Police Quest: SWAT
Two figures appear in the scope of your rifle; an enraged attacker and his trembling hostage. In one single moment, all your training comes down to these two faces in the crosshairs, and your finger on the…
Police Quest: SWAT is a simulator developed by Sierra On-Line, released 30 September 1995 on DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Police Quest: SWAT is
Police Quest: SWAT is a simulator game developed by Sierra On-Line and released in 1995. It was published by Sierra Entertainment. It is available on DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Two figures appear in the scope of your rifle; an enraged attacker and his trembling hostage. In one single moment, all your training comes down to these two faces in the crosshairs, and your finger on the trigger. The shot is yours. It's all in a day's work for members of the most elite force in crime fighting history: SWAT, the Special Weapons And Tactics team. Now you can experience this relentless adrenaline-pumping action firsthand as you begin your training as a SWAT officer. After instruction in actual SWAT tactics and target training sessions your skills will be called into action in multiple scenarios and career-advancing missions. Innocent lives rely on your split-second decision…
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.
Where it sits in the Police Quest series
Police Quest: SWAT is the sixth of 20 entries we hold in the Police Quest series. It arrived 2 years after Police Quest: Open Season. The next entry was Police Quest: SWAT 2 in 1998. Its critic score of 37 is 30 points below the series average of 67. The highest-rated entry is SWAT 4 at 85.
How it was received
Police Quest: SWAT holds a critic score of 37 out of 100. That places it above 4% of the 2,882 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 1995 averaged 66, so it scored 29 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Police Quest: SWAT launched on 30 September 1995, within three weeks of Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, Twisted Metal, Destruction Derby and Wipeout. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, Twisted Metal, Destruction Derby, Wipeout.
Official trailer
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