SWAT: Sloppy, Weak, Absolute, Trash.
Never the less... It is Very dull and boring.
Yes i know, its 2007 and i bought a game that was released in 2003 (I think) But from experience, the oldies are the classics. NOT IN THIS CASE.
A few days ago i was bored and wanted to play a good tactical shooter. Did some reasearch on gamespot.com and SWAT: Global strike force came up pretty positive. It all sounded fantastic $24.95 later, untill i placed it in Ye'old PS2 tray.
You know that feeling when you believe you've won a prize or the lotto for example, and you come up nill? Thats what i felt.
*Firstly, the looking action is not inverted (you know the right analog stick). not a problem, go into options and invert. Sweet. (im more comfortable inverted).
*Then you notice your surroundings (basically im reffering to graphics) and feel a little dissapointed. But hey graphics are not everything. I still play the first 007 sometimes.
*lookin at your gun now. Excuse the language but pretty piss poor. Does not have any oommfff. Does not look powerful, thats important to me, considering that they are machines of mass pain and death.
*Moving on to game play. Hmmm. Like a poorer version of rainbow 6. (which i am a fan of). You get one AI partner. Does not do to bad of a job.
But basically (if you havn't read gamespots review) you run around aimlessly 'scarring' terrorists and bank robbers and so fourth to put their weapons down. Sounds revolutionarry on paper, but it is bloody weak. Im not even going to talk about how bad it is, because it will make this review look bad. (even more so than it is).
* Sound=dull. Drole background music. And by background I mean back back background. Voices=questionable. The sound of your character demanding terrorists to surrender has authority, but is repetitive. the surrendered terrorists will curse mildly when you 'cuff em' and that too is repetitive.
I don't know about you, but the things that are important to me in a game is context (situation, feeling, mood) and gameplay . Everything else I can stand. But as you may know by now, that SWAT GST has neither of what i desire in electronic stimulation, therefore i can not enjoy it. And if you are like me, then neither will you.