Syndicate: the most underrated game of 2012

As a heads-up: calling anything “underrated” is obviously subjective. This then is an opinion piece, and one strives to illustrate the manner in which journalists unfairly criticised the 2012 shooter Syndicate. The game’s 74 Metacritic score, were it a film, would indicate a generally positive reception. But in gaming circles 74 is comparatively low. That might be symptomatic of an industry that calls anything above “85” good and anything below “70” deeply average.

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