Let’s Play SWAT 4 – Mission #01: Dungeons & Damsels

I've seen this series so many damn times.... its just wild man. Same with all the other series. If i come to the site and nothing new is up im like "ah fuck it might as well watch (insert series here) again..." never gets old lol.

He totally reached for it!
I call shenanigans!

"I didn't wanna leave without saying hello to you!"
-Spray-

Most epic arrest ever
Bitch I've got a gun..Bitch I've got a bomb!
You see what happens? DO YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS LADY?

So I just played this level, and I did it really tactically, splitting the team up and going in from two ways. But, there was no-one around. It was really, REALLY creepy to just walk around the house when it was empty with the music playing. I found the granny in one room, but the crook was locked up in the last dungeon-room.

Creepy as fuck!

I'd have to say this game shines the brightest in multiplayer Co-op, but it's also entertaining as hell to just play big team-on-team deathmatches online. I'd have to say my fondest memory is when me and some buddies got together and played SWAT 4 on a LAN, with whiteboard for planning and everything. Shouting "RUNNER" or "Bang 'Em" never fails to make one feel awesome.

I'd heard of this game before, but didn't really think much of it until I saw these videos. This game is pretty fun, and just difficult enough to keep things interesting.

I'm still trying to beat the hardest difficulty with non-lethal weapons only. So far, no success on the last three missions.

PS: specifically, it's a streamlined version of R6 3: Raven Shield with all the planning removed. IMO it's more fun to play thanks for its ad-hoc action style as opposed to the rigorous planning you had to do in R6, although on the later stages I actually had to plan it ahead anyway ^__^

Great review, but SWAT 4 is actually a *successor* to the R6 series :P

God I've seen this video 3 times and it never gets old.

"Bitch, I've got a gun! Bitch, I've got a bomb!" <-----I lol every time

This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass larry

Team follow me!! (25 secs later) Team use flashbang....Team!! where are they? did you hear something..no.do you think he is in troble.......i'll gave him 2 mins..ok

spoony i saw this video 10 times and i think you pepper spray that girl the 2nd time could of been the use of deadly force

From an internet walkthrough:
"The mantra of SWAT is that it's a life-saving organization, not a life-taking
one. SWAT officers don't go around and randomly shoot up people; this ain't
Conflict: Vietnam."

SWAT is the kind of ultra-realistic game series that appeals to a very narrow type of audience, namely military and police types. I played SWAT 4 when it came out, and I remember I would rely mainly on my teammates to clear rooms, while I would handle most of the cuffing and reporting. They are very good at clearing rooms most of the time, and very conscious about the "rules of engagement" you must follow. On the rare occasion when I would have to shoot someone, it would mostly be due to an officer going down.

It's really good about showing you what it might really feel like for a SWAT officer in these situations. The Magnum guy is a good example. Imagine how it looks from a third perspective: five heavily-armored police officers with submachine guns and shotguns blasted a scared kid with no armor and a revolver. Police are meant to "protect and serve" as it were, and that also means making up for people's bad decisions (such as pointing a gun at a police officer). They want to give everyone as many chances as they can before they have to rely on deadly force. You did react properly, but you lost points because he wasn't aiming directly at you.

Rainbow 6 was probably the beginning of this whole tactical FPS era. The SWAT series was interesting, but not until SWAT 4 did it really become refined. Ghost Recon (the first one) was the same way, but in regards to soldiers rather than police. Everything since, however, has fallen into the "Action FPS trap" and now it's all about full-auto machine guns and infinite health.

Seriously, the dude had a frickin' dungeon in his basement and the mother didn't know? Absolutely no inkling of the sick shit her son was doing? What did she think when he brought home struggling, tied up, unconscious girls and never saw them leave? What about their wails of horror, sorrow, and pain? What, did she think it was the house settling?

Fucking bitch deserved a few more tazer blasts.

@ Assiman:

Notice his Next Level screen after he debriefs. He's already got the first one beat, he just chose to start with this one for some reason.

@Kudo, where do you live? This level is second level in my swat too. Could it be we're from Europe and spoony from USA so there's different levels? Who knows..

Looks fun to play- but I would suck at it...prolly get jumpy and just shoot everything...or die trying not to shoot anything.
XD Hilarious.

You really need a "I've got a bomb!" T-shirt. That was so funny.

I actually bought and played this game because of these videos. It's pretty fun. But I'm curious Spoony, all the other videos are in sequential order-- how come you started with level 2? Anyway, I can't wait for you to do the 'Children of Taronne' level. If you do do it that is. I dunno why. Makes me kind of sick I guess, though I'm really curious to see what Spoony playing through that level looks like.

scene with the old lady is the funniest thing in the entire series

I laughed so hard when you maced the old lady when you went back upstairs! I would have done the same thing.
I find it funny that this guy still lives with his mom. That would be awkward and disturbing. Could you imagine the conversations? The mother would say from the kitchen, "Time for dinner!" He would reply, "Not now MOM! I'm roleplaying with me FRIENDS!!" And yes, I expected there to be hundreds of cats in the house too.

Honestly spoony I started watching your ff8 suck reviews and became a fan..I found your website..and became even more of a fan, and I agree we totally need a "Bitch, I got a bomb!" T-shirt.

There needs to be a "Bitch, I've got a bomb" t-shirt.

Wow, what a coincidence. I've actually been playing this game recently (mostly because it's one of the few games my PC can actually play, and not very well either).

Yeah, this game cheats the hell out of you in terms of score because of the so-called 'unauthorized kills'. That's why it's always better to just equip yourself with the bean-bag shotgun and have everyone else with the deadlier guns because the AI is thankfully smart enough to know when to kill someone.

And yet, it's okay to mace, tazer, and swear at any of these NPCs as many times as you want without losing points. SWAT life is weird.

"Lt. 'Spoony' Antwiler received a reputation as a ruthless cop. Russian cops are impressed."

Wow I bet you could end the mission by shooting those cans of gas!

Sppony this was maybe my new favorite spoony vid. But the whole werewolves thing is so hard to beat

It occurs to me that even though that first guy drew a gun on you, he hadn't actually fired it when you shot him. The game might have counted that as an unauthorized use of deadly force because the game can't discriminate between "guy holding a gun" and "guy pointing a gun at you about to shoot you with it". I'm not a very tech-savvy person but that seems like a rather sophisticated distinction that the game's software might not be capable of making. So the developers might have programed the game to only count "authorized use of deadly force" as "shooting a guy who has already shot at you".

You should try Swat3 which does not have the crappy "Use of deadly force" rating so you can easily turn one of the levels into a mad shoot-out. There's also Deathmatch Swat v Swat multi-player in that game.

Great review! I loved the police brutality. You should go into the LA police force. :)

i laugh so hard that i swear i was laughing for 30 minutes, and i really liked when you said, "I have a gun, I have a bomb", it be more funnier if you did this 2 times and the first time blow her up

I laughed so hard at the little demonstration of police brutality you visited upon the elderly woman.

I'm going to hell. :D