The surgical procedures are made more intense by a timer that ticks down instilling the feeling of panic that must be felt in emergency rooms up and down the country as you battle to heal or save the patient’s life and even though the pressure of the situation is helped when Dr. The game begins by performing simple procedures such as stitching small wounds and removing glass from the body of car crash victim to the more complicated procedures such as removing a tuma from a patient’s stomach it’s your swift, accurate responses and multi-tasking ability that allows you to successfully perform these actions on the patient. The innovative method of control means that even the slightest nervous twitch can result in a fatal error patients begin to lose blood at an alarming rate if you accidentally move the scalpel in the wrong direction. Trauma Center: Second Opinion just wouldn’t translate well to any other console, but using the clever control system does put you in the mindset of a doctor and you do feel the pressure and anxiety because each patient’s life or health relies totally on your co-ordination and steady hand.
The second game in the series is essentially a makeover of the original and using the Wii-mote and Nunchuck is a tense and entertaining experience that I wasn't quite expecting.
The first title in the series, Trauma Center: Under the Knife, had a successful debut on the Nintendo DS thanks to the stylus which helped to give the user the feeling of performing the operations for real as well as being an education insight into the world of medicine.
Trauma Center: Second Opinion consists of a number of levels where you rise up the ranks from a rookie doctor to a master surgeon carrying out more complicated operations as you advance in your career. The thought of performing operations on patients initially made me feel a little queasy (I mean I don’t even like watching Holby City), but making incisions with a scalpel, stitching up a wound and performing an ultrasound is far more entertaining than traumatic.Īt the House of Wii in London we had some quality hands-on time with Trauma Center: Second Opinion and out of all the playable games on show this was the title that was bottom of my list to play after all, a game that focuses on performing surgical procedures didn’t sound like much fun. This game is filled with difficult operations, new diseases, and, of.
In the North American version of the game, most of the characters' names are based on characters or the actors from medical based TV shows including Scrubs and House M.D. As expected, there are some new medical tools that can be used in the game, including a defibrillator, a penlight, and a flash camera. As aforementioned, the game is mostly used with the motion sensitive Wii Remote and Nunchuck remote, compared to the DS' stylus based control scheme. While the game contains all of the Nintendo DS game missions, it also includes some extra ones that can be unlocked near the end of the game. You must save the person before the time runs out, or they will die. The goal of the game is to work on a patient while at a hospital. It was a launch title for the console, and has generally received positive reviews. The first game, 'Trauma Center: Under the Knife' (entitled 'Caduceus: Surgical Operation' in Japan) was released for the Nintendo DS in 2005 and quickly became a sleeper hit and instant cult classic among players all over the world. Just like the original used the stylus throughout most of the game, this game uses the Wii Remote. Trauma Center is a cult hit videogame (now a videogame series, I suppose) designed by Atlus.
UPDATE-Confirmed for Wii, Trauma Center will be making it to home console according to poster at Nintendo booth. It is a remake, or as Atlus states, a "Wii-make", to the hit Touch Generation game Trauma Center: Under the Knife for the Nintendo DS, though most of the game, including graphics and game mechanics have totally been redesigned to fit the console. E3 06: Trauma Center gets second opinion. Meaning: Caduceus Z: Two Super Surgical Operations) is a game for the Wii. Romaji: Kadukeusu Zetto Futatsu no Chōshittō Trauma Center: Second Opinion ( JP Japanese: カドゥケウスZ 2つの超執刀