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Blood: GamerDad saw blood spatter everywhere as he dispatched enemies. Language: There was a fair amount of strong words tossed about in the heat of battle. Violence: You try for non-lethal approaches, but quite often the bad guys just won't go along. The SWAT series of PC games (latest game and expansion reviews) are excellent tactical squad-based shooters that focus on non-lethal approaches using targeted shooting to gain superiority and demand surrender. The ability to have a top-down perspective squad shooter was established last year with Killzone: Liberation, but in that game the focus was much more on direct engagement than on using strategy to avoid casualties. Unfortunately the meeting up of a great PC franchise with a format that has worked well on the PSP results in an inept and frustrating experience better skipped. The bottom line is this - this could have been a solid game if your squad weren't such a bunch of brain-dead idiots. You could easily accept the lousy story that is basically a setup for a bunch of cliched engagements at typical New York City settings; you could deal with the fact that enemies quite often start shooting at you long before you can see them; you could possibly even deal with the feeble aiming mechanism because as squad leader you have a robust set of commands to guide your team through an operation. Unfortunately, your team is quite willing to stand in the open getting shot up; they are so slow at breaching doors that you will lose any tactical advantage; and they are totally inept at subduing people and otherwise executing any of the commands you give them. For a franchise built on solid squad and enemy AI, this is an affront. It is unfortunate - because the reward system and structure of the missions could have made the game a blast instead of a frustrating mess.  
The SWAT PC games portray situations in a realistic fashion. SWAT: Target Liberty's use of a third person camera and less realistic graphics make it a solidly Rated T game, and an experience intended for older teens and adults. It remains an ultra-intense tactical shooter that is full of violent situations that would require the use of SWAT teams. You will guide your team through some very realistic situations involving some of the seedier sides of society, in which desperate people are taking drastic actions and risking the lives of themselves and innocents in the process. The enemies and innocent people caught in the crossfire as well as your squad mates use language typical under such duress. The moral perspectives in the single player game are actually very positive throughout, as your goal is to minimize loss of life wherever possible - including enemies - and protection of innocents is given the highest priority. However, because of the raw intensity of the experience as well as the blood and language, this gets a GamerDad Age Seal of 14+.
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