Flash Point Fire Rescue 2nd Edition

What a game! We’ve played this so many times, my 7 year old loves it. what’s really key is it’s a team game - you can’t win without helping each other out, and can require some key strategy, I would say we are about 50/50 wins to losses, sometimes the fire just gets out of control especially at the higher levels of play. Have upgraded to also buy the ‘Extreme danger’ expansion which makes the game even better and would definitely recommend as an add-on. Couldn’t recommend this game more

Fantastic game suitable to introduce people to co-operative games. Even 5 year olds would be able to join in and grasp the basic concepts. Great game.

The game is a good family one and easy to pick up and teach. It is a co-op game but there is not as much interaction as you would find in Pandemic - there are no items to exchange with each other to aid the cause or anything. It feels more like everyone is playing an individual game for the greater cause, you don't work in teams and the specialists don't really interact with the other players either bar the odd extra move space here and there. It is very thermattic and there is a sense of relief when you chop down the walls and save the family pet with fire exploding all around the room - but it's still very 'I saved the cat' - it just doesn't feel like any team effort involved. It suffers heavily from the overall feeling that you decide your own actions without really discussing it and getting the other players opinion - I played one game where we never once ended up in the same room due to the random placement of the civilians, it was like I had my half of the board to rescue, and my partner had the other - I really think it's missing the peril. When you get knocked down you spawn outside, there should have been the moment of, 'Oh sugar butties! Bob just got caught in an explosion and we need to save him now before it's too late!!' But it's ok, Bob just immediately gets popped outside to re-enter the building on the next turn. Where's the danger of being caught in a a raging fire? For these reasons I think it's great game for the younger audience, but not for a gaming group.

I got Flashpoint not with the greatest of expectations. I had heard of the game before but never really looked into it. Then saw the game being reviewed on Youtube a few times and thought I would order it. I was pleasantly surprised by how good this game was and Flashpoint has since become my favourite cooperative game that I own (and I have Pandemic & both Forbidden games). None of them, for me, beat Flashpoint. So what makes Flashpoint great? Well, the theme is fantastic. One of my problems with Pandemic is the theme doesn't suck me in. Whereas in Flashpoint when my firefighter gets knocked down by an explosion or a door blows up in my face I feel completely immersed in the theme. The fightighting theme is one we are all aware of and it works really well. The design of the game helps with this. For example, the way the fire spreads each turn makes sense in terms of how you would expect a real fire to spread (I am not a firefighter so I wouldn't know). Smoke leads to fire, fire leads to explosions, explosions lead to dead victims and damaged walls. It all makes a lot of sense. Other pros: - works very well from 2-6 players (all my other coop games are 4 player, so to have a 6 player game is great for those larger gatherings) - special firefighter abilities means working together doing what you're best at doing (whether that be firefighting or rescuing, everybody has a job to do for the team) - Great family game and even has family game rules to make things simpler - variety of difficulty levels which can be customised completely to suit your own ability - quick games (30-45 min) - double sided board which gives you 2 buildings to fight fire in (one a little harder than the other) - randomness of how the fire spreads really makes for an unpredictable challenge (you may think you have things under control and two turns later half the house is on fire) Cons: - set up can take 5-10 minutes depending on what difficulty you are playing (you have to follow a step-by-step set up routine which becomes familiar but initially will take a few min to go through... not a big issue really) - board is busy (there are lots things on the board which can make it seem quite busy at times but again, not a big problem) - Sometimes dice rolling to spread the fire may result in an easy game, or the opposite can happen (but this is quite realistic of fires I would imagine and I've only had 1 easy game where the dice were very helpful) - the action points each firefighter has vary depending on their skills, and you can save action points for next turns (this takes a little bit of getting used to but again, is not too bad) This is a really great game. The fire theme presents a very realistic danger that needs to be put out and you genuinely feel like you are in a building doing your thing as a firefighter. Great family game, kids would likely love this game. There are already 3-4 expansions out there to get if you want more challenges too. I've just got a few of them. Each brings new boards (new buildings), some new equipment and things like second/third floors to buildings which makes fighting that fire even more challenging. Excellent game, if you're interested in it I would fully recommend making the purchase!

Great game

What a great game for the family! Fun for kids (and adults) with the roleplay aspect, and teaches teamwork -- and can scale to a harder game depending on how you play. Not easy to win if you're not trying hard and there's a chance element to how 'hard' the fire is to fight, so communication and strategy is important! We love it.

We got this game about 1-2 weeks ago and we love it! The game is exciting and fun for everyone. In case you didn't read the description, it's a cooperative board game about firefighters saving people from a burning building. Cooperative means everyone is on the same team playing against the fire. This game involves a lot of teamwork, strategizing and collaboration. To add to the strategy, players can choose a firefighter specialty. One of the nice things in this game is that it offers 4 difficulty levels, so you can start off easy and try for a challenge when you feel up to it. The easiest is the "family" version, then there's rookie, veteran and hero. I will say that the full rules seem a little intimidating at first, but we found progressively adding the advanced rules instead of jumping straight into it made it easier. We played the "family" version the first couple times, then the next time we played with the randomized set up for the advanced game and the rules from the "family" version, next game we added the Specialists and Hazmats, then finally we tried a game with all the rules. I definitely recommend following a similar progression, it gave me a chance to get familiar with a few rules at a time instead of all at once. Now I feel comfortable explaining the full rules to a new group of players. One note about this game's kid friendliness: My 5 year old can't quite grasp the strategies involved, but he loves the firefighter figures that come with the game. I'd say this game is good for ages 7 and up. Overall, I like this game because it offers a great mix of strategy and excitement. No one we've played it with so far has said anything bad about it. After playing through 6 times, the only thing I can think to complain about is that there are a lot of different pieces to keep sorted. For now I've put everything in ziploc bags, but I'm thinking about buying a small, clear plastic tacklebox to keep it all sorted. A nice bonus that surprised me is that the board is actually double-sided, you can play on either side.

Super jeu en mode coopératif, dont la mécanique de propagation du feu est très bien réalisée. Attention version anglaise mais on trouve sur le Web la traduction des règles en français. Une fois que l'on a assimilé les règles le jeu peut aller très très vite et on peut enchainer les parties.

Si te gustan los juegos cooperativos, éste es para tí. Si ya has jugado board games modernos, verás que Flash Point! (o Al rescate!) es un pandemia pero con bomberos. Tu objetivo es rescatar 7 personas/animales de una casa en llamas antes de que la estructura colapse o mueran 4 víctimas. Es un juego de acciones por turno, que puede ser jugado con reglas simples o un poco más avanzada, donde cada personaje tiene habilidades distintas. En cada turno, tú puedes mover a tu personaje, romper la pared, tratar de ir sacando del edificio a las personas y extinguiendo el fuego. Cada turno también avanzará el fuego, que puede ponerse en la forma de humo, hasta en llamarada, que estallará puertas y paredes de la construcción. Altamente recomendable, ya que es de los cooperativos donde puedes jugar hasta con 5 jugadores más (2-6 jugadores) y tiene dos tableros.