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Emergency Heroes

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Emergency Heroes
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5.3 User Score:

Generally unfavorable reviews

Based on 12 critic reviews
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Based on 6 votes
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Game Info

Publisher: Ubisoft

Developer: Ubisoft Reflections - Ubisoft Barcelona

Genre(s): Driving

Players: 2

ESRB Rating: E10+ (Everyone 10 and Older)

Release Date: May 27, 2008

Summary

Emergency Heroes is an open world rescue driving game. Young rescuers can jump into 16 different variations of next-generation rescue vehicles as a police officer, firefighter or EMT and navigate through the sprawling streets of San Alto, keeping citizens safe along the way. Drive the next generation of rescue vehicles. Pilot and command numerous hi-tech rescue vehicles designed specifically for ultra-high-risk, high-speed navigation. Choose between police, fire and EMT vehicles. Explore and protect the entire city. As an emergency hero, your mission is to protect the peaceful city of San Alto. Drive through stunning free-roaming open environments, rescuing the city from imminent danger at every turn. Two Player Co-Op. Challenge your friends or combine forces to form the ultimate rescue hero team to protect your city. Making full use of the Wii Remote, everyone in the family can enjoy being an emergency hero. Take advantage of Hero Mode and play like you mean it – the faster you drive, the faster you rise and gain access to powers of invincibility. [Ubisoft]

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

62

Official Nintendo Magazine UK

The game's instant appeal fades quickly. It's cheap but not particularly cheerful. [July 2008, p.86]

60

n-Revolution Magazine UK

More suited to a younger audience. It wears thin after a while, but cheap thrills can easily tempt you back. [Issue#25, p.77]

50

Eurogamer

If you're the parent of a five year-old boy, you can sit them in front of Emergency Heroes and leave the room, confident it's less graphically violent than an episode of The Archers. Just be aware that for anyone over five, it's also less thrilling.

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49

Da Gameboyz

Emergency Heroes is a game that does show some glimpses of hope of what it could have been, but when all the parts are taken together it just doesn’t manage to cut it.

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45

GameZone

Our emergency and rescue heroes deserve better than this.

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44

Cheat Code Central

Borderline shovelware -- but without that $20 price tag. I'd encourage you strongly to stay away from this game -- as a racing game, it has very little to offer. Cruising the city gets old quickly, and the multiplayer mode is about as exciting as the rest of the single-player game.

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40

PALGN

Emergency Heroes is a below average game that is ultimately far too dull to be enjoyable.

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40

NintendoWorldReport

Emergency Heroes feels very rushed since there's just not much to it. The entire game took me approximately four hours from start to finish, and that’s four hours too many for something as generic and repetitive as this.

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33

1UP

It's the wide-ranging lack of polish that really damns Emergency Heroes to a forgettable existence, as the player vehicles have all the floaty steering and shaky physics of a shovelware budget title (but with twice the price tag), and I even managed to crash the game by falling through the ground during one mission.

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30

Gamer's Hell

And that was the kicker, after a game full of repetition, and boredom, a glitch was the final deal breaker. Here's hoping someone can come up with a competent emergency services game.

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25

GameSpot

Emergency Heroes is a lazy and repetitive open-world driving game that will bore even the younger audience that it's aimed at.

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20

LEVEL (Czech Republic)

Are you a parent of a child who wants to be a fireman, rescuer or policeman and you don’t like it at all? Let him or her play Emergency Heroes and your problems become history. [Aug 2008]

What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 5.3 (out of 10) based on 6 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Stephen M. gave it a1:
I see hardly anything good in this game. Driving is hard because handling is horrible, and once you get the hand of it, it's over. It's a very short game.

Richard K. gave it a9:
Not a bad game at all, from reading the press reviews it looks like they have failed to realize that the game is aimed at kids. I bought it for my son after he read the review in Pokemon world magazine and he loves it. They gave it a 9/10. I'm gonna give it the same for the fun he has been having playing it.

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