YMMV / SWAT 3

• Genre Popularizer: Along with the original Rainbow Six game, it greatly helped to popularize squad-based tactical shooters.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • In one mission, terrorists shoot down an airplane and the FAA tries to ground air traffic in the region with little success. Two years after the game's release, 9/11 happened and the FAA grounded air traffic across the country.
  • Blackwater, the Private Military Contractors featured in the bonus videos, became notorious in 2007 when they killed 17 civilians in Iraq, to the degree that they rebranded themselves to Xe Services then Academi.
  • One of the bios for one of your element members notes that he was a veteran of a war in the Middle East in 2000. That's not too far off the wars that occurred in Afghanistan and Iraq.