SWAT 4 (Windows)

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Description

In the fourth game of the venerable SWAT series, you play as a Special Weapons and Tactics element commander at a fictional police department. Using realistic SWAT tactics, you must command your four man team to deal with high risk situations while minimizing casualties. But this is not a game for the itchy trigger finger. You must follow strict rules of engagement, and shooting a suspect before he or she points a gun at someone will cost you.

Using a variety of weapons, such as standard assault rifles or less lethal weapons ranging from beanbag shotguns to Tazers to modified paintball guns that shoot pepper spray balls, you can maneuver the two man squads that make up your five man (including you) element independently or together, as well as get useful recon from snipers (who you can control through a picture-in-picture interface).

The game has a single player career mode as well as an Instant Action mode that generates a random mission using an existing map. You can also customize objectives for a single player mission. Multiplayer includes team-based SWAT vs. suspects games as well as cooperative play with up to five players.

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Trailer

Alternate Titles

• "霹雳小组4" -- Simplified Chinese spelling
• "迅雷先鋒4" -- Traditional Chinese spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• 3D Engine: Unreal Engine 2
• BestSeller Series (Cendant / Havas / Vivendi Universal) releases
• Covermount: Fullgames
• Games with downloadable official map/level editors
• Games with dynamic advertisements
• Genre: Tactical shooter
• Physics Engine: Havok
• SWAT series
• Theme: Law enforcement

User Reviews

You're in my way, sir.

Kyle Levesque (935)

Critic Reviews

Jolt (UK)	Apr 25, 2005	9 out of 10	90
IGN	Mar 30, 2005	9 out of 10	90
PC Action (Germany)	Apr 29, 2005	86 out of 100	86
games xtreme	Apr 27, 2005	8.5 out of 10	85
Game Informer Magazine	May, 2005	8.25 out of 10	82
Factornews	Apr 27, 2005	8 out of 10	80
UOL Jogos	Apr 25, 2005		80
GamePro (US)	Apr 08, 2005	4 out of 5	80
1UP	Apr 13, 2005	8 out of 10	80
Games TM	May 19, 2005	7 out of 10	70

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Trivia

1001 Video Games

SWAT 4 appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.

LAPD

Unlike previous games in the SWAT series, SWAT 4 is not based on or endorsed by Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD).

References

• Your briefing sergeant, Sonny Bonds, is the protagonist of the Police Quest series, which the original SWAT was a spin-off of.
• The parking garage level includes an arcade machine in the employee lounge that features Freedom Force vs The 3rd Reich, another Irrational game released at the same time.

Awards

• GameSpy
  • 2005 – #9 PC Game of the Year

Information also contributed by Kasey Chang

Related Web Sites

• Online advertising for the gamer generation (An explanation of the in-game mechanics of the Massive streaming ads (added with the 1.1 patch))
• SWAT4: Official Site (The official site for the game.)