Despite Mega Man's interpretation of the subject, a fireman is designed to put out fires, not to start them. Yes, we said "designed." Mega Man actually got that part right -- firemen are, in fact, super efficient robots. According to upstart developer Epicenter Studios, they're also the perfect subject for a video game on Nintendo's Wii. The studio, comprised of former producers for the Call of Duty, Shrek, Spider-Man and Star Trek franchises, recently announced a Wii game by the name of Real Heroes: Firefighter.
Gamasutra describes it as a "firefighting action puzzle game," one that has the Wiimote becoming a water hose, a fire axe or a crowbar (for saving people, not bashing aliens!). The game also features "Thinking Fire" technology meant to incur "unexpected changes to the environments that will suddenly alter the player's options and strategies." It sounds an awful lot like real, dumb fire to us, but we'll take anything given today's glaring lack of Burning Rangers 2. If the game finds a publisher and makes its planned 2008 holiday release, we'll see whether or not those flames are intelligent enough to spread to the sales charts.
[Via Wii Fanboy]
Reader Comments (10)
Posted: Jun 22nd 2007 8:19PM hvnlysoldr said
Nice work with all those references.
Super Fighting Robot, MEGAMAN!
(repeat five times)
Super Fighting Robot
MEGAMAN!
Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiighting to
Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaave the
Wooooooorrrrrrrrrrlddd llddd dd d!
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Super Fighting Robot, MEGAMAN!
(repeat five times)
Super Fighting Robot
MEGAMAN!
Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiighting to
Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaave the
Wooooooorrrrrrrrrrlddd llddd dd d!
Posted: Jun 22nd 2007 8:51PM (Unverified) said
didn't a fire fighter game exist in arcades? I used motion controls in a sense and was a sort of kiddy gun type of game. For kids this might be a nice game
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Posted: Jun 22nd 2007 9:57PM (Unverified) said
I'm fairly confident this game already exists and it's just going to be a port. Mainly because I played this game at a Chuck E. Cheese's and it was intended for short people.
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Posted: Jun 22nd 2007 10:02PM hvnlysoldr said
I missed the Gulliver's Tales reference with putting out fires with wee.
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Posted: Jun 23rd 2007 12:44AM (Unverified) said
omg there was a firefighter game for the snes. I hope it's a remake of the original. In the original you controlled a team of firefighters much like rainbow six.
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Posted: Jun 23rd 2007 8:18AM Ninbrendo said
This is the only arcade fire fighting game that I remember:
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=7814
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http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=7814
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