There are a total of 19 weapons that players will have at their disposal. This collection of arsenal includes 25 possible upgrades and 87 attachments as explained in the trailer which can be viewed below. The video also displays some examples of both ranged combat and close quarters combat, from which you can get an idea of which weapons are suitable for each situation.

When the game was announced back in September, publisher EA said the aim of launching this new version of Syndicate is to appeal to fans of the original game and at the same time ‘to provide a challenging action shooter for today’s gamers.’ Next year’s version is being developed by Starbreeze Studios, the team that brought us The Darkness as well as The Chronicles of Riddick titles; Escape from Butcher Bay and Assault on Dark Athena.

As well as this new weapons trailer, EA has also launched some screenshots which include gameplay images from the single player campaign as well as several from the co-op mode. If you would like to see all the images that have been released for the upcoming game so far, head on over to VG24/7. You can also watch the full clip of the weapons trailer below. What are your thoughts on Syndicate so far?

We can confirm that Syndicate is scheduled for release on February 21, 2012, it will be coming to Xbox 360, PS3 and Windows and Starbreeze Studios are the guys who are developing it – this means if you loved The Outforce, Enclave,Knights of the Temple,The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, The Darkness or The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, you might like Syndicate..

Full game details are currently unknown, you can see the game’s plot here, to sum things up it is set in 2069 and civilians have been planted with chips by mega-corporations known as syndicates – you play as Miles Kilo, Eurocorp’s latest prototype agent, and the journey the game takes you through is said to involve revenge and corruption.

in terms of gameplay it is a first-person shooter, but you have more than just weapons to take out the enemy, throughout the game you upgrade hacking mechanics which will allow you to control the digital world around you, also you can slow down time.

The game is said to be a cross between the first-person shooter elements associated with Crysis and the clean sci-fi world of Mass Effect – we are particularly excited to hear that it will boast 4 player cooperative multiplayer. You can find out a little more over at GameSpy.

Does the game interest you? Did you play the original? Let us know below.

2K Games has confirmed that The Darkness 2 will be released this fall, no solid release date has been set, however we can confirm that Starbreeze won’t be developing the next installment as they are busy with another game, instead Digital Extremes got the job.

Digital Extremes was founded back in 1993 and have worked on games such as Unreal, Unreal Tournament, Unreal Championship, Pariah, Warpath, Dark Sector and both BioShock releases in the past, therefore it would be fair to say that they have the quite a bit of experience with pretty impressive first-person shooters.

Apparently The Darkness 2 will build on the solid foundations set by its predecessor, one exciting thing we have heard is that the game will offer “quad-wielding”, this allows you to simultaneously fire two weapons whilst slashing, grabbing and throwing enemies with your Demon Arms.

I missed out on The Darkness first time round, therefore I will be keeping a close eye on the sequel especially with the quad-wielding feature, will you?