Trauma Team
The makers of the acclaimed medical action series Trauma Center blow the genre wide open with Trauma Team for Wii, bringing not one, but six exciting and creative gameplay modes! Play as a general surgeon, diagnostician, EMT, orthopedic surgeon, endoscope technician, or medical examiner. With improved game balance and a completely original approach to story cutscenes, Trauma Team delivers the thrills and drama of the best medical entertainment. Key Points - 6 specialists, 6 gameplay types - Try your hand at general diagnosis, where a keen, analytical mind comes in handy, or put yourself on the edge as a paramedic, where every ticking second could mean the difference between life and death! Tons of variety means everyone can find a specialty they like. - Incredible, dynamic story sequences - Taking inspiration from Japanese animation and comics, each dramatic chapter comes vividly to life with a style seen nowhere else! Hand-drawn art, innovative animation, and quality voice acting perfectly capture the intensity that sets medical action apart! - More realistic, more balanced, more fun - Taking years of experience and tons of user feedback into consideration, the Trauma Center team elevates the medical action experience with cooperative play, unlockable rewards, and selectable difficulty levels.Encounter unprecedented depth across six distinct fields of medicine: play as a general surgeon, diagnostician, E.M.T., orthopedic surgeon, endoscope technician, and medical examiner. Follow the story as never before with all-new dynamic story sequences inspired by Japanese animation and comics; each dramatic chapter comes vividly to life with distinct style! Hand-drawn art, innovative animation, and quality voice acting perfectly capture the raw intensity, excitement, and danger of every heart-pounding moment!
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User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars awesome
this game is great the scenes are a little long but the gameplay was good the story interesting until the end .
5 Stars Pretty impressed
I purchased this game for my girlfriend who is in the medical field. Ironically she hasn’t played it once (she likes to watch… :o), and I have logged about 30+ hours on it (I know this because the game logs playtime in your profile).
First off I need to say I have never played the previous versions of this game and had no idea what to expect. The characters are likeable and all have a different background story that you learn in the first few episodes with them. I started off playing first response because it was fast paced and the tools you have in the field are limited. Found it to be fun and the situations are pretty interesting. Moved onto surgery and orthopedics which become the most fun once you’ve had your first response kick. Endoscopy is what I am least good at and can be a little frustrating, but then I can only imagine how fun jamming a scope up someones intestines is in real life. Besides it being challenging though it is still interesting. Forensics and Diagnosis take the longest to complete the episodes but once you understand what the game is expecting you to do they move pretty smoothly and the episodes are fun to follow. They will challenge you to think. You can save your progress in Diagnosis and Forensics and come back at a later time to complete them, something you cant do in the other fields.
All of the episodes play off of eachother. For instance you will find that the person you diagnosed is now on the table the next time you play orthopedics, etc. Once you get 7 episodes deep in each field a new locked story line plays out that you are forced to play the character needed to progress the case. The story line is pretty educated for a video game. You will learn some things too!
Have not played in “coop” (two players at once) mode or past the “intern” level. But I look forward to increased challenge after I complete the intern levels. Any game that can hold my interest for 30+ in the first couple weeks I have it gets a thumbs up from me, pretty satisfied with the purchase.
5 Stars Trauma Team = AMAZING!
All I can say is that if you liked Trauma: New Blood, you’ll LOVE Trauma Team! Too many time game developers rush to make a sequel and it ends up a sorry re-hashed version of the first game. Not the case here. The game developers really did their homework.
The concept is pretty unique. You perform operations in 5 different areas and as you progress through the game an intricate story unfolds for each character. It’s told through motion comic in an anime style and is extremely cheesy. It’s like watching a bad soap opera. But trust me, the awfulness really draws you in.
You can play in any one of 5 areas:
General Surgery: Similar to the previous games in the series. This time the storyline is you play as a mysterious surgeon serving a 250yr prison sentence for a crime he may or may not have committed. HUH??!?!!
Orthopedics: Similar to surgery but you get to use special ortho tools. It makes the gameplay less redundant. Here you play as this big lumbering orthopedic doc who’s also a superhero on his off hours.
ER: Here the focus is on stabilizing multiple patients as soon as possible. And again, some of the tools and tasks are different. Here you’re this super-hot type A latina ER doc.
Endoscopy: I don’t really like this part of the game. You basically push a scope down an orifice (mouth, GI tract, etc.) and burn things, clamp bleeds, etc. The controls are complicated and it can make you really dizzy but anyone who’s pushed a scope in real life would say the same thing. So I appreciate the game designers trying to branch out and try something different. The character is pretty lame too.
Diagnosis: Here you work as this brash Internal Med doc (ie House) and have to find clues from history, physical exam, labs, and imaging to make a diagnosis. As someone who’s about to graduate from medical school i love this part of the game because i pick up on what the game developers were going for with the clues. But for non-medical ppl I could see this part of the game being really boring and tedious.
Forensics: You work as this ghost-whispereresque forensics person who has to find clues after a patient has died to figure out what happened. This is my least favorite part of the game. but other ppl, especially CSI fans, may find it to be a lot of fun.
Basically the game has something for everyone in terms of gameplay and a progressive storyline that makes you feel like you are getting you’re money’s worth.
GET THIS GAME! It’s a MUST OWN for the wii.
5 Stars Definitely a MUST own for Wii gamers
When I first heard about this game it was here on Amazon and watching gameplay videos on youtube. SIDE NOTE:For anyone buying their kids games for any system [especially Wii] and are not sure what games are suitable or good I would suggest doing this! I mention this because I look into all games before purchasing them to make sure I’m not wasting money. I’d have to say Trauma Team is worth every penny. This is the first game I bought for Wii [black version/motion plus] and it does utilize all the Wii controls to a very good extent. Although I would agree with other reviewers that the controls on the nun-chuck peripheral do tend to change between each story arc. It gets confusing but the game does guide you through how to use them. Also in defense of the change in peripherals on the nun-chuck you get Ranks in each of the six fields to improve on which help you become more acquainted with the different fields. I found that it gave the game much more replay value and made it a lot more fun.
In Trauma Team, players will encounter unprecedented depth across six distinct fields of medicine: play as a general surgeon, diagnostician, E.M.T., orthopedic surgeon, endoscope technician, and medical examiner. My personal favorites were general surgeon, orthopedic surgeon, E.M.T and medical examiner. I found the controls for the endoscopic technician to be a little confusing and the diagnostician game-play I would agree was rather boring at times. The diagnostician and the medical examiner are the two fields that are definitely designed for the casual aspects of gaming in Trauma Center. In medical examiner your helping the FBI solve murder mysteries so the game-play is more reasoned based and requires thinking rather than speed to accomplish your goals. The same goes for the diagnostician who interviews patients to find ailments and matches them up with whats known. I found the E.M.T missions to be very challenging but rewarding considering you have to shift between numerous patients. Orthopedic surgeon and general surgeon were incredibly fun and I’d say that all fields to a certain extent utilize the Wii controls and peripherals nicely.
I was expecting this game to be a lot of fun and it was. It also has a lot of replay value which I find incredibly important in any form of media entertainment. I haven’t played the previous installments New Blood and Second Opinion but I will definitely check those out. I would also like to point out that the story/plot-line was amazing and I felt that the developers did a great job developing the characters. When the developers can make you feel for the characters and get personal with them then they’re doing something right. I originally bought this game because I’m a huge fan of anime and comic books so to see characters rendered in anime style and backgrounds designed like a comic there would be no reason why I wouldn’t fall in love with this game. Its good to get away from murdering countless people in RDR or setting off nukes in MW2 to sit down and save lives for a change. Wii needs to make more games like this! I hope to see sequels of this franchise soon Atlus.
5 Stars Rock Solid!
Some sequels deliver infinitely more than you expect: Soul Caliber on the Dreamcast, Burnout Takedown on the Xbox, and now Trauma Team.
The production values are vastly improved. Trauma Team is packed with high quality voice acting, cut-scenes before and after every level, and as if that wasn’t enough Trauma Team comes with 5 new medical specialties other than surgery. None of these feel like filler, they all add an incredible level of variety to the series. I was really excited for Endoscopy but all the specialties are awesome. I thoroughly enjoyed using the stethoscope and matching up the clue cards. (Thankfully they got rid of that drawing a star to slow down patient vitals-I hated doing that!)
I flew through the game in 30 hours on easy mode and I plan on playing through again on harder difficulties. The story doesn’t have any aliens but it does have ghosts, ninjas, robots, and superheroes. That may sound wacky but the story really kept me going. It was always extremely entertaining, at times emotional, and ultimately satisfying.
I also love the way this game sets up the level select interface. You can play any doctor’s story all the way to their end but if you look closely you’ll notice all the levels are on a time-line. The ones near the top of the screen by the opening cinema always come first in the story. I also like that the game doesn’t make you strictly follow the time-line if you don’t want to. You play what you want next. After you finish every doctor’s story line you’ll unlock the final chapter with more missions for everyone.
I rarely buy games at full price but this one’s worth every dollar. Whether you’re a core or casual gamer, I couldn’t imagine owning a Wii and not owning Trauma Team.
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