Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Feb 9, 2023

  Let it burn. Story: You play as John. You awaken to find yourself trapped in a burning building and as the seemingly intense situation becomes more and more dire, you relive your memories of being the new recruit in a Fire Station as you bond with your team, all the complex situations you were involved in as it all leads into the events of your predicament. The story of Airport Firefighters is absolutely horrible. I really don't understand what is even the point of any of this as it's all basically generic missions tied together with you trying to escape the burning building. I get that it's supposed to be real life, but I would have highly preferred if there was no story instead of one that's incredibly bland and generic and makes the game a slog to play. Graphics: Visually the game looks absolutely horrible. You're basically always putting out the same fires in the same buildings and go through the same environments over and over. Low resolution textures make the environment look like they've been abandoned instead of a business place. One thing I have to mention is how ugly the character models look. They look like they're a mixture of clay and plastic and something about how weird everyone looks and how their mouths move just gave me uncanny valley vibes. Just everything about this game visually is a mess. Audio: The audio design is also a mess. I'll begin with the voice acting which is absolutely horrendous. At the beginning of the game you're asked what "units" you want to play as and the choice is either German or American and I chose the US units as I suspected that it actually meant what type of audio you wanted to hear, but everyone has the thickest accent that makes half of the dialogue impossible to understand without subtitles. However the worst aspect is the actual audio mixing. All of the audio is insanely loud and drowns out everything that's going on. Sometimes the music is too quiet and then sometimes is so loud that it makes hearing dialogue impossible, not that you're missing anything good, but still. The actual music and sounds effects aren't good either, it's just basic intense sounding tracks that sound like they're ripped out of Stock music library. Gameplay: You can gather from the name of the game that in this game you play as Firefighters and of course that means putting out fires and saving people from the impending dooms of flames, however calling this game a "simulation" is by far the biggest stretch, as there's not much variety in the scenarios. The basic gist is this. You have a respirator for the areas with too much smoke, an axe to break down closed off areas which you can't reach otherwise and a fire extinguisher to put out the flames. You also operate fire vehicles which have different types of nozzles attached to them to douse flames that a simple fire extinguisher couldn't put out. However each mission follows the same structure. You wake up, get in the car, drive to a location and activate your nozzles to put out the flames. Rinse and repeat for two hours and the game is over. There are on foot segments, but that is basically the same, but instead of a vehicle you juggle fire extinguisher, once one runs out, you yank another one off the wall. The actual firefighting is incredibly boring and most of the items at your disposal are useless and rarely come into play. The respirator is only used twice and the axe is only used barely 4 times. It also doesn't help that the game is so incredibly buggy that the only goal you have in the game is barely achievable. The game has issues with frame rate so you have to tinker with it to actually be able to progress further into the game. Also the game has no free play option, it's just the campaign. There is a mission mode which is basically the missions from the campaign by themselves, but there's literally no reason to replay them, cause they're so incredibly boring and just incredibly unfun. Verdict: Airport Firefighters is a mess. I found the concept cool, but everything about this game is just incredibly horrible. Tedious gameplay, ugly graphics, horrible audio design and just poorly made, it's a game that's not worth your time or your money. Considering how many fire fighting simulations are on steam, you should look elsewhere. Final Rating: 2/10 Pros: + The vehicle sections of the game are pretty cool Cons: - Audio design is horrible, from terrible voice acting, to terrible audio mixing - Tons of bugs that won't allow you to progress unless you tinker with the settings - Most of your equipment is not used and the ones that take up majority are incredibly boring - Story is incredibly generic and makes barely any sense If you liked this review please consider joining https://steamcommunity.com/groups/completingthebacklog and https://steamcommunity.com/groups/ImperialReviews
• gamedeal user

  May 13, 2015

  This aint a simulator. No freeplay, you just get thrown into a storyline and have do do as told. Stick with one of the other Airport Firefighter sims out there! Can't reccomend this to anyone....
• gamedeal user

  May 14, 2015

  Missions are boring and short there are not even 10 missions and most of the missions only take 2 to 3 minutes to complete game is full of bugs you can take a firehose out of one of the trucks (no mission needs this its just for show) and attach it to the back of the truck and now the worst part YOU HAVE A NOSLE IN YOUR HANDS WITH AN INVISIBLE HOSE AND UNLIMITED LENGTH or the game says enter fire truck 2 but you should enter truck 3 on fire truck 9 when you drive it the iner wheels dont turn this game feels more like a DEMO
• gamedeal user

  May 14, 2015

  First of all as a firefighter I feel this game is very lame! I feel its for kiddy's instead of gamers! This would be a game my 10 year old would play! As for anyone else thinking of buying this I would hold off!!!! It was a big disapointment for me and I will remember that these types of games get what you pay for!
• gamedeal user

  May 14, 2015

  This game is pretty shit, not going to lie. if it had a free play it'd probably be alright but the fact it takes you 2hrs to finish the story line then you cannot do anything else but play the 5 minute missions again. please do not waste your money.
• gamedeal user

  May 15, 2015

  game sucks it should be still in development there is no freeplay i will change my review when there is a free play
• gamedeal user

  May 17, 2015

  GAME TOO SHORT, No Freeplay and Lack Of Missions Very Disapointed. Wish i Never Payed for this. Save your money and DON'T BUY!
• gamedeal user

  Jun 6, 2015

  It's a good game don't get me wrong......but for $19.99 it's lacking. I wish it had a mode that you could just be at the station and it would just generate missions. You just play through the story line and that is it. Maybe I'm being too picky but def. try to get this game when it goes on sale, don't feel like I quite got $20 worth. It's fun to play games like this when you do it in real life!!
• gamedeal user

  Aug 15, 2015

  As a professional fireman in one of the USA's largest east coast cities, as well as being a big gamer, I can say with authority that this game is terrible. The word "simulation" us used incredibly loosely here. Would it be fun for a little kid? Sure. But as an actual fireman looking for some fire gameplay that was decent, this game fell far short. Very disappointed.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 27, 2016

  The concept to the game is great but some challenges are very hard. Some missions seem imposible, playing the game is like tring to find a needle in a hay stack!! but overall a good game