Emergency 2016

Emergency 2016
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44
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41.887
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Release date
15 October 2015
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There's no shortage of action in EMERGENCY 2016. Command firefighters, police, technical relief forces and paramedics in all new emergencies. With a brand new vehicle and large scale events, you'll take on rescue missions like never before!

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Emergency 2016 system requirements

Minimum:

  • OS: Windows 7 SP1 64-bit / Windows 8.1 64-bit / Windows 10 64-bit
  • Processor: Intel quad core 2.6GHz or AMD quad core 3.2GHz
  • Memory: 6 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Video Card with 1 GB VRAM, NVIDIA GeForce 550 Ti, AMD Radeon HD 6670
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 18 GB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible Sound Card
  • Additional Notes: Broadband Internet Connection for Multiplayer Games
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404920
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Windows PC
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Foxy
Foxy

Its a few new missions and vehicles for EM2015... not realy worth the money but I understand the developer has to finance continuing development somehow and since its a niche market I won´t be mad but I would realy like to see some improvements to wayfinding, automatisation and some more to look at like a emergency hospital ward where the injured are brought to and different "alarm" settings... pretty much I would like to see the gameplay of some of the mods that where out for EM4 integrated into EM main game... but ill give it thumbs up just for making a pretty solid base on wich mods can and hopefully will be developed to make it fun.

Edit: It has been a year and its still bad and has very few mods (probably because they made it hard to mod) so I had to change my review...

Sully101x
Sully101x

Do not purchase.

This is Emergency 5 rehashed but it doesn't even fix a large amount of the issues that were present. Same sub-par optimization and glitches ruin the experience. If you want you can try your $5.99 at it during the promotion period, but I would not recommend supporting this developer until they get their act together.

The pinnacle of this series was Emergency 4 ("911: First Responders" in the US and on Steam) with the LA Mod. I wish Sixteen Tons Entertainment would recognize it's popularity and collaborate with Hoppah or expand on his interpretation of the game.

Carpathious
Carpathious

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!!!
I am not sure how they can make the AI worse but they have. Your vehicles will get stuck because they drive off the roads and behind buildings and wedge themselves to the point where you can't get them out. They also love to get lost and random drive to other places. I had 4 vehicles stuck in the same spot out of the 6 I dispatched.

Herbert
Herbert

WARNING: EMERGENCY 5.1
EXACTLY THE SAME AS EMERGENCY 5
Dont buy it if you own Emergency 5 its exactly the same.
EDIT - They took Emergency 5 off of the steam store so you could buy this one xD

facciola007
facciola007

Tried it and it seems to work with no issues. I hoe to see some more maps and units. I forgot to mention it was 85% off to Emergency 5 or 2015 whatever, so I paid 5.99.

Pandemic
Pandemic

Definitely not worth the $40... Even the $6 is a little questionable. Basically Emergency 5 with a few additional missions.

morrelo
morrelo

I see lot of reviews don't understand that EM2016 is just a campaign expansion, everything else is a free update for current EM5 owners.
So new players get the whole updated Emergency 5 with 2016 scenarios expansion. Current EM5 owners got huge free update and can get 2016 scenarios for only 10€.

ARIES_OPERATIONS
ARIES_OPERATIONS

This is appalling - don't waste your money especially if you have Emergency 5.... and even if you don't, You might as well buy Emergency 5 over this. I don't know how, but they managed to break even the simplest things (pathfinding, for example). I played for exactly 3 minutes and 58 seconds and then quit. I don't even know what the difference is. They say new missions and new vehicles, but it's 100% the exact same with the exception of the pathfinding issue which is actually the opposite of an improvement.

tcurran
tcurran

May say that 4&5 are bette rbut comes with 5 and a new camign plus sandbox so yeah

N1tromad
N1tromad

As stated before 2016 is just a singleplayer update added onto 2015 but as a 2015 owner you basicly buying a dlc with current 85% discount. the new campain has a nice story this time with a reason for "playing". the medevil missions was a nice change.

But as with every new contents the devs release they have bugs in fact some nasty mission ending bugs that made me have no choice but to restart the missions. you get only one new unit (a 6 or 8 bed mobile hospital) but so far as i can tell only usable in campain mode not in freeplay or multiplayer but i might be wrong.other than the free update that was released for 2015 gameplay is the same in everyway.

if u dont own 2015 wait for bugs fixes if u own 2015 for £5 its a fun little dlc

Trevor Fox
Trevor Fox

Great game - you clearly need a decent spec computer to play. Thoroughly enjoyed it though.

TallestDavid (Kitty)
TallestDavid (Kitty)

I really want a EM In medieval era!

Skywalkerdk
Skywalkerdk

I have played some of the earlier Emergency versions, and also 2015 version. The 2016 edition is horrible. Bad graphics, very bad unit pathfinding and plays exactly like the 2015 edition. There's no innovation height in the development.

Too bad but i cannot recommend this at all.

Lincoln
Lincoln

Overall the game was great. At £25 it was pretty overpriced but I can live with that. It'll probably give me 30 hours entertainment.

Can't say the bugs caused too much trouble. There are a few CTD on the 2016 campaign so save frequently, didn't have any issues on the 5 campaign. There are pathfinding issues occasionally but that's the same on any game this genre. Definitely the best I've played.

Really enjoyed it, recommend it.

I AM THE LIQUOR
I AM THE LIQUOR

As someone who works in the emergency medical field, I really appreciate and enjoy this game. In fact, all this week after each of my long shifts on the ambulance, I've been coming home to play this; actually looking forward to it. The game isn't without faults, but I'll list each fault for you, as well as each positive point.

The Good:
+The graphics are nice and for the most part, I can get 60 fps (unless there are six emergencies going simultaneously).
+The animations are pretty sweet. For example, while checking patients, the doctor has several animations depending on the injuries...he will take out his stethescope for a sick person, start a fluid bolus on a trauma patient, and take out his pen light to asses the pupils of a patient with a head injury. Sometimes I just stop what I'm doing to watch the doctor.
+Additional content compared to the other games.
+Some pretty wicked calls to go to, including: hostage situations, bomb threats, robberies, medical emergencies, mva's, gas explosions, forest fires, building collapses, protests, missing persons...you get the point.
+Day/night cycle. The weather also changes..so far I've only seen light rain and rarely a thunderstorm.
+A.I. seem to be improved from previous games.
+Level editor, although it's not too user friendly..unless you're familiar with SDKs, which I'm not.

The Bad:
-As mentioned by others, the tracking issues are still present, but for me they haven't been too bad. The worst issue I had was with the search and rescue K9 vehicle making a loop around the block to get to an area literally 20ft away from the truck. And after I gave up on the missing persons mission, I sent it back to base, and it drove off the road and got stuck. That was frustrating, but in the end, it didn't break the game for me.
-So far I've had two unexplained crashes while playing free play (I've submitted bug reports).
-Minor glitches here and there.
-Pedestrian A.I. seem to be pretty stupid. For example, if there is a fire in a building next to a sidewalk, the pedestrians will walk right next to it and sometimes can injure themselves.
-I never purchased EM5 (the negative reviews scared me away), but from what I've seen and heard, this is basically a DLC and should not be marketed as a new stand-alone game. It's pretty much a re-skin.
-Pricey for what you get.

Conclusion:
When all is said and done, I can personally look past the glitches. I enjoy playing the game and find it to be relaxing. I also understand why some people are pissed off at the marketing of this game. Hopefully this game doesn't go the route of Train Simulator "2016" where every year the devs release a "new" game with in the title, when it's essentially the same game. But for someone like me who owns "911:First Responders" but nothing after that, this game might be worth it for you. I was blown away at the improvements between the original game and the "new" one. Anyway, I would suggest doing your research before purchasing, but I'd also suggest not letting the negative reviews scare you away from purchasing it all together (maybe wait for a sale if you don't think it's worth the money). If you're interested in the 911 system, it's pretty much the only game I've been able to find that does it any justice (and even then, it isn't as realistic as it could be). Give it a shot!

Famousbasic13
Famousbasic13

I'm sorry to say but, I mean Developers...When will you decide to listen to the community?

EM4 is Still higher rated than all of your more recent Emergency Series. That there is a problem you should think of how to tackle. Yet it has a very simple solution.

You say that you made EM5 all made to be modded etc... Yet only 1 Major mod has been released with very few others in progress. And then for Em4 mods are still being made to this date. Now for me, the thing that made EM4 was the mods. I have played soo much of that game, enjoying a HUGE variety of mods. So after that very successful game you decided to Bring Emergency 2012 out. Which was hopeless. But then you decide to bring Emergency 2013, which again was hopeless. But then no, you decide to make Emergency 2014..... Once again rubbish. So then you make Emergency 5. Didn't work. Not stable, barely moddable etc... So then you realise its time to bring out a copy-pasted version of Emergency 5, add a few extra missions, anotehr vehicle and there you have it! A new game... Emergency 2016. Makes me laugh really. I'm NOT saying that you Devs are bad at what you do in any way but I mean common... It doesn't take that much common sense to see what needs to be done. I'm annoyed because you are ruining a great Game series every game on.

Now here is what I propose. I doubt it will be considered as barely anything the modded community says is... but:

Since you pretty much copy-pasted Em5 and made it a new game. Ok, Copy - Paste EM4. Same Editing system, layouts... EVERYTHING. Yet, make the graphics better, add some new cool features and that is it. You will actaully have done what is really wanted. Instead ofcourse go and Release Emergency 2017 in a year with a new vehicle and mission... Why not.

norgeek
norgeek

Did I enjoy the new missions? Mostly, whenever they worked.
Can I honestly recommend it to existing player or even new players? Not really.

The game is (still) severely bugged and broken. Units will go missing or lock up. Automation will only work every now and then, most of the time a paramedic will stand next to a slowly dying patient without lifting a finger. Pathfinding is still a WorkInProgress kinda deal, far too often will units get stuck in traffic/buildings/eachother/imaginary stuff or simply wander off across the map. I also saw multiple crashes during the 4 hours it took me to complete the new missions -- not that it has 4 hours worth of content, most of the time was spent figuring out workarounds for whenever the game didn't work correctly. Restarting a mission for the 7th time because a broken game mechanic randomly failed you isn't "challenging content", it's just plain annoying.

What was the point with doing all the work for the medieval map, anyway? Two one-event "missions" using a single type of unit? No fires, no "bring out the dead", no funeral pyres, no guarding the docks..

It all just really feels like a beta experience, like something that shouldn't be out of Greenlight yet. I really wish they would get around to fix the base game before they charged more money for it.

-lWaDl- Garret VRC
-lWaDl- Garret VRC

Can't really recommand this game the AI pathing is still pretty poor Also after 2016 campain there is nothing really diffrent from 2015 not really worth the upgrade you only get to use the mass critical ambulance in the campain and very little new events in the free play the firefighters are a little smarter if you get them the hoses or fire extinguisher they do go to nearest fire which isn't too bad but still pretty poor in the movement's of the vehicle's and people they get stuck a lot (well in my case they did)

fishbed
fishbed

This game is a piece of crap, I was almost finished the plague one when the time ran out, this game deserves to go to the trash where it belongs. im surprised it got onto steam, since its a piece of shit.

Lion Heart
Lion Heart

this is hard for me cause i really want to support this developer, i love the emergency series. its a fresh genre away from all the killing and destruction of war stratergy games, and as an emergency service enthusiast and volunteer firefighter this kind of game is the perfect game. dont get me wrong i still love Emergency but at this point i feel as though the developer is really just taking the piss. i mean the game is seriously lacking, like theyve only just put in a half assed effort and this Emergency 2016, you have to be freaking kidding me, it is dead set Emergency 5 repackaged with a new campaign its the same bloody game and they are selling it twice. its more like DLC than a new game its a joke, im not so pissed cause i got it %75 off it was pretty much DLC price but the fact that they intend to ask $39.99 for it is way beyond a joke. seriously they need to get it together, they have so much potential with this series but they are pissing it away

vegan4animals
vegan4animals

I'm enjoying it. Gives a different feel of any of the other games I've played.

Wobbel
Wobbel

Wouldn't suggest buying this game unless it's on sale. It's barely optimized, the developers lack effort in improving the game. Buying this game at its full price would suggest that the developers do the right thing, but instead it's the contrary. Let the developers feel that you can't just launch a half way finished game and sell it as 'Emergency 5' then, a few years later, add a few more missions, act as if it were an entirely new game and sell it as Emergency 2016.

Dave M
Dave M

After the 2.0 update was dropped there seems to be a lot of bugs in the game as it keeps crashing after being played for about 10-20 mins

Theres a lot of glitches and bugs the game dev's NEED to fix. They need to patch it ASAP. For now, I would recommend this game but only if it's on sale.

Woods
Woods

Sadly this game lacks lots of improvment that is needed to make it as much fun as 911:First Responders/Emergency 4.
While they have improved some aspects of automation they have missed some basic fuctions that make this game stupid.
Fire:
Can not get a hose from a normal engine only the heavy rescue?
Only 1 hose per hydrent?
Can not connect to an engine?

Medical:
No paramedic on an ambulance?

Police:
No riot police?
No (Intercept) option to take down criminals?
No patrol option to keep cars in the area?

These are just some of the glaring omissions from this game that should have been put in. You can do all of this in E4 with the LA mod so why not take that and put it in the main game?

Thankfully I have not had any game bugs or crashes as others have but the total lack of inovation from the development team means you should not waste your money on this sub par game.

If I could get a refund I would, lets just hope they bring out a "LA" Mod for this game soon so its playable.

bpaigeg
bpaigeg

i like this game but i don't like that you can't give the game to anyone

Jamso
Jamso

Okay, I'll start by going over the pros:

- Good story line
- Realistic vehicles
- The maps aren't big, but they aren't small either. A good size
- Reasonable graphics.

And the cons:

- Quite frankly, the pathfinding of these stretcher bearing idiots is $h!t. Sometimes takes a little hit and miss, but they eventually get to where they want to go.
- There are still plenty of glitches, such as rescue dogs finding someone, but the person not actually showing up - dogs bark at invisible things
- People standing around doing nothing. The function of a fireman is simple: put out fires, and rescue people. If a fireman is wearing his firefighting clothes, and arrives at a fire in a fire truck, what should he do? The obvious answer is put out fires, not wait around for me to tell him to pull out his hose, and start fighting a specific fire. And, once the fire's out, he doesn't move, he keeps spraying water onto the same object!
- Accidentally overwrited a save, would have liked a "WARNING! This action will overwrite any existing game in progress!".

Overall, the game is quite fun. Good simulation games are getting harder and harder to come across, and this is certainly a step in the right direction for Sixteen Tons and Deep Silver. I'm not a fan of this whole plague theme, but that's just my opinion.

My Rating: 7/10.

Boff42
Boff42

I would like to say I actually got to play the game but I didn't get that far. I got the game to run however it was to slow to play. My laptop is very capable of playing the game but it did not work. I'm very disappointed as I paid for it and have now requested a refund.

Lucas (aka: Luc Luc)
Lucas (aka: Luc Luc)

this game are really recommended and worth it for the $money$ in opinion if you like games like this one.

I have no more else to say about it...

hope this will make you give it a chance ;-)

yamashita
yamashita

good but still need more mods like EMERGENCY 4 they are a lot of mod like stationary firetucks police ETC. on their respective places and in a USA not in europe for now i give it a NO but if you add a mod it would be better

LTL King
LTL King

It's extrmely repetitive. It feels more like the 2015 sandbox game until you get enough points to buy the next vehicle needed for the next sandbox mission.
If you fail a mission they will recycle back around and repeat themeslves.

Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant

Good but not great. Falls short. Very short game. Wouldn't pay full price for.

hager89
hager89

just a handfull of new scenarios definetly not worth 40 euro.

i've played emergency 5 deluxe for 28 hours, emergency 2016 within 7 hours,

I love the gameplay, i don't mind the (emergency) cars driving weird as always.
other people said 'íts just a dlc' i thought well if i can play another 20+ hours like in E5 i don't mind.
but a handfull of maps.... only buy on discount. ( 50% off is still overpayed imho, while i love the game)

note: i think they've overdone the medical stuff, hardly any fires here

MajorGroove
MajorGroove

A game that i really tried to like, cause I played the previous Emergencies a lot but it's just too buggy and boring. Really repetitive missions in free play, pathfinding is a mess, difficulty is way too low and your biggest enemy might be your vehicles not getting where they're supposed to because the AI is so bad.

And it runs really poorly for these retro graphics.

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I should have followed the review.

After downloading and playing for about 1 hr, I can only comment that the game is still as disappointing as its previous versions (Emergency 2014). This game requires very micro instructions for the movement of the units. If you like micro management, then this game is for you but be warned about the bugs.

I have to say that the graphics have indeed improved but the improved graphics failed to win me over since there are also a lot of bugs in this game. Bugs such as:

- Fire fighters towing casualties out of danger even when the paramedics have lifted the casualties on to the stretchers and pushing them out to the ambulances,
- Firefighters fighting fire but the fire meter did not decrease,
- etc.

All in all, i can only say that the game seems incomplete. Perhaps they should indicate it as "early access" rather than a completed game. The updates on the game also were not as frequent as it should be (last update was June 2016 but the previous update was in Oct 2015).

Hopefully this review will give some insightful considerations to prospective buyers.

IW.Nudel
IW.Nudel

This Game is realy good BUT its way too buggy. The AI is not in anyway good and I even played one mission for seven times because in one try was a gate bug or in the other the ambulance cant do anything. I would recommend the game when the creator of the game be some faster to make updates and patch bugs but they even need 8months for 1 update...BULLSHIT!

Delle(DK)
Delle(DK)

I bought the game today on sale, and I want to say that I do not understand all the hate about this game.
I have played previous of the games in the series and latest one was 2014 version that had all previous campaigns/maps included.

I did not buy the 2015 version since it more of less look like just an updated campaign with little new, and when i saw 2016 version I could read that many again wrote that 2016 version more or less was an update to the 2015 version with a new campaign.

Well I am glad i bought the 2016 version it run good and is beautifull just like the 2014 version, and you can again play freemode and solve various issues in your city.
I have so far only played campaign that is a mix of freemode and then once in a while you get special missions to handle and well the mix in and out of this work pretty good, and the tutorial was well made.

You might wonder what is new in the 2016 version.. well a new map/campaign and you even get an EOD/bomb robot car that can send out a robot to disarm bombs.. I dont know if this alsow was in 2015 version but nice.
Also the way the firemen behave is new.. Now you do no longer need to right click the red water pipe to attach your hose since your firemen automatic once they get a hose and you right click on a fire automatic do this.. This is good i think, though i would prefer an option to manual do it if I wanted to my self.

Well all in all grap it on sale it is not a bad game.
I am not sure, but I think the 2016 version also have all the cities from 2014 and 2015 version..
But all in all, the game feel and play very much like previous games in the series.

- Your vehicles have some pathfinding issues sometimes, but nothing that bad that you cannot live with it and complete your mission.

Skypo
Skypo

The game flow is whack. This version does not meet up to my high expectations of this game at all. Not worth it. Totally lost me on this one. The developer definitely needs to regain my trust if they bring out another game and it better be good because this was quite crappy.

0Nick0
0Nick0

My game loves to crash everytime I complete a mission in Campaign(Emergency 2016) unless I save the game half way through the mission, quit the game, restart it, load my campaign mission and finish, and repeat for the next mission. Pathfinder is worse in Emergency 2016 than in Emergency 5 and Emergency 5 is bad. Game has many bugs including can't find a near hydrant even though it is next to the building as well as sounds and some animations along with functions of firefighters, police, etc.(esspecially sundisk). For $10 I could have bought an upgrade far more worth my money than a buggy, slow and better yet crashing all of the time game/upgrade. This should sell for $10 retail because $40 is not worth it.

Steeps
Steeps

Go play the previous Emergency game, Emergency 4. Tons of mods to try out that expand the game even more.

Way better than this new version. Poor performance, bugs, not intuitive. Download LA mod for Emergency 4.

BossMaster 38
BossMaster 38

Good game. Wish there some mods out there for it that would add in some U.S skins though!

Fabolusaurus
Fabolusaurus

okay i have not played this game... tried multiplayer and it didnt work. to much work for this game! this is nothing but a cash grab!

Ben
Ben

Very fun game. No lag, no problems. Differant scenieros all the time.

Quite a long campaign.

Thomas
Thomas

Frequent crashes:
Can't play a session of more than 1 hour, even though i meet all specs.

Rex
Rex

The patch has definitely improved the performance of the game, But still, there are a lot of bugs that need to be fixed. Most commonly that everyone is bragging about is the AI.

The AI's are having trouble finding paths in various areas, and some AIs even dont want to drive on the road they just chose to drive on the sidewalk to get to the destination point.

For example, in the map Munich, i receive a call to the Munich Festival that someone is injured. When ambulance arrives, get them out, and then the medics have to walk almost around the whole block to get the patient and then to put him in the ambulance.

Some people even complained about the camera angles, saying that "why when i zoom into the building it starts to immediately disappear, and when i zoom out i can see it again".

Also for me when i got through the first two missions and got to the 3rd mission, it starts the 3rd mission Avalanche. After 10 seconds of loading, it just freezes, but the sound is still going. I just had to close it with ALT+F4. Tried many things to resolve the issue, but no luck.

Hopefully they will fix these problems. I still love the game though. Its beautiful.

drewcable22
drewcable22

This game is okay, my game crashes at a certain point in the campaign. I enjoyed this game but gets very repetitive and wish the developers would include more to the game.

CollinMcBallin
CollinMcBallin

cant even play game everytime i load it i always get a black screen and cant see anything

Eskimozart_
Eskimozart_

hi guys, when i start the game up everything works fine but when i start to play the campaign, it loads in, and i see the map, the services i could deploy... but the rest is just blacked out, i can't see where to deploy the services, does anyone knows what the problem is?

Peter Zwegat
Peter Zwegat

Well, after some hours of gameplay here is the short version:

- good idea, bad implemented

It could be fun to play such a game. But it isn't. The game is buggy, the controls are egdy, and there is now way to configure the difficulty. Which results in frustration, because you're either totaly overchallenged or something does not work as it should.

Buy the game, but only when it's price is below 10 bugs. It isn't worth more.

The Piano Man
The Piano Man

It is an awesome game, but it is full of bugs. For some scenarios in free play it is impossible to complete your objectives because there is a problem with the programme. Too bad, especially when they have proven that they can finish a beautiful game without major problems, like the previous Emergency games.

domodomoawesome
domodomoawesome

i am going to edit my review from when i was 11 years old, my last review has stated that there is limited missions for the amount that i payed, i do still agree with that. however i do find a sweetness playing this game and i have found the savoury to go along with it, although this game has a high price, (or at least it did when i bought it) i believe it is worth it because now i am a part of the Emergency Family. it feels good to be in a community. however the music in game is horrible i do still enjoy playing it once in a while.

THE JAZZMAN
THE JAZZMAN

SO BAD!!!

1) Game lagging continuously.
2) Game freezing constantly.
3) Due to game lag and freeze you are unable to complete missions and you lose.
4) Extremely annoying interface you need to keep selecting each unit one by one so if you have a hell fire rising you need to click on trucks then each truck will extract their crew then you need to click on each member and tell them what to do and thats a whole other issue.
5) When you assign a task to a member it cannot get any more annoying especially with fire firefighters, they never find a plug for their hose and when they do they will just turn off the fire next to them and then they will automatically disconnect the hose and just stand there while buildings all around them are in flames so you need to get lucky and find the firefighters between the flames and click on them individually again and go through the whole thing again.
6) Movement is incredibly frustrating, if they want to move say 5 meters, they might sometimes go all the way around a building wasting over 3-4 minutes just to reach to a point that is actually literally 1.5 seconds far from them plus if they have anyone or anything next to them or in front of them they just freeze and they would not move... so annoying.

Conclusion: I bought the game while on a huge 75% discount I paid like 8$ for it only and believe me its still not worth it. When I first saw all the negative comments before buying it I thought "man people are a-holes with all the crying" so I figured it cant be that bad and I bought it but boy are they right, this game is a real complete failure/disaster.

Grubberdeck
Grubberdeck

Hi there,

!!WARNING: English is not my native language, there will be typo's in this review!!

This is the first review i've written on steam. The reason I'm doing this is because I need to warn you that this game is very very broken and wouldn't pass for an early acces game.

'Multiplayer':

It's a nightmare to set it up. You need to manualy forward ports in your router.... welcome to 2016 dev's.. great job!

When we finaly managed to forward the 2 required ports and play the game for a while it crashed.. aw well.. sh*t happens right? tried again.. same.. tried 3 times and it crashes on the 30-40 minute mark.
Awesome..

'Single Player':

A day after my multiplayer disaster I wanted to give single player a go. It started of very good, pretty easy missions but alright for the first few 'tutorial' levels. I saved the game and went out for something to eat. When I booted the game again I clicked 'continue campaign' (or something along those lines). It threw me back to mission 1. I looked around in the menu and there was no way to load my previously saved game. Stupid me tried to click 'continue game' again.. same thing.. closed the game, reloaded, clicked 'continue campaign' again and well.. this time it worked. I was where I was before. Why? I don't have a clue.

This game is so lazely made. The concept is great, it looks alright.. once in a game it plays alright.. but these bugs, the fact that you have to forward ports, the fact that you only sometimes can load a game makes me want to talk to the dev's and ask 'm if they are proud of what they made here.

Conclusion:
a buggy pile of absolute lazy game development. I recomment to not buy this, the dev's don't deserve your money.

Anonymous
Anonymous

i downloaded game last time & now game loading and stoped?

DavidOrri876
DavidOrri876

Emergency 2016 :

Pros :
- The Idea of the game/series is awesome
- A beautiful strategy game
- Graphics Improved Alot
- A nice game to spend time on (older ones at least)

Cons:
- Just a huge collection of Bugs
- Ai Pathfinding is terrible
- Crashes every hour or so
- Can suffer from big FPS drops
- Audio failed from time to time
- Pretty much a bad remake of Emergency 2015

Summary : This game is just a buggy failure of the older better games (Emergency 3 & 4 are my favourites) i feel like they should have maybe put more time into the game , or at least fix the game. Would not recommend buying it since the game is not very Stable , if u want to make no progress in the campaign what so ever because of crashes then sure go ahead buy the game , but if not either wait for a fix or buy the older games :D

jeroen888
jeroen888

From reading other reviews I get the impression this game was pretty broken before, but it's fine now! I've been playing for six hours now, made it to the second city and the sixth major mission, without any annoying bugs. Once a fire truck got lost and I had to manually guide it around, and once an ambulance got stuck in traffic. That kind of chaos just adds to the fun in my opinion.

If you like a little single player laid back fun, and then suddenly stress to the max for a while trying to control a major incident, you will like this game. You can micromanage as much as you have time for, but the emergency personell will handle most repetitive tasks by themselves, albeit slowly, if you just order them to where they need to be.

The only similar game I have played before is Fire Chief. This game is better in control, content, and setup (open world ish), and it looks much better, but it's also ten years newer so that's somewhat to be expected.

GermanFox
GermanFox

Pros:
- A rather nice look
- Good desinged Citys whit love to details
- No Money System
- A variyity of new Emergencys aswell as some new ways to engage them
- A rather interresting Campain whit an ongoing Theme about the Pleauge
- Not just an expansion as some outher Emergency Games
- Units take action themself if idle

Contras:
-The Pathfinding is a total mess and often makes the game frustrating due to Units getting stuck or taking an eternety to get to places.
- Fires are happining way to frequent and are often extremly hard to extenguish due to the Firetrucks not being able to fit or find theyre way into crouded back allys
- Firefighter/Trucks often wont engage new fires unless told so
-Since emergency vehicels will return as soon as theyre full (Police and Ambulances) it happens often that you will still have personal in the field whitout an vehicle
- The game often crashes randomly!
- Way to overpriced for what it offers!
- Long loading times
- No Money System wich leads to you cant buy or sell vehicles as you see fit or need them
- Some vehicles are only avaliable in the Campaing even though they where in freeplay in outher EM Games
- It gets repetetive really fast whit interresting and uniqe emergencys only happening once in a while
- The game often dosnt tell you what to do,leading (atleast me) to get stuck here and there

The EM series is now finally at its end whit and broken unfinished game. To even consider to sell this as a full priced title is insane (DOnt know the current price) If youre a fan of the series you might wanna get it if its on sale for maybe 10 bucks and have some fun but thats it to the game a few hours of fun and frustration.

MiniDude
MiniDude

paid for the game everything seemed fine up till starting a map when i dont see anything its just black screen but i get the option to do everything else not recommended

TheBreed
TheBreed

I loved EM4. I also played EM2012 and now EM2016, but ... this is 2 years after the release of EM5 and I didn't buy it because of all the bugs. So I thought maybe after nearly two years the bugs should be fixed and that includes pathfinding. But Emergency 2016(or actually EM5 with DLCs) still crashes every 30-45 min, granted they may have fixed a lot of issues over time but still that is not acceptable also the pathfinding is ridiculous, ambulances get lost when returning home or on the way to the site, next to everything gets stuck in traffic and then there is this UI. Why is this UI so small, including the minimap, if you want me to have more overview just let me zoom out further. And hotkeys, I mean why are they so inconsistent. I have to memorize the return to base hotkey for different types of units and have to look them up, which defeats the point of having hotkeys and comes back to this small UI which makes looking it up harder.

All in all, I have to say if you want to play Emergency go get EM4, it’s not perfect but in comparison I wonder how the game degraded so much from EM4 to EM5 and frankly who cares about the improved graphics if they come with all those issues. Also what is this greedy business plan of just releasing EM5 again and again as EM2015 and EM2016 to keep the price high and not fix the issues, I get that devs have to pay rent and eat but … the state of the game makes me angry.

UrbanShadow
UrbanShadow

First bought em4 and loved it especially mods. Then ended up buying complete series, was rather disapointed at em5 until i found it had been mostly fixed and was playable. So now bought em6 but still has the same issues em5 had wish they'd be fixed because its a real game spolier! overall good game though, didnt quite understand why the developers released this game as a seperate one, you might aswell of added it to the em5 game as a DLC at half the price

Vinsvon
Vinsvon

You Know I dont write reviews very often but I must speak this time.1st This game looks amazing it really does.2nd It is a fun game its not boring at all.One moment you can be chillin looking at the buildings and the next you have a man traped in a burning car while also responding to a food poisoning epidemic.Its a fun game.BUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut you will be quickly frustrated by the poorly made pathfinding.The pathfinding is horrible.At times I wanted to give up on this game but I pushed through it.Then the next I try the load in the game it takes 5mins to load up.5 MINUTES. I mean what is this.But I pushed passed that Because Im a patient man. Next time I start up the game It wont even load anymore.So I lost it .Im done with this game.If you were planning on buying this game think twice about it.Its a fun game but pathfinding is broken, it can take some time to load up or it wont even start.
Bonus: It may not even save your game when you tell it to

Metro Alpha
Metro Alpha

Now this game has had a LOT of critisism so i'll narrow down the finer points for you so it's easier to weigh up the sides

PROS:
Good map designs
Good variation of type of vehicles/emergency services
Good mix of emergencys on different terrain
Decent AI pathing when the AI is set to do automatic tasks in it's own area however sometimes you need to kind of nudge it and click it's task for it because it doesn't do it all the time
Good vehicle design
Good range of uses for vehicles
Good variation and requirements for equipment
Good textures for map and vehicles

CONS:
Only 4 maps
Calls get a bit repetetive
Once you buy all the vehicles it gets very repetetive
Terrain optimization (Sometimes vehicles go through objects that it shouldn't e.g buildings or rubble)
AI pathing (sometimes cuts corners for no reason)

Slow exit of vehicles (Police exit the vehicle while a gunman is running at them to get within shooting range and you have to quickly make them equip a pistol/rifle or whatever tool/weapon then aim at them for them to shoot them.

Sometimes during a police incident (E.g Mugging) the criminal will keep on running and you either decide to cut them off/guess the way they are going to run so you can cut them off OR sit there and watch your SWAT/Police just chase them on foot going the same speed as the criminal so you're watching for a few minutes.
Not very good AI reaction e.g POLICE INCIDENT: A mugger comes and shoots a SWAT or Police officer and ONLY the one who has been shot will shoot back, the squad mates will just stand there while a gun battle happens around them which really pisses me off as i have to order each to target them.

TIPS:
The SWAT Sniper rifle is the best weapon to fight criminals with because of it's range and it's pretty much a 1 hit knockdown on any enemy.

Your "P" key will be cracked and broken by the end of this game. I strongly reccomend you use it to scramble your vehicles and use it to take a step back and observe the situation and this also helps to keep track of multiple scenarios and to give orders to units simultaniously.

SWAT are the best thing to deal with any criminal just use the chopper so they can rappel in and give them the rifle and they are un stoppable

OVERALL OPINION: Good game and the critics are overly harsh on it.

OVERALL RATING: 8/10

**MISSION SPOILER**

*DONT READ IF YOU DONT WANT A SPOILER*

*I WARNED YOU!*

SKI MISSION: Use the dogs and your minimap to see the injured on the map and you'll need the heavy crane vehicle to remove the rubble.

GANG MISSION: Use the police van and the SWAT helicopter to deal with this (Have a fire rescue truck and ambulances/doctors ready in the background maybe around the corner). Equip the police with pistols and the SWAT with rifles and then pause the game and give each swat member a individual target to take out, then give the police pistols and make them run in and take out anyone else who dares tries it. Bring in a tow truck to take out the 3 destroyed vehicles after you have put the fires out. You'll end up doing a quick back and forth with the ambulances taking the wounded back and forth for a bit and then you're done!

SHIP MISSION: Use the recovery helicopter to get the 2 sailers to rescue and land and let them out at a landing zone of your choice.

ChrisK
ChrisK

Game is fairly entertaining, in some ways you kind of want to keep playing just to knock out some of the response calls that come up while at other times certain disasters keep coming back that make it annoying. One of the biggest bugs in the game, aside from it randomly crashing during disasters, is on some maps the ai gets stuck between buildings or simply drops the vehicles into a river with no way of getting the vehicle back out. The Hamburg map is notorious for this, and generally you need to either save and reload or buy the remaining vehciles you need to reach the next major mission.

As a fan of several of the other Emergency games this is a pretty good improvement and for 5$ was a comfortable buy.

DiDo96
DiDo96

I would not recommend this game! It just does not work right and is very laggy.

sascomp
sascomp

Im so much like this game but i cant play multiplayer and im uninstalling :/

Sgt Snot Rocket
Sgt Snot Rocket

So far no good! I can play for about 15-20 minutes and then the game crashes. High end system here with plenty of HP to run a game like this. Shouldnt be crashing, no other game of mine does.

derki
derki

its more like puzzle logic game and your goal is to figure how you can get response unit on the place you want them to, the pathfinding is so bad, that you laugh and cry in the same time...

- vehicles are often stuck, or go longer path, sometimes even cruise over the block instead of moving few meters
- person pathfinding is bad too, they wont often use shortest path, and often bug out, and makes 5 circles on the ground and after that moving towards destination

this breaks my will to play it anymore, and i played all of these series from emergency: fighters for life...

Conclusion:
This game added just better graphics, older version 911: Responders is much better game with some mods, go for that one.

Messmeryzed
Messmeryzed

Alright, so basically I actually bought Emergency 5 Deluxe Edition back in 2014. Gameplay was quite okay, however, the game was filled with major performance issues and bugs. Sixteen Tons Entertainment pushed few updates with new content which wasn't that exciting such as a new enforcement vehicle. Other updates weren't published and the modding community wasn't really supported by the devs.

They moved over to a 2016 edition and published it. Existing players from EM5 had the opportunity to upgrade to this edition for around 6 Euros for a limited time period, otherwise they had to pay the full price of this game, back in end of 2015 for around 40 Euros. This edition includes following features:

Includes all content from Emergency 5 Deluxe in the latest Reloaded version + New Emergency Vehicle + Medieval Operation + New Campaign

I took the chance and upgraded to EM2016, but couldn't enjoy the game itself, because it erased my campaign progress from EM5 and I had to start from scratch.

But now listen, they published a new edition recently. Guess what, it's EM2017. Players who already own EM2016 are able to upgrade to EM2017 again for freaking 6 Euros, new players have to pay the full price for around 40 Euros. And what does this so called upgrade offer? Take a look:

Includes all content from Emergency 2016 in this latest reloaded version + new emergency vehicle + medieval operation + new campaign

Now let's compare both upgrade features: They are identical and you would just waste your money for nothing, pure nothing.

TL;DR
Don't waste your money for such a greedy developer and publisher. If you're a new player to the whole Emergency universe, grab and pick it up. But do yourself a favor and do not upgrade to EM2017 if you already own EM2016 or EM5 and spend your money on other strategy simulations with regular free content updates.

Watchmaster
Watchmaster

This is a genre that one would think there would be more games in. It's basically just RTS with different goals. Emergency 20XX does continue to be the best in the field, even if it's a small one.

D. Richards
D. Richards

Its good. They need to make a new one.

Laires
Laires

I can't comment on Emergency 4 or 5, because I haven't played them, but I can tell you this: if you buy Emergency 2016, you are going to have fun. Plain and simple fun. You can automate a lot of the monotone tasks to make the game easier, but if you prefer to be the king of micromanagement like me you can turn it off in the settings (although medical helicopters will still automatically head to HQ after you load them with injured person, even without your doctor in it, so watch out for that)

In my 16 hours of experience I can't say much bad about it. The helicopters can make your units stuck from time to time and landing them can be challenging on some parts of the map and the "hitbox" of the helicopter on the ground is huge and takes forever to walk around so keep that in mind. The doctor sometimes completely ignores injured people if they are too close to the wrecked car - they just won't show you the button to treat them and the only way that solves this for me is towing the car away or have a firefighter drag the injured person further from the car.

The car redirecting is situationally working and could use some fix to be more consistent or predictable. The cars often ignore the officers so you need to relocate him a few times until the cars notice him and if you don't play with pause you will find your time is way too valuable to waste it on solving traffic jams when you have so much other things to worry about. Just block every road with your vehicles and deal with the emergency asap. The cars can still glitch through the traffic jam and helicopters don't mind blocked roads either so it's not a huge deal.

I haven't said much good about it, but that's because it's about as good as the promo material showcases. Considering everything good the game offers it is definitely worth 5-15 euro.

Karl Perkins
Karl Perkins

It's fun for what it is but I crave a real sequel with more depth.

Jessiebeanie
Jessiebeanie

Just get Emergency 20. It runs in the Emergency 5 engine and provides far more content and gameplay changes than this mess.

blackkoyote
blackkoyote

This game drives me insane, you have to micromanage almost every single thing it seems. It drives me nuts that I can deploy a fire truck to a fire and unless I directly order them to get out and fight the fire, they will happily sit there and let it burn around them. (Hint: at a real life large job, you do not micromanage every tasking of every responding agency. We trust the Police/ambos to do their job and we do ours)
You get one missions (nuclear plant disaster) and you can only send 6 people in to do everything - and it constantly yells you have not done everything instantly (even before your units have reached the site).
Only the rescue truck carries hoses, axes, extrication tools etc.. which is one of the many frustrating mechanics of the game.
If none of this bothers you, then the game is probably going to be great! if it bothers you - you will probably have a frustrating time when your firefighters sit next to a tree that's on fire until it's a third alarm fire because you were micromanaging your hazmat response to not just stand in the hot zone with a patient until they die.

Shotty_gunny
Shotty_gunny

DON'T BUY THIS ONE, buy emergency 20 instead. no reason not to.
i wasted my money on this.