Thousands of calls are received daily by the emergency service of our country, whether for a health problem, a fire or other incident. This work is certainly not easy at all, since managing incidents that exist for example in a large city can end up overwhelming anyone. Now you can feel part of this sensation in your body thanks to the 911 Operator game. In this article we analyze this game that we can find in the App Store at a reduced price.
Manage your own city
911 Operator is a simulation game that will allow us to be on the other side of the call that we can make to 112 (in Spain) in an emergency. To give the situation much more reality as soon as we start the game we will be given the option to download the maps of our own city . With this we achieve that the streets where emergencies happen are totally real. What is being pursued, as we mentioned earlier, is to ‘suffer’ the stress of these emergency operators.
Once we have chosen the specific city, the strategy part will begin. You will have to manage all the resources at your disposal in order to manage all emergencies. At first you start with a few police, fire and health units that you will need to expand. At the end of each of the sessions you will receive some funds, depending on your efforts. With these funds you can buy new patrol cars, personnel, and equipment such as pistols for your agents.
Respond to emergencies
Once the game begins, you will see a fairly accurate map of the city you have chosen. As time goes by, events will appear on the map with which you will respond thanks to your units. You will simply have to choose, for example, an ambulance and send it to the point of the event if it is a health problem. We will easily know what is happening in each of the events thanks to the color pattern. But be careful, since things can get complicated and a simple noisy party can turn into a shooting , and you will have to support what is needed. The point will come when you do not have enough resources to monopolize all the events that arise on the screen, this being the time to improve the device.
But not only are events appearing on the map randomly, but we will receive calls from citizens. In these calls we must follow some very specific guidelines to give a good service. For example, if someone calls about a health problem, we should ask the address and give treatment guidelines until our units arrive. But sometimes there are many smart people who call the emergency to play a joke , or for nonsense. For example, we can find a person who calls because a bat entered his house and needs police attention. In these situations we must decide without sending someone or responding “abruptly”.
At the beginning we are shown a series of instructions to know how to respond to these situations and which are quite realistic. With these we can also learn ourselves how we can respond to a heart attack or to a traffic accident. Obviously we must be right to attend a specific event or not, since it could end up penalizing us if we do it illogically.
Price and opinion
This game is cross-platform, finding it on PC, Mac and also on iOS. The price in the App Store is € 1.09 and we think it may be worth it to have a good time when we are totally bored. But it is true that over time it ends up being very repetitive and heavy. Furthermore we can find a free trial version to only do the tutorial and check if it is worth it or not to acquire it completely. The truth is that if you are a lover of simulation and strategy games, you can love this one as it combines both genres quite well.
