Poll: Could a GOOD Firefighter game ever be made?

[baseracer]

I remember one in the arcade I used to go to, that was pretty fun. Forgot what it was called but you held a life size fire hose, and just sprayed fire with water. Basic stuff. Fun tho!

It was hard as fucking hell. The water pressure gauge went down to zero, and never went back up. I also forget the name of this game.

 

[Christemo]

maybe if it wasnt just about dousing fires. driving to the areas, searching for survivors, suing Pyromaniacs responsible for the fire, etc etc.

it could be cool.

 

[hamster mk 4]

I had an idea for a wild fire fighting RTS game that I submitted to:

http://www.saveearthgame.org/

but the organizers don't seem to have their act together and I don't see the point of perusing it further.

 

[Mcface]

3rd person, story driven slightly open ended gameplay.

make it the life of a firefighter, with lots of that good sim stuff.

 

[AvsJoe]

I figure it's possible. I had boat-loads of fun playing the firefighter side-quest in Vice City and San Andreas.

But a real firefighter game would be stupidly difficult. It's certainly possible though.

 

[mokes310]

It's possible, but not probable. As important as emergency workers are, their work really doesn't lead itself to video games...aside from the Police Quest Series, which is pretty epic!

 

[ssgt splatter]

A game that casts you as a firefighter and you go around the city and extinguish fires of increasing difficulty? You're kidding, right?

 

[The Oddfellow]

I wouldn't buy it as a game from a shop, but maybe if it was arcade.

 

[Fireryu]

It could be good if like when you entered the building it was like a maze and have time limits on saving people

 

[Sgt. Dante]

Burning Rangers, quite an obscure Saturn game, but very very good fun.

 

[Generic_Dave]

I think it could be done with enough imagination...you could fight fires, then rummage through after in a to find the cause, as the game progresses your character realises that there's an arsonist behind it, maybe he'd leave clues or letters, maybe it has something to do with a loved one who died in a fire and you saved someone else when you could have saved them...then the end would be a battle with the arsonist, as he lays fires and firetraps to try and kill you, preferably he's captured you first so he can have conviently pre-laid traps as well as traps laid on the fly.

There'd be melee bashes, at first to use against panicing civvies to carry them out or bust through windows etc...then they could be used against the ONLY bad guy in the last mission. It would be mainly puzzle based, how to get from a to b and back with the victims...moral choices of who to take and who to leave...and it could be 3rd or 1st person, probably best to be able to switch between the two. There could be fire "enemies" I suppose, say backdraft, and the like, certain visual cues to tell you when something is going to fall or the fire is going to bloom. Not in a "Flame, thirty second gap, flame" kinda way but in either set pieces or random areas, if you open a door the rush of air feeds the flames, you could try escaping out the window, but there's a chance it could kill your charges as straight out as the flames...

Also, it would need amazing fire and fire damage graphics.

I'm imagining something along the lines of Portal to be honest. But just because it showed how you don't need enemies in every room. Sometimes the room is the enemy.

 

[BaldursBananaSoap]

Urban Chaos?

 

[Sejs Cube]

It'd be possible, definitely. It'd need more to it than just "there be some fires, put them out" and.. you know, a plot of some kind, but it could be done.

 

[Captain Pancake]

When have you ever seen a game that does not embellish what the player does relative to IRL activity?

I'm pretty sure crazy taxi wasn't a realistic depiction of a day in the life of a cabbie...

 

[StigmataDiaboli]

I remember there being a really good one back on the PS2. Played the demo and loved it. Now I cannot remember its name for the life of me...

 

[US Crash Fire]

I remember there being a really good one back on the PS2. Played the demo and loved it. Now I cannot remember its name for the life of me...

[http://img2.imageshack.us/i/firefighterfd18.jpg/]

its call Firefighter F.D. 18 by konami
and as a firefighter/EMT i aprove of this game!
it was awesome!
yeah theres parts that are silly like your hose of infinate length that never gets caught on corners and doesnt get any harder to drag, that water shotgun thing, and the fire "bosses" but if it was a full on firefighter sim, it wouldnt be as great.
i think the real heroes is a good idea as a FPS. it would be better if they started you off in station and you had to drive or get packed out on the way and have your captain tell you whats going on and the plan of attack as your opening cutscene to a level.

 

[Jurassic Rob]

Meh, I could only see it getting repetitive after a while. Would be a new and interesting idea though!