GwB Presents: Emergency Heroes for the Nintendo Wii

GwB Presents: Emergency Heroes for the Nintendo Wii

Once again, it's been a while since I was given the opportunity to heap upon you the odd collection of verbs, nouns, and adjectives that make up my little critiques. In all fairness, now is that time of year where next to nothing gets released in comparison to the holiday gaming season. The summer months are largely a dry spell for gamers, and as such, we take what we can get. The odd little platformer, RPG, fighting game, anything that comes along really, to satisfy our ADD like requirement for more and more pixelated entertainment, all the while ignoring the outside world and the big, orange ball in the sky that is trying to turn our pasty, white skin a painful shade of crimson.

From the press release:

SAN FRANCISCO – June 12, 2008 – Today Ubisoft announced that Emergency Heroes has shipped to retailers nationwide and is available exclusively for the Wii(TM) home video game system from Nintendo. Developed by Ubisoft Reflections and Ubisoft Barcelona, Emergency Heroes is an open-world rescue driving game where young rescuers can jump into 48 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. Emergency Heroes is rated "E-10+” and has an MSRP of $39.99.

Key Features:

• Drive the next generation of rescue vehicles. Pilot and command numerous high-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.

• Fun for the whole family. Making full use of the Wii Remote(TM), everyone in the family can enjoy being an emergency hero.

• Fast-action gameplay. 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.

About Ubisoft
Ubisoft is a leading producer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment products worldwide and has grown considerably through a strong and diversified line-up of products and partnerships. Ubisoft has offices in 25 countries and sales in 55 countries around the globe. It is committed to delivering high-quality, cutting-edge video game titles to consumers. Ubisoft generated sales of 928 million euros for the 2007–08 fiscal year. To learn more, please visit
www.ubisoftgroup.com.

Emergency Heroes is one of those titles that just fill that void in our gaming lives. It isn't great by any means, the story and the graphics are nothing special, but it steps up in a time when the horizon is devoid of anything. This is one of those titles that parents will play once, and then never touch again, but your young boy will constantly want to play it. My only real problem with the title is in it's controls, it relies on the same wonky controls that Nintendo seems to favor in it's racing titles. (I'm not a fan of the floating controller.)

Emergency Heroes is available everywhere now and is rated E10+ by the ESRB.

I am seriously out of practice with these critiques. If only they weren't so few and far between...