SWAT 4: The Stetchkov Syndicate
The Stetchkov Syndicate expansion adds seven new single player missions revolving around the Stetchkov family, an Eastern European crime syndicate and new multiplayer content, amongst other features. In…
SWAT 4: The Stetchkov Syndicate is a shooter developed by Irrational Games, released 28 February 2006 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What SWAT 4: The Stetchkov Syndicate is
SWAT 4: The Stetchkov Syndicate is a shooter game developed by Irrational Games and released in 2006. It was published by Sierra Entertainment. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Vengeance Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In The Stetchkov Syndicate, players resume their role as the element leader in the Fairview SWAT team, which this time must contend with the titular crime syndicate, which smuggles illegal drugs and weapons into the city. The first mission sees the SWAT team responding to a shootout in progress at a video arcade in a rundown neighborhood, where the team learns that the city's drug dealers have some fearsome new competition. Not long after, the team deals with a gang of failed robbers who have barricaded themselves inside a halfway house. The plot thickens when it becomes apparent that someone is suppling assault weapons and explosives to a number of buyers, including a Christian…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and stealth. 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 4: The Stetchkov Syndicate is the 14th of 20 entries we hold in the Police Quest series. It arrived 11 months after SWAT 4. The next entry was SWAT Force in 2006. Its critic score of 82 is 15 points above the series average of 67. The highest-rated entry is SWAT 4 at 85.
How it was received
SWAT 4: The Stetchkov Syndicate holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 80% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 17 points above the year average.
What it launched against
SWAT 4: The Stetchkov Syndicate launched on 28 February 2006, within three weeks of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Final Fantasy XII, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II and Daxter. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Final Fantasy XII, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, Daxter.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for SWAT 4: The Stetchkov Syndicate yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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