As for the audio, it’s a nice jazz selection that works well with the aesthetic, and the voice-overs are good – especially the ‘evil’ Canadians. The visuals were nice and all, but the close-ups when you hack down a door or furniture is a bit ropey, and you’ll see some ugly pixels. Anything’s better than watching them pace the floor looking at their phones when a blaze is bringing down the house. It’s a comical approach and quite amusing watching the NPCs run around in panic or lie in a heap when you’ve jumped out of a building with them over your shoulder. The presentation in the game is excellent. Though a few buildings frequently pop up, for most of the time, NPCs spawn in different locations, there are bonus objectives of finding hidden money, and of course, the fires are unpredictable. The levels in Embr are varied enough that it doesn’t feel as repetitive as it could be. If you can put out the fires in ample time, this is a great opportunity to loot the building and make some money to buy stuff in the shop. Other than the money you earn for a successful mission, you can salvage items from a fire to return to the customer for a tip. There isn’t XP instead, your equipment will decide on the success of your job. Irrespective of your rating, the key thing here is to earn money too. The better you do, the more areas you open on the map. These ratings subsequently unlock new missions, with various themes such as rescues or solving a gas leak. Saving lives should be the only goal, but Embr is a business, and you’ll have to make sure you complete the objectives in a speedy time to get rated by your clients. These are essentially obstacle courses where you use all your skills to escape. There are gas leaks to contend with, electrical faults, and even a rival firm from Canada that frequently set up elaborate traps in a building to shut you down (by killing you!). It would be a fair assumption that Embr is just about firefighting, but it’s not. You can then specify a loadout, naming them too, so that you can switch your gear based on the type of mission. The vehicle side is mostly cosmetic for pimping up your wheels, but there is the option to add onboard water supplies and more.Īlmost all of these items can get extra upgrades that range from damage, capacity, range and even benefits like a ladder that comes back to you at the press of a button. On top of that, your gear options give bonuses that protect against the obvious fire hazards, electrical damage, falling, and grip for rescuing citizens and carrying objects. For the first, there’s a selection of firefighting devices like a hose, extinguisher for electricals, sprinkler systems, axes, grappling hooks (to scale a building), trampolines, hairdryers and disposable toilets. There are three shopping sections: Tools and Upgrades, Gear, and Vehicles. It’s not just a selection of helmets, fireproof (ish) jackets and the length of your hose. Select your single or multiplayer campaign from here, but it’s also a place to invest in your equipment. It’s ok for the clinical approach as these chumps don’t seem bothered about the danger and would rather dick about on their phones.Įverything in Embr is controlled from an app on the tablet. In principle, it’s all about rescuing citizens, but as you’ll see from the tablet you carry that lists the next gig, they’re seen as clients. There are three city districts to explore, and each level has variations of missions you can attend to. You’ll smash down doors with your axe in a conventional manner, or you can throw one and take out some ugly furniture so you can rip off that plasma TV and salvage it. The tone is an amusing one as you’ll set out to rescue folk from a burning, soon-to-be condemned building, but that righteous path often leads to profiteering by taking goods and returning to their owners, with the expectation of a ‘tip’.
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