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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Alternate Titles

• "霹雳小组4" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)
• "迅雷先鋒4" -- Chinese spelling (traditional)

Part of the Following Groups

• 3D Engine: UnrealEngine2
• Covermount: Fullgames
• 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

Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Jun, 2005		100
Pelit	Apr, 2005	90 out of 100	90
GameSpy	Mar 28, 2005		90
videogamer.com	May 09, 2005	9 out of 10	90
2404.org PC Gaming	May 04, 2005	8.9 out of 10	89
ActionTrip	Apr 05, 2005	87 out of 100	87
PC Action	Apr 29, 2005	86 out of 100	86
GamePro (US)	Apr 08, 2005	4 out of 5	80
Eurogamer.net (UK)	Apr 11, 2005	8 out of 10	80
GameStar (Germany)	Apr, 2005	80 out of 100	80

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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.)