Great entertaining game. A real fun strategy game that will keep you on your toes. A great game for a great price.
The difficulty of this game is surprisingly hard. Upon playing the medium level, I found myself restarting every mission at least once, but usually its more like 3-5 times. This can be frustrating to some, but it really depends on how you go about doing your job. A house that was destroyed this time may be able to be saved next time if you do something different. For this reason, the game does have a re-playability about it, especially if you want to tackle the hard levels and go for perfection in the missions.
Your interaction with controlling the firefighters doesnt just mean shoot your hose here and thats it. You also need to rescue civilians by taking them to the ambulance, you need to break windows to allow smoke to escape. Failing to do so will make the room explode into flames in time. You can open doors, but if you are not careful, you can have a backdraft occur. To prevent this, you need to break the door down with your axe. Water cannons are available in a few missions to help spray a blanket of water onto structures to prevent them from catching fire or putting out large areas of fire. You will need to monitor your water supply and replenish from water sources such as hydrants and lakes. Some missions have air support in the means of helicopters and planes that can extinguish large areas at a time.
One thing I would change about this game is the fact that you have reinforcements, but you can only deploy them when the computer allows you too. I guess it makes sense since you could just deploy them immediately at the start and control everything really fast. But still, it would be nice to be able to call them when you want ..... Other than that, this is a great challenging game with good graphics (for this type of game) and I would recommend it to others. I give it a 8.6 out of 10. I will be playing this one for some time. There is just something "fun" about it.... Check it out if you can.