SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle - Elite Edition

SWAT 3: Elite Edition is a first-person tactical police simulation. Live the life of an LAPD SWAT officer as you rescue hostages and dole out the justice in this action-packed tactical game. SWAT 3: CQB's…

80 18 October 2000

Shooter Simulator Strategy Tactical Action

SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle - Elite Edition is a shooter developed by Sierra Northwest, released 18 October 2000 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle - Elite Edition is

SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle - Elite Edition is a shooter game developed by Sierra Northwest and released in 2000. It was published by Sierra Entertainment. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle is a 1999 tactical first-person shooter video game developed by Sierra Northwest and published by Sierra Entertainment exclusively for Microsoft Windows. It is the seventh installment of the Police Quest series and the third installment in the SWAT subseries. Set in the then-future year of 2005, the game follows the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Metropolitan Division SWAT unit as they combat a wave of violent crime and terrorism in Los Angeles in the lead-up to a nuclear disarmament treaty signing.

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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. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Police Quest series

SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle - Elite Edition is the ninth of 20 entries we hold in the Police Quest series. It arrived 11 months after SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle. The next entry was SWAT 3: Tactical Game of the Year Edition in 2001. Its critic score of 80 is 13 points above the series average of 67. The highest-rated entry is SWAT 4 at 85.

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How it was received

SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle - Elite Edition holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 68% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2000 averaged 72, so it scored 8 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 1.0 GHz, 256 MB RAM and DirectX 7 Compatible 3D Card. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle - Elite Edition launched on 18 October 2000, within three weeks of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition, Escape from Monkey Island and Zeus: Master of Olympus. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition, Escape from Monkey Island, Zeus: Master of Olympus.

Cheats and codes

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Screenshots

All media

SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle - Elite Edition gameplay screenshot

Parents

SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle

23 November 1999

Quick answers

SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle - Elite Edition — frequently asked questions

When did SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle - Elite Edition come out?

SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle - Elite Edition was released on 18 October 2000 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle - Elite Edition?

At minimum, SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle - Elite Edition needs 1.0 GHz, 256 MB RAM, DirectX 7 Compatible 3D Card graphics, 1 GB available space of storage.

How many GB is SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle - Elite Edition?

The PC version needs about 1 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("1 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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