Razorwyre : How New Zealand says Hello via Metal Posted August 29, 2013
Taking cues from the best of German Hard Rock and Powermetal and hailing from New Zealand (I'm betting even
Luxemberg has some metal bands at this point. Wow... Nope!)
enter Razorwyre. These guys sound like a
mix of old Helloween and Accept.
Not a bad thing by any stretch of the imagination. These guys only have one album and EP out at the moment,
but with promise like this and song titles like "Fight or Be Fucked", hopefully there will be a lot more in the coming years. Time will tell. In the
meantime, rock out to this great band. Horns straight up!
Syndicate's a pretty straightforward game. You control an elite tactical strikeforce of 4 guys who you send in
to complete missions in a vast cityscape. Now, even if that's all it was, it'd still be pretty cool. But the ante
is upped by the fact that it's a dystopianCyberpunk future ruled by Megacorporations and their well-placed greed.
Your guys aren't just a bunch of joe-schmoe dipshits either. You get to Borg-out the crap of these guys, doing all
sorts on non-ethical experiments to upgrade your guys Universal Soldier-style. Your guys are too dumb? Start a
research project to upgrade their brains and install new ones. Too slow? Do the same for their legs. The list goes
on. It's awesome.
Of course, what you get to do on the missions is what really makes it great. The aforementioned cityscapes
are teeming with life. Life that you get to destroy in true ruthless fashion. And it doesn't get any better
than setting hordes of people on fire and watching them run around screaming and flailing. Then there's the Gauss
gun which cuts down swathes of people. Then there's unique weapons like the Persuadertron. People attacking you
because you killed their friends? Use this on them and they join your side instead, running amuck and causing bedlam.
It's so awesome. It doesn't really matter if it's essential to kill them. You do it pretty much because you can.
Rough day? Here's your release.
The game will never win any awards for instilling deep values in
children. But that's exactly what makes it so good. I mean, deep values? Fuck that shit!
The game even made it to a list of the best violent video games of all time because "few games have
ever been so keen to have their protagonists murder civilians, burning them with flamethrowers, blowing
them up with rocket launchers and simply mowing them down."
This was back before stupid soccer moms helicoptor-parented their kids and waged idiotic campaigns every
time something even mildly politically incorrect flashed in front of their sacrosanct soon-to-be-entitled emo pansy kid's eyes. To hell
with that! Save that crap for the damn dirty hippies and libtards. Let them cry oceans. Time to get
some!
