Turn your living room into an O.R.!
The patient's lives is in your hands!

The Trauma Center (series) is a very original type. There's been games, like Mario, Super Smash Brothers, but Nintendo and Atlus can think outside of the box. Thus, Trauma Center was born. Trauma Center, is an oparating game. Yes, a hospital surgeon simulator. It first started off as a DS game, using the touch screen. Now Nintendo has ported it over, to the Wii, taking use of all it's abilities. Take Wii Remote in hand, to save a patient's life.

You play as the new young rookie Doctor, Derek Stiles. Your assistant, Angie Blackwell, helps you through the operations. That's what this game is. Operating on patients, and viewing cutscenes, but no. The operations are all different. One may deal with a certain disease, and another operation, another disease. The operations are not at all easy. Pulses, timers, stress, wow that makes it a whole lot easier, no?

Controls are basic, and easy to break in. Aiming with the Wii Remote creates a simple dot, of you cursor. To switch tools, you press in the direction of the tool, ex. I want the knife, so I move the analog stick left. Some tools may require more precision, like the suture, which requires a zig-zag pattern. Other tools, such as the laser, scalpel and ultrasound/magnification require holding or pressing the A Button. The forceps need to be very calm, as you slowly drag whatever wherever. Z and B buttons are used in rare cases, defibrillator, HT, etc.


You have sorts of tools, to use in your army of medicine! The Scalpel, which you use to cut and slice organs/skin/viruses. The Antibiotic Gel, which you use to treat smaller wounds, and slow down viruses. The Drain, to remove excess blood, and get fluids. The Forceps, to grasp anything needed. The Laser, to burn away tumors. The Suture, for stitching. The Ultrasound/Magnifier to view hidden things, and the syringe, to inject chemicals. But there's one more tool, to really add to this game.

The Healing Touch, is where this game gets very interestiing. After discovering this add on later in the game, you activate it, and time will slow down. This little tool gives you complete focus. Yes, time will be "slowed down" and you can work faster, and do the impossible, to help save your patient's life. But this tool comes at a price. You can only use it once per operation. That means you're going to have to take a gamble, on what is the most difficult situation, otherwise, death. This tool adds much more fun, and excitement to this game.

The game is based off a disease called G.U.I.L.T. Guilt is a very dangerous illness. And, it usually kills patients. Luckily hospitals have you! This new medical terrorist project, has seven, yes seven strains. Each strain has its own offense, its own defense, and its own unique way to destroy it, wether it be by inject chemicals, using the laser, or other tools. Guilt gets more aggressive, and uncontrollable. Luckily, the healing touch is available.


Who said sequels can't have any new characters? Not this game. Meet Dr. Naomi Weaver, or Dr Kimishima. She also has the healing touch. She has a very few set of missions for you to play, that were specifically designed for Wii System and Remote. Her missions are independent, and have their own storyline to them. One of Kimishima's operations involves using the Wii Remote to twist around and piece together bone fragments, which gets very annoying, or operating in the dark, with a pen light, for... light!
Operations all are different, and sometimes make you think (when the lazy "nurse" won't give clear directions) about what to do. Some missions may jam pack 5 operations into one, with a limited time amount, and you must save them all. Some involve treat multiple areas, and some even involve using 2 doctors, to fight off the Guilt. The operations by far, alone, are great. But controlling it with the Remote, is just genius!


The graphics in this game are truly special. So much detail has been put into it, and so much has come out. The graphics are one of the major improvements in this game, compared to the DS Version. Each organ, tissue, whatever, has its own image to it. Its own color, a sort of pulsated look, or even a sort of, mist trail, of the object. The organs, body, and little disease on the tissue, are all designed with great thought, and great detail. These graphics, took my breathe away, and they will with yours too.

Yes, the gameplay looks nice, but, the cutscenes are a little lacking. The cutscenes are just simple characters, and dialouge, with sound and a background. The actual characters, are anime, 2-D people. The cutscenes don't have full length, motion theatre picture, but, they have a cute appearance. Don't think that's bad! Atlus and Nintendo have really thought of it, and put great amounts of detail into it. Plus, the characters should be made in an anime appearance, because that is a sort of a Trauma Center thing.

Smaller things like text and icons, both have a great look to them, as well, but I shouldn't need to go into this too far, should I? Bigger things like backgrounds are really detailed, as well as 3-D, making them look realistic. Other fun things like starting missions, have a light refrected appearance. These things really add up, and make this game look more beautiful.


Sound is another good-bad-good-bad part of this game. The operation's music may vary, and go along nicely, such as a rushed, loud type of music, for a hard operation. You get a good variety of music for each genre of operations. Each operation has very little voice acting, Such as "Doctor!!" or "Good Job." But they are decent. Cutscenes have no voices, or very little, at least. The sounds in cutscenes are realistic, consisting of footsteps, a crash or two, or others.

Sounds in operations, are good. Yes, I stated that already, but, it's not just the background music. The noises, that make operations (more) intense, are things like: the beating of the heart, tools being used, Guilt attacking, etc. The beating of the heart, gives you a constant reminder, of when the patient is near death. Tools are just a fun and neat add on, which...are cute! The guilt attacking, can make various noises. It can make tearing noises, to note the organ tissue being torn, or webs being spun.


Now, for the replay value. No, when you beat the game, you don't get a "Great Job!" sign, sparkling lights, a beautiful cutscene, or anything. More missions are unlockded, called the X Missions. X Missions, are extremely hard missions. That's wht is so special at the end. The actual replay of this game, is nothing to be amused about. All it is, is to redo your missions, to get the rare XS or S Rank. Oh well, at least you can brag about it to your friends.

Overall, this game is fun, genius, and creative. If you're looking for another fun game, buy this. Trauma Center Second Opinion, needs, no Second Opinion.


5/5 For gameplay that will always keep you entertained.
5/5 For graphics that have improved and made beautiful.
3/5 For sounds that are realistic, but with very little voice acting.
4/5 For replay that lets you re visit all the old missions, but with nothing more.