The game is, essentially, a first-person shooter on the Nintendo Wii, developed by a team that consists of members who worked on the Call of Duty franchise back in the day. But in this FPS, instead of blasting Nazis, zombies or space aliens, you're dousing fires in a variety of different locations and structures. You play as firefighter fresh out of the fire academy about to see action in the real world. After a quick training mission to learn all the tools of the trade – mostly how to handle the Wii remote and nunchuk's controls – it's off to the first firecall to put those skills to use.
GamerHome: "Unlike many other needlessly complex pseudo-simulators however, here you’ll find arcade-like elements and plenty of unique puzzles amidst fairly straightforward FPS controls."
Publisher Iceberg Interactive has today brought the critically acclaimed Real Heroes: Fire-Fighter to PC retail. Having originally debuted on Wii in 2010, Real Heroes: Fire-Fighter makes its way to PC today courtesy of Iceberg Interactive with a Nintendo 3DS version from Reef Entertainment following later this year.
Zavvi.com: "If you’re a gamer, you’ve probably spent most of 2010 being completely spoilt for choice. There have been so many fantastic games released this year that next year’s post-Christmas release drought is likely to be a very welcome period for almost everyone – as we’ll all finally have time to get stuck into everything that we missed the first time around. But even so, some of the very best games of 2010 managed to slip completely under the radar of way too many people, and here are five of our favourites that you should definitely try to make a date with as soon as possible…"
