Rosco McQueen Firefighter Extreme

Rosco McQueen Firefighter Extreme
North American cover art
DeveloperSlippery Snake Studios
Publishers
PlatformPlayStation
Release
  • EU: September 1997
  • UK: November 1997[1]
  • NA: 28 October 1998[2]
GenreAction
ModeSingle-player

Rosco McQueen: Firefighter Extreme (simply titled Rosco McQueen in Europe) is an action-adventure video game developed by British company Slippery Snake Studios and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation.

Rosco McQueen, a firefighter, is the protagonist of the game and he is visible from a 3rd-person perspective. McQueen must stop the game's villain Sylvester T. Square and his robotic minions. The overall objective of the game is to put out all fires before the building burns down.

In the game, Rosco McQueen goes through 15 towering infernos, fighting fires along the way. During normal gameplay, McQueen puts out the fires with a hose attached to a carry-on waterpack and refills are gained by collecting water bottles. An axe is used to destroy robots, Deactivate Power Boxes, Activate switches and break down doors which hinder the path to the goal. The player must also watch out for the temperature: if it gets too hot, then the game ends.

Stephen McFarlane was the lead games designer for the project and also contributing to Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts later in his career.

Release

Rosco McQueen was released by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe in Europe during the Autumn of 1997. This release also included voice acting dubbed in German, French, Italian and Spanish, in addition to the original English dub.

The game was ported and published in Japan by SCEI under the name Fire Panic: Mac no Rescue Daisakusen (ファイヤーパニック 〜マックのレスキュー大作戦〜, Faiyā Panikku 〜Makku no Resukyū Daisakusen〜; lit. "Fire Panic: Mac's Epic Rescue Battle") on 30 July 1998 with its own Japanese dub, and Sony's subsidiary Psygnosis later released the game in North America on October 1998.

The Japanese version saw a digital re-release on the PlayStation Network on September 28, 2011, for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, and PlayStation Portable.[3]

Reception

The game received mixed reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings.[4] Josh Smith of GameSpot wrote in an early review that it "warrants a rental at best."[12] GamePro said of the game: "Conceptually cool, Rosco McQueen ultimately goes up in smoke."[15][b] Game Informer gave it a negative review nearly two months before the game was released Stateside.[10] In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of 27 out of 40.[9]

GameRevolution listed Roscoe McQueen as 16th on their list of the 50 Worst Game Names Ever.[16]

Notes

  1. ↑ Four critics of Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the game each a score of 2/10, 4/10, 4.5/10, and 5/10.
  2. ↑ GamePro gave the game 3/5 for graphics, 3.5/5 for sound, and two 1.5/5 scores for control and fun factor in an early review.

References

  1. 1 2 "Rosco McQueen". Official UK PlayStation Magazine. No. 27. Future Publishing. 25 December 1997. p. 126.
  2. ↑ "Psygnosis Ships Roscoe McQueen". PSX Nation. Katastrophe Publishing. 28 October 1998. Archived from the original on 25 February 2001. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
  3. ↑ Inc, Aetas. "PlayStation Storeの9月28日付け最新情報。好評を博したPSP版「ゴッド・オブ・ウォー」のHDリマスター版や，待望の「英雄伝説 碧の軌跡」などが登場". 4Gamer.net (in Japanese). Retrieved 27 June 2026. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  4. 1 2 "Rosco McQueen: Firefighter Extreme for PlayStation". GameRankings. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on 1 May 2019. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  5. ↑ Ham, Tom (10 November 1998). "Roscoe McQueen: [sic] Firefighter Extreme". Gamecenter. CNET. Archived from the original on 16 August 2000. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  6. ↑ Gia; Switch (October 1997). "Rosco McQueen". Consoles + (in French). No. 69. pp. 106–7.
  7. ↑ Hsu, Dan; Boyer, Crispin; Davison, John; Smith, Shawn (October 1998). "Rosco McQueen [Firefighter Extreme]" (PDF). Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 111. Ziff Davis. p. 266. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 November 2022. Retrieved 30 January 2025.
  8. ↑ Grant, Jules (26 November 1998). "Roscoe McQueen: Firefighter Extreme". The Electric Playground. Greedy Productions Ltd. Archived from the original on 5 July 2003. Retrieved 30 January 2025.
  9. 1 2 "ファイヤーパニック 〜マックのレスキュー大作戦〜 [PS]". Famitsu (in Japanese). Enterbrain. Archived from the original on 30 June 2019. Retrieved 30 January 2025.
  10. 1 2 "Rosco McQueen [Firefighter Extreme] [JP Import]". Game Informer. No. 65. FuncoLand. September 1998. p. 65. Archived from the original on 21 September 1999. Retrieved 30 January 2025.
  11. ↑ Cooke, Mark (March 1999). "Rosco McQueen: Firefighter Extreme Review". GameRevolution. CraveOnline. Archived from the original on 11 September 2015. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  12. 1 2 Smith, Josh (10 September 1998). "Roscoe McQueen: Firefighter Extreme Review [date mislabeled as "May 2, 2000"] [Japan Import]". GameSpot. Fandom. Archived from the original on 20 March 2005. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  13. ↑ Fish, Eliot (November 1997). "Rosco McQueen". Hyper. No. 49. Next Media Pty Ltd. pp. 66–67. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  14. ↑ Perry, Douglass C. (2 November 1998). "Rosco McQueen Firefighter Extreme". IGN. Ziff Davis. Archived from the original on 19 August 2023. Retrieved 30 January 2025.
  15. ↑ Boba Fatt (October 1998). "Rosco McQueen Firefighter Extreme". GamePro. No. 121. IDG. p. 176. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  16. ↑ Ferris, Duke (12 June 2006). "The 50 Worst Game Names Ever". GameRevolution. CraveOnline. Archived from the original on 16 February 2007. Retrieved 30 January 2025.
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