Syndicate is an action-adventure game for the Super Nintendo console. It adapts the computer original with a more cartoony style and new features.
As an executive of a criminal syndicate in a dark cyberpunk future, you control teams of cyborg agents on missions such as assassinating politicians, opinion leaders or executives from rival syndicates, retrieving important objects, kidnapping scientists or taking out enemy agents. The world map consists of 50 regions, each containing one level. The stages are presented in isometric view, and one to four agents are controlled.
Between missions, you can spend taxes from conquered territories on researching new weapons and cybernetic upgrades for the agents. These upgrades include flame throwers, which have been replaced with 'chillers', as well as indirect control of the agents using drugs that influence adrenaline, perception and intelligence. The game features robotic drones instead of policemen and guards.