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SWAT MAKES THE TOP 10!
29 April 2005 -- This Week at Irrational with Meredith Levine
SWAT MAKES THE TOP 10!
First I would like to apologize for last week's column
not being up until Monday evening. Things got pretty insane
over here and well, the whole thing just slipped. Better
the column than the games!
Now, onto bigger and much, much better things. That's
right folks, SWAT 4 made the NPD Group's list of the top
ten best selling PC games for the week of April 16th!
Congratulations to the team on this fantastic news.
Irrational Lord of Programming, Chris Kline brought
to my attention the very interesting comments
of Scott Straub, a real live member of the Fort Wayne Indiana SWAT Team:
"SWAT 4 has some great realism. I was
impressed with the training session. Some of the advice
from the "instructor" was very true to life. The weapons
are accurately reproduced. The characters reactions and
actions are great too...Thankfully not every operation
we are on has so many hardcore, and out of control psychos
to deal with. ?Since SWAT 4 would not be as entertaining
without the diehards, I have to say that it is a fairly
accurate representation of worstcase scenarios. The fact
that you can successfully "soften-up" your targets and
make apprehensions without always resorting to lethal force
makes it a thinking game as well as an action game. The
combo really hits the nail on the head."
For European fans of Freedom Force, FFV3R just came
out over there and is getting great reviews. One lovely
article in
GamesRadar (the online version of the PC Gamer UK)leads with
"PC Gamer needed a hero. It found twelve?" and goes on to
even bigger and better things like "Freedom Force vs the
Third Reich is brilliant, one of the best games of the year
so far. For the past days I've been giggling at my PC,
demanding everyone in the office watch as I bash men, tanks,
and brains-in-jars. They don't need the encouragement." And
"Freedom Force is stylish. Freedom Force is witty. Freedom
Force is clever. Freedom Force is... fun?It's inspired. It's
genius. It's superb"
Oh, sweet, mysterious British reviewer, you're the real genius.
--- Meredith Levine
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