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The hit Nintendo DS surgical simulator comes to Nintendo's new home console in this remake (or 'Wii-make') with vastly updated graphics, a second playable character, a new sixth chapter and new instruments to wield - this time with the Wii controllers
In Trauma Center: Second Opinion you take the role of rookie doctor Derek Stiles - a young surgeon with the extraordinary 'Healing Touch' ability - as he is enlisted into the secret Caduceus organisation to combat a deadly new disease
In the DS version you used the touch screen and stylus to perform surgical procedures but in this Wii version you can get totally hands-on by using the motion sensitive Wii Remote and Nunchuk
Editorial Review:
The hit Nintendo DS surgical simulator comes to Nintendo's new home console in this remake (or 'Wii-make') with vastly updated graphics, a second playable character, a new sixth chapter and new instruments to wield - this time with the Wii controllers. In Trauma Center: Second Opinion you take the role of rookie doctor Derek Stiles - a young surgeon with the extraordinary 'Healing Touch' ability - as he is enlisted into the secret Caduceus organisation to combat a deadly new disease. In the DS version you used the touch screen and stylus to perform surgical procedures but in this Wii version you can get totally hands-on by using the motion sensitive Wii Remote and Nunchuk.
In a nutshell: Now everyone can be a brain surgeon as you pick up scalpel and forceps to battle the full horrors of an infected intestine, medical terrorism and angry anime nurses!
The lowdown: The original Trauma Center is already one of the most original and fun games on the Nintendo DS but although this is largely just a remake of that game it's more than welcome on the Wii. As accurate a simulation of real medicine as Phoenix Wright is of law (i.e. not very much) you'll nevertheless have great fun repairing hapless patients with ailments that start of as simple tumours to bizarre fights against evil terrorist nanobots. What really makes the game though is the simple intuitiveness of the controls, with the precise movement of your scalpel being one of the best endorsements of the Wii Remote's accuracy. The game's no push over though and you'll need to employ the mysterious bullet time style "healing touch" to make sure you don't end up the Doctor Death of Hope Hospital.
Most exciting moment: Although the game is a remake of the DS it does include several new missions, an extra playable character, new operation types and new surgical tools - including a defibrillator which demands a shout of "clear!" every time you use it.
Since you ask: A surgery game was one of the first styles of games hinted at in an introductory video for the Wii, which also showed people appearing to play games involving fishing, cooking and playing the drums - amongst other non-typical games concepts.
The bottom line: Major surgery has never been so much fun as the Wii and DS line-up combine.-HARRISON DENT
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Its flatlining.... I tried to love this, I really did. The story is annoying, there is no proper spoken dialogue, you have to read it all. Its not so bad at first, but after a while you find yourself skipping through this and as a result its easy to get lost in terms of the story. In terms of gameplay, the first few levels are really good - pulling shards of glass from someones arm, fixing broken bones and even doing an organ transplant!! However, this mysterious "Guilt" virus appears and you spend all your time... more info
Disappointing Surgical procedures are OK but the whole game looks like a leftover from the 70s, surely it could have been less linear and use real characters instead of cardboard cut outs?
Better than the DS version I found the DS version of this game REALLY hard and was disappointed and frustrated when i got stuck on a certain level! it was a shame because i liked the concept of the game. So i was in two minds about buying the Wii version especially as it seemed pretty much the same story etc as the DS one. But it was on sale so i thought go on then i'll give it another chance. I must admit i was intrigued to see how the Wii remote was going to be used. I am pleased to report i was very glad i gave it a... more info
POSSIBLY THE BEST WII GAME EVER MADE This game is amazing!
Slicing up and operateing on people its ace
Fab graphics,
easy and hard levels!
Really good and well planned body parts an equiptmesnt
5 STAR *****
