Recovery Search & Rescue Simulation
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Recovery Search & Rescue Simulation is a single-player mission based game set in a wilderness park. In this game the player takes the part of a park ranger and they undertake missions around the park. In the early missions they are a trainee ranger but as they progress through the game they become a full ranger and the missions become more complex.
There are three levels of difficulty and fifty or so missions in this game. Most missions involve going into the park to find objects, early missions involve finding litter left by tourists, a boy's lucky cap and an antique pocket watch while later missions involve finding missing tourists and snakes that escaped from a crashed plane. Initially the player can only play mission one as all the other missions are locked. Once mission one has been played, or attempted, mission two is unlocked and so-on. All missions are timed and some missions take place at night time. The player walks or runs around the park but for long distances they use the S.A.R. bike. When the player locates an injured hiker they use their radio to call in a helicopter for evacuation, however the player does not get to fly the chopper.
The game is keyboard controlled but can also be played using the keyboard to move and the mouse to navigate, it can be played in a window or in full screen mode. The game also included a mission editor and when it was released Excalibur's website had official missions to download together with a place where players could upload their missions for others to download and play.
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Downloadable missions
When the game was first released Excalibur publishing made two extra missions available for download, they also provided an area where players could upload and share their own custom missions. The above link is for an archived version of that web page, the downloadable zip files are no longer available. The two extra missions are detailed below: Name: Alone in the Dark Difficulty: Medium Description: Alone in the Dark is a frightening mission where you must help a young girl who has become lost in the park. Grab your night vision goggles and torch because its going to be a dark ride through the woods. Name: Halloween Mission Pack Difficulty: Medium Description: The Halloween Mission Pack adds 5 new missions to Recovery: Search and Rescue Simulation. Wolves, night time terrors and a crashed hand glider are just some challenges which you will face in this set of missions. I hope you're not scared of the dark, if you are, make sure you are carrying a torch.
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Game added May 19, 2017. Last modified February 22, 2023.