SWAT 4: Gold Edition

An immersive Tactical Shooter

A great game, great graphics, gameplay and scenarios. I just plain terrible, just terrible and there's no need to go into detail about it. If you want to play the game correctly, call some friends to bring justice to the streets. Really a great police simulator, ignoring some basic bugs that the game has.

The game has high replayable potential: you can literally restart the mission and the AI bots will be on the new spot every time. Multiplayer is not much populated nowadays, but you still can find 5-10 players playing the game on the weekends. Fun to play alone, and fun to play with friends (FFA, TMD) if you have ones. The visuals might look outdated but the gameplay is still like new. I recommend you to buy and play the game. My solid 5 out of 5.

I have to agree in part with MrFoxer and some of the other more critical reviews. SWAT 4 might well be one of the better tactical shooters out there as described by several user reviews, but the AI (especially that of your fellow officers) can be frustratingly flawed at times. Sometimes they perform very well, other times terrible - and not necessarily in a realistic "people make mistakes" kind of way. Some close-in combat situations seem to cause odd and clumsy behaviour, often leading to the loss of team members. AI performance and mission outcomes will, to varying degrees, depend on sufficient planning (selection of weapons, gear, entry points), and proper tactics and leadership during the mission. Success is more likely when you adapt your tactics according to each situation - which I guess is pretty much the whole point behind the game - but I feel it could have been considerably better with proper AI.

What is good: - Magazines are real things so if you do tactical reload game rembers how many left in every magazine - You learn not to shoot and how dangerous it is to ask for voluntary disarm - Locations are full of objects and they feel like real places. Stories are told just by objects and texts on walls - You have team to guide that can help a lot - Enemies do all the things to not to help you, escape, group and even can shoot civilians - Game treats you as an adult so settings, game progress and ai tweaks are editable text files - Every mission is different even playing same level due to changing enemy locations - intel really has sense - does anybody make games like this anymore? - sometimes it is really hard to find gun dropped by suspect -> like in real life What is bad: - no iron sights and no google vision limit - sometimes ai fails to find path - sometimes ai does dumb things - did swat really use paintball gun? - some missions are very long IMHO nobody would send team of 10 people against 20 suspects and 10 civilians - elite difficulty? In most levels mean only taser and peppergun - basic version of game missses synchronized entry and melee - ai won't restrain until explicitly ordered - ai won't pickup guns