Tuesday, August 29, 2023

PrinceWatercress plays ESWAT: City Under Siege - Part 1 of 8


It's like Shinobi...with guns!


In its never-ending fight against crime, the government recruited the most skilled soldiers of all ESWAT! Wearing state-of-the-art ICE combat suits, ESWAT troopers set out to eliminate crime. E.V.E., the largest and most powerful terrorist group, developed their own advanced weapons to neutralize ESWAT. E.V.E. continued to develop their plans to control the entire world.

On the options menu, you can set your starting lives to one, three or five. You can also select between Easy, Normal and Hard and change the controls. Left and Right let you move around, Up lets you aim upwards, Down lets you duck, and Down-Left and Down-Right let you duck walk. A selects weapons (which you'll be able to do later in the game), B shoots and C jumps. Up and C lets you leap to higher platforms. The game controls much like Shinobi, except with guns.

Mission 1: Guard Silent City!


Your health is in the upper-left corner. When you lose all your health, you'll lose a life. You'll gain more health as you complete missions. At the bottom is your current weapons (which I'll cover later in the game) and your current amount of lives.

If you see any enemies slowly approaching you, be sure to duck down before shooting them so you can duck under their bullets.

The robot with the red dome that moves back and forth shoots mortar shot. Take them down from below or from a distance.

The guys with the blonde hair will stand there and shoot in your general direction. You can also take them out from a distance.

There are two instances in the level where an enemy will jump out of the window and slide at you. Duck down and shoot at them or jump right over them immediately.

The "L Up" icon recovers health that you have lost. The "M" icon recovers all health to full.

Remember to hold Up and press C if you're trapped in the rooftops.

The boss here is a helicopter battle on an elevator. It will move back and forth at first, then stop in the upper-left corner and shoot downwards. After this, it will fly to the right, then dive downwards to the left. When you get used to its movements, you can aim upwards and get some shots in when you need to. After the downward dive to the left, it will show up in the lower-right corner. Shoot at the helicopter as it slowly rises up, and keep shooting at it. If you haven't done enough damage, it will hit you with rockets. At this point, you should have done enough damage to it before the rockets fire off. After this, it's on to Mission 2.

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