Before R6 became a console shooter it was a strategic and tactical action game. You plan your attack and squad movements before entering the actual game portion and they hope everything executes to plan (and that your plan of attack worked). I wish more games (or this series) had stuck to the plan first gameplay. You could take part or you could just sit back and command your squad members. It has aged visually, but otherwise is perfect.
SWAT 2 is worth the price alone. It was completely under the radar in its day (although I remember the dummy boxes at EB and thinking the graphics looked like real life haha). It has flaws (there are control mechanics that are annoying or flawed, it can be slow paced when you play at a usable speed, but it all works). It is an RTS game but with no resource management within the level. You assign the number of officers or terrorists you want to bring to the level based on budget (which you make more money the better the outcome of each level is). You can train characters to get better (although with only 16 or so levels per side you need to start this right away and focus only on a few select traits since you will not have enough time to really dive in deep). I played it over and over in order to perfect each level and outcome and had a blast. Side note; being the terrorists and just playing a single mission, blowing your budget, and just seeing how well you can stand off against the 20 or so SWAT guys that come after you is a sadistic blast. I want to find it and do it all over again.... (sadly the expected expansion never came and the multiplayer was disastrously slow).
