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Beats Rainbow Six in many areas.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 59 / 61
Date: November 25, 1999
Author: Amazon User

As an avid fan of Rainbow Six and the sequel Rogue Spear it's amazing that the former 'Police Quest' series 'sequel' SWAT 3 is just that good!

The interface is very much like Rainbow Six the only difference is that you can junk that planning interface that most players shoot through anyways. You get right into the nitty gritty of getting gear and getting down to business! The great thing about this game is that it's LAW ENFORCEMENT and not just shoot everyone which is fine and fun but not highly realistic. With this game...you are encouraged to take suspects into custody!

If you like Rainbow Six, spend the money on this one...especially if you like SWAT operations...you'll use tear gas, handcuffs, lockpicks...you name it...you are not limited by the 4 cargo spots on rainbow six...these guys and gals pack it on!

Law enforcement officers will love the situations like home invasions and domestic disputes...defiently real world...every day situations!

SWAT 3: CLOSE TO THE BEST GAME EVER

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 18
Date: February 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I was skeptical at first. I wasn't sure whether or not to buy this. Some people said it was the best and others said it was the worst. I went in order of my instinct for a good shooting/strategy game. First I went for Delta force 2. It was decent. The graphics were ok and the missions left something to be desired. Then I went for the new rogue spear. That was a great game. It had strategy, great graphics, and good sound. But I still had this urge to try SWAT 3. So I got my guts and tried it. Let me tell you... SWAT 3 is by far the best game I have ever played. With over 15 missions to choose from. The graphics are astonishing. They are extremely crisp and clear. (I do recommend you have 3d card, though, or else it will probably lag.)The sounds are amazing too. They're very realistic. In this game you basically take control of 4 other swat officers. You are the swat leader. You command them to do everything. You can tell them to do anything, from arrest someone to knock down a door. Each mission you get is very unique in it's own way. You go from a private residential house to a church to a convention center to an airport tower to a dance club and that's less than half of them. The ONLY downside to this game is that you can't see your gun.... but who cares, everything else in the game makes up for that! This game is the best game I have ever played and anyone who likes a good RPG/strategy/shooting/law enforcement game is urged to buy this one of a kind game.

SWAT 3: The closest simulation to actually being there.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: January 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Swat 3 is an exception simulation. Being a law enforcement officer I can attest that SWAT 3 is exceptionally detailed and authentic, right down to the unknown woman jumping out of the bathroom in nothing more than a towel, just after you gain entry. The programmers did a fantastic job and portray the true dangers and difficulties of being a SWAT officer. Being a SWAT officer is about making calculated decisions to ensure the safety of the hostages, the officers and the hostiles(unless they place you in immediate danger), not just randomly running around shooting up the location and the bad guys. If you like shoot 'em up type games, this game isn't for you, try Rogue Spear or Delta Force. If you want a strategy simulation that makes you think and requires you to act appropriately, then SWAT 3 is the game to try. Stay safe!

Breach,Bang and Clear!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: March 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

SWAT 3 CQB is a good game.But it is not the same with Rainbow 6.You can't make an assault plan before starting the mission.But you give commands to the other team members during the mission.The enemy Al is very good.They can hear your foot steps or something like they can feel you are there.When you enter a room all bad guys turn their guns at you and screams while bursting their bullets at you. Graphics are very good.They are similar to the 3D shooter graphics.It is easy to play.Sound effects are very good especially when you are in dynamic mode.Not as realistic as R6 but it has lot of fun in it.Breaching the doors,throwing flashbangs or gas bombs,shouting at suspects to drop their guns and up their hands.Weapons and equipments are very good.But the worst part is there are only 16 missions in the game and two mission takes place in the same building.You can play each mission in single mission part and when you start the Career mode playing the same missions is alittle boring.The game itself a very good one and don't miss it.

Police Swat 3

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: June 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

SWAT 3 is Sierra's 3rd try in the world of Special Weapons And Tactics, and this entry hits the target with all guns blazing. The game is composed of 16 missions which can be played through in sequence in career mode, or individually in mission mode. This is great because after completing the game's campaign, you can go back and easily re-play your favorite missions.

The game is very realistic. You (the SWAT leader) clean up the streets in preparation for the Nuclear Abolishment Treaty, and stopping those that would like to see said Treaty crumble. One faction that keeps coming up is Sovereign America, a Right-wing fascist militia group, other terrorist groups play their hands as well against various political members that plan to be at the Treaty signing, and it's up to you to make sure those diplomats are safe when Global Peace Day is finally recognized.

The game play is seen from the Element (the Team) Leaders view (yours), thus it can be said that this game is technically a first person shooter. Command options are located in the top-right corner of your screen, and are accessed by pressing a corresponding number key. Basically, point your reticule at an object (person, door, weapon etc.), press a command key and watch as the team members obey your every command. Yea, tell them to search, they will, to open a door, they do it. Speaking of Leadership, the better you treat your soldiers and the less they get wounded, the better they'll listen to you in a life - threatening situation.

Character models are realistic, and objects in the far distance are visible, weather and daytime lighting are accurate. The sounds of gunfire and other ambient effects are above average. Music will change depending on the Tactical Mode. Yet as we're so immersed in the game play, we'll hardly notice, right?

Get this now, a truly excellent addition to the genre of tactical action games.

Swat 3 vs. R6

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: October 11, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I started my 1st person shooter experience with rainbow six, a classic, revolutionary game. Since then, as technology etc... has advanced, I have been looking for a new game in that genre. So at some point i decided to give Swat3 a try, i had never heard of it but the box looked pretty cool. The game is great. good realism, gameplay, sound, controlling your team etc... its downfalls are as follows: choppy (prob because of my computer, not the game), you cannot see your gun, which is very disappointing, the teammates are dumb and like to get shot, and hardly ever shoot back, and the overall graphics of the characters is too cartooney- animated looking. these are some real problems but overall none of these things matter when you are in dynamic mode, stacking up to breach into the next room of armed terrorists. overall its worth the money, but i did get sick of it after a couple months. If only the graphics and good parts of red storm's games (R6 and Rogue Spear) and the good overall gameplay and interface as well as plot of Swat 3 could be combined to form some ultimate 1st person shooter... that would be the best!

Good squad game. Great AI. Not enough tension...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: December 07, 1999
Author: Amazon User

SWAT 3... good game, but it doesn't give me the sense of realism and tension that Rogue Spear is giving me. Don't get me wrong. I love SWAT 3 and I'm playing it and if you liked Rogue Spear and you would like to try a good squad-based game, SWAT 3 is a great choice. SWAT 3 has definetly better AI than RS. On the other hand the game's scope is totally different from RS: RS is a game based on spec-ops groups and you are supposed to go in and kill everybody standing in your way as fast and as silently as possible. SWAT 3 on the other hand is based on police actions. This implies that you have to respect and enforce the law (unlike the guys in RS which go above and below the law when necessary). In order to carry out missions in SWAT 3 you need the support of a proactive AI that helps you arrest the baddies and that shouts at them to drop the weapons, and cuffs them for you (and this is usually more complex than just killing them). This means that the AI HAS to be better, and it is. Still, in spite of all this, I don't get the tension and gut wrenching feeling of hunting and being hunted at the same time that I get in RS. In SWAT you get the 'warmfuzzy' feeling that you are law enforcement and that in the end good will prevail. Over all I think that the game is good and dynamic but I think that they sacrificed realism for playability. It's still a good game and I reccomend it (in second place after RS, that is). PS: I just love that 'spying' mirror that helps you peek around the corners!

Excellent game, but a little bit unrealistic.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 10 / 16
Date: December 20, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This game actually rocks relative to its predecessors. SWAT 3 is basically the combination of first-person shooter and strategy game. Unlike Delta Force, you don't get to shoot around very often in this game.

The best part of this game is that you can command and give instructions to your teammates. They are in fact doing a great job in following your orders. You can tell them to cover you or you can tell them to breach and bang a room before you enter it. When you don't give them orders, they intelligently move and do their own actions.

The second best part of this game is that the enemies and hostages are positioned at different places for everytime you play the mission. You will never know where they are, so you have to be extremely careful. This excellent feature gives you a great feeling that this game is not monotone.

Graphics is second-to-none and sound effects are excellent. This game is so realistic such that if you see yourself in the mirror, your character can actually BLINK! Furthermore, if you shoot one of your teammates, the other guys are going to hunt you down and shoot you in the head.

However, there are several drawbacks. The most unrealistic part is that your weapons are invincible. Secondly, windows and mirror don't break. The worst part of this game is the lack of multiplayer support.

Overall, SWAT 3 is probably one of the best first-person shooter games.

Swat 3: Is it worth it?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 13
Date: August 16, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I, like many others, are used to playing Rogue spear and Unreal tournament and half-life type games. So I wasn't too sure if I should get this game or not. Every reviewer said it was hot stuff! So, I took a gamble and bought it.

I have a 450 MHz with 128 MB of RAM and a VooDoo 2 card - the game works well and smooth. no complaints about that.

however, it's really different from those other shoot em' up games. For one, you don't just go in and shoot people like mad. It's like there's hostage situations and kidnapping situations and you have to rescue people and stuff. The bad guys are really sharp shoooters though - that's what I didn't like. They shoot really good and your back up guys are really dumb sometimes. Like when you tell them to throw a flashbang, sometimes they'll throw it on the wall and it'll bounce back at your team.

Oh yeah, another thing was the play is different from those other games I mentioned. First off, it's not you go and shoot people up. You're actually a leader of a team of 4. You tell them what to do (ex: like open door, flash bang the room, mirror corners, clear room, etc..) and you do it by pressing the #1-9 on your keyboard. So you don't actually get right into action - your team does, But you can move and shoot and participate if you want. But like I said, your partners aren't the brightest.

One thing I didn't like was that some of the missions take FOREVER! Like there's this sewers map and it is SOOOOOo long and hard. It'll take you at least 40 minutes to complete it. That map is so big and hard! And one annoying thing was that I had to rescue some hostages, but this ONE LAST HOSTAGE was hiding in this really obscure spot and I couldn't find the guy. I had to literally go inch by inch on every wall and search it. That was so annoying and dumb and it took me forever! Also, if you choose not to kill the bad guys, you can throw like tear gas or flashbang them (useless though!) and you can handcuff them, if they choose to put down their weapons that is. But as the levels get harder, the bad guys don't even put down their guns when you throw tear gas at them or try to scare them by shooting around them. So it becomes a KILL KILL KILL mission as the mission progress's.

It's not bad overall and Sierra is planning to make a multiplayer version for this game, which I know will enhance the game play by 10x! Oh yeah, did I mention this game doesn't have multiplayer? But Sierra is giving out a free download when the multiplayer expansion becomes available in the Fall of 2000.

But I don't think it's worth [the $] though to be honest. Thanks for reading.

Great for the would be Swat member with a different calling

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 30, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I've got to say that I've always had a fascination with Swat work, but alas I'm more of a music minded person than anything. I believe this game has given me a "taste" of maybe what it would've been. I'm a police augmentee and where I work when I'm called, nothing exciting happens. In the game, as the Element Leader, the game is such that you need to constantly think about the "morale" of your team members. If you make stupid decisions, you lose a bit o' respect and based on a declining leadership score, your team members are a bit reluctant to act. Thus the pressure is on to be decisive and effective. The variety of scenarios: store front, bank, cathedral, residence, hit close to home as I've often thought about what it might be like to try to take on situations that I see on 'Cops', 'Inside Report', etc. Warning: It's ADDICTIVE. In fact, I'm gonna go play it right now! End of transmission, Dragon, clear.

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