SWAT 4: Gold Edition

This game still provides the best blend of entertaining and realistic experience of being in a SWAT team. Now let's hope Ready Or Not will be a great successor to this series.

If I knew I would have purchased that game long ago ！ We should kickstart SWAT 5, seriously !

The second mission..... first time in my life a game has managed to scare/Horrify me while I have a fireteam of men with me.

You're in my way, sir. If you don't get the reference, I feel bad.

You play a member of Swat, the counter terrorist/criminal Police Force taking down bad guys for all sorts of reasons. What makes this game so good is that it adheres to a somewhat dark realism. From the moment you receive your authentic call to enter the doorway of the suspect premises you are on alert. This isn`t the sort of game you can just wander in and expect to come out alive- at least not on the harder levels. The suspects are randomly placed and from there wander about which adds a huge level of replayability and stops the game from getting repetitive or boring. You must CHECK EVERYWHERE. One shot almost certainly kills so lack of attention will make you or your comrades pay dearly. The suspects aren`t shy about screaming obscenities at you either- just like in real life. Another thing I really like about this game is, unlike so many others, you are trying NOT TO KILL. You see a suspect with a gun, you are expected to warn him and hope he drops his gun. If he looks like he`s going to fight you shoot to kill. But in that vital second between you warning and his dithering, you have to make a lightning-flash decision... `Kill him or not?` There are times I`ve shot dead a suspect who was actually surrendering cos I was certain he was going to shoot- oops! Then there are times you take too long and he shoots you or a teamm8. Sometimes your AI chums do the deciding for you. The AI works pretty well for what must be quite a complex thing to program for it to work as it does. It`s also fun tying up people, especially smart-arse civilians who can`t understand why they`re wearing restraints. And of course, one of my favourites part of the game is when one of your men counts down, you turn away, he blows a room door open, flash-bang it and storm in from two sides to clear the room in a second, SAS style. Wonderful- really feels like how it would be. A great game and including the expansion! Certainly worth buying at the price it is now!