ESWAT: City Under Siege
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Developer: Sega R&D 2 M2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Original system(s): Sega System 16 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sound driver: SMPS Z80 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre: Action[1][2][3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of players: 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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ESWAT: City Under Siege is a Sega Mega Drive action game released for the console in 1990. It is a reimagining of the 1989 arcade game Cyber Police ESWAT. The Sega Master System version of ESWAT: Cyber Police calls itself ESWAT: City Under Siege on its title screen, but is unrelated to this Mega Drive game.
Contents
Story
A police officer (named Duke Oda in the Japanese version) navigates through the crime-ridden Liberty City, shooting and capturing criminals. He is eventually accepted to the Police Department's top unit, ESWAT (Enhanced Special Weapons and Tactics) and given a powered exoskeleton to fight against powerful crime bosses who threaten the city. His ultimate goal is to destroy E.Y.E., a super computer.
Gameplay
The game is an platformer similar to the Shinobi games, set in the near future. The player controls a police officer and must eliminate threats approaching from either part of the screen; a boss is waiting at the end of each stage. The first two levels are played in human form. The officer walks with and and crouches with . He can move while crouching with and . He jumps with or and jumps higher with +. He can jump off platforms with +. The officer is equipped only with the basic Shot weapon while in human form, which is fired with .
After completing the second mission, the officer is promoted to ESWAT and gains a power suit. He can acquire four new weapons in this form, which are switched with . He can now fly using his Burner pack by pressing in mid-air and using the D-pad to move in any direction. Flying with the Burner uses energy, which is limited, but the officer can hover in place without using any energy. When the Burner energy bar is in the yellow zone, the officer can only hover and not fly.
The police officer has a health bar and loses segments of it when he takes damage from enemies. The health bar starts with four segments but gains additional segments as the player completes missions. If the officer loses all of his health, he loses a life and loses the currently equipped weapon (unless it is the Shot weapon). The game ends if the player runs out of lives, but the Western versions give the player three continues.
Weapons
Shot | |
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Standard hand gun. It can neutralize enemy projectiles. | |
Super | |
Fires three bullets simultaneously. | |
R.L. (Rocket Launcher) | |
Fires missiles that will skim over surfaces and seek targets when nearby. | |
P.C. (Plasma Charge) | |
Energy weapon that fires a powerful projectile that penetrates through multiple targets if allowed to charge (by holding fire). | |
Fire | |
A massive flame thrower kills everybody on the screen but drains the Booster energy. Single use only. |
Items
Life Up | |
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Restores two health bar segments. | |
Life Max | |
Fully restores the health bar. | |
Burner Max | |
Fully restores the Burner energy. | |
1 Up | |
Gives the player an extra life. | |
Super | |
Acquires the Super weapon. | |
R.L. (Rocket Launcher) | |
Acquires the R.L. (Rocket Launcher) weapon. | |
P.C. (Plasma Charge) | |
Acquires the P.C. (Plasma Charge) weapon. | |
Fire | |
Acquires the Fire weapon. |
Missions
Guard Silent City | |
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Infiltrate Cyber Prison | |
Defend Neo Three-Mile | |
Attack Mad Scientist | |
Destroy Dark Base | |
Penetrate Secret Sewer | |
Destroy Tactical Complex | |
Break E.Y.E's Plan | |
Versions
The Mega Drive version is different from the arcade and Master System versions, with more platforming sequences added in. There are no special weapons, though the player can equip more weapons. A jetpack is also available to fly around as long as the suit has power.
The Japanese version of a game has no continues and title screen has "Enhanced Special Weapons and Tactics" subtitle instead of "City under Siege", while the Western version gives player three continues that can be used after the Game Over screen.
When either of the versions is played on PAL system, the music will play at correct speed, but gameplay was not optimized and thus is slower than intended.
Comparisons
- Main article: ESWAT: City Under Siege/Comparisons.
Version history
- Main article: ESWAT: City Under Siege/Changelog.
System | Version | Size | Date | Comment | Ref | Icon | |
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4.1.1 | 56MB | 2020-01-09 | [19] | (info) (56.03 MB)
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2.0.1 | 45MB | 2019-06-03 | [20] | (info) (44.68 MB)
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2.0.0 | 44MB | 2019-01-31 | [21] | (info) (43.87 MB)
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1.1.2 | 43MB | 2018-11-02 | [22] | (info) (43.18 MB)
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1.1.2 | 41MB | 2018-08-06 | [23] | (info) (41.44 MB)
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1.0.0 | 39MB | 2017-11-08 | [3] | (info) (38.87 MB)
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4.1.1 | 141.2MB | 2020-01-09 | [24] | ||||
2.0.2 | 148.6MB | 2019-06-03 | [25] | ||||
2.0.0 | 140.4MB | 2019-01-31 | [26] | ||||
1.1.2 | 2018-10-31 | [24] | |||||
1.1.1 | 131.2MB | 2018-08-06 | [27] | ||||
1.1.0 | 2018-06-05 | [27] | |||||
1.0.1 | 120MB | 2017-11-09 | [28] | ||||
1.0.0 | 2017-11-08 | [27] |
Downloadable content
- Main article: ESWAT: City Under Siege/Downloadable content.
Production credits
- Game Designed by: Tinon
- Programmed by: Momonga Momo, Little Sun
- Designed by: Nandemo, Macco Chan, Seishi Atsumiya, Mikarin
- Music by: Dolphin, Middle Village
- Sound Coordinator: Bo
- Special Thanks to: Mizoran, Ore, Sat Man, Taro Shizuoka, Mt. Maya, Thunder, "Design's Maid", Thomas Yuuda, Yamaichi, "GoodLuck Matsuda"
- Original Concept: Saki
- Produced by: Sega 1990
- Japanese cover artist: Yuji Kaida
Digital manuals
Magazine articles
- Main article: ESWAT: City Under Siege/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
also published in:
- GamePro (US) #16: "November 1990" (1990-xx-xx)[31]
- Game Players Sega Guide! (US) #0101: "Vol. 1, No. 1: Fall 1990" (1990-10-xx)[32]
- Sega Visions (US) #3: "Winter 1990/1991" (1990-xx-xx)[33]
Artwork
Sega Forever icon
Physical scans
Mega Drive version
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Based on 37 reviews |
Mega Drive, SE (rental) |
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Mega Drive, AU |
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Mega-Tech version
Technical information
ROM dump status
System | Hash | Size | Build Date | Source | Comments | |||||||||
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512kB | 1990-09 | Cartridge (US/EU) | ||||||||||
✔ |
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512kB | 1990-03 | Cartridge (JP) |
External links
- Sega of Japan Virtual Console pages: Mega Drive
- Nintendo catalogue pages: UK, AU
- ESWAT: City Under Siege on Steam
- ESWAT: City Under Siege on Google Play
- ESWAT: City Under Siege on iTunes: US, UK
References
- ↑ File:Eswat md jp cover.jpg
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://sega.jp/history/hard/megadrive/software.html (Wayback Machine: 2020-07-20 09:51)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Google Play (com.sega.eswat.classic) (Wayback Machine: 2017-11-26 19:36)
- ↑ https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.video/c/2WJa_XfKZlI/m/9cdoKtm-swAJ
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 VideoGames & Computer Entertainment, "November 1990" (US; 1990-1x-xx), page 60
- ↑ Raze, "September 1991" (UK; 1991-07-25), page 76
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Sega Power, "April 1991" (UK; 1991-03-07), page 12
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Ação Games, "Junho 1991" (BR; 1991-06-19), page 14
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 http://www.nintendolife.com:80/games/megadrive/eswat_city_under_siege (Wayback Machine: 2017-06-26 20:42)
- ↑ https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Virtual-Console-Wii-/ESWAT-City-Under-Siege--277127.html (archive.today)
- ↑ https://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/vc/software/04.html (Wayback Machine: 2018-03-05 23:40)
- ↑ http://vc.sega.jp:80/vc_eswat/ (Wayback Machine: 2007-09-15 20:43)
- ↑ http://www.nintendo.com.au/index.php?action=catalogue&prodcat_id=41&prod_id=19740&pageID=4 (Wayback Machine: 2012-04-03 02:11)
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 https://steamdb.info/app/71110/ (Wayback Machine: 2015-09-27 14:52)
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 http://steamdb.info/app/71110/ (Wayback Machine: 2013-05-22 19:33)
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 16.5 16.6 16.7 16.8 16.9 https://steamdb.info/app/71110/history/?changeid=5755284
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 17.5 17.6 17.7 17.8 17.9 http://steamdb.info/app/71110/ (Wayback Machine: 2019-09-09 22:14)
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4 18.5 https:/twitter.com/SEGAForever/status/928306360705605633 (Wayback Machine: 2018-05-18 20:48)
- ↑ Google Play (com.sega.eswat.classic) (Wayback Machine: 2020-05-05 01:21)
- ↑ Google Play (com.sega.eswat.classic) (Wayback Machine: 2019-12-02 03:21)
- ↑ Google Play (com.sega.eswat.classic) (Wayback Machine: 2019-04-09 22:57)
- ↑ APKPure (com.sega.eswat.classic) (Wayback Machine: 2019-04-09 23:00)
- ↑ Google Play (com.sega.eswat.classic) (Wayback Machine: 2018-10-19 18:50)
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/eswat-city-under-siege-classic/id1263153863 (Wayback Machine: 2020-06-11 18:43)
- ↑ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/eswat-city-under-siege-classic/id1263153863 (Wayback Machine: 2019-10-16 16:05)
- ↑ https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/eswat-city-under-siege-classic/id1263153863?mt=8 (Wayback Machine: 2019-05-20 18:58)
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/eswat-city-under-siege-classic/id1263153863?mt=8 (Wayback Machine: 2018-09-07 22:19)
- ↑ https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/eswat-city-under-siege-classic/id1263153863?mt=8 (Wayback Machine: 2017-11-14 22:35)
- ↑ File:ESWAT MD credits.pdf
- ↑ Sega TV Game Genga Gallery, Graphic Sha, page 69
- ↑ GamePro, "November 1990" (US; 1990-xx-xx), page 100
- ↑ Game Players Sega Guide!, "Vol. 1, No. 1: Fall 1990" (US; 1990-10-xx), page 8
- ↑ Sega Visions, "Winter 1990/1991" (US; 1990-xx-xx), page 22
- ↑ Hobby Consolas, "Marzo 1992" (ES; 1992-0x-xx), page 40
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 65
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- ↑ Buzz! Computers (UK) (+0:00)
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- ↑ Console XS, "June/July 1992" (UK; 1992-04-23), page 129
- ↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 77
- ↑ Computer & Video Games, "September 1990" (UK; 1990-08-16), page 78
- ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "October 1990" (US; 1990-xx-xx), page 68
- ↑ Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide, "" (UK; 1993-11-18), page 41
- ↑ Famitsu, "" (JP; 1990-0x-xx), page 1
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- ↑ Joystick, "Septembre 1990" (FR; 1990-0x-xx), page 110
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- ↑ Mega Drive Fan, "October 1990" (JP; 1990-09-08), page 79
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- ↑ User, "Októvrios 1991" (GR; 1991-xx-xx), page 92
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