Jeff Gerstmann

While it's easy to see why people who loved the original Syndicate would not be into a first-person shooter reboot, Starbreeze's Syndicate stands on its own as a quality shooter. The campaign gives you, as agent Miles Kilo, a handful of interesting abilities that let you deal with encounters in a variety of ways. The multiplayer component contains a cooperative-focused set of missions that aren't entirely dissimilar to Valve's Left 4 Dead games. An underrated gem.

A passable mission-based boating game, which there certainly weren't many of back then. Actually, there aren't too many of those now, either. Controls decently, music and graphics are a little plain in spots, but overall it's fine.