Customer Reviews

SWAT 4: The Stetchkov Syndicate Expansion Pack

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

You cannot beat this expansion pack for $30!! SWAT 4 has been a great FPS - but Stetchkov greatly improves upon it. The AI is significantly better - no longer do you walk into a room and find a baddie just ambling around. More weapons have been added - I have really enjoyed the FN P-90. The levels (seven new ones) have that lived in/realistic look - no more dozens of pristine rooms with only a few things in them. The new On My Command is great - you can put each team at an entrance and have them bang and clear at the same time. Ok, some downsides: Still not many poly's for the bad-guys - they look a little blocky even on the highest settings. And, speaking of which, even with a $200+ 256-mb graphics card, this game still bogs my system down when there's a lot of action. And, believe me, there will be a lot of action! Oh - the file structure is unchanged so you can get into it right away and modify weapon reticle bloom, etc. And, unlike the original - I've not yet had a crash to desktop during gameplay. I highly, highly recommend this game for those who want a realistic FPS shooter - its what R6 lockdown should have been. Go out and get this game immediately - you can't go wrong.

SWAT 4 puts you in the role of a special weapons and tactics officer. You will lead up to two teams of officers on a range of missions from hostage recuse to what I call 'get the bad guy' missions.. The Stetchkov Syndicate Expansion Pack adds more missions, vastly improves the visual graphics in the game and they were already top notch in the first place. Some people have complained that there are product placement ads on posters in the subway and things.. but so what.. this just ads realizm to game.. The MULTIplayer options work perfectly on the LAN and on internet. I play this game on the LAN with 2 to 4 other players and it rocks. This game is as good as Americas Army 2.6 .. maybe slightly better in some ways.. I highly recommend it.

In their quest for ever more intrusive advertising, Sierra and Irrational Games have stooped to a new low. After applying version 1.1 of the patch for this, one of the changes in the patch update was 'Added Massive Streaming Ad Support'. What is this? Well...

Everytime you run the game, Swat 4 Stetchkov Syndicate contacts a server and downloads advertisments that show up on posters and signage inside the game world. In addition, everytime you run the game and how long you play is sent off to this server, most likely to measure the effectiveness of the advertisements and collect stastics about your personal playing habits. And even more insidious, the game keeps track of how long your character in this first person 'shooter' has an advertisement within your view. The number of seconds is reported back to the advertisement server, perhaps as a way to charge advertisers for 'eyeball' time.

Other than modifying your windows 'hosts' file to disable the servers it contacts, there is no way to opt-out of this. Examination of the network traffic to the adserver includes some encrypted data. Therefore it is not possible to know what, if any, personal information is being sent to the ad servers.

My friend and I started playing this game about a week ago and let me tell you, the co-op missions are insane and challenging. I also played SWAT 3 and planing on buying the expansion due to the greatness of this game. To sum the game up for buyers, "Intense, Ratifying, and addicting" The game does take some time to get use to at first, but there are plenty of weapons to experiment with. Also, games provided by gamespy make it easy to play on LAN, other games that use their own servers are no well thought out, which is why I recommend this game!!

This game was pretty fun. Short in the single player as there are only seven levels but online made up for it. Most people online seem to have the Expansion Pack so getting it adds seven extra maps to online. Was pretty fun overall and I would give it a 7.5/10

SWAT 4 is a great game and is a fun tactical shooter. While most folks online play by Rules of Engagement with co-op missions it also makes a good run and shoot game if you play custom modes. Amazon great as always.

this game looks so awesome and its me and my sisters favorite game.
Our first one broke. So we missed it and wanted it back really bad. So we decided to get it tommorow. Me and my sister can't wait to get it because my sister really loved the foodwall restaurant and there's the meat barn restaurant in the game. We really like this game because it has really good graphics and and awesome new weapons and exclusive characters. The graphics are really good, there are more places to go to, similar to the original FoodWall Restaurant, there is another awesome Meat Barn Restaurant. I reccomend this to all of the R6 fans.

by Grant and Celeste,

The game is what it says. Was recieved a lot quicker than i thought it would be and in excellant shape.

tHIS WAS A GREAT BUY. thanks. But people should be warned that this game will not play if you don't have (Swat4 special weapons and tatics)and both games must be made by Sierra.com @ not by(www.vugames-europe.com)

Game was more real like in life. I love to see more games like it. If you like SWAT games. This one is one to buy as you will not regret it. It was fun. Kept me busy.