The Firemen - SNES

Every System has its own share of Mario, Street Fighter, and Tetris clones. The only difference ever being a few extra tweaks which differs them from the rest. Game Designers tend to stick to things they know that work, instead of coming up with new and original ideas, this way they think they cannot fail. Human Entertainment ( The people behind The Firemen ) have left these boundaries and have taken the basic RPG and Action elements and combined them into a unique, original game called "The Firemen"

The Firemen was first released in the US in 1994, the graphics in this game are some of the best seen on the snes and the gameplay is in the top ranks as well. Armed with your trusty hose and grenades filled with water you must attempt to put out a raging fire in a factory, and all on Christmas day. The fire seems a little hectic at the start but as the game progresses the fire becomes more violent and difficult to destroy. The game probably seems very boring and easy just combating fire, but is far from that, reaching levels that even hardest gamer could be putoff by.

You must also avoid and destroy many of the factory's control robots which have gone haywire, and on top of this you must attempt to save the lives of the survivors trapped within the fire.

This game proves that you do not have to stick to tried and tested ideas to make a game fun and playable, although a 2 player option wouldn't have been a miss. This game should be in your collection and theres no reason why not !!

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