely to end up talking about baseball or politics as you are about comic books and movies (just don't mention Tucker Carlson, you are addressing the man who will go to jail for assault in the future after all). He wrote a book called The Lineage of Durge that's available on Amazon for a small amount of money, he's writing a second while acting as Editor-in-Stuff over at Saga Online Press, there is a graphic novel expansion of his book series also in the works as well as continued development of his cheesecannon, one day Canada...one day (Seriously, a piece of ham, you slice it up and now it's bacon?!?!? I say thee nay!!!)