Police Quest: SWAT

Great game, brings back a lot of memories! In order to get around the save game problem you will need to create 10 folders in the main game directory under the PQ_SWAT folder. The folder names need to be SWATDATA.000 through SWATDATA.009!

After about 20 years I was finally able to arrest that old lady before she shot me to death. I even qualified as a sniper. Thanks internet :)

It's a moot point to discuss the merits of a 20 year game like Police Quest: SWAT but considering I bought this along with a majority of the Sierra catalogue on Steam, I thought it may be best to warn prospective buyers who think this game stands on it's own individually. In short: It doesn't. Police Quest: SWAT is an FMV adventure game by Sierra intended to be played on PC. As previously stated, it is indeed a very old game, but despite that when I ran it on a modern PC with the bells and whistles, it works effortlessly, so it'll play as good if not better than if you played it when it first came out. There's a lot of good with this game, albeit the majority of it lies in the gimmicks. In SWAT, you can allow yourself to be educated in the ways of Police SWAT training (Circa 90's in Los Angeles) and occasionally put some of the knowledge you get to the test in about 8 or so scenarios. The game seems to be overly detailed, which can be good if you're really REALLY into Police tactics ...

childhood ;-; Positives - Not badly priced - Fun - Dank soundtrack - Almost too 90s Negatives - If you play it too much it become painful - Save feature needs fixing

SWAT 1 is the first game in the SWAT series, and arguably the most realistic as a lot of your time is spent training and not just mowing losers down. You will be verbally reprimanded if you attempt to skip cutscenes and if you use the wrong weapons during shooting drills. It's now a 23 year old classic that is very informative, but not as fun to play. While I'll have to recommend it simply on nostalgia and the fact that it is very informative about real SWAT, you will find that it's very hard to control and somewhat random at times, and clicking the right place at the wrong time will get you sent back to the department without warning. All in all, it is a classic so I'm gonna recommend. You should play this game.

Good game. Bring old memories. The solution for the "save game" problem is in the discussions of Police Quest: Swat. Can't wait for the entire swat series on steam.

No Fear, its late 1995. Pokemon wasn't a thing yet, Nintendo 64 is still only found in magazines. An obese shroom chomping, dinosaur riding, Italian plumber was your best friend. While enduring his psychedelic trip and slamming his head into blocks, your Mother walks through the door. She seems excited as she gingerly holds a double CD case and a rather thick book. You eye up her prize, wondering what treasure she holds. Before you can express your curiosity, she preemptively exclaims "No, this is mine." You follow her, curiosity peaking. After an agonizingly long installation on the ol' Dell, the game comes to life. We open the walkthrough book and brace for awesome. The Sierra logo appears, an old friend from Kings Quest. A crack head appears and opens fire, the letters of the logo spinning with each shot. WHOA! This is gonna be tight! The title screen appears... That music, that banging title screen music that slaps harder than Will Smith. The kind of music that makes you feel lik...

how many times do we have to teach you this lesson old woman!

[i]Note: [url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2510027973]This guide[/url] explains how to quickly/easily edit the game's conf file to correct the aspect ratio so it isn't stretched. This will also allow for use of the Steam Overlay and the taking of screenshots.[/i] Police Quest: SWAT is an outstanding piece of edutainment and serves as an impressive 1990s SWAT simulation in terms of the scenarios, overall realism, and depth of technical details.... but the gameplay is atrocious. Basically, it's a game that makes me want to enjoy it then does everything in its power to make that almost impossible. Unlike its predecessors in the Police Quest Series, SWAT knows exactly what it wants to be. It ditches the coke-fueled, terrible writing to embrace a fully educational, maximum immersion approach that's more of a training simulation than a game.... which is actually fantastic. There's hours worth of in-game technical documentation to browse through, recorded interview...

The game is not perfect for modern standards, but it's really fun and detailed, also good for it's time, but hard to learn.