games-pc syndicate ユーザーズマニュアル

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Then the European corporation perfected the CHIP. Inserted in the neck, the CHIP
stimulated the brain stem to alter your every perception of the outside world. Better
than any drug, the CHIP gave hope to millions by numbing their senses to the misery
and squalor around them. One CHIP would convince users that the sun shone and
the birds sang even as they walked through the constant acid rain drizzle. Another that
they were glamorous or handsome – they’d look in the mirror and see a different face
– while the rest of the world would see them as they really were.
The CHIP was a technological revolution and sold countless units with the slogan
‘Why change your world when you can change your mind’. It also left the user open
to auto-suggestion and gave the corporations the perfect tool for manipulating the
populace.
Like any new and potent drug, control of the CHIP meant control of the people.
Soon the corporations were at war among themselves, desperate to monopolize CHIP
manufacture. But the corporations’ thirst for power left them open to infiltration.
With money earned through pirating CHIP technology, crime Syndicates bribed and
murdered their way into corporation boardrooms. It wasn’t long before the Syndicates
became the controlling force all over the globe, with a finger in the pie of every
transaction, criminal or otherwise, worldwide.
And in the crime Syndicates of tomorrow those in control don’t need uzis for back
up. Teams of custom-built cyborg agents hunt down rivals and traitors, and spread the
influence of the Syndicates across the globe.
GAME OVERVIEW
For you, the future is now.
As a young executive in a small European Syndicate you’re looking to make your
mark. You observe from a control platform in an airship high above the teeming city
streets as your agents, controlled by CHIP technology, spread the shadow of your
terror. Equipped with the latest in hi-tech weaponry, their cyborg bodies souped up
with extra powerful limbs – the best that Syndicate money can buy – your finger rests
on the pulse of their every reaction.
The CHIPs inserted in their necks control IPA (Intelligence, Perception and
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