Sneaking around is the order of the day, and if you felt Counter-Strike was a little slow, you'd probably wake up in a pool of blood, head caved in across the spacebar, after playing a few rounds of SWAT3 online. SWAT 3 really comes into its own as a cooperative game.
Each of the original missions, plus a few new ones available for free download can each be played with humans against Al-bot terrorists - and, when you play with people that you know, the game is tense and gratifying in the extreme. Just as with real life and heavily armed police squads, it's.
SWAT 3 also scores highly in its ability to communicate with other players. We always found even in single-player games SWAT command system worked better than most, and in multiplayer games the system has been transferred with great success and will do very nicely until real-time voice chat becomes standard. This Elite Edition of Swat 3 adds five additional missions, gameplay enhancements and most importantly of all, multiplayer options, which allow you to take the role of both the commander and the members of the elite forces squad.
The command system has been modified from its predecessor, making it incredibly intuitive and easily accessible to newcomers. Comparisons to Red Storm's Rainbow Six games are inevitable, so let's get them out of the way first. The gameplay is similar in that, unlike more frenetic first-person shooters, you move at a realistic pace through real-world locales, and you and your enemies can be killed by single bullets.
When you start the single-player campaign, you first define your character and then choose a squad. There are six to sort through, and your decision is based upon profiles and police experience of the individual members.
Once you choose one, you're stuck with it unless you start a new career, and since the campaign is completely linear doing so would result in redundant play. All of the action takes place in Los Angeles circa Mission goals concern things like freeing hostages, diffusing bombs, protecting dignitaries, serving warrants to dangerous criminals, and doing other SWAT-like stuff. You're given as much information as possible before each mission based on realistic recon: witnesses are interviewed, any suspects that have already been captures are interrogated, floor plans are studied if they're available, and so on.
You're then free to equip yourself and the four members of your element with weapons and tools. The choice of armaments is limited, but realistic: standard and silenced versions of HK's MP5 tactical rifle are available, and M4 assault rifles can be used if the situation looks particularly hairy. User icon An illustration of a person's head and chest.
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Audio Software icon An illustration of a 3. And boy does it look all the better for it. You take on the role of leader of a five-man assault team.
While you control only one person directly, you are responsible for equipping the rest of your squad, assigning their positions and generally bossing them about. The action takes place in a first-person perspective, but thanks to the tiny cameras built into each team member's helmet you can switch points of view to your heart's content.
It's important to remember that SWAT squads, despite all their training in specialised weapons and advanced tactics, are still part of the police department.
So the 20 missions, which take place in LA in the year , have the freshness of an urban setting over the usual international conflict-torn battlefields, embassies and military camps. Expect to face such deadly foes as religious fanatics, redneck survivalists, an maniacal citizens entrenched in suburban homes.
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