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Probably the best tactical shooter OF ALL TIME!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

When you get down to it, the rainbow six games are overrated. SWAT teams handle much more than international terrorism, a fact which SWAT 3 protrays vividly. The AI is incredible and really makes for a good sim. Buy this game. It's a good price.

IAm porud to say that I own it!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is probly the best coumputer action game I have played in years!!!!!, The Elite Editon offers more levals to
but the game is hard without the cheat codes so I suggst goig to IGN.comand finding the codes
This game isth closet a lot of us will get to being on the LAPD SWAT TEAM.

Good gameplay, runs on almost all systems, etc.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

SWAT 3 has great gameplay, combined with good controls and a realistic AI. Also worth noting is that the AI enemies are placed in random locations throughout the maps, allowing for more interesting replays of missions (the bad guys aren't always in the same spot!).

Another thing that's worth noting is that the game will run on almost any system (Celeron processor? No problem!). I've personally observed it running at fast rates on fairly old computers that have Celeron processors.

The only downside to the game is its infamous last mission. The last mission tries to force the player to move quickly through the map (due to a timer), in a failed attempt to delay the time that it takes for someone to complete the game. This only results in the last mission not encouraging the player traits that are so heavily encouraged in previous missions: patience and strategy.

Over all, though, it's a great game. I highly recommend that you buy it.

CLOSEST YOU WILL GET TO CQB!!! FROM A MARINES EYE VIEW

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I am a US Marine and have been trained in CQB by DEA, Navy Seals, Delta Force, and alot more other organizations. This is the closest you will ever get besides being in a stack and doing the real thing. The weapons are not some made up [junk] they are what we really use. The terms are the same and the way they move, along with how they perfrom. If you want the best game ever made BUY THIS ONE!
FROM A US MARINE!!!
OOORRRAHHH
SEMPER FI

Swat 3 revisited

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: November 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Christmas 1999 - My brother-in-law presents me with Swat 3, the original version. Not a bad game, just short. I thought to myself "This game is DIEING for multi-player", but oh well, I finished it in about a week and kinda forgot about it. Moved on to other drugs like Code Name: Hitman and The Rogue Spear.

Flash forward to Nov 2001 - I'm looking for the NEW game that won't leave me wanting to burn my PC in to a smoldering hunk of metal like World War II On-Line has (...). I buy Operation Flashpoint. Not bad. Kinda buggy, the multi-player is....ok. I'm still craving more. I run across a review of Swat 3-Game of the Year version. "Hmmm" I think to my self "Swat 3 was a good game but "Game of the Year"?!?! What year?". I start looking deeper in to what "Game of the Year" means. Seems that Sierra Studios has updated Swat 3 three times! and since I had the original version I could upgrade for free!!!! So unlike other software manufacturers who charge for relatively small "upgrades", Sierra Studios upgrades (and dramatically changes the game for the better) for free! This game now ROCKS!!! I love FPS games like Rogue Spear and HATE Half Life/Quake/Doom games. I need realism, one bullet to the head and you die. That's a game! With Swat 3 you have that realism. One of my favorite things about this game that I wish other games would incorporate is the way bullets react to solid objects. If I have a M16 and I shoot at a wooden door the bullets would pass right thru and strike whatever was on the other site, but if I fire the same gun at a brick wall, the bullets would not penetrate. It makes it very interesting to hide in a room and to watch the bullets rip thru the wall right next to your head from a fire fight out side! The co-op levels of the game where you have to go in and rescue people or disarm bombs are great. Lots of team work breaching doors, stacking up and rushing in to a dark room after the flash bang goes off! Man! What a good time! But some times I feel just like running around in Man's Chinese Theater and blowing Perps away with a shotgun, and with the Deathmatch/Last Man Standing levels they added you can do it!
So basically if you are looking for an incredible FPS with killer Mulit-player/Deathmatch, this is the game for you. Also since the game is getting old the price should be falling.

Great Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: October 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

SWAT 3 is a good game. The game play is fun and the graphics are great. It has realistic missions and characters (suspects, hostages). The only thing I really didn't like about it was the crosshairs for the guns. It would have been nice if they included just a plain dot. They have an option where you can choose which crosshair to use, but the dot for a crosshair that they had was way too small for my liking. Another thing that was hard about the game is the gradients. It jumps from easy missions to hard ones. I found myself wanting to bust my monitor, but I decided to take a break before I lost my temper. Overall a very fun game with great scenerios.

SWAT 3: The Best of The Best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: September 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game, with it's new Elite Edition addon and the soon coming Game of the Year Edition, has everything a FPS (first person shooter) wants. True, it is not one of those shoot and kill games, but rather a systematic operation of a more "local" range. SWAT 3 is based on urban operations that a SWAT team would do, not the GSG9 or Navy SEALS. You must issue a compliance to suspects, no point and shoot. Main Features: EXCELLENT GRAPHICS, CUSTOMIZEABLE MODS, NEW DOWNLOADABLE MISSIONS and AWESOME MULTIPLAYER CAPABILITY. You will not regret buying this game. As a matter of fact, I am the proud owner of the original SWAT 3: CQB, and I am considering AGAIN buying SWAT Game of the Year Edition, when it is released on October 1.

Little Improvement.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have played both the original SWAT 3 and the Elite edition. The only real improvement are the new maps they provide. The new maps are great when you first play, but then since you know the area, you can get through it O.K. There are modifications you can get by downloading them. There is a multiplayer feature in which I have not gotten through yet, but it is still a good game to play. You don't need the original SWAT 3 to play. All the missions are still here in the Elite edition. IF you already have the Original SWAT 3 don't bother getting this. Only get this if you want the new missions and/or the multi-player features.

MUY BUEN JUEGO!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: August 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Yo recomiendo este juego de acción y estrategia en 1a. persona. Tiene muchas opciones que permiten hacer de este juego mucho mas agradable y entretenido. Proporciona muchas horas de entretenimiento y es bastante adictivo. Es una buena compra!

Bad ratings???

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I was shocked to read bad ratings about this game. It's the closest that one could ever get to being in a real-life situation. Frankly, I really loved it. Now if only Sierra could design a game with the concept of Force Recon or Delta Force in the same game engine then I wouldn't have to consider signing up in the corps.

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