Got this on friday from a mate who had just got back from Canada. Been spending as much time as possible with it over the weekend.
First up, it is aestheically much the same as the first DS game with a few of the pretty graphical flourishes from the Wii games thrown in. There is quite a nice intro too, with flickering graphic effects and Casualty goes jazz soundtrack. There is a lot more speech this time, albeit in short bursts like "Use the antibiotic gel!". The characters from the first game all make welcome appearances, and there is a new trainee doctor - a bloke who looks like Corrine Bailey Rae - to get to know too.
The action kicks off three years after the first Trauma Center in the fictional African country of Costigar - which sounds like a low rent supermarket chain but is in fact a war torn state desperately in need of health care. Stilesy and his nurse sidekick are there helping people hurt in attacks by guerrilla militants types. The action then moves back to Caducieus HQ and zips all over the place as the bonkers story unfolds.
The gameplay is mucht the same as the first game in the series, however there are a few new surgical tools - an air compressor (used to
- don't ask) and the defibrulator which was present on the Wii but not the DS.
The game is freaking difficult in the extreme. I am only about a third into it and stuck like buggery on one particular operation. That said I know it will be do-able, I just need to keep practising. The just one more go factor means you will love this if you loved the first game, I for one am looking forward to seeing where the plot goes, and operating on some of these crazy new
p.s I can't upload any pics of the box at present (unless Buster comes round with his laptop again). But the boxart is generic Trauma Center and could just as easily be the box from the first!!!
First up, it is aestheically much the same as the first DS game with a few of the pretty graphical flourishes from the Wii games thrown in. There is quite a nice intro too, with flickering graphic effects and Casualty goes jazz soundtrack. There is a lot more speech this time, albeit in short bursts like "Use the antibiotic gel!". The characters from the first game all make welcome appearances, and there is a new trainee doctor - a bloke who looks like Corrine Bailey Rae - to get to know too.
The action kicks off three years after the first Trauma Center in the fictional African country of Costigar - which sounds like a low rent supermarket chain but is in fact a war torn state desperately in need of health care. Stilesy and his nurse sidekick are there helping people hurt in attacks by guerrilla militants types. The action then moves back to Caducieus HQ and zips all over the place as the bonkers story unfolds.
The gameplay is mucht the same as the first game in the series, however there are a few new surgical tools - an air compressor (used to
- don't ask) and the defibrulator which was present on the Wii but not the DS.
The game is freaking difficult in the extreme. I am only about a third into it and stuck like buggery on one particular operation. That said I know it will be do-able, I just need to keep practising. The just one more go factor means you will love this if you loved the first game, I for one am looking forward to seeing where the plot goes, and operating on some of these crazy new
p.s I can't upload any pics of the box at present (unless Buster comes round with his laptop again). But the boxart is generic Trauma Center and could just as easily be the box from the first!!!
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