231:. However, in Fire Blade, the player is forced to be far less cautious unless on a stealth mission and is usually pitted against far larger numbers of enemies. The main element of the game is aggressively piloting the player's attack helicopters against large enemy armored formations and completing the main mission objectives, these vary in creativity from simply blowing up a bridge to aiding a special forces team in stopping a train by parking a truck across the tracks and stopping enemy troops from moving it.
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910:"Fire Blade Review (PS2)"
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959:on February 17, 2005
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736:on November 16, 2014
204:released in 2002 by
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852:on February 6, 2005
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1113:"Fireblade (PS2)"
1079:. Vol. 165.
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799:"Fireblade (PS2)"
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1224:Metacritic
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271:Aggregator
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