Just wondering: any of our readers actually old enough to remember this early-to-mid-'90's cartoon? (Or, anyone been watching Boomerang recently?)

• The entirety of MegaKat City to save? We've been down this road already! Pacific City, Metropolis, and from the direction of NOT saving the city, Liberty, Vice, and San Andreas. Mission-based gameplay, open-world sandbox gameplay... yeah, it may risk becoming a GTA clone, but last time we checked, GTAIV doesn't have fighter planes - any planes at all (and neither did Crackdown).
  

• Did we say "entirety of MegaKat City?" That means inside and out. The SWAT Kats kicked tail with wings, kicked tail with wheels, kicked tail on foot, kicked each other's tail at times. That's in-air combat, on-the-ground vehicular combat, (maybe even underwater combat), at one point suborbital combat, and on-foot, indoors fights. All-terrain combat just got redefined.
  

• The show's premise is perfect for a live co-op jump-in. Someone plays T-Bone, mach-speed hotshot on the joystick, and someone plays Razor, eagle-eyed sureshot with them missiles. Of course that's just in the Turbokat - imagine co-op gameplay with the rest of the SWAT Kats arsenal. Or pawing it on the ground.
  

• Dogfighting action courtesy of Ace Combat! Or perhaps Warhawk or SCEE's Dropship: United Peace Force (PS2) because of the Turbokat's ability to hover and VIFF (vector in forward flight) dogfight.
  

• Octopus Missiles, Matchhead Missiles, Drillbit Missiles, cement guns? The SWAT Kats' unconventional weaponry and even more unconventional enemies are a recipe for the same kind of physics-challenge air and ground combat featured in the cartoon. Go watch a few episodes to see why. Toss in the Havok Engine, and it's an a la carte banquet!

• Enemies? What other hero or benighted savior in any console had to face: robots, cyborgs, aliens with motherships, mummies, mutants, bacteria, the undead, dinosaurs, oil-sucking worms, a mythical volcano creature, rogue AI bots, criminal masterminds, net hackers, time travelers, mirror dimension mirrors, pirate pilots, giant spiders... oh, you get the idea.
  

• But why make things easier for the SWAT Kats? Back to the show's premise: they're vigilantes, not benighted heroes. Their antics don't exactly please... well, at least the head of the paramilitary Enforcers, Commander Feral. Imagine a threshold you cannot breach, a line you cannot cross, even in the name of justice - beyond which, the city turns against you and the Enforcers are all-out APB for the Turbokat.
• Of course, any excuse for Feral to request for "more... chopper... backup." Again.
  

• KATS! For caturday's sake, kats! How can you argue with kats?!

• If they're going to make a game out of Biker Mice from Mars, certainly they can make a game out of the SWAT Kats. Scratch that - they ought to.
  

• Finally, and as a shout-out to fellow Kats out there: the best argument for Cartoon Network (or someone else, if it gets to that) to pick up the series once again is to prove it has the power to resonate with the audience, both past and present. What better way than with a game?