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Trauma Center: Under the Knife (Nintendo DS) | 
 enlarge | From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
List Price: £29.99
Buy Used: £21.00
You Save: £8.99 (30%)
Used (2) from £21.00
Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 1895
Platform: Nintendo Ds
Genre: simulation-games
Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 11 - 18 years
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.7 x 0.8
MPN: 1823690
UPC: 045496462642
EAN: 0045496462642
ASIN: B000EOTWRY
Release Date: April 28, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: played few times, but instruction and game are in mint condition
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 Your New Favourite Game November 14, 2006
63 out of 64 found this review helpful
I have to say that this is officialy my favourite game for the DS, well in fact for ANY console at present moving into number one position past Phoenix Wright: Attorney At Law.
You take on the role as a rookie doctor, Dr Derek Stiles at Hope Hospital in Angeles Bay. Here you have to operate on patients in order to save their lives.
In the beginning the operations are minor and simple and you are guided by Nurse Felton and she pretty much tells you what you need to do. However, that soon stops and you are pretty much on your own. Yes, you have a nurse 'advising' you all the way but you need to figure out the actions to take while keep an eye on the vitals all the while. I found the learning curve quite steep as I tend not to pay too much attention when I first play games and this always turns into a mistake (I may need to work on this) but as long as you read the briefings and pay close attention to the first couple of operations and provided you can keep a steady hand you should be fine.
This game fully itegrates the touch screen technology the DS uses and you carry out the operations using the stylus as your scalpel, needles ets.
I've noticed that a fellow reviewer stated there is no skill involved in this game and that is based purely on luck, but this is not true. If you pay attention to the game in the early stages then you will soon work out how to play the game properly and increase the ranking and points you recieve after each operation. My tip is to keep an eye on the vitals and take note early on in the game on how you improve the vitals once they start to deteriorate. It seems to me that 'sarah' doesn't know how to play the game properly as she didn't pay enough attention. If you wildly stab at a patient with a scalpel or needle then your gonna end up killing them aren't you? But that speaks for itself I think.
Yes, the story isn't that good but it's not really why I bought the game. I bought it purely for the fun on pretending I was a doctor. I couldn't possibly be a doctor in real life, firstly I'm not bright enough and don't have the qualifications but secondly what do you do with all those soft bits of the body and all that blood!?
If you want a game that uses the touch screen technology to it's full capability then Trauma Center is the game for you. This game is all about paying attention and keeping a cool head and a steady hand. Get that combination correct and you can't fail to suceed and have fun along the way.
I would recommend this game to anyone.
Hope this has been helpful for you.
Your game collection isn't complete without...... September 8, 2006
23 out of 23 found this review helpful
Trauma Center:Under The Knife is a great new DS game from ATLUS. You play Derek Stiles, rookie doctor at hope hospital, performing simple operations such as removing glass shards and suturing wounds, to fully blown heart-surgery. And all with your stylus! Selcting a scalpel, forceps, syringe and more from a choice of tools at your disposal. When I first bought this game, I was very doubtful. But it sure did prove me wrong! Trauma Center is original and makes full use of the touch screen technology. It's got an intriguing story line (surrounding the development of a new form of terrorism), yet overall enjoyable gameplay, and also manages to make the player feel very pressured and determined at points. It really doesn't matter if you would faint at blood in reality, although the graphics are superb, and the game never fails to dissapoint. Another point though perhaps less important, I really liked the music which greatly complemented the intense feel of the procedures.
Some negative points would be that there is way too much dialogue, which can drag a little, and become rather tedious. Also watch for the occasional uses of 'bad language'. But, all things considered, this game is definately worth the money and I'm sure you'll love it as much as I do, and trust me, thats a lot. Your DS game collection really isn't complete without it! And if you like it, watch for the wii re-release 2007.
One to keep February 3, 2007
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
The game is very enjoyable and brilliantly suited to a portable platform as the majority of stages all have a time limit of around 5 minutes so no problems about saving during a 30 minute boss battle! The use of the touch screen is completely absorbing. Some of the later levels are very demanding and require you to carry out a precise series of actions quickly. Although they may seem impossible at first there was no operation that I completed just by chance (though some walkthrough help was needed). There is a lot of replay value too as you can go back to levels and try to improve your performance.
This is just an excellent game April 30, 2006
22 out of 23 found this review helpful
Trauma centre: A game where you are a doctor performing operations-sounds a bit boring, but imaginitive. Wrong-this is not just imaginative and innovative but an excellent game to play.
The game follows Dr Stiles (you) an inexperienced surgeon working at Hope Hospital. The game follows your career-as you discover you have the "healing touch" and are then employed by an agency dedicated to eliminating some of the worlds "uncurable" diseases-in particular GUILT (but i'm not giving any more story away than this!)
The graphics are mainly in manga on the top screen, where you see people talking, and you see where you are, this is the same in the operation-as this is where your assistant will be. During these pieces of story, the bottom screen is not heavily used, but in gameplay-it is a different story.
Using the stylus, you must select from a number of instruments, including lasers to destroy parasites or tumours, forceps-to remove any unwanted guests, the scalpel, to cut into your patient, and a range of different things you can inject. You'll have a magnifying glass, an ultra-sound unit, thread, and of course the healing touch, where you can slow down time by drawing a star. At the start you'll deal with people with shards of glass stuck in them,, or tumours, but as you progress, the operations become harder-MUCH harder-some are near impossible-as they expect too much in too short a time, and your patients heart rate is ever decreasing! Some excellent moments are performing an operation on a plane in turbulance, where you have to stop when you hit turbulance and even diffusing a bomb!
The game even manages to be educational, addressing issues such as euthanasia, bio-terrorism, and even showing you how you deal with certain problems in the medical field.
All in all, this is an excellent game, a land mark game, one where you become the surgeon. Only problems are that it becomes very difficult, and 2) its not that long. Overall though, this is an excellent game.
cutting people up has never been so fun! June 2, 2006
19 out of 20 found this review helpful
i bought this on a whim and have no regrets what so ever. As with most nintendo products, its adictive, fun with loads of replay value. Its long as well as hard - from removing tumours to doing open heart surgery this game has somthing for everyone (well everyone who enjoys that kind of thing....) Buy it, it'll make you believe you were a real doctor (just remember that you arnt)
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