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So I'm usually more of the shooter game type, and whilst you...shoot in this game too, there's so much more around it.
I've grown up with the very first Tomb Raider parts back then on my good ol' laptop, and to play the trilogy really gave me some nostalgic feelings.
Not only action-wise, but also story-wise Rise of the Tomb Raider has topped the first part, Tomb Raider, incredibly well. I enjoy every single moment. I'm about half way through but thrilled to see how it continues, a journey worth experiencing yourself!

Can only recommend the new Tomb Raider trilogy!

This game makes me feel like I've got 0 skill in shooter games, but when you play with friends, you share the same fate and it's all good again.

Nah but fr, this game is ♥♥♥♥♥♥ awesome and shows, that you don't need crazy good graphics or epic map events. Just gimme a weapon, a team, communication, an enemy and a goal and I'm happy.
Perfect to play when you just wanna shoot things, or when you wanna shoot things together with friends.

This game is a perfect display of how the game industry could look like.

First of all, this game, or rather Half Life 2 mod, is free. Therefore, even if you try it and you didn't like it, you didn't loose anything.

I'd be surprised if you didn't like it though. This game is awesome and shows the other side of Half Life 2s characters. The story is well thought through and has a decent plot, the gameplay is like you'd expect it from a Half Life game. You got puzzles here and there, gotta build some things and in general have to think more than in some other games these days. The game puts the difficulty right up to the highest, which challenges you right ahead, if you don't know about that :P
Right now I'm going through the second part and boy oh boy...but see for yourself :3

All in all just a great game worth playing!

I am baffled...this game is just a scam. After leaving it behind for a while, the first part is still more playable than this.
Just a few minutes ago I found out they just copy pasted the front wheels onto the rear axle on the ELW (command vehicle), whilst in reality you have completely different rear wheels. I can't believe it but this game is just horrible, and I rarely say that about a game in my library.
I kinda want my money back, and do not want anyone to run into this.
Constant development they say, yet the game is so bugged, you don't even see any improvements, any changes. Your game still crashes, the vehicles still behave like the very first F1 game for Windows, and the sounds...nah lad. Don't give into the trailers or the images. This game is just a buggy hell, and overall bad.

This game is so much fun, the story is kinda confusing but at the same time so clear. The puzzles are incredible, in general the entire making and atmosphere of the game is so mysterious. The look of it is amazing, and all that for 5€...

The difficulty of the puzzles are just right for my taste: challenging
This just makes you want to play the game in one session.

I can definetly recommend it to anyone who's into mysterious puzzle games and, in general, to people who want to use their brain a little more than I did in the last couple of weeks :P

Thanks again to my good friend APenjuin who bought me the game out of nowhere. This was the distraction I needed :)

Yupp...mhm...yeah....if you get the idea of the game, and got some people next to you, that can help, this is really fun. But I succ at it anyway

Ngl, it do be kinda hard at the beginning, but the more you play it, and the more you practice no matter how often you fail, the more skill you gain. It's incredibly fun playing scenarios for over 3 hours and succeeding against the AI hehehe, gotta try out Multiplayer, but even that should become as good as singleplayer, if you keep trying to improve yourself and to get used to the game mechanics.

All in all just really recommandable!

I hate my friends now.
But we hate each other now, so it's something we have in common again lol

Um das mal für alle abzudecken, sogar in zwei Sprachen.


Deutsch/German


Ich hatte bis jetzt wirklich jeden Feuerwehr-Simulator durchgespielt (z.B. Werksfeuerwehr-Simulation oder Flughafen-Feuerwehr Simulator) und jedes mal gab es irgendeine Verbesserung. Notruf 112 ist dabei wahrscheinlich der neueste von allen, meiner Meinung nach.
Die Grafik wurde deutlich verbessert, die KI überarbeitet, es gibt Verkehr und ein riesiges Gebiet zum Erkunden (was bei der Flughafen-Feuerwehr Simulation auch schon teilweise vorhanden war).
JEDOCH...
...ist das Spiel nicht fertig, Bugs in der KI oder bei Texturen, Einsätze für das Wechselladerfahrzeug (WLF) sind noch nicht ausgereift, obwohl es so viele verschiedene Container gibt. Die Passanten sind wahrscheinlich noch in der Beta, aber da könnte man noch dran arbeiten. Vielleicht noch mehr Variationen in den Einsätzen, sowas wie Fassaden-Brände, oder nach einem Brand im inneren eines Hauses mit Ventilatoren durchlüften, sowas in der Art.
ABER...
...an einem zweiten Teil zu arbeiten??? Alles verbessern, was in dem Spiel eher nicht allzu gut funktioniert, Texturen von Fahrzeugen erneuern (zum Beispiel von den Polizeifahrzeugen), Features erneuern und benutzerfreundlicher zu machen, ALSO ALL DAS, WAS SIE BEI IHREM DERZEITIGEN SPIEL NOCH EINBAUEN BZW. VERÄNDERN KÖNNTEN, machen sie einfach in ein neues Spiel.
Ich hatte so viel Hoffnung in dieses Spiel gesetzt, dass man an dem Spiel weiter arbeitet, aber anscheinend geht es den Entwicklern einfach nur um Geld (so gesehen, wem es eigentlich nicht darum :P). Das ist jetzt eine schroffe Behauptung, aber so scheint es nun einmal. Der zweite Teil wird wahrscheinlich genau so viel kosten, wie der erste. Also kauft man sich das genau gleiche Spiel nur verbessert. Nimmt man sich ein Beispiel an anderen Spiele Entwicklern, wie zum Beispiel SCS Software, die an Euro Truck Simulator 2 kontinuierlich weiterarbeiten, Arbeit in die Umgebungsgestaltung, in die KI und anderes stecken, das Spiel einfach weiterentwickeln und verbessern, und das völlig umsonst (bis auf die DLCs, die aber komplett neue Gebiete einbauen).
Bei Notruf 112 heißt das jetzt Notruf 2 oder Notruf 112 2.
Das sagt eigentlich alles aus, was man zu diesem Spiel und zur Moral sagen kann. Klar hat man den Veröffentlichungszeitpunkt immer weiter nach hinten verschoben, aber lieber ein funktionierendes Spiel als ein schnell veröffentlichtes unfertiges Spiel!

Ich kann diese Version wirklich keinem weiterempfehlen, wartet Notruf 2/Notruf 112 2 ab, schaut euch die Bewertungen und die Entwicklung an, und investiert in den dritten Teil.
PS: Falls die Entwickler tatsächlich an diesem Teil noch arbeiten, dann bitte sagt etwas. Zeigt uns, dass ihr noch da seid und dieses Spiel wenigstens noch weiterentwickeln wollt. Danke!

Englisch/English


I've really gone through every fire simulator (such as factory fire simulation or airport fire simulator) and every time there has been some improvement. Emergency 112 is probably the newest of them, in my opinion.
The graphics have been significantly improved, the AI ​​revised, there is traffic and a huge area to explore (which was already partly present in the airport firefighting simulation).
BUT ...
... the game is not finished, bugs in the AI ​​or textures, inserts for the container loader vehicle (in german WLF) are not yet mature, although there are so many different containers. The passers-by are probably still in beta, but you could still work on that. Maybe even more variations in the inserts, something like facade fires, or after a fire inside a house with fans ventilate, something like that.
BUT ...
... to work on a second part ??? Improving everything that does not work well in the game, renewing textures of vehicles (for example, the police vehicles), renewing features and making it more user-friendly, SO EVERYTHING YOU COULD CHANGE OR IMPROVE IN YOUR CURRENT GAME, just make it into a new game.
I put so much hope into this game that the devs keep on working on the game, but apparently the developers are just interested in profit (to be honest, who's not :P). This is a blunt statement, but it seems that way. The second part will probably cost exactly as much as the first. So you buy the same game just improved. Take an example from other games developers, such as SCS Software, who continue to work on Euro Truck Simulator 2, work in the environment design, in the AI ​​and other stuff, simply develop and improve the game, and completely free (except the DLCs, which incorporate completely new areas).
All of these things for Emergency Call 112 are called Emergency Call 2 or Emergency Call 112 2.
That actually says everything that can be said about this game and morality. Of course, the release date has been pushed further and further back, but rather a functioning game than a quickly published unfinished game!

I really can not recommend this version to anyone, wait for Emergency 2 / Emergency 112 2, check out the reviews and development, and invest in the third part.

PS: If the developers are actually working on this part then please say something. Show us that you are still here and at least want to further develop this game. Thank you!

Why am I playing BeamNG.drive?

A question that actually a lot people have asked me with the time. After around 200 hours of playing it, I think I know now why. The realistic crash simulation, detailed vehicles, detailed cities, lets you dive into a world of realism. You can simulate different situations like crashes, accidents or stunts. With the ability of actually moving around everywhere in the maps there are no limits to your creativity and your desire to discover and drive. I really like driving cars, no matter if in real life or ingame. In BeamNG.drive you can drive everything that you want. No money can set you borders.
Now, besides the cars and their phsyic, the maps. Large explorable maps, with detailed landscapes and buildings, roads. It just feels amazing, driving through a dead city, down a highway or just through the jungle. The atmosphere of the maps are just perfectly to let you feel you are realy driving.
The community is expanding the variaty of maps, cars and their configurations, skins and a lot more. Every day there is new stuff coming out, and I have to say that I am always there, to keep an eye on good and new stuff.
The partnership with Automation was wonderful as well. Realistic car models, real life design of your own favourite vehicle, and then driving it in BeamNG is maybe the best thing that could happen to that game.

All in all I have to say that this game is just incredible fun. It's hard to describe the effect the game has on me. I can hardly recommend it!


One more thing to the developer team of the game, BeamNG:
Keep up the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ nice work. Free updates and patches, developing and evolutioning the environment, engine sounds, car designs and configurations, bug fixes and a lot more. The love, that the team is putting into this whole game is just amazing and examplary for the one or other game. I realy appreciate you being there, listening to the community and making the game perfect. As I said, keep it up!

[Please excuse my bad english ^^]