History VideoGame / Emergency

** Note that emergency medical services in ''Emergency'' [[KeepItForeign follow the German model in all releases.]] This means that emergency physicians are dispatched into the field--optionally in a ded:icated fly car before ''2012'', and ''necessarily'' in ''2012''--to provide advanced life support measures, and "paramedics," who staff ambulances and are employed primarily to carry the stretcher, normally cannot do much medicine on their own. Tellingly, the latter personnel were translated as "orderlies" in the English release of the first game.

** Note that emergency medical services in ''Emergency'' [[KeepItForeign follow the German model in all releases.]] This means that emergency physicians are dispatched into the field--optionally in a dedicated fly car before ''2012'', and ''necessarily'' in ''2012''--to provide advanced life support measures, and "paramedics," who staff ambulances and are employed primarily to carry the stretcher, normally cannot do much medicine on their own. Tellingly, the latter personnel were translated as "orderlies" in the English release of the first game.

* IncrediblyObviousBomb: Not ''super''-obvious from your top-down perspective, but with blinking lights and left out in the open for your [[MrFixit Engineer]] to [[BombDisposal disarm]].

* InstantDeathBullet: A ZigZaggingTrope with respect to police sniper rifles. In ''Emergency 4,'' in contrast to the [[AlmostLethalWeapons handguns]], a single shot from a police sniper rifle is invariably fatal. Since ''Emergency 5,'' the sniper rifles got [[Nerf nerfed]] in general and rifle wounds became survivable.

* InstantDeathBullet: In contrast to the [[AlmostLethalWeapons handguns]], a single shot from a police sniper is invariably fatal. There's nothing you can do for anyone subjected to this treatment except to transport the body.

*** This correlates to [[UsefulNotes/TheThinGreenLine a real-world shift in German police liveries]] around the time ''Emergency 4'' was developed.

*** This correlates to a real-world shift in German police liveries around the time ''Emergency 4'' was developed.

* ''Emergency 2017'' features a mission in which the police must dissolve a nationalist demonstration and protect a refugee centre from arsonists. It's a relatively unsubtle nod to the (then-ongoing) European migrant crisis.

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: All the games, save ''2'', ''2012'' (which oozes with place references), and ''5'' (which has maps representing Munich, Hamburg, and Berlin) try to make the places the missions are set in ambiguous, everyday German cities near lakes in the lower-ish country. It does not always work, such as in the ''3'' mission, in which a fire breaks out in a very Bavarian horse stable that's called... ''Bavaria Hof''. Another problem are the police uniforms. By the time ''4'' rolled around, most German states had adapted uniforms similar to the blue ones in the game, but ''not'' states such as Bavaria, Saarland (green) or Hamburg (black).
** Played with in the ''4 Deluxe'' missions, which are set in obvious expies of unnamed African (Sierra Leone), Middle-Eastern (Afghanistan) and former Soviet (Ukraine) countries.

This is a German-developed series. ''Emergency'' through ''Emergency 4'' were developed by Sixteen Tons Entertainment, starting in 1998. The most recent entry in the series, ''Emergency 2012/2013'', was developed by Quadriga Games and released in 2010. Note that ''Emergency 4'' was published by Atari in the United States as ''[[MarketBasedTitle 911: First Responders]]''.

* GameMod: ''Emergency 3'', ''4'', and ''5'' have a [[LevelEditor]] built in (''2013'' didn't). The most notable mod be the ''[[http://losangelesmod.com/ Los Angeles Mod]]'' that replaces the default units with EmergencyServices found in the Los Angeles area, and also includes a Free-Play map based on Los Angeles.

* GameMod: ''Emergency 3'' and ''4'' have [[LevelEditor mod tools]] built in. The most notable mod be the ''[[http://losangelesmod.com/ Los Angeles Mod]]'' that replaces the default units with EmergencyServices found in the Los Angeles area, and also includes a Free-Play map based on Los Angeles.

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: All the games, save ''2'' and ''2012'' (which oozes with place references) try to make the places the missions are set in ambiguous, everyday German cities near lakes in the lower-ish country. It does not always work, such as in the ''3'' mission, in which a fire breaks out in a very Bavarian horse stable that's called... ''Bavaria Hof''. Another problem are the police uniforms. By the time ''4'' rolled around, most German states had adapted uniforms similar to the blue ones in the game, but ''not'' states such as Bavaria, Saarland (green) or Hamburg (black).

''Emergency 5'' is slated for release on November 14th, 2014.

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: All the games, save ''2'' and ''2012'' (which oozes with place references) try to make the places the missions are set in ambiguous, everyday German cities near lakes in the lower-ish country. It does not always work, such as in the ''3'' mission, in which a fire breaks out in a very Bavarian horse stable that's called... ''Bavaria Hof''. Another problem are the police uniforms. By the time ''4'' rolled around, most German states had adapted uniforms similar to the blue ones in the game, but ''not'' eg Bavaria, Saarland (green) or Hamburg (black).

** Played with in the ''4 Deluxe'' missions, which are set in obvious expies of unnamed African (Somalia), Middle-Eastern (Afghanistan) and former Soviet (Ukraine) countries.

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Several examples. In the first game, the aerobatic plane crashing into a diner was allegedly based on the Ramstein Air Show disaster. ''Emergency 2'' includes a collision involving a nuclear submarine.
** Or the crashing of a large zeppelin called ''[[{{Irony}} Hindenburg II]]''.
** In the third game, a jet pilot and his parachute get entangled on a church spire after bailing out of a crashing plane, á la [[http://www.gearthhacks.com/streetview/file.php?fileid=7026 John Steele]].

Not to be confused with the 1970s American TV-series ''{{Emergency}}''.

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: All the games, save ''2'' and ''2012'' (which oozes with place references) try to make the places the missions are set in ambigious, everyday German cities near lakes in the lower-ish country. It does not always work, such as in the ''3'' mission, in which a fire breaks out in a very Bavarian horse stable that's called... ''Bavaria Hof''. Another problem are the police uniforms. By the time ''4'' rolled around, most German states had adapted uniforms similar to the blue ones in the game, but ''not'' eg Bavaria, Saarland (green) or Hamburg (black).

* SwatTeam: "Marksmen" fill this role. They dress the part, but only seem to carry handguns.
** As do riot police officers, being the only units allowed to carry pistols.

* CripplingOverspecialisation: Units can only ever do things that their profession generally requires them to. For instance, policemen cannot operate fire extinguishers or carry people, and firemen cannot give first aid or overpower criminal suspects (criminals can take on ten firemen at once and win, but can be subdued by one policeman). Additionally, units can only ever enter vehicles of the same branch, so e.g. medics cannot hitch a ride in an armoured vehicle.