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As with all the best disaster epics, Day of Crisis puts our square-jawed hero - in this case former US marine and International Rescue Team member Raymond Bryce - into the path of a series of natural disasters that escalate as the day wears on.
There are familiar elements in this game that we've already seen numerous times before, in such movies as Dante's Peak, The Day After Tomorrow and Die Hard. The story in Disaster: Day of Crisis is just as highly cliched as those movies, but the good thing is that you're placed in the middle of the action where your decisions dictate who lives and who dies.
We first meet our irritatingly buff hero Ray on the slopes of Mount Aguilas, where a supposedly dormant volcano erupts and downs Ray's rescue chopper. Ray's rescue partner Steve falls to his death and much like Stallone in Cliffhanger, the big guy decides to quit the rescue business out of guilt.
A year later, Ray is called in by the FBI to help find Steve's little sister Lisa, who was 'coincidentally' kidnapped along with her employer Dr. Hewitt; a prominent seismologist. It seems a terrorist organisation named SURGE, made up of rogue special forces soldiers, are behind the kidnapping. And it gets worse: two nukes are now in their possession. It's up to poor old Ray to save the world all on his lonesome.
You learn the basic controls for Ray such as jumping, turning the camera to study things and running in the Mount Aguilas prologue/tutorial. Ray is a physical being - in other words, he isn't indestructible - so you need to keep watch of his stamina and health levels, as well as keeping his lungs clear of smoke. Sometimes fire will block Ray's path, in which case he'll need to run and jump through it and then put out the flames on the other side (you perform this action by shaking the nunchuk/remote).