Irem Announces Firefighting Adventure

Japanese developer Irem today announced its latest throw and you'd be forgiven for confusing it with Konami's upcoming Firefighter FD18 Sakurazaka Shouboutai -- the former is a place name, the latter means "fire company" -- is a similar combine of story-driven adventure and third-person 3D firefighting action for PlayStation 2

Like FD18 Irem's game center around the missions of a local fire company, on the other hand it differs by offering a more compound story and cooperative gameplay ultimate parts Shouboutai's missions involve the pair action gameplay -- for the 3D firefighting followings -- and puzzle-driven adventure ultimate parts as well. Investigations of the pageant after a fire lead to plat forks at key points during different missions, which branch not upon toward multiple endings.

Also, more than individual firefighter may be involved in the horizontal at once, taking direction from each other as well as commanders outside the display and it's possible to call for medical units and other backup. sum of two units players can each control a different character in a cooperative multiplayer way although there's no competitive game method available.

Irem's official site is unclose today, although there's not plenteous more to see than a sharp array of character art and the first stage, a blaze at an abandoned auto parts factory. More stages will be revealed later, however, leading to the game's June release in Japan.

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