Fire Chief

Posted: April 19th, 2003.

Monte Cristo Announces Fire Chief for PC in June 2003

Donning yellow trousers and mounting a shiny red engine, Monte Cristotoday announced the release of Fire Chief for PC in June 2003.

Offering more red-hot action than you can shake a fire axe at, Fire Chiefis a tactical mission-based game which offers spectacular action inrealistic settings. Players take charge of a squad of specialized firefighters and vehicles. Under pressure, they must make the right decisionsand fight against numerous fires and obstacles in order to minimisecollateral damage and save lives.

Fire Chief features full 3D gameplay across 10 challenging missions with34 levels, including forest fires, warehouse fires and petrol stationexplosions.

Fire Chief offers six distinct jobs including the basic fire fighter, whoreduces the size of fires and breaks obstacles using an axe; theparamedic, who transports the injured away from the scene of the fire; thetechnical officer, who closes gas valves and works on all complexmechanical objects; the commando, who infiltrates the most inaccessibleareas; the specialist in de-incarceration, who overcomes the mostdifficult of obstacles and, last but not least, the approach suitspecialist.

In addition to the men themselves, players can also choose their vehiclesin order to overcome obstacles blocking their way and find a strategicpoint of entry to extinguish a fire more rapidly. In short, Fire Chiefhouses all the shiny red hardware you would expect in a real fire stationincluding water ladders, rescue ladders, pumpers and tankers.

The Fire Chief development team has worked with an internationalconsultant, who has been involved with a number of real world emergencyincidents. He has helped in achieving maximum realism across countryspecific vehicles and uniforms, level design, victim behaviour, watersupply and fire dispersion.

Fire Chief will be published by Monte Cristo for PC in June 2003.

News page content input by Dominic Robinson, 2003.