Emergency Heroes

by Ubisoft

Product Features

• Pilot and command numerous high-tech rescue vehicles designed specifically for ultra high-risk, high-speed navigation. Choose between police, fire and EMT vehicles.
• As an emergency hero, your mission is to protect the peaceful city of San Alto. Drive through stunning free-roaming open environments, and keep the city safe at every turn.
• Challenge your friends in various versus modes for fun driving competition.
• Making full use of the Wii Remote, and compatible with the Wii Wheel, everyone in the family can enjoy being an emergency hero.
• Take advantage of Hero Mode and play like you mean it - the faster you drive, the faster you rise and gain access to invincible powers.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0013A3GAW
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches ; 3 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: May 27, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,063 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #51 in Video Games > Wii > Racing
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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Become a real-life hero -- drive the coolest, high-tech rescue vehicles to SAVE your city.

Emergency Heroes is the open world rescue driving game that is designed for the next generation of young rescue heroes.

Race to the scene in advanced police, fire and EMT rescue vehicles that let you jump over four-lane highways, power-slide into water towers and track down criminals at high speeds. By combining simple intuitive controls with fast, exhilarating action, Emergency Heroes offers an exciting experience the whole family can enjoy, exclusively on Wii™.

Key Features Drive the next generation of rescue vehicles. Pilot and command numerous high-tech rescue vehicles designed specifically for ultra high-risk, high-speed navigation. Choose between police, fire and EMT vehicles. Explore and protect the entire city. As an emergency hero, your mission is to protect the peaceful city of San Alto. Drive through stunning free-roaming open environments, and keep the city safe at every turn. Two player co-op. Challenge your friends or combine forces to form the ultimate rescue hero team to protect your city. Fun for the whole family. Making full use of the Wii Remote™, everyone in the family can enjoy being an emergency hero. Fast-action Gameplay. Take advantage of Hero Mode and play like you mean it – the faster you drive, the faster you rise and gain access to invincible powers.

Fast-action Gameplay

Product Description

Emergency Heroes is the open-world rescue driving game that is designed for the next generation of young rescue heroes. Race to the scene in advanced police, fire and EMT rescue vehicles that let you jump over four-lane highways, power-slide into water towers and track down criminals at high speeds. By combining simple intuitive controls with fast exhilarating action, Emergency Heroes offers an exciting experience the whole family can enjoy, exclusively on Wii.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb - scifi muscle cars and F1 buggies, May 28, 2008

By 

Salute75 - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Emergency Heroes (Video Game)

I had the pleasure of playing a preview version of this game before it was released and it was allot of addictive fun. The graphics are very unique to the Wii, I havent seen anything this good on Wii since its release, its a science fiction world, large bladerunner esque buildings, tokyo hotels and a really bizare funpark ride that I can only describe as 'trippy'. The gameplay is all about driving fast, massive jumps, smashing through debri , putting out fires ( by you guessed it driving like a nutter ), you get the idea, its made by the same guys that made Driver and Destruction Derby so you know the car handling is going to be spot on. Vehicles range form super fast muscle cars, armoured trucks and insanly fast F1 buggies ( yep F1 buggies ) to even an Akira style bike. I challange anybody to play the last mission and tell me that this isnt the best looking game on the Wii.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Help is on the way!, October 18, 2008

By 

Marcie K. Kuehl "media master" (Madison, WI United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Emergency Heroes (Video Game)

I found this title to be quite entertaining. I gave it a quick playthrough to see if it was awful or not and I found that I kind of liked it. Its a fast-paced driving game where you have to get to the scene of whatever emergency is going on and stop it from happening. You drive to the scene of a guy down and then proceed to do cpr on him and with the wii-mote it's fairly entertaining. If I did have one complaint its that the game is a little spasodic--its kind of like crazy taxi plus mini games--but I also am not the best at driving games so that might be why it was a little fast for me. I reccommend if you ever wanted to drive an emergency vehicle :)

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Open driving feel, diff trucks/cars, good wii tilt control, bugs, June 19, 2008

By 

LanaFire (NY) - See all my reviews

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Emergency Heroes (Video Game)

I rented this & forgot it was targeting a younger audience. You're always in a car, so all menu & controls is by wii wheel/tilt way. It's loose, so you do turn the wii a full 45º to turn. You can drive around, then use a GPS green arrows to direct you to spots for missions.
When you do well, you get up in rank & open up new types of cars like fire trucks that spray water with the push of A button, slow ramming car that can go through anything, etc. There is music laying and it's not bad.
There is a decent amount of good civilian traffic, if you hit them, a voice w/picture will cry about their paint job or demand you pay for damages. All voices are done w/pics of the characters. I like that sense since it gives it a more real feel. Even with a squad car, hitting other cars only slightly slows you down & there is good physics, but minimal damage shown as it happens. The AI of the civilians is done well.
The first 5-10? missions were too easy. A blind, deaf man couldn't fail. Especially putting out fires, ramming open blocked roads, or driving to save someone through the parkways, over roofs & through buildings. The environments are done well, they are fun, though there's not enough textures, reflections, everything in the environment reacts if you hit it. The voice over in the clips you've seen are campy/over the top which adds a fun feel, but also too corny.
Now the major issues. It's too easy, therefore boring at first, but since I can see by the locked characters (bad guys?), paint jobs, vehicles there are A LOT of missions, so figure the first level is to hold your hand. The first chase was easy, you only have to slam into him from behind, the side even if just the same speed about 10 times. You're always slightly faster then the bad guy speeder & if you fall pretty way behind, it rubber bands you to him. There's always a big green target above him which makes it very easy to spot him & green GPS arrows like Burnout/NFS if that's not good enough. The second chase you can only counts if you really slam him & only from behind. If you just catch up, you are only pushing him. It's very particular. Once hit, you have to wait 5 seconds before another hit counts. Now to ram him, you have to gain speed, right? & what if you miss & now you're ahead? well, then the GPS says he's back there, so you figure turn around, you do & says, no he was the way you originally were going. I did this a few times before realized to fix it, I had to hit the BRAKES to let him pass me. A lot of braking. It was highly annoying. If you don't turn around or hit the brakes, the chase is considered failed. The third chase requires you to hit him on the side, not with your side, but with your front bumper ONLY. I did it a few times & it didn't count.
There were a few time the picture froze & so did the music for a second or two.
This had great idea & good points, but too many issues & there was just no excitement.