![]() ![]() You choose your surgical tools with the Nunchuk - scalpel, laser, forceps, ultrasound, et cetera - and operate them with the remote. ![]() Instead there's brain surgery, replacing pacemakers, skin grafting, organ transplanting and a huge variety of other, slightly more medically believable tasks.Ĭontrol-wise, it's exactly the same. The variety in the operations is still brilliant, but they're a bit less mad than before there's no operating on aeroplanes or dismantling bombs here, and much less killing of mutant viruses with lasers. Think the bonus operations from New Blood, and then fill the entire game with equally ingenious and precise control. Although you'll often be repeating the basic slicing and dicing found in Second Opinion, in general the operations are more specifically tuned to the Wii's special twisting and turning capabilities. All of them are designed for either one or two doctors, as New Blood can be played co-operatively. New Blood is a completely original title with a full complement of around fifty operations, unlike Second Opinion, which took the majority of its content from the DS Trauma Center. Suturing the muscle tissue? What happened to operating on bombs? Instead of mad Japanese sci-fi nonsense, this time around you spend a good eighty percent of your time doing operations that might conceivably be performed in real life - albeit with Trauma Center's trademark magic healing gel, giant shards of glass hidden in organs and implanted microchips in the brain. Where Second Opinion had the slightly incompetent Dr Derek Stiles with his invariable arm-outstretched pledge of 'I won't let you die!', New Blood has two coolly professional, gifted doctors who start the game working out in Alaska to get away from the pressures of their own talent (or something). More than the title sequence, the whole game has taken a turn for the serious in New Blood. It makes me laugh out loud every time I see it. The opening sequence is so similar to House's opening credits that it borders on plagiarism - right down to the music, fading-in-and-out medical diagrams, even the fonts. ![]() I mention this because I'd bet very good money that somebody closely involved with Trauma Center: New Blood has developed as much of an affection for this series as I have over the past year or two. It's a bit like a murder mystery, except the murderers are all ridiculously obscure and unlikely diseases and the chief detective is a sardonic bastard of a genius with a limp and some excellent one-liners. If you haven't seen this medical drama series, by the way, then go out and buy Season One right this second. As I write this, the third season of House is playing in the background. ![]()
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