Syndicate

This is a first-person shooter in which players assume the role of a militarized “agent” who works for a corporation in the year 2069. Players use machine guns, sniper rifles, flamethrowers, and grenades to complete missions and kill human targets in frenetic combat. Firefights are highlighted by realistic gunfire and explosions; injured enemies scream in pain and emit large splashes of blood. Players can also perform melee attacks (e.g., snapping enemies' necks). Some weapons result in dismembered limbs, and dead bodies sustain additional blood effects when shot. A variety of cutscenes and interactive sequences depict more intense acts of violence: the execution of unarmed civilians; a character shooting himself in the head; a man getting sliced in half by a door. In one location (marked "XXX" and "Peepshow"), two holographic women in bikinis dance provocatively inside a storefront. The words “f**k,” “sh*t,” and “a*shole” can be heard in the dialogue.