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The game was followed by an expansion pack, ''American Revolt''. Now ruling the world, Eurocorp has lost control of the Western Hemisphere, and a series of [[Nintendo Hard|rather difficult]] missions are needed to subdue it.

* [[The All-Seeing AI]]: In ''American Revolt'', clone shields make you look like regular civilians. Enemy agents see right through them.

* [[Crapsack World]]: Your average dark, polluted, [[Cyberpunk]] future, with the chance of being gunned down in the street during corporate takeovers.

* [[Enemy Mine]]: All the other syndicates team up against the player for the Atlantic Accelerator mission, resulting in a [[Nintendo Hard]] final battle. In the expansion, it's even more difficult since your agents are generally in fixed positions, and have to survive airstrikes.

* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: In the intro to ''Syndicate'', someone is abducted from the street to be made into an agent, but in-game you can only recruit enemy agents turned by the Persuadatron.

* [[Immune to Bullets]]: The Energy Shield prevents your soldiers from being hit by bullets. If you have five shields, you can remain indefinitely immune. It doesn't work so well when the enemy uses [[Kill It with Fire|flamers]], gauss guns, or other non-bullet attacks. Most enemies use bullets, rendering you invulnerable in most situations. Even if they could grab a shield-piercing weapon on the ground, they'll still try [[Shooting Superman]] with their ineffective minigun.

* [[Mind Control Device]]: The Persuadertron makes civilians follow you like sheep, and pick up weapons to join the fight. With enough civilians, you can turn the police or even enemy agents (used to refill the stock of agents you may have lost during previous missions.) This is one of the few weapons that doesn't alert the police, and with a large enough group, makes most missions easier.

* [[Risk Style Map]]: The world is divided up into somewhat arbitrary regions, gobbled up by the major players as you progress.

* [[Throw-Away Guns]]: You can't reload weapons in-mission. If you run out of ammo, you'll switch to a different weapon.

* [[You Nuke'Em]]: The "Cataclysm" nuclear grenade in ''Syndicate Wars'', which will knock down buildings.

* [[Better to Die Than Be Killed]]: The way in which {{spoiler|Jack Denham in the final mission chooses to die, by throwing himself in a gap in his damaged tower to the ground far below}}. Also counts for {{spoiler|Logos, though his is more of a [[Taking You with Me]] kind}}.

* [[But Thou Must!]]: About 3/4ths of the way through the game, Miles Kilo {{spoiler|1=is ordered to kill Lily Drawl, who is secretly working against EuroCorp for the Resistance. This results in a quicktime event which ends with Kilo putting a gun to Lily's head, with a button prompt appearing to pull the trigger. The player can ignore the prompt and after several seconds Miles will lower the gun, the Syndicate will freak out, and Lily will be impressed that Kilo still has some humanity in him. If you chose to press the button prompt to blow Lily's brains out, an override she put in Kilo's chip will prevent him from pulling the trigger, and she'll kick his ass. Ultimately, both actions have the exact same outcome (Lily survives, Kilo passes out, and Merit shows up to capture both Lily and Kilo).}} Later, at the end of the game {{spoiler|an almost identical situation arises with the player being given a quicktime prompt to execute Agent Merit. This time, there is no alternative option. You have to kill him (even though he's apparently gone comatose) in order to progress to the ending.}}

* [[Easy Levels Hard Bosses]]: One of the ''Most... Guilty... Ever!!!!'' The levels are noticeably more challenging than most other FPS games, but ''are'' manageable once you get the hang of the gameplay mechanics. However, most of the bosses are completely insane, even on the "Normal" difficulty setting. The final boss in particular is on par with the likes of [[Gears of War|General RAAM]] in terms of player frustration. ''That is not a compliment, Starbreeze''.

* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: Eurocorp and Aspari. They fight against one another, but both of them show callous disregard for the lives of their customers and personnel. This is also implied to be the case with the other corporations.

* [[Ironic Echo]]: {{spoiler|Jack Denham remarks that it's "such a shame" when telling Miles that Lily may have to be liquidated. At the end of the game, he says the exact same thing just before killing himself to avoid being killed by Miles.}}

* [[Internet Backlash]]: Hoo boy. As soon as the announcement video for the reboot came out, many people complained that the game was: A) going to be a bad remake of a good game, B) just going to be another generic FPS because the devs wouldn't use the isometric style from the previous games, and C) a copy of [[Deus Ex: Human Revolution|Deus Ex Human Revolution]].

* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]: The player uses this to kill {{spoiler|Merit, after being thrown into a sort of air duct}}. The fact that that Kilo, after the beating, stops and looks at his now bloodied hands suggests this was also a [[My God, What Have I Done?]] moment for him.

* [[Percussive Maintenance]]: Agent Miles, or atleast the DART 6 system is activated by a [[Mook]] punching him repeatedly, it makes some sense as the DART is fueled by adrenaline.

* [[Weak but Skilled]]: Miles Kilo is this (by Agent standards, anyway. To regular humans he's still a [[Super Soldier]]). He lacks any of the really incredible superpowers other enemy Agents have (super-speed, holograms, super-jumping ability, impenetrable shields, cloaking devices, enhanced regeneration, etc.) However, his in-game dossier remarks that he is unusually creative and independent for an Agent, which allows him to come out ahead when faced with better-empowered enemies.