Firefighter F.D.18 is a third-person firefighter action game developed and published by Konami and released on February 2004 on PlayStation 2.
Plot[]
Dean McGregor, along with his partner Craig, both skilled firefighters, are called for an emergency mission involving a large fire accident at a tunnel of the Serana port city, where plenty of car and people are trapped in it. After rescuing the people and dealing with the origin of the fire at the tunnel, they acknowledged the fire may not be as accidental as it seemed to be and are dragged in a succession of much more dangerous events.
Gameplay[]
The player controls Dean in a third person action game. The game is done in sort of objectives the players has to clear out and a number of civilians to rescue in a certain amount of time before they die. The level ends when all civilians are rescued, failing to rescue one of them while lead to a game over and the mission will be restarted. In order to get to the civilians, Dean have fire extinguishers, fire hoses in his possession to be able to pull out the fires, he can also use axes to destroy obstacles such as crates or cracked walls that are blocking the way.
In certain levels, if the partner is around during the mission, he can even call him to help out extinguish the fires. The missions will take them to various areas, such as a tunnel, a building, a facility and more. At the end of certains missions they would also have to fight some "Boss" fires. Each of them having their own unique pattern and would requires differents techniques from one to another.