Emergency (video game)

Emergency: Fighters for Life
Developer(s)	Sixteen Tons Entertainment
Publisher(s)	NA: WizardWorks EU: ASCII Entertainment
Director(s)	Ralph Stock
Producer(s)	Ralph Stock
Programmer(s)	Andreas Epple
Series	Emergency
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows
Release	EU: 1998 NA: June 5, 1998 (online)[1] NA: August 1998 (retail)[2]
Genre(s)	Tactical role-playing game
Mode(s)	Single-player

Emergency: Fighters for Life, also known as simply Emergency, is a tactical role-playing video game developed for Microsoft Windows in 1998. Four sequels have been released: Emergency 2, Emergency 3, Emergency 4, and Emergency 5.

Gameplay

The player receives a series of missions to complete involving the rescue of injured and endangered civilians, extinguishing fires, and arresting any violators of the law. Scenarios include: an accident at a race track, a plane crash, a flood, a traffic accident and a bomb threat, as well as scenarios based on true events such as the Ramstein air show disaster.

Reception

Reception

Aggregate score

Aggregator	Score
GameRankings	50%[3]

Review scores

Publication	Score
Computer Games Strategy Plus	[4]
Computer Gaming World	[5]
GamePro	[6]
GameSpot	4.6/10[7]
GameStar	56%[8]
Next Generation	[9]
PC Gamer (US)	45%[10]
PC Zone	37%[11]

The game received mixed reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings.[3] Next Generation said, "As a whole, Emergency shows promise but has too many individual flaws to be a worthwhile purchase. The developers should be commended for an original idea, but the execution is poor. We hope they've learned from their mistakes and their next effort will be a bit more polished."[9]

References

1. Ocampo, Jason (June 8, 1998). "An RTS game about saving lives". Computer Games Strategy Plus. Strategy Plus, Inc. Archived from the original on June 27, 2003. Retrieved April 6, 2021.
2. "Emergency". WizardWorks. June 5, 1998. Archived from the original on August 18, 2000. Retrieved April 6, 2021.
3. "Emergency: Fighters for Life for PC". GameRankings. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on June 3, 2019. Retrieved April 6, 2021.
4. Royal, Anne (September 30, 1998). "Emergency! [sic]". Computer Games Strategy Plus. Strategy Plus, Inc. Archived from the original on May 29, 2003. Retrieved April 6, 2021.
5. Ardai, Charles (December 1998). "Emergency: Fighters for Life" (PDF). Computer Gaming World. No. 173. Ziff Davis. p. 420. Retrieved April 6, 2021.
6. Hudak, Chris (1998). "Emergency: Fighters for Life Review for PC on GamePro.com". GamePro. IDG Entertainment. Archived from the original on September 28, 2004. Retrieved April 6, 2021.
7. Poole, Stephen (September 17, 1998). "Emergency: Fighters for Life Review [date mislabeled as "May 1, 2000"]". GameSpot. CBS Interactive. Retrieved April 6, 2021.
8. "Emergency". GameStar (in German). Webedia. June 1998.
9. "Emergency – Fighters for Life". Next Generation. No. 48. Imagine Media. December 1998. p. 134. Retrieved April 6, 2021.
10. "Emergency: Fighters for Life". PC Gamer. Vol. 5, no. 11. Imagine Media. November 1998.
11. Reed, Kristan (October 1998). "Emergency". PC Zone. No. 68. Dennis Publishing. p. 106. Retrieved April 6, 2021.

External links

• Emergency: Fighters for Life at MobyGames