Emergency 2012: The Quest for Peace, the fifth Emergency game
Emergency 2012: The Quest for Peace is a PC rescue strategy game by Quadriga Games, published by Deep Silver, in which the player directs fire, police and medical crews in major disasters.
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What Emergency 2012 is
Emergency 2012: The Quest for Peace, also called Emergency 2012, is the fifth installment of a German series of rescue simulations. The earlier games are Emergency: Fighters for Life, Emergency 2: The Ultimate Fight for Life, Emergency 3: Mission Life and Emergency 4: Global Fighters for Life. The first part appeared in 1998. Quadriga Games of Potsdam-Babelsberg developed the fifth, and Deep Silver of Planegg near Munich published it in Europe. Ralph Stock, CEO of Quadriga Games, is named as the inventor of the series.
At announcement the publisher planned a European release for October 22, 2010 and a North American release for January 5, 2011. Deep Silver's marketing director described the series as an established brand with a loyal following and a mix of real-time strategy and rescue simulation.
How it plays
In Emergency 2012: The Quest for Peace the player acts as a dispatcher and officer in charge. The task is to get a wrecked car out of the way quickly, send firefighters to the source of a blaze, secure a crash site and bring medical help to the injured, all at once and with police, technical relief units and medics under one command. Vehicles and people have to be in the right place at the right time, and the game uses specialists such as rescue dog handlers when a disaster has to be brought under control.
The campaign of Emergency 2012: The Quest for Peace sets its disasters in European cities. An unprecedented heat wave cripples Berlin, and riots and looting follow a devastating storm in Paris. Later missions include earthquakes, tsunamis and category 5 hurricanes. The fleet ranges from rescue helicopters and tow trucks to fire engines with turntable ladders, and surveillance drones were introduced as a new feature. The developers also reworked lighting, shader effects and particle systems so that fires flare up and emergency lights flash realistically.
What is true today
The game's promotional site, e2012.deepsilver.com, shows no page that could be read in November 2026. Deep Silver's current website lists other titles, such as Metro 2039 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, and does not list Emergency 2012.
The Quadriga Games address, quadrigagames.com, now forwards to a page of Promotion Software. That page presents Sixteen Tons Entertainment and its EMERGENCY series, and also Serious Games Solutions Beyond Bytes, a company for game-based learning systems. No page was found that offers Emergency 2012 itself, so the game is recorded as not confirmed.
Questions and answers
Who made Emergency 2012?
Quadriga Games developed it and Deep Silver published it. It is the fifth game of the Emergency series, which began in 1998.
What do you do in Emergency 2012?
You command fire services, police, technical relief and medics as the officer in charge, using real-time strategy to clear accidents, fight fires and rescue victims in disaster scenarios.
Is Emergency 2012 still available?
That could not be confirmed. The original promotional page shows no readable content in November 2026, and Deep Silver's current game list does not include it.