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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

First off, this game is fun. It's addictive. It's challenging but not so hard that you want to give up. The story lines are entertaining, the game play is great. This is my first game for the Wii besides Sports and Play, and I can't get enough.

Fun game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game was really challenging and the surgery is fun. Obviously it's completely unrealistic, but that doesn't mean it's bad. It was more fun operating on fake diseases because of the difficulty involved. Once you get the hang of it and beat the game, you can still play it on the different easy, medium, and hard levels. Plus it unlocks extra surgeries for you. I liked this game on the Nintendo DS and the Wii format is perfect for "Trauma Center." Now if we can only get "Ace Attorney" on here...

Great game but not for everyone

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

First of all, this game is VERY unique and I love that about it. However, lots of people will hate that because they only like what they consider "tried and true." If you're willing to broaden your horizons and learn something pretty new, I would recommend giving this one a try. There are 3 skills that this game relies on, and without all 3 you will never do well at it. They are speed, precision, and the ability to remember and follow procedure. These are, of course, the most important skills for a real surgeon to have, but that is the only way in which this game bears resemblance to reality. Do not expect to learn anything from this game because if you do, it's probably false anyway.

The cons: Graphics fall short, even during the surgery. Way too much ridiculous and uninteresting "plot," but you can skip it so it's not a big deal. Animations are replaced with funny anime still shots so the characters never actually move. People who are lacking in any of the 3 skills I mentioned will just get frustrated and probably give up long before the game is finished.

But I did not get this game for the story line and the animations... I got this game because it's something different from what we are used to and it becomes a lot of fun to play when you get it down. It's also a trip to watch... injecting self-replicating tumors with seemingly magical anti-inflammatory, cutting them out with your scalpel, removing them and placing them in the tray with your forceps, draining the blood from the area, patching up the big hole you just left in your patient's lung... AWESOME!

Different...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 14
Date: December 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is different which basically sums it all up. The story-line is ridiculous (but with the tap of a button you can skip it), it's corny, and not all that entertaining.

Perhaps one who like Anime will find this game to be highly entertaining, but for the majority of people, pass on it, or at least rent it first.

The surgical procedures are challenging, and are somewhat interesting, but the game as a whole isn't entertaining.

His vitals are dropping... I need more time... Don't die on me...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: January 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is hard and challanging. Sometimes I have to take a break or i trip overthings in my living room to do persedures. But, over all, if it wasn't hard, it wouldent be fun. I do think it needs to be harder. I say that because even if you change the level of difficulty, you can still make the worst stitch and get a "cool". I enjoy playing this game and suggest this game to KIDS and ADULTS who are into doctors. It has a few cuss words now and then, but if you ignore them your fine. The patiants are modest. The game has a story behind it and so do certain patiance... as Grey's Anatomy! The main part is a dissese called GUILT (Gangliated Utrophin Immuno Latency Toxin) has been relesed unto socioty. GUILT is a man-mad virus. Thanks for reading my review and... Uh-oh! I've gotta go! We've got a patient with GUILT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Story presentation is dated. Controls are innovative. Repetitive gameplay.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: November 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is fun but it's very old fashioned in the way its story is presented (text). I got tired of reading all the BS really quickly.

The operating part is fun. The controls (with wii-mote) are very intuitive. It's very difficult to do a perfect operation. Especially with the nurses interrupting you at opportune times and requiring you to acknowledge their text by pressing the A button (in the middle of open heart surgery, for crying out loud). I DID enjoy using the defibbrilator paddles but it gets old after a while.

One thing they really did right is the quickness of the cursor on the screen tracking your hand movements. I had no idea the wii-mote was that precise but this game will really showcase that. It's VERY precise. Even the cursor in the Wii-menu seems to move slower than when you're using hte scalpel in this game --- so I was impressed.

Other than that, I think this game is getting kind of boring and I don't really want to play it anymore. The graphics are pretty blah. The sound is repetitive (reminds me of the old days of video games where they recycled songs between scenes --- think StreetFighter2 between matches).

I'm stuck on a surgery right now. I'm not sure if I'm willing to try again or just give up on the game and sell it used. That's sort of how I feel about the game and why I gave it 3 stars. I would have given it 2.5 if I could. It's just so-so.

Final words: "Nice to play once but not something you're gonna pick up in 2 years and say 'Hey I want to pass this game again'"

A Rental - Dialog heavy

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: February 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

In short-- The surgery is fun. However, the BABBLING is Awful. It can takes minutes to click through the screens you arent even reading. After three hours of playing I eventually handled like 5 or 6 surgerys. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME. They even interupt you with dialog during surgery causing you to make mistakes. Rent for the novelty but dont waste your money.

Awful

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: June 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The surgery parts of this game are fun, albeit really cheesy at times. I wanna perform real situational surgeries, not terrorist bugs things in the patient's body...The storyline in between operations is especially cheesy and annoying. I ended up just punching the button a million times to fly through it and get to the next operation. And during surgery, the obnoxious nurse talks your ear off, frequently interrupting mid-procedure to talk about it. You get a good flow going and she stops you to talk for a few moments. Not to mention, if the stats fall too low, she says there's a problem when it's too late. They die immediately after she says it. Good nurse...waiting so long to say anything. Overall, I'm glad I just borrowed it, and didn't waste money on it. The surgeries are relatively fun but the stories, the music, and constant interruptions are too annoying to make this game enjoyable.

Disappointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 15
Date: January 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The plot was boring and tedious. If you could skip past it, it wouldnt so bad, but every time you kill a patient, you have to endure the dialogue again and skip past endless screens just to try again. The gameplay was awkward and confusing at times. No instructions within the game, and I'm too lazy to read the booklet, so the learning was trial and error, and it was not intuitive.

Amazingly Fun and Interactive.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I think that so far, other then Wii Sports, Trauma Center: Second Opinion is the best showcase of using the Wii system to it's potential. The innovative ways of controlling all of the operating tools makes you feel like you're really in the intense environment of a operating room. There's a good deal of difficulty and a bit of a learning curve, but that just adds to the experience. It also includes a very involved and great storyling that makes you feel a real connection to the characters in the world. I highly reccomend this title to anyone willing to try something different, yet still wholy amazing!

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