Time trial. The main prize is a saved life ... Crazy raids through the city streets ... seconds banging at the temple ... adrenaline overflowing ... "Valusoft developers describe their next work with such colorful epithets - Ambulance Driver . And as soon as the language of people turns ...
Simulator "First Aid" - loudly said, is not it? It sounds tempting, but who would have thought that behind such promising maxims there is a completely brainless arcade of nonsense that is not capable of captivating even a three-year-old child? The essence is this : driving around the city to the ambulance, following the instructions of the voice from the radio and focusing on the map, you need to pick up the "patients" and take them to the hospital. Perhaps, on the way, if the poor fellow’s condition worsens and the heart rate oscillogram becomes flat, you have to cut the defibrillator a couple of times ... That's all. I drove to the red dot on the map (by the way, all patients are lying on the street, outside the buildings and always -face down), stopped, drove to the green point (hospital), stopped. I looked at the elapsed time, read joyful congratulations on the screen - “pin up, man, you saved LIFE!” - and roll out into the main menu.
Taxi vice versa
The ideology (as well as the picture and design) is a bit like the Crazi Taxi console : the same green glow around the victim who is ready to be bent at any moment, the same arrow above the car, showing the direction, the same pedestrians trying to stay alive and swearing at the driver's dead… They, by the way, can be scared away by a siren. Or simply to shoot down, so that right away, without departing from the cash register, they will run into the life coach. The question is: why go across the city to some kind of wild screaming cripple? Isn't it easier to move someone right here, on the near sidewalk, to drag him to the hospital and enjoy all the same greetings?
The graphics are terrible: cars with square wheels, faceless facades of houses with a minimum of textures, disgusting skies ... Drive and excitement, similar to those in Crazy Taxi already mentioned , are absent in principle ... But in the assortment there are already three types of “ambulances”, - “ Modern Rig, EMT Truck and 1950's Vintage Wagon. However, despite some declared differences in accelerating dynamics and controllability, they all drive equally disgustingly and turn in the same clumsy way. The whole difference comes down to a capacity limit.
For dessert - as many as three maps: a bustling city center with a bunch of pedestrians, quiet alleys of small neighborhoods and a futuristic "downtown" with highways and heavy traffic. However, all these, if I may say so, “locations” are similar to each other, like two drops of water: gray streets, squalid cars, square houses ...
Summary
Never under any circumstances. Even if you are an ardent fan of the series “Emergency” from birth.