Is this worth buying for its price offline?

[(Clever Name Here)]

So I love the S.W.A.T. games that this is based on. I've been dying for a new S.W.A.T. (aka this). As with all my SWAT stuff, I always play offline (though I guess I could try online). Is its current price worth buying?

Is there more or less content then lets say SWAT 4? I also realize this game is early access of course so its not complete yet.

[Bruce Springsteen fan]

I would say in its current state its not as good as SWAT 3 or 4 because it's unfinished, however if you can look past that then I would say it's absolutely worth trying. I've enjoyed it so far and I've played only offline.

[Martin]

I also was dying to play "the next SWAT", so I bought it like a month ago, played a few hours and even got some friends to play online. We loved it and it looks like it's gonna be an excelent succesor, but you should expect a major lack of content right now.

[TacticalOpossum]

So long as you understand that it's an early access game and there will be ups and downs then it's absolutely worth it. The single player is good fun but it's even better if you can convince a few friends to join you.

[BTZ]

Wait, not worth it for now. They fixed a lot of issues, but for me main problem is level design. I mean graphically maps are ok, but from gameplay standpoint total disaster. They are huge with a lot of open spaces and a lot of side paths, and almost all of them designed that way, you need multiple swat teams deployment simultaneously from different points. But you controlling only one. SWAT 4 didn't has such problems. All maps was interesting with a lot of rooms, and areas where you could apply entry in to the room with two teams separately.

[Jozsefirst]

I only played Swat 4 prior to RoN so I cant say much about how it performs to the rest of the entries of the series but as far as how it compares to #4 I feel like there are some aspects where we can see a slight decrease in quality.

For example commanding a team of BOTs doesent feel as enjoyable as it used to ( do keep in mind that I'm basing these things off of memories):

- They feel really clunky at times, that doesent have too much of an effect on the general gameplay but it does take you out of the immersion which btw is the strongest point of the entire game imo.

- They are straight up sniper BOTs from TF2, unless they get outnumbered 2 to 1 they never lose firefights and immediately one tap suspects as they enter their line of sight, another hit taken to the immersiveness of the game + it makes the gameplay of swat team leader really boring as there is hardly any risk involved to breaching rooms with your men (so long as you arent the one in front).

I dont remember having these issues in Swat 4, but they are definitely present here.

That being said, this has got to be the most refined swat simulator / tactical shooter experience to date with a lot of QoL features that make it outclass just about all of their compatitors.

I'd say, only buy this game if you have friends also willing to buy it and/or if you have no issue playing with strangers and making new friends to play with because this game is meant to be played in coop. If you do meet these criteria then I think you should definitely go for it. The game can be incredibly tense and challenging and you miss out on where it can shine the brightest if you just play it in single with BOTs.

This could change though, the game is still in early access and being actively worked on by the developers so perhaps one day I will be able to recommend RoN just for playing it in single player.

I do have to mention though that as the game closes in on it's final release they say that the devs intend to raise it's price from 40 euros to 60,so if buying it cheap has any merit on your decision then it might be a good idea to get it sooner rather than later.