One of the key titles ushering in Nintendo’s ‘New Ways To Play’ campaign, Trauma Centre: Under The Knife is set for release across Europe on 28th April 2006, Nintendo UK announced earlier today.
Trauma Centre, which SPOnG has had a quick hands-on with already, is pretty much like a modern day version of the classic electronic buzzin’ 70s board game Operation - except in one small detail, which is that it's around 100,000 times better than that rubbish old game which seems to be the most popular car boot sale item of the past decade. Along with Professor Kawashima's Brain Training and other innovative DS titles including Animal Crossing and Electroplankton, this is one of the titles Nintendo are hoping will appeal to the mass market of casual and traditionally non-gamers.
In Trauma Centre: Under The Knife you take on the role of rookie doctor Derek Stiles, guiding him through a series of operations in Hope Hospital, learning loads of new life-saving skills and talents along the way.
The gameplay is ingenious and simple – you carry out surgery using the touch-screen, which displays both the area of surgery and all the tools for the job including scalpels, tweezers, syringes, lasers and more. The user interface is kind of like a very basic Photoshop select box and drag mechanic and is surprisingly easy and fun to learn and play. The top displays vital hints and tips from colleagues, time remaining and the all-important number of mistakes made.
As the story develops it turns out that Dr Stiles is actually a ‘miracle doctor’ and possesses a gift known in medical circles as the 'Healing Touch', which allows him to slow down time and perform miracles. An awesome feature and one which makes this initially rather ordinary seeming game a surprisingly enjoyable and replayable gaming experience.
As the story continues and gets darker and weirder, Dr Stiles is asked to save the future of the entire human race by none other than the World Health Organisation. Stiles must combat and eradicate diseases such as GUILT (Gangliated Utophin Imuno Latency Toxin), a disease that is thought to be spread by a bunch of medical terrorists based in Africa.
Yes, that’s right kids. Nintendo has now given our already paranoid and terrorist-obsessed culture and new and even-more-frightening terror threat to contemplate. Somewhere in some medical labs deep in an African jungle there could well be a bunch of renegade Al Quaeda doctors, cooking up some new and as-yet-unimagined horror-diseases to eradicate us infidels over in Europe and the US. Just keep repeating to yourself: "it's only a silly game... it's only a silly game..."
Trauma Centre: Under The Knife goes on sale across Europe on 28th April 2006 at the estimated retail price of around £29.99.
Trauma Centre, which SPOnG has had a quick hands-on with already, is pretty much like a modern day version of the classic electronic buzzin’ 70s board game Operation - except in one small detail, which is that it's around 100,000 times better than that rubbish old game which seems to be the most popular car boot sale item of the past decade. Along with Professor Kawashima's Brain Training and other innovative DS titles including Animal Crossing and Electroplankton, this is one of the titles Nintendo are hoping will appeal to the mass market of casual and traditionally non-gamers.
In Trauma Centre: Under The Knife you take on the role of rookie doctor Derek Stiles, guiding him through a series of operations in Hope Hospital, learning loads of new life-saving skills and talents along the way.
The gameplay is ingenious and simple – you carry out surgery using the touch-screen, which displays both the area of surgery and all the tools for the job including scalpels, tweezers, syringes, lasers and more. The user interface is kind of like a very basic Photoshop select box and drag mechanic and is surprisingly easy and fun to learn and play. The top displays vital hints and tips from colleagues, time remaining and the all-important number of mistakes made.
As the story develops it turns out that Dr Stiles is actually a ‘miracle doctor’ and possesses a gift known in medical circles as the 'Healing Touch', which allows him to slow down time and perform miracles. An awesome feature and one which makes this initially rather ordinary seeming game a surprisingly enjoyable and replayable gaming experience.
As the story continues and gets darker and weirder, Dr Stiles is asked to save the future of the entire human race by none other than the World Health Organisation. Stiles must combat and eradicate diseases such as GUILT (Gangliated Utophin Imuno Latency Toxin), a disease that is thought to be spread by a bunch of medical terrorists based in Africa.
Yes, that’s right kids. Nintendo has now given our already paranoid and terrorist-obsessed culture and new and even-more-frightening terror threat to contemplate. Somewhere in some medical labs deep in an African jungle there could well be a bunch of renegade Al Quaeda doctors, cooking up some new and as-yet-unimagined horror-diseases to eradicate us infidels over in Europe and the US. Just keep repeating to yourself: "it's only a silly game... it's only a silly game..."
Trauma Centre: Under The Knife goes on sale across Europe on 28th April 2006 at the estimated retail price of around £29.99.
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Joji 20 Feb 2006 19:42
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Good lord, and about time too. Of all the most deserving DS games TC should have been out ages ago. Had my import copy for six months or so.
A highly recommended game and I pray it gets a sequel.
I just hope the advertising is good enough in europe for it. It deserves high sales.
A highly recommended game and I pray it gets a sequel.
I just hope the advertising is good enough in europe for it. It deserves high sales.