Monday, December 7, 2009

Trauma Centre review

Trauma centre

Game: Trauma Centre

Date released: 4th October

Developer: Atlus

Platform: Nintendo DS

Game Description: Players will be playing as Derek Stiles, a doctor of hope hospital who does surgery for patients. Players will use the touchscreen function of the DS to “operate” the patient. Tools and equipments include the ultrasound, Scalpel, syringe and many others. Players will also have 1 special ability, the Healing Touch which slows down time and allows the player to “operate” faster for a limited amount of time.

Gameplay: The lower screen of the DS is for the player to operate and also to show the patient’s body. The top screen will show the time left for the operation and also to display instructions. During the operation, players must make sure that the patient’s health does not fall to zero and complete the operation within the time limit. After each successful operation, the player’s score/rank will be shown and the score will be based on the accuracy of the operation.

Game Plot: The story is set to be in the year 2018 and a new man made disease known as GUILT was distributed by a medical terrorist organization called Delphi. It is at this point that Derek decides to embrace his ability and use it to end the threat of GUILT. Derek then managed to remove several strains of GUILT from several patients and finally track down Delphi leader, Adam, who is also heavily infected with GUILT. Derek operates on all the strains and managed to rid the world of GUILT. He then becomes well known as the man who saved the world.

Graphics: This game is in 2D and it’s similar to graphic novels. Thus, the graphics were mostly Drawings.

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Overall: This game is very addictive as it allows player to interact a lot with the touch screen function of the DS. The story is also good. However, most of the time player skips the dialogues as it’s too long winded.

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