


Expanded possibilities for Co-op play The original SWAT 4 gave players the opportunity to play in five-man co-op missions. Not only will it humiliate the suspects, but each arrest will take 30 seconds off the time remaining. While it is possible to stop the suspects with the briefcase by killing them, it is more advantageous to arrest them.

The primary objective of the SWAT officers, of course, is to prevent the suspects from getting the suitcase to the exit point. The rest of the suspects must cover him and make sure that he gets to the exit point. The player carrying the briefcase will not be allowed to utilize primary weapons and will be forced to move no faster than the walk speed. They must carry it to an exit point within an allotted amount of time. The primary objective of the suspects is to grab a suitcase that will spawn in a random location within the level. Smash-and-grab is kind of a variation on SWAT 4's popular VIP mode. You can equip it and take it into any of the new missions or even go back and replay the previous levels from the expansion pack or the original game. Once you have that weapon it is yours to keep. Each new mission comes with a new weapon or gadget that is best suited for the trouble ahead. Now, you have to put a little time in and earn them. In other words, you don't get all of these weapons and gadgets at once. New to the expansion pack is weapon and equipment progression. Included in the tactical gear are night-vision goggles, an ammo pouch that can be equipped to hold additional ammunition, lightsticks for marking cleared rooms, and a no-armor option in multiplayer that allows for faster character movement but obviously makes the player more vulnerable. Irrational Games has taken time to carefully balance multiplayer so that you can play well-matched rounds with each side having different equipment, but they did put in an option that allows all of the weapons to be available to either team. For starters, SWAT gets the Colt accurized rifle for sniping and a 40x46mm grenade launcher for taking out suspects with less-lethal rounds at a distance, while the suspects get the likes of a 5.56mm light machine gun.

This time some of them are team specific. There are about a dozen new weapons and tactical items. Some missions may not have anything to do with crime family, but others have a direct link back to the dangerous Stechkovs. This is the route Irrational Games chose to go with on the expansion pack. It may not appear that these events are connected right away, but put together a few clues and one might discover that there is a correlation.
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However, sometimes there is an event or series of events that over time has an increased affect on SWAT's workload. Knowing this, the developer made a conscious decision to do the same thing in SWAT 4: create exciting missions that weren't necessarily tied to each other. The calls they get always require the same quick-thinking and tactical expertise, but rarely are they related to one another. In the preproduction stages of SWAT 4 Irrational Games talked to SWAT officers and learned that in their line of work each day on the job is different from the day before. Here's the story behind the stand-alone missions following this expansion pack. New Missions, New Weapons, New Enemies, More SWAT New missions The Stetchkov Syndicate takes place in the same city as before, so the expansion maintains the urban look and feel of the original but with all new locations. But now, you've got bigger guns in yours - along with upgraded equipment. The Stetchkov Syndicate is putting big guns in the wrong hands. A final showdown will place legendary SWAT tactics up against the most dangerous and ruthless criminals yet: the Stetchkov syndicate. SWAT is called in to take on a series of disturbances that eventually lead them to the root of the problem, an eastern European crime family that has taken up residence in the city. More guns and drugs are appearing on the streets and the city is in crisis.
