High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle (also known as SWAT3 or SWAT3:CQB) is a tactical squad-based first-person shooter, developed by Sierra Northwest and published by Sierra Entertainment for Windows-based PCs on November 23, 1999. SWAT3 is the seventh installment of the long-running Police Quest series, and is also the first game in the series to omit the phrase Police Quest from the full title.