The asteroid "Caligula" is on a collision course with Earth. Even before the actual impact, meteorites traveling alongside it strike the blue planet. One of these even knocks down the Leaning Tower of Pisa. In three missions, the player's goal is to regain control of the disaster areas by deploying relief forces. The new fire-fighting helicopter is particularly useful to that end.
For the first time, the pack features a bonus mission for a fire department from days gone by: Caligula comes close to Earth in 1890 and destroys a farmstead in the Rhine Province of the German Empire. The player must deploy a horse-drawn fire engine and historical firefighters in order to prevent the blaze from spreading to the nearest town.
Moreover, hobby rescuers receive a large new missions area in both freeplay and multiplayer modes focusing on the threat from space. In Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, Emergency 2014 is included in a box with the main game Emergency 2012 Deluxe and the extra missions from Emergency 2013. The box will be released on November 15, 2013, and will contain a total of 23 missions and various freeplay maps.
For owners of the previous titles, Emergency 2014 will also be made available as a reasonably-priced upgrade package that can be downloaded from digital distribution platforms (main game Emergency 2012, 2012 Deluxe, or Emergency 2013 required).
Sixteen Tons Entertainment and Deep Silver are also working on even more hot missions for fans of strategic rescue games: Emergency 5 from the popular Emergency series is currently in development and will be released in 2014. "Modding will again be a central feature of Emergency 5, because I know how much our fans love to design their own units and missions. We have already had the Emergency theme re-recorded completely by the Brandenburg State Orchestra for this installment. The piece was well-received at our 20th anniversary celebration in August, where we presented it to our friends from press and community circles," says Ralph Stock, inventor of the series and Managing Director of the developing studio Sixteen Tons Entertainment.
Features of the boxed edition of Emergency 2014:
- Exclusive EMERGENCY 2014 mini campaign with four new and extensive missions
- A brand new, large missions area for freeplay and multiplayer gaming based on the same theme and setting as the mini campaign
- NEW UNITS:
- historic manually-operated fire engine with a team of draft horses
- historic firefighter
- fire-fighting helicopter
- All missions, freeplay and multiplayer maps from EMERGENCY 2012 DELUXE
- All missions, freeplay and multiplayer maps from EMERGENCY 2013
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