Very intense tactical shooter with stricter rules of engagement than your typical FPS. Arresting is encouraged and you can't shoot blindly without losing points. I'd recommend getting a group to play this, but there is a single player mode with commandable bots if that's what you'd prefer. If your teammates die and you're the last man standing, this turns into a horror game. The AI could use some tweaking as they run and gun and kill you in like a single Makarov shot even with heavy armor, but there are mods for fixing that, and the devs are working on it.

It is in early access and it has been confirmed that those weird voicelines are mostly placeholders but it is very clear to me that active development is happening. For example, one day I wasn't able to shoot out lights, but the next day I was, with a dubious effect on actual gameplay at the moment.

For those that say that this game glorifies the police, I beg to differ; I take this game's perspective as just depicting a grim reality for those in a SWAT line of work, and feeling the pressure of intense split-second decision making isn't something most of us are accustomed to. So some might see the difficulty in this game as glorifying police work, but to me, this is just what happens in this atmosphere and not necessarily a glorification of anything. Certain things like how killing a civilian or reporting an unconscious person are handled could be seen as insensitive, but then again, that is how a hard-boiled SWAT team would look at it after doing this day in and day out.

The gunplay feels a bit like Insurgency: Sandstorm, which I like. This game aims for a more tactical and realistic depiction of actual gunfights, with slower movement and intense suppression effects. It might be repetitive, but spawns of civilians and suspects are different every time with multiple ways of going about a mission each time. Overall, I'm enjoying the game, and I'm looking forward to future updates.

Very intense tactical shooter with stricter rules of engagement than your typical FPS. Arresting is encouraged and you can't shoot blindly without losing points. I'd recommend getting a group to play this, but there is a single player mode with commandable bots if that's what you'd prefer. If your teammates die and you're the last man standing, this turns into a horror game. The AI could use some tweaking as they run and gun and kill you in like a single Makarov shot even with heavy armor, but there are mods for fixing that, and the devs are working on it. It is in early access and it has been confirmed that those weird voicelines are mostly placeholders but it is very clear to me that active development is happening. For example, one day I wasn't able to shoot out lights, but the next day I was, with a dubious effect on actual gameplay at the moment. For those that say that this game glorifies the police, I beg to differ; I take this game's perspective as just depicting a grim reality for those in a SWAT line of work, and feeling the pressure of intense split-second decision making isn't something most of us are accustomed to. So some might see the difficulty in this game as glorifying police work, but to me, this is just what happens in this atmosphere and not necessarily a glorification of anything. Certain things like how killing a civilian or reporting an unconscious person are handled could be seen as insensitive, but then again, that is how a hard-boiled SWAT team would look at it after doing this day in and day out. The gunplay feels a bit like Insurgency: Sandstorm, which I like. This game aims for a more tactical and realistic depiction of actual gunfights, with slower movement and intense suppression effects. It might be repetitive, but spawns of civilians and suspects are different every time with multiple ways of going about a mission each time. Overall, I'm enjoying the game, and I'm looking forward to future updates.