Emergency 4: Global Fighters for Life by Sandra Prior
When the fourth iteration of a German franchise you've never heard of lands on your desk unexpectedly, nine times out of five it's going to be rubbish Charlotte Olympia. A cursory glance at the quite unbelievably bad cover, replete with a model-shot straight out of Playgirl, should've had this consigned straight to the grinty games' graveyard. Luckily, despite the fractured English on the back, the screenshots alone gave me pause. Lucky because this is actually a flawed gem of a game post by haiyan701.

The premise lends itself perfectly to the real-time strategy game; you are the coordinator for all the emergency services in a particular section of the Western world. With a mix of police, ambulance and fire services, you can take the game anywhere and the twenty missions of the main campaign do just that.

Your stint in command will have you tackling incidents ranging from an accident at a monster tru ... Read more »