Recovery Search & Rescue Simulation

This game is outright horrible. Apart from the epic title music, there's no other music in the game. The sound effects are minimal. The interface is unhelpful and the mission progress is baffling. The game is nearly unplayable. The most frustrating element is that the tasks are incredibly vague and difficult to locate. This game is mostly about finding small things like watches or footprints, but the graphics are so poor that these are nearly impossible to locate and the game does not make it any easier to identify. To make things worse, the game doesn't even tell you what to look for. Mission 5 involves searching for a red hat, but when you get to the area you waste time looking for a hat, but you're actually meant to find footprints that lead to the next clue area. The stamina system is unworkable. You get tired from running or riding the bike - which is fair - but there are only two ways to regain stamina: either wait, or buy energy bars. Waiting is unfeasible because you only have a few minutes to complete each mission. Energy bars cost points, which are earned by completing missions. However, EVERYTHING you buy and use is persistent. If you use an energy bar and then abort the mission, the game saves that, which means you lose both your points and your item even though you left the mission. You could literally make the campaign unbeatable and you have to start another one from scratch. The game is also buggy. On mission failures (very common when you're not told what to look for), the game may not take you back to the menu and you cannot quit the game, forcing you to force-quit the game. Presentation is mystifyingly poor. There is NO ambient noise. No birds, no animals, no wind, no water. The visuals are downright lazy. There are perhaps five tree models and the same tree has clearly copy/pasted into an area to save time. The items are often plain models without any skins rendered. Then there are invisible walls everywhere. Don't touch water by the way: water is death! The worst thing is that the title is an outright lie. Except perhaps "Recovery", since you spend most of your time finding lost hats and mp3 players. This is certainly no simulation. You go to this vague waypoint, look for something undefined, click on it, and done. There's no rescue or first-aid or any interactivity AT ALL. The game basically allows you to cheat in order to get through the levels. You can call in a helicopter to take you ANYWHERE on the map at the cost of points, which is desirable and less expensive than having to ride there and consume energy bars. And if that doesn't excite you, by aborting the mission, you unlock the next mission anyway. There are 40 something missions and they are literally all the same. I'm a sucker for these cheesy little buys, but this isn't even worth the low cost. You are buying a headache. Playing this will necessitate a search & rescue for your sanity. Video review here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM3u3X-iNO4

You don't play this game free roam. You play missions that are pre determined. The gameplay is not bad....BUT You get an objective like "go find this thing" and on the map it is supposed "high-light" the location of where to start searching for said thing or person. I've played about 7 missions so far and was only able to complete 3 - 4 of them because the map location is not showing up. I really hope this gets updated...gets add-ons etc. I believe it would be a very fun simulator. As of now I cannot recommend this game because to me it seems as though it is in "Alpha" stage. From what I see this is supposedly a completed game. If this isn't alpha this it has some rather annoying bugs that need to be fixed. What I like: -Graphics. --On the fantastic setting they're beautiful. -Concept. -Gameplay. (Or what it should be) What I DON'T like: -The game does not seem to be configured for PC (Unexpected frame drops when turning etc.) -Broken Map. -The fact that the missions are TIME based. -Energy meter (If this runs out, the mission is over and you fail..you run out of energy so fast it aint funny, after 3 minutes of straight jogging you lose the mission because "You are unable to go any further"). What I want: -To be configured properly for the PC -Free Roam <--- This would be very interesting. -Possible CO-OP mission. -The fixing of minor bugs - UPDATES PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF RAPTOR JESUS UPDATES. Hopefully I will be able to review this game again in the near future...and be able to recommend it. I really like the concept of this game and believe this kind of a simulator could "make-it" If you want to spend the money on it now, go ahead. BUT BE WARNED THIS GAME FEELS AS THOUGH IT IS UNFINISHED. EXPECT SOME MINOR BUGS!!

Perhaps one of the worst 'simulation' games I have ever played (or attempted to play, in this instance). As another reviewer stated, the missions are exactly the same. Fail? No problem, just keep going. It's not like you'll be doing anything different anyway. I am absolutely baffled as to why I paid $11 for this - lured in by that epic starting music I suppose. I spent a good thirty minutes repeating mission three trying to find the next set of animal prints after finding the first. They don't seem to exist. Sure, there's a couple stags running around, but nothing within the ridiculous red-circle-of-searchiness you'll be chasing throughout the entirety of the missions at hand. Some woman's pocket watch? Failed. Not enough time because I was too busy riding my bike like a madwoman trying to get to another poorly-designed log cabin. Let's go chase a hat instead, shall we? Ambient sounds, music, animal design...they're all lacking, with the first two nonexistent. Enjoy the pitter-patter of your own feet, or the vacant emptiness as you zoom along on a bike with your thumbs obviously up your bum because you darn sure aren't holding the handle-bars. Gameplay is laughable when it comes to the graphics at hand. Look to your left, look to your right, and see the same thing, with a few smoothed hills. Try to turn up the draw-distance because you *know* a game like this is something your GeForce GTX 780Ti can handle. Hah! Think again, as you will get constant freezes every 5-10 seconds that last 2 seconds themselves before you can continue. I had to turn the draw so far down it was like I was in the map editor of Deer Hunter on Windows 95 all over again (if memory serves me right...perhaps the editor was superior and I am not doing it justice). Take it from me, this game is complete and utter rubbish. Don't bother buying it - there are better sims out there. Only Pro? Sitting in the menu listening to the music and pretending you're about to go and save the world.

As sad as it is, the graphics and 3D affect is quite poor and some of hte missions are so limited on time that the simulator quickly become a headacke. After a hour of playing this, i started to ask myself why am i playing this... I could sigh up for a Urban Search and Rescue team and it would be more fun and less of a waste of time than this.

In short: terrible game. longer story: bad graphics even on "fantastic"; lagging (i have quiet a good computer, but this game manage to freeze every 10 secs for 1-2 or seconds); nothing realistic in here, which is quiet a negative point, seeing that this game calls itself an simulator. your riding on a unbelivable fast bike, loosing stamania like hell, which you than have to refill with candybars all the time. basically your just running arround from point A to B which is almost everytime highlated for you on the map, looking for baseballcaps or mp3 players lying around in the gras. this game calls himself a Rescue Simulation, but you dont even have some basic tools like a compass, a watch or binoculars. but a map, that is always showing your exact position and candy vending machines in every ranger station.

I could find an acorn that has better qualities than this game.

shit game not worth buying even if its on sale it doesnt even tell you what you have to do

Don't buy this game. I say again Don't buy this game.

This is the game that made me question Steam's quality control

Rubbish don't buy please

I kinda hurts to play