112 Operator (2020)

• Playtime: 4 hours

• Played: 2025

• Expectation: Marked as "not interested" (see conclusion)

Intro

In the sequel to 911 Operator you now help people in Europe. You answer calls and have to say the right things, although there are sometimes no wrong choices at all. Incidents appear on a map and you send the correct units to deal with them. Between days you can move the default area, buy new equipment and hire new personnel.

The Good

• This may actually teach you some first aid knowledge.
• Some of the calls are interesting.
• Easy difficulty has fairly relaxed gameplay.

The Bad

• You're assigned a bunch of extra districts but you get no new vehicles/people and only just enough money to buy one firetruck.
• Quickly becomes repetitive.
• The first few days have a bunch of calls, after that you get 0-2 per day.
• AI Operators are slow and dumb.
• Bike/horse cops seem 100% useless.
• Employees have various stats but you can't easily view those and they don't seem all that relevant.
• Equipment is only shown with microscopis icons.
• You can't change anything about units during the day (e.g. replace someone injured).
• I don't think you can see where you've assigned operators during the day.

The Ugly

• During the game you tell someone to pull out a knife after being stabbed. That's the one thing you're not supposed to do, you will cut yourself more.

Conclusion

I only installed this to get the steam trading cards but i figured i would give it a try since it was already running. Also, i got some basic emergency response training for work so i figured it might be interesting to sort of use that. The game is kind of amusing for the first few hours because you actually get calls where you have to say the right things. After a few ingame days i only got repetitive basic incident report calls and it became boring.

Similar to its predecessor, 911 Operator, this game puts you in the emergency call operator's seat again and puts you in the work shift to handle incoming calls and dispatch personnel to handle various incidents. Do it right and in time and it will favour your career and the future circumstances you'll handle.

The campaign mode allows you to choose one of the select capital cities for the career you want to build on. There are story cases that come and go but a few that will last over days and builds some intrigue over what's happening in the city. However, once I've finished the campaign in one city, I've seen most of it all.

The neat feature that graced 911 was the map generator using actual GPS data to generate a city of your choice, even the city/town/village you're living in. I also enjoy this sober atmosphere that's relevant to the situations and treatment handling done in the real life, which is in fact educational.

In the end, 112 is sort of a 911 rehash with some new case variations and global-focused instead of being in the USA. I enjoyed it while it lasted but players new to the franchise are well-recommended to give this strategy simulator a try.

My feelings are very mixed about this game.

When I saw that it was being developed, I was excited. I wanted to see how they would improve from the first game and what new concepts they would introduce.

Nothing is the answer. Nothing is different except for a new looking UI and being able to hire your own dispatchers to manage districts for you so that you don't even have to do anything.

Having said that, this game is both simultaneously repetitive and stupidly addictive. Like, despite what I said above, I've still managed to sink in 12+ hours and I only got it yesterday.

If you enjoyed the first game, then you'll enjoy this one because it's essentially more of the same.