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 who, over a series of levels, turns into the cyborg E.S.W.A.T. 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 can only survive one hit. A second hit will kill him.
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"We have Robocop at home." Middling side scrolling shooter.
Shinobi wasn’t quite enough of a Rolling Thunder ripoff so Sega made Shinobi a cop.
Played as a kid.
Not much to say about this one. 'Tis okay.
Not much to say about this one. 'Tis okay.
SEGAs answer to the vastly superior Robocop arcade machine
As you could tell from the subtlety of its name, ESWAT is a take on the RoboCop popularity, being an early Genesis title being released in 1989 by SEGA. The game starts similarly to a futuristic Shinobi, with the player controlling a cop called Duke Oda, infiltrating a prison escape, past the second level; the game gets really good, as the player obtains the famous "ESWAT" suit, sent on more dangerous mission to thwart the evil plans of the E.Y.E. organization. The suit grants him increased mobility, a jetpack and an assortment of powerful weapons found in each levels. While the game is short, it has some of the most impressive graphics and sounds of early Mega Drive, with over eight missions, each with their own fast-paced boss battles.