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[JimmyKid]

Let's see....

Battlefield 1942
- Road to Rome
- Secret Weapons of WWII
Battlefield Vietnam
Battlefield 2
- Armored Fury
- Euro Forces
Sims 3
World in Conflict
Halo: Combat Evolved <---- STILL PC
Star Trek: Online
America's Army 3
Minecraft
Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity
911: FR
Project: Reality <---- Mod for BF2
Flight Simulator X
Rollercoaster Tycoon 3: Platinum
CoD: WaW
Garry's Mod
Counterstrike: Source
Team Fortress 2
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 <-------- Xbox 360 and Steam
Star Trek: Legacy
Silent Hunter III
Halo: Reach <--- Xbox 360
Portal 2 <---- Steam/Xbox 360
Call of Duty: Black Ops <---- Big Mistake
and more........

[Sgt Alex4028]

Rigs of Rods, Easiest game to mod..and sooo many functions on the emergency vehicles

[hunter42]

Some important news for anyone interested

Oh look, another German game - can't be translated and limiting their target audience.
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2nd edit: Sorry, it's called "Flughafen-Feuerwhr simulator" and is 20 Euros

Airport firefighter simulator has been released in English. You can buy it at SimMarket. If you've already bought the German version from SimMarket, they'll give you a link to download the English version after you've logged in.

[erfd]

BOught it and I love it it. Did a good job at keeping what goes on in a real station setting with daily meeings, doing inspections around the airport, etc. Very good game if you like realisic themed simulators.

Going more in depth:

You start off talking to the chief, you go on a very long walk through the fire hall and bay. Character movement isn't very good so this part can be very annoying. After that you get to tour the airport with chief. Take note of main locations to make responses easier.

Your first shift starts in the morning meeting. You get your vehicle assignment and your daily task for the day. Your first one will be unit 1 on fence inspection. This is a long process especially as you get calls throughout the process. After the inspection you can drive around, hang out at station, etc.


-The shifts are accelerated 24 hr shifts with different settings in options.
-The airport has very good realistic scenery setup.
-station model is bare, not super detailed.
-vehicle models are good with good lighting
-calls vary from trash bin fires to tree fires to structure fires to plane fires.

Overall I like the game. It lacks some important things like gearing up and scba tanks, but it does good job and I really like it. Once you get through the first very long parts, it becomes enjoyable.

If your like me you can really get into it by doing things like washing the truck, etc.

[911firstresponder]

I got....
911FR
Call of Duty MW3
Farmin Simulator 2011
Arma 2
Arma 2 OA
Flight Simulator 2004
Minecraft
Sims 3
Saints Row 3
Hitman Blood Money

[Dominik31]

I play
-Emergency 4 L.A. mod
-Emergency 4 N.Y. mod
-Call of Duty 5
-Rise of Legends
-True Crime New York City
-Need for Speed Undercover
-Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl
-Stalker Clear Sky

[ZackBowden]

I play:

• Emergency 4
• Cities in Motion
• Ski Sim 2012
• Airport FF Sim 2012
• Minecraft

On Xbox:

• Test Drive Unlimited 2
• Burnout Paradise
• Iron Man 2
• The Sims 3
• Lego Batman
• Driver: SF
• Minecraft 360
• Midnight Club LA

On Wii:

• RH: Firefighter
• (I have more but they aren't sim or emergency related)

[pavdhu]

Bus Driver
GTA San Andres
GTA IV
The sims 3
Rigs of Rods
Emergency 4

all on the PC

[Unit 42]

BOught it and I love it it. Did a good job at keeping what goes on in a real station setting with daily meeings, doing inspections around the airport, etc. Very good game if you like realisic themed simulators. Going more in depth: You start off talking to the chief, you go on a very long walk through the fire hall and bay. Character movement isn't very good so this part can be very annoying. After that you get to tour the airport with chief. Take note of main locations to make responses easier. Your first shift starts in the morning meeting. You get your vehicle assignment and your daily task for the day. Your first one will be unit 1 on fence inspection. This is a long process especially as you get calls throughout the process. After the inspection you can drive around, hang out at station, etc. -The shifts are accelerated 24 hr shifts with different settings in options. -The airport has very good realistic scenery setup. -station model is bare, not super detailed. -vehicle models are good with good lighting -calls vary from trash bin fires to tree fires to structure fires to plane fires. Overall I like the game. It lacks some important things like gearing up and scba tanks, but it does good job and I really like it. Once you get through the first very long parts, it becomes enjoyable. If your like me you can really get into it by doing things like washing the truck, etc.

How much did this cost you? In US dollars? This looks great! Also, do calls randomly come in or are they like missions? I mean like 911 Fr in Endless game mode type of thing.

[ZackBowden]

How much did this cost you? In US dollars? This looks great! Also, do calls randomly come in or are they like missions? I mean like 911 Fr in Endless game mode type of thing.

I saw it on SimMarket, it was $25.45 USD.

[erfd]

How much did this cost you? In US dollars? This looks great! Also, do calls randomly come in or are they like missions? I mean like 911 Fr in Endless game mode type of thing.

I got it for about $20. (when you make an account on the site the price is marked down a little.) The calls are all random, no set call times, etc. and varies everytime. It is pretty slow and repetative until you get to the Panther though. That is by far what the game is set up for and my favorite part. (plus way better calls.)

[EmergencyFan97]

There's too many for me to list, but these are my favorites:

Emergency 4
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2
Assassin's Creed 2

I also started playing Star Trek Online today.

[hunter42]

Oh hey, it's that time of year where I buy an obscure German simulator game, pretend I know what I'm doing, then recommend it for some stupid reason.
This week it's... werksfeuerwehr-simulator, thing? Translated: Factory fire simulator.
(Screenshots are spoiler tagged due to size)

Spoiler

This game is brought to you by the same people who made Airport fire fighter simulator, and has a few improvements.I haven't played much, but got some screenies to show some new things. Couldn't get FRAPS to work with the game, so used Steam instead, which kinda worked. Apologies for the overlay at the edges.

Spoiler

So here we are, in the meeting room, as usual. I have no idea what the hell the guy is telling me to do, but I get to use Florian 1 today. Yay.
You can't see it in the screenshot, but nobody swaggers around like pimps anymore, so that makes the game 10 times better AND you can skip the tutorial

Spoiler

...Seems legit.

Spoiler

Ahh, good old Florian 1. Sadly Florian 2 got scrapped, and 1 became so depressed he downsized from a jeep to a Volkswagen golf.

Spoiler

These two fire engines are cool. The closest one has a front canon, while the next one has a roof canon. The others don't.

Spoiler

What the hell am I looking at? An emergency....crane? Better consult the store page:
"Driving special vehicles such as the Zikun ® Turbo extinguisher, TLFs with roof monitor and turntable ladder vehicles"
Of course, a Zikun Turbo extinguisher, how silly of me. If anyone's interested, here's a brochure for it - it's basically a fire engine which shoots water out its ass.

Spoiler

Yay, new cameras! You can have the camera inside, fixed from behind, free move, or door. The speedometer and fuel gauge inside also work, which is nice.

Spoiler

So I'm just chilling around, looking at all the industrial stuff, when the boss man gets on the radio and starts shouting some text at me. It seemed rather important because a waypoint arrow appeared and a timer started.

Spoiler

NOW I understand what the emergency was. There is a raging inferno threatening to burn down the industrial park. Millions of lives are at stake here, and backups not gonna arrive in time - I have to act quickly.

Spoiler

Again, I have no idea what boss man is telling me, but I'm pretty sure the mayor's giving me the keys to the city - and probably ice cream too.

Spoiler

Because I was driving off road for a while, my car got dirty. That's going to be embarrassing when the mayor arrives. One of the pictures on the store page looks like the guy is cleaning a fire engine with a hose. Seems logical. Except this isn't a fire engine and I don't have a hose...

Spoiler

Yeah, that'll work.

Other stuff I missed and thoughts:
- You have to get out and 'use' petrol pumps when refueling.
- There are access points around the map for fire hoses. Don't know if they're used to fight fires, or refill your tanks - or both.
- Animations are still a bit stiff, but better than the airport one.
- There's almost no traffic... just a few forklifts and workers walking around. Kinda disappointing, since Airport firefighter had loads
- One of the points on the storepage is that you can go inside burning buildings to extinguish fires and rescue people. That ought to be good.
- I found myself driving along roads which abruptly came to an end. There's a slight speed decrease when you go offroad, but noting to stop you.

I'm gonna play the game some more tomorrow and see where it leads off from there.

EDIT:
Some other things I've noticed in game.
Vehicle defects
When I ran the game through steam, I noticed the siren wasn't working despite the green light coming on. I assumed this was a sound glitch or something. When I started a new game later on, the siren was working, but the left indicator wasn't. There's a service building behind the fire station where you can fix your vehicle. This is also where you go to get a pressure washer to clean your vehicle.
Continuation
My shift finished, saved the game, and moved on to the next day. I was still using Florian 1, and I noticed there was still dirt I missed from the previous shift, and the tank was 3/4 full - that's quite a nice touch.
More responders
Whilst cleaning my car, the alarm went and all the garage doors opened. Joining me to the reported incident was both ambulances and a fire engine. This seems to happen on the majority of calls regardless on the fire size.

[ZackBowden]

Can't wait until that game gets released in English!!

[hunter42]

Well, it looks like Far Cry 3 is out now. So guess what I bought...

Spoiler

Oh god what am I doing.

From what I've read, Far Cry 3 is only out in certain countries and if you try to activate it, it'll lock the game until the 30th. I'll probably pick it up in town tomorrow in that case.

Anyway, Polizei 2013...yeah... Still uses the .Model which sucks, and haven't tried to edit/unlock the .dds files. I only played six minutes, and it's got some new stuff. I'm quite annoyed at the moment though because the people who made this game have shown that they are lazy.

The game is advertised as German only, but we all know that the text files are in XML format, so you can edit them. Once navigating to the Data/Lang folder, I spotted two folders - "DE" and "UK". Sure enough, the game has been translated into English.
Start up the game, go to settings. No language options.
Oh, well that's easy to fix. Just back up the DE folder, and rename the UK folder to DE. That'll fix it.

WRONG

Now this is what's really annoyed me. Here is an example of the mainmenu.xml file from the German file:

<strings>
<string name="ID_BTN_NEW_GAME">Neue Karriere</string>
<string name="ID_BTN_CONTINUE_GAME">Karriere fortsetzen</string>
<string name="ID_BTN_SAVEGAMES">Spielstände</string>
<string name="ID_BTN_OPTIONS">Einstellungen</string>
<string name="ID_BTN_AWARDS">Auszeichnungen</string>
<string name="ID_BTN_ACHIEVEMENTS">Erfolge</string>
<string name="ID_BTN_CREDITS">Credits</string>
<string name="ID_BTN_QUIT">Zurück zu Windows</string>
<string name="ID_BTN_BACK">Zurück</string>
<string name="ID_BTN_OK">OK</string>
<string name="ID_BTN_CANCLE">Abbrechen</string>
<string name="ID_BTN_CONTINUE">Weiter</string>
<string name="ID_BTN_PROFIL_SELECTION">Profilauswahl</string>
<string name="ID_BTN_CARERR_RESUME">Karriere fortführen</string>
<string name="ID_BTN_CARERR_NEW">Neue Karriere</string>
<string name="ID_BTN_NEW_PROFIL">Neues Spielerprofil</string>
<string name="ID_BTN_ERASE_PROFIL">Spielerprofil löschen</string>
<string name="ID_MM_TOOLTIP_NEW_GAME">Hier können Sie eine neue Karriere starten</string>
<string name="ID_MM_TOOLTIP_CONTINE_GAME">Hier können Sie Ihr Spiel fortsetzen</string>
<string name="ID_MM_TOOLTIP_SAVEGAMES">Hier finden Sie alle Spielstände</string>
<string name="ID_MM_TOOLTIP_OPTIONS">Einstellungen: Legen Sie Ihre bevorzugten Einstellungen für Spiel, Grafik und Sound fest</string>
<string name="ID_MM_TOOLTIP_AWARDS">Übersicht über alle Auszeichnungen die Sie erhalten haben</string>
<string name="ID_MM_TOOLTIP_ACHIEVEMENTS">Sehen Sie sich Erfolge an, die sie in der Kampagne erzielt haben</string>
<string name="ID_MM_TOOLTIP_CREDITS">Credits</string>
<string name="ID_MM_TOOLTIP_QUIT">Spiel beenden</string>

And here's the same section from the English mainmenu.xml file:

<strings>
<string name="ID_BTN_NEW_GAME">New Career</string>
<string name="ID_BTN_CONTINUE_GAME">Continue Career</string>
<string name="ID_BTN_SAVEGAMES">Games</string>
<string name="ID_BTN_OPTIONS">Settings</string>
<string name="ID_BTN_AWARDS">Awards</string>
<string name="ID_BTN_ACHIEVEMENTS">Successes</string>
<string name="ID_BTN_CREDITS">Credits</string>
<string name="ID_BTN_QUIT">Return to Windows</string>
<string name="ID_BTN_BACK">Back</string>
<string name="ID_BTN_OK">OK</string>
<string name="ID_BTN_CANCLE">Cancel</string>
<string name="ID_BTN_CONTINUE">Continue</string>
<string name="ID_MM_TOOLTIP_NEW_GAME">You can start a new career here</string>
<string name="ID_MM_TOOLTIP_CONTINE_GAME">You can continue your game here</string>
<string name="ID_MM_TOOLTIP_SAVEGAMES">You will find all games here</string>
<string name="ID_MM_TOOLTIP_OPTIONS">Settings: specify your preferred settings for the game, graphics and sound</string>
<string name="ID_MM_TOOLTIP_AWARDS">Overview of all awards that you have received</string>
<string name="ID_MM_TOOLTIP_ACHIEVEMENTS">Look at the successes that you achieved during the campaign</string>
<string name="ID_MM_TOOLTIP_CREDITS">Credits</string>
<string name="ID_MM_TOOLTIP_QUIT">Exit game</string>

"Gee, the English XML quote sure does look a lot smaller than the German XML quote"

You're damn right it is. Half the stuff isn't even IN the file. Like if you want to select your profile, it just appears as: "ID_BTN_PROFIL_SELECTION". But it's not an oversight on the main menu, it's done throughout the whole game.
It's like five people worked individually worked on separate parts, and gave up at random intervals. The tutorial only gets about two steps in then turns to garbage, and your tool belt is about three quarters translated.

The really annoying thing is that it's not like they forgot to put the describing words in - the strings aren't there full stop. It'll be quicker copying the English stuff onto the German file and filling in the many blanks.

Why did they even bother?

Rage