Fire Blade (video game)
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North American cover art for PS2 | |
| Developer(s) | Kuju Entertainment |
| Publisher(s) | Midway Games, Nintendo |
| Platform(s) | Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 |
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PlayStation 2 Xbox GameCube
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| Genre(s) | Helicopter simulation game |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, Multiplayer |
Fire Blade is a flight simulation video game released in 2002 by Kuju Entertainment. In the game, the player takes control of an advanced helicopter gunship as a part of the Fire Blade task force, which in the arc of the game's story is responsible for fighting terrorism. The enemies of the game are the United Eastern States, who are believed to be building terrorist training camps and factories for weapons of mass destruction.
The game is similar in many respects to ThunderHawk: Operation Phoenix. However, in Fire Blade, the player is forced to be far less cautious unless on a stealth mission and is usually pitted against far larger amounts of enemies. The main element of the game is aggressively piloting the player's attack helicopters against large enemy armored formations and completing the main mission objectives, these vary in creativity from simply blowing up a bridge to aiding a special forces team in stopping a train by parking a truck across the tracks and stopping enemy troops from moving it.
A secondary element of the game is FPS-style sniping, when the player's helicopter enters "stealth mode" the autocannon is used as a precision sniper weapon that can be used to accurately target individual soldiers, allowing the player to snipe enemy infantry much like in an FPS.
Additional fuel and ammunition for the helicopter's jet boosters and heavier armaments are acquired from destroyed enemy vehicles instead of the more conventional reloading areas from games such as the Strike Series.
Intro
Fire Blade is an anti-terrorist military force by Western Nations to stomp out rogue terrorist cells around the world. The largest and most dangerous of these cells is the United Eastern States, or UES.
Intelligence sources have indicated that the UES have been establishing training camps and weapons of mass destruction in strategic areas around the world. It appears that the UES is preparing for an all-out war against the west.
The time has come. The threat can no longer be allowed to exist.
Fire Blade has been mobilized.
References
- 1 2 "Fireblade Hits Shelves For PS2, Fall For Xbox" (Press release). Kuju Entertainment. July 2, 2002. Archived from the original on June 8, 2016. Retrieved June 8, 2016.