Some things like the bioterror “illness” in the game stray into being far-fetched, but the story does stick to a serious tone. Each surgery is preceded by a bit of story, usually about the patient. In Trauma Center: Second Opinion you play as the rookie surgeon Derek Stiles. It makes me want to scrub up and pick up the Wii controls like the surgeon I’m trying to be. I even look forward to the dramatic “something really bad has happened” music (you’ll know it when you hear it). I especially like the piano theme during episode selection. You’ll probably be repeating some surgeries many times before you beat them, but the music doesn’t become bothersome. The music is surprisingly one of Trauma Center: SO’s high notes. One very good thing is that they aren’t repetitive enough to get annoying. These are things like the nurse cautioning you by saying, “careful” or chiding you with a concerned “Doctor!” They’re actually well done, and help maintain the atmosphere of an operating room, albeit a very dramatic one. Trauma Center: SO also has small voice snippets like the DS version had. I found this to be acceptable, but it doesn’t serve to help the Wii’s reputation as the visually underpowered system in the next-gen war. They aren’t animated, but they do change expressions to go along with the text. It may be all the better for the squeamish out there.ĭuring the story scenes, you’ll see similar anime-style characters to those that were in the DS version of this game. All the wet and messy stuff you’d expect to see inside the human body is toned down and simplified. Basically you’ll see the major organ you’re working on set against a foggy background. Sure there’s a bit of blood, but it’s represented as a red, cloudy substance. Actually, it’s a rehash of the DS game Trauma Center: Under the Knife, but more on that later.ĭon’t expect lifelike realism from Trauma Center: SO. why arent there more games where you play a doctor? Why wasn't this game more popular? Has anyone else played it? Have I intrigued anyone? I don't know I love this game.Trauma Center: Second Opinion is a surgery simulation game infused with a bit of dramatic story. As someone with no actual medical knowledge whatsoever - holy sh*t those are frustrating!) I just really love how the game doesn't talk down to you and how well it uses the design and motion controls and even the speaker in the wii-mote and just. (Side note: They use actual pictures of MRI scans and expect you to actually find abnormalities on them by comparing them to a normal one for reference. Both the coroner and diagnosticians bits are slow paced investigative digging - the coroners bit is basically a detective story, while the diagnostician has you going through diagnostics, the patients statements, and various CT and MRI scans to collect symptoms that point to a diagnosis. The endoscopic surgeon is the most slow and precise, while the EMS person gets the most fast paced and frantic missions. You also play an emergency medical responder (she's my favourite), an orthopedic surgeon, an endoscopic surgeon, a diagnostician, and a coroner. For those who haven't, I personally find him the second most fun to play with, with a good balance of frantic pace and precision. One is a general surgeon - if you've played the previous games in the series, he uses the exact mechanics of the previous games so he'll be the most familiar mode. Trauma Team is about playing five different doctors in a hospital and each mode is one of their expertise. That being said, I don't reccommend playing Trauma Center first, as the difficulty level was dropped for Trauma Team and only two of the characters are recurring (and you really don't need to know much about them that isn't told in the game, they're quite fleshed out as it is. Trauma Team is the final (so far) game in a series, the previous game being called Trauma Center. I have to gush about this game somewhere, and those of us on patient gamers are the only ones who seem to really play much wii anymore, so I want to gush about one of my favourite wii games for a while.
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