SWAT: Global Strike Team
SWAT: GST is a first-person tactical arcade game combining the strategic elements of SWAT 3 with the instantly accessible arcade action of the Virtua Cop series. Like the real-life SWAT organization itself…
SWAT: Global Strike Team is a shooter developed by Argonaut Games, released 28 October 2003 on PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
What SWAT: Global Strike Team is
SWAT: Global Strike Team is a shooter game developed by Argonaut Games and released in 2003. It was published by Sierra Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 2 and Xbox. It runs on BRender.
The premise, in the publisher's words
SWAT: GLOBAL STRIKE TEAM was formed in 2008 in response to an unprecedented escalation of threats of violence against civilians around the world by a well-organized and highly ruthless transnational criminal network bent on destabilizing democracy for its own benefit. In a secret crisis summit of the UN Security Council in Moscow, the leaders of the free world unanimously agreed that the best way to engage this common foe was to form a global police force whose structure could parallel or mirror that of the criminal network itself. SWAT: GLOBAL STRIKE TEAM is composed of the cream of police officers from the best tactical units in the world, including some who served in OPERATION URBAN…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Police Quest series
SWAT: Global Strike Team is the 11th of 20 entries we hold in the Police Quest series. It arrived 2 years after SWAT 3: Tactical Game of the Year Edition. The next entry was Police Quest: SWAT Generation in 2003. Its critic score of 65 is almost exactly the series average of 67. The highest-rated entry is SWAT 4 at 85.
How it was received
SWAT: Global Strike Team holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 28% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 4 points below the year average.
What it launched against
SWAT: Global Strike Team launched on 28 October 2003, within three weeks of Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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