| E-SWAT: City Under Siege | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Sega Corporation |
| Publisher(s) | Sega Corporation |
| Designer(s) | Nandemo, Macco Chan, Seishi Atsumiya, Mikarin |
| Platform(s) | Sega Mega Drive, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Virtual Console |
| Release date(s) | June 1, 1990 Virtual Console |
| Genre(s) | Action |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
| Rating(s) | |
| Media/distribution | 4-megabit cartridge |
ESWAT: City Under Siege, in Japan ESWAT: Cyber Police ESWAT (ESWAT:サイバーポリス イースワット), is a 1990 side scrolling platform video game for the Sega Mega Drive and Genesis video game consoles.
ESWAT: City Under Siege was based on the arcade game ESWAT: Cyber Police released a year earlier in 1989. The console game maintains the main characters, plot and some of its enemies from the arcade game, but features some different levels, weapons, and bonuses.
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The game is a sidescrolling platformer similar to Shinobi. The game is set in the near future, where the player controls a blonde police officer named Duke Oda (デューク・オダ) who, over a series of levels, turns into the cyborg ESWAT. At first, as a rookie member of the Cyber Police force in the city of Liberty, the player has to clean the streets of an overwhelming crime wave and terminate the most wanted criminals. In the first and second levels of the game, the completely human Duke Oda can only utilize a single shot weapon and is very vulnerable to attacks.
A mysterious and high-tech organization, named "E.V.E.", quickly threatens to take over the entire city and, after being promoted at the end of the second level, Duke Oda is given power armor called the "Ice Combat Suit". With this suit the player can use new and more lethal weapons; "Super Shot", a plasma rifle, rockets, and a devastating fire attack. The player also has access to a jet pack with limited fuel that replenishes over time. The final boss of the game, the leader of E.V.E., is revealed to be a robot with artificial intelligence that is attempting to replicate its own ICE Combat Suits to take over Liberty.
E-SWAT was also ported to the Master System but, due to the limitations of that console, it was a completely different and scaled down game compared to the Arcade and Mega Drive versions. The master system version received poor reviews and some consider it one of the worst games of Master System.
A Virtual Console version for the Wii was released in August 2007 in Japan and in the PAL regions on September 7, 2007. An Xbox Live Arcade version for the Xbox 360 was announced with no release date on September 13, 2007.[1]
The game also appeared in Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection, also known as the Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection in Europe and Australia, for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.