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Had it for about 3 weeks and my PC is fine. I have been looking for this game for so long! Lead your own assault team specialized in tactics and weapons once you download SWAT 4 for free Vote 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Requirements and additional information:. The demo version only allows you to play one level of the single player campaign. Antony Peel. Software languages. Author Irrational Games. These maps are driven in so much detail that you will love it.
As the leader of the team member you have to focus on the crime at locations and show up. The main thing is that your tactics team members will follow you and you also have to leave no trace. You will be informed for every kind of occurrence in the city through your wireless. So one should play this game with sound volume turned on.
Its all about the justice you have to provide your city and the justice they deserve has to be served is at the spot. The idea is to create scenarios to swap with your friends, but it's a safe bet that your friends will soon tire of playing the same level time and again but with a different combination of bad guys to shoot for no discernable reward.
Although hideously complex to look at -and even scarier to actually try and use - the inclusion of the tool for those with a masters degree in working out the blisteringly unfathomable goes to show that Irrational is foursquare behind supporting the modding community. With any luck, it won't take long until we start to see a wealth of extra maps and missions, in much the same way we did with SWAT3 all those years back.
One other thing that you may remember from the SWAT 3 special editions was that the multiplayer side of the game was only added later on due to overwhelming pressure from fans. Aside from creating maps, one thing the small but loyal SWAT community might want to campaign for this time round is an enhancement in the physics engine being used. Told you those jokes were limited is the rather static nature of the game world.
In this modern age of Half-Life 2 and Havok physics and all that, SWAT 4 can feel rather old-school - no doubt a hangover from the protracted development period. Aside from doors, certain windows and the occasional beer bottle, not very much in the world of SWAT4's urban rescues is interactive. It doesn't detract too much from the overall enjoyment of the game, but it will serve to date things very quickly. You can't help but wonder at just how much more compelling a lot of the gunplay would have been had chairs and tables been usable as impromptu cover and so on.
Consequently, you can come away from SWAT 4 thinking it's a little short in the technical trousers. Mind you, Irrational has certainly done its best to make the most of things, and the mission design generally achieves an impressive sense of atmosphere and tension. Certain levels, such as the Fairfax Residence, in which a psycho loner has taken to kidnapping young girls and forcing them to perform' for his cameras, are particularly unsettling.
This is especially true as you creep past ghostly face masks, with a whimpering girl lying on a rancid mattress in front of a video camera and walls full of newspaper clippings about kidnapped children. Even more creepy since you've already had to subdue his ageing mother who continually protests the innocence of her little boy. Sometimes it's all a little too close to home, especially with news reports about paedophiles cropping up almost every day on TV nowadays.
Even your Al mates can be heard muttering things like Sick and Man, this is disgusting as you proceed through the level. In some ways it's brave of Irrational and VU to include something like this rather than sticking with safe' subjects such as robbers, terror bombers and cultists. The fact that it's handled with the appropriate gravitas and not trivialised in the slightest almost demands that everyone should play it, and certainly puts the unintentional comedy in using non-lethal devices on civilians into sharp relief.
Sorry, this has all got rather serious and weighty hasn't it? Try another fly swatter joke - Ed. No time. Instead I should probably just sum things up by saying that Irrational has done an absolutely bang-up job in saving the SWAT series from what was looking like certain death its prior Urban Justice incarnation.
All it needs now is a more advanced engine to power a sequel, a more involving sense of training and life in a pair of SWAT shoes. That, and a willingness to continue dealing with the dark underbelly of real world criminality without pulling any punches.
One area of SWAT 4 that Irrational could really have gone to town on is the training aspect of the game. I know from experience I watched a documentary on Discovery that when a SWAT team isn't in the field shootin' bad guys, they spend their time brushing up their tactics and training with cool weapons and gadgets.
The in-game training, however, is bog-standard stuff - no more than an interactive version of the manual. You learn how to move. How to look up with the mouse. How to open a door. What it doesn't even touch on are the relative merits of using a Colt M4A1 assault rifle in a situation over a GB36s.
Or when you should use a gas grenade over a flashbang. Or anything useful that a SWAT officer might actually want to know. What Irrational should have done is properly simulate the life of a SWAT team - mixing ongoing training sessions that fl teach you new techniques with actual emergency call-outs. Creating some sense of cohesion rather than just giving you a series of unconnected missions with little sense of progression.
To say that we were underwhelmed would be putting it mildly. The game was, quite frankly, a disgrace, with appalling Al. Exactly why it was shown is anyone's guess. But fear not - much has changed since then. In fact, everything has changed since then. The SWAT 4 that now stares back at you from these pages with come-and-get-me eyes is a totally different game, developed by a totally different team the one responsible for the excellent Tribes: Vengeance.
It also features a totally different engine. The Unreal engine and the Havok physics library to be precise. Bit tasty isn't it? So we caught up with Paul Pawlicki, SWAT4's associate producer at Vivendi Universal Games and slammed his fingers in a draw until he divulged the latest info on what's already threatening to be one of 's big hitters SWAT 4 brings the law enforcement experience to the strategic shooter genre," explains Paul.
You experience what it's like to be a part of the revered law enforcement unit, and learn how to lead a team of highly trained officers and quickly execute a plan through our context-sensitive interface.
You're also challenged with gameplay situations unique to law enforcement such as barricaded suspects, serving warrants on hostile suspects and hostage rescues.
In order to ensure the game's authenticity. Irrational has hired Ken Thatcher, a year SWAT team veteran, who's been overseeing every part of the game's development. Ken's overseen everything, from animation to how the Al should behave in a hostile situation. You see your Al-controlled team-mates breach doors, clear rooms and snap to corners in the same manner as their real-life counterparts. Combat with suspects is very strategic too - you have to seek cover and stay calm under fire.
You won't be able to run into a room with guns blazing as you risk not only your own life, but the lives of your squadmates too. I swear to you that it takes more time to describe than it does to learn - it's that easy," he claims. The game actually predicts what you want to do.
So, if you're pointing at a door, your default command states Open and Clear'. Simply press the spacebar to give your team the order and watch them open the door and clear the room. Sounds good so far If you want to do something other than the default command, then just right-click the mouse and a list of available commands pops up, such as breaching or wedging doors, looking around corners with mirrors, securing suspects or clearing rooms using flashbangs or CS gas.
Just click the one you want and watch your team respond. If what Paul says proves to be true, then SWAT 4 might just prove to be the game that blows this often inaccessible genre wide open for the masses to enjoy. According to Paul, Irrational has been working feverishly on SWAT 4's Al in order to ensure that you don't get a repeat of the E3 debacle back in The Al can choose to fight, run for cover or give up when you shout at them to comply, boasts Paul.
In some cases, if the Al's morale is high, they won't give up. It's then up to you to apply a little pressure to convince them to comply. To do this, you can use anything from pepper spray and Tasers to deadly force - or just shoot them in the leg. And how about your squad-mates, what can you expect to see from them?
Of course, all of this so-called innovative Al would be wasted if enemies were always found in the same places, a shortfall that Irrational is very keen to avoid. Paul also informed us that thanks to a Quick Mission Maker, you'll be able to create your own scenarios and levels, where you can customise every tiny detail, down to the morale of each enemy.
SWAT 4 is also promising some truly original ideas. The first of these is the Helmet Camera Window, which enables you to split your team up and see what the other group is doing in a mini-window.
Not only will this help you keep track of where your other team members are, but it'll also allow you to issue on-the-fly commands to far-off squad members. Another imaginative feature is the 'Friendly Sniper'. Snipers are placed in strategic locations outside of your objective, explains Paul. At that point, you take control of the sniper through a window on your HUD sniper through a window on your HUD and take the shot. If it manages to deliver on its potential, SWAT 4 could be the game that propels the tactical shooter genre into the mainstream, while still managing to retain all of the hardcore strategic elements that made the SWAT series so great in the first place.
Look out for our exclusive hands-on next month. What tactical shooter would be complete without a terrifying collection of weaponry? Not SWAT4, that's for sure. With each team member's arsenal fully configurable before the start of each mission, you'll be able to make the most of hardware like M4A1 rifles, silenced sub-machine guns, Colt 9mm pistols and Benelli shotguns. There's also set to be plenty of protective equipment to shield your balls with, such as light and heavy armour, gas masks and goggles.
Plus, if you're the more forgiving sort, you can kit up with non-lethal weapons such as Tasers and Pepper Ball guns. There's something for everyone here. SWAT 4 is being designed with multiplayer very much in mind - Irrational is currently working on three different multiplayer modes. You can earn more points by arresting the Suspects than shooting them dead.
The bombs are randomly placed within the levels and SWAT has to locate and defuse them. Oh, and did I mention there are suicide bombers?
If this kind of multiplayer isn't your bag though, don't worry - you and your mates can just play through the single-player campaign cooperatively.
There are 15 missions to undertake, and each one presents a unique scenario to approach. Like a true SWAT officer, lethal force is frowned upon unless absolutely needed.
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