Chicago Syndicate is an arcade-oriented fighting

Fighting game

Fighting game is a video game genre where the player controls an on-screen character and engages in close combat with an opponent. These characters tend to be of equal power and fight matches consisting of several rounds, which take place in an arena. Players must master techniques such as...

 video game that was released by Sega of America

Sega

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 in North America

North America

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 for the Game Gear in 1996. It is a spin-off of Eternal Champions

Eternal Champions

Eternal Champions is a 2D fighting game originally conceived by Scott Berfield, produced by Mike Latham for Sega of America and was developed by the Sega Interactive Development Division....

centering around former cat-burglar Larcen Tyler.

Plot

The game is set in the 1920s in an alternate reality from the Eternal Champion universe. In this universe, Larcen Tyler found out earlier that the package he was to send to the hospital by Mr. Tagilani that was to have killed him was a bomb and disposes of the bomb sooner than he does, which results in the deaths of him, the police chief of Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

 and people in the hospital never happening at all. Because of this act, Mr. Tagliani considers Larcen a traitor and orders all the mobs in Chicago to kill him.

While in hiding, the police order Larcen to become a police informant and ask for Larcen to clean up the streets of Chicago in exchange for information regarding Mr. Tagliani's current whereabouts.