Fire Department offers six distinct jobs including the basic fireman, who reduces the size of fires and breaks obstacles using an axe; the nurse, who transports the injured away from the scene of the fire; the engineers, who closes gas valves and works on all complex mechanical objects; the commandos, who infiltrate the most inaccessible areas; the desincarcerators, who overcome the most difficult of obstacles and, last but not least, the protective clothing specialists.

In addition to the men themselves, Fire Department captains can also choose their vehicles and equipment, in order to overcome obstacles blocking their way and find a strategic point of entry to extinguish the fire more rapidly. Fire Department houses all the shiny red hardware you would expect in a real fire department including the Aerial, the Pumper, the Mini Pumper, the Water Tower, the Tanker, the Medic Master and the Wildland Xtrem.

Fire Department features 10 spectacular missions inspired from real life events, including explosions at service stations, petrochemical complexes, inner-city fires, warehouse fires and earthquakes. Courageous work within these missions is rewarded with medals for the most lives saved using limited time and resources, the reinforcements called in and the number of firemen kept alive and well.

Fire Department will be published by Monte Cristo for PC in November 2002, priced £29.99.