Agent armaments, cybernetic modifications and behavioral attributes can be controlled by the player to make them more suited for particular tasks. The agents must frequently overcome local police forces and heavily armed agents from rival syndicates to achieve mission objectives, which range from assassinations to capture or rescue of personnel. The game consists of a series of missions, in which the player controls a team of cybernetically modified agents attempting to take control of a particular country. Set in a dystopian future in which corporations have replaced governments, Syndicate puts the player in control of a corporation vying for global dominance.
It is the first title in the Syndicate series. Syndicate is an isometric real-time tactical and strategic game from Bullfrog Productions created in 1993, and released for a variety of platforms beginning with the PC and Commodore Amiga.