For the record Ghost Recon was perhaps a touch too simplistic in this area, while Flashpoint went the other way. Of course SWAT just wouldn’t be SWAT without its on-the-fly tactical options -even today SWAT 3 remains the best example of real-time tactics in the genre. the list of options per weapon is quite extensive." Football Manager Also included is a unique feature that allows the player to configure each weapon with a wide variety of accessories such as infra-red laser pointers, flashlights, various stocks, magazines, optics and grips. "Such as the new HK PDW, the FN-P90, the Serbu BFG50, and even some 40mm projectile launchers that can deliver flashbang grenades and chemical agents. "We have many new additional weapons," says Fung. In fact, the SWAT 3 arsenal is being expanded - no mean feat seeing it was perhaps the most exhaustive gun rack in gaming. Before each mission you equip your player and your team, again with some of the most realistic weapons ever slipped into a computer game. Gun Nut AlertĪs was the case with its predecessor and the likes of Rainbow Six before it, Urban Justice is very much a team game, whether you play online or through the 16 planned missions of the single-player campaign.
For those that haven't been there, it’s a bit like Cardiff at closing time, only the houses are bigger. Apart from being rather clement in the weather department, we remember being lost one night driving back from watching a dire display of football between LA Galaxy and Dallas Burn, ending up around LA’s Inglewood area. Indeed we have visited Southern California. Southern California you’ll know the look and feel of the game." This has allowed us to introduce more interesting characters and situations. "Gang violence has erupted into mainstream Los Angeles and SWAT is called in to secure the city. We asked whether since last September there was any desire to introduce a bio-terrorist threat to the game, a question neatly dodged: "The game is centred on gang warfare, so the look and feel is very 'gangland’ Los Angeles," says Fung.
SWAT 4 DRK EDITION SERIES
Now under the name of SWAT, the series has risen to become about the best example of tactical action there is, and one of the few examples to be set among Western cities rather than former Soviet-bloc republics.Īs with previous SWAT games, Urban Justice will once again be set across the concrete sprawl of near-future Los Angeles, the aim to restore public order to a city in chaos. Its roots were drawn directly from the Police Quest series of actionadventures (see boxout), a genre all but deceased.
SWAT 4 DRK EDITION PC
Of course there are similarities, and players who like one version of the game will most certainly like the other." Policeman Plotīut we forget with all this talk about console dumbing-down and genreshifting that SWAT began life on PC back in the '80s. Each is designed exclusively for their respective hardware.
"Global Strike Team and Urban Justice are completely different games, though they are part of the SWAT franchise.
"No, not at all," says Rod Fung, executive producer for SWAT: Urban Justice, the fourth in the series. However, since PCs and Xboxes share similar organs and therefore the potential for crossover is so strong, the fear was PC SWAT 4 would be a port of the Xbox’s arcade-orientated adaptation. Which is exactly why the SWAT game headed for Xbox is called Global Strike Team and has as much in common with lightgun shooter Virtua Cop as it does previous PC-based SWAT games.
SWAT 4 DRK EDITION TV
Of course there is a reason for such a drastic transformation console players would no more enjoy playing a 600-hour beardathon in front of a 32-inch TV than a PC gamer would take delight from guiding a hyperactive monkey through a supermarket. Even so, we’re sure there are thousands of people grinding their battleaxes that the mighty Gate has been 'cheapened’.
SWAT 4 DRK EDITION PS2
In fact, I preferred the PS2 game to its big PC brother, since I’m not big on dice-rolling anyway. Nowt much of a to-do about that as far as I’m concerned.
Yet on PlayStation 2 Baldur's Gate is known not as an RPG, but as an action game - almost a 21 st century version of the classic Gauntlet. A heavier stat-based experience would be hard to locate, even with a level 14 Detection spell. Have you noticed how once-proud hardcore PC games have been defecting to consoles? Take Bioware’s life-sapping RPG series Baldur's Gate for instance.
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