Monte Cristo have clearly gone to a lot of effort to produce natural and realistic fire dynamics. The system was apparently developed in conjunction with actual fire fighters, and the game uses a very sophisticated fire model to faithfully recreate the behaviour of fire. Once an object has ignited, the spread and intensity of the flames are determined by many factors - wind can change the direction of a fire, increasing its intensity and spread, while landscape can increase or hamper a fire. Smoke is also an enemy. Moving much quicker than the fire, it often is the first indication of a much greater threat