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Fun, Addicting, & Informative

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 17
Date: December 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It's refreshing to see a different type of game like this compared to all the same old fighting, racing, war, & rpg games, etc. Trauma Center Second Opinion puts you right in the hands of a surgeon where you control the fate of your patients and its quite a rush! The controls and game is easy to get used to and the storyline and gameplay is very fun. My only complaint would be they should've had voice overs for everything instead of having to read all the dialogue. Just think how even more real it would've felt with people talking to you about the patient, diagnosis, what instruments you need, etc. Hopefully they'll make another sequel and incorporate that feature. This original game is fun, addicting, and very informative. You'll feel like a doctor...time to play some more Trauma Center and then watch Grey's Anatomy.

Worth every cent, a must own for the Wii, the wii controller works great and makes much more sense than with any other controller cause this feels like what a real surgeon would do since you have to be precise and accurate.

Gameplay/Controls: A-
Graphics: B
Replay Value: A+
Story/Plot: B+

OVERALL: 5 out of 5 (A-)

A great Launch game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 14
Date: November 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

For those of you who played Trauma Center on the DS, this game is the same old same old, but still worth the buy for you can play it on a full size tv. For those of you who have not played the game the game is one of the most unique and challenging games i have ever played. As one can tell from the pictures you are a surgeon, who does everything from remove glass to fighting wierd bug things that live inside people. The game is a great port from the DS and the Wiimote controls great in this game. I highly recommend this game.

Awesome game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 21
Date: November 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have the original for the DS lite. I thought that was fun, but this is better. The first few chapters seem the same, but the gameplay is better.

Twisting the bones is a new feature. Repairing a compound fracture also new to me!

This game is good because it could really help shape you kids minds and let them explore a simulation to see is practicing medicine would be a job they would like.

BACK to the game. I like that the NUNCHUK is the tool that lets you select your surgical instruments. Having the patient displayed on a big screen is helpful too! I do wish there was more talking though. I thought they would upgrade that from DS, but hey didn't. It's not a waste of money. It's like tetris in that you either love or hate it! If you like it, you won't be able to stop playing!

A strange but very cool kind of fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: February 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Got to hand it to Nintendo. A lot of their announcements on new gameplay and innovations seemed mainly designed because that's what gamers want without us actually saying anything. Did we really mention we were getting bored of the traditional control scheme and that we "needed" this new style? Or that Gamecube/GBA-connectivity was the better innovation over online play? But the big buzz about the Wii is that even non-gamers are starting to pick it up and play. Where does Trauma Center fall? It's more or less the next step for Wii newbies ("Wii-bies"?) If Sports or any of the other launch titles were too simple, this one's the way to go but be forewarned: this game can easily hand you your ***.

Story: You play Derek Stiles, a medical doctor who's completed his residency. It's 2018 and many diseases including AIDS and cancer has been wiped but a new threat emerges named GUILT and the story continues from there. It's actually a neat story even if it is kind of silly and quite out there but it's also quite interesting in the end.

Graphics: It's actually quite detailed. Granted it's nowhere near stuff like Gears of War or upcoming PS3 titles like Metal Gear Solid 4 but it gets the job done. In-game cutscenes consist of plain backgrounds with anime stills of the characters. The in-game graphics are also quite easy to understand and in a game where you got to do multiple stuff you don't want to be hung up over incredibly tiny play areas. By the way, it's a gory game if you actually imagine the procedure in reality but when a stomach consists of a purple and pink surface, it's kind of hard to get grossed out.

Sound/Music: I was so engrossed in the saving of patient's lives that I didn't even notice the music but it does its job well, if in slightly melodramatic fashion. Voice acting is mainly just sound clips such as "what the?"! or "I will save this patient!"

Gameplay: The bulk of your work is with the remote but the nunchuk is crucial as well. Essentially on the nunchuk, your analog acts as a tool selector as you point to whatever you need from sutures, draining, scalpel or disinfectant. On the remote you have to draw/point to take care of what the patient ails from. An example is if you needed to take a tumor out: use ultrasound to locate it, scalpel to cut it open, drain excess fluid, cut it out, use tweezers to put it in a bowl, put a small cloth over the wound and cover it with disinfectant. And that's in one of the early stages too since it'll get much tougher.

Speaking of tough, Trauma Center was one of those DS games that people loved when they can actually beat it since it had quite unforgiving and kind of sporadic difficulty. Sometimes it got easy, other times will make you see the mission restart screen over and over. Now unlike some games where enemies are too cheap and way more powerful than you (Metroid Prime 2) or just way too enemies, the replaying is actually your fault: you're simply not fast enough. Now the time limit and the enormous amount of tasks is daunting but this isn't like beating 20 enemies with only 7 handgun bullets (like let's say, Resident Evil 4? especially if that chainsaw freak showed up) but after practice, pretty soon you'll be your own ER co-star and heal patients like quick.

Like many have said, this is probably the Wii's best launch title to get after Zelda: Twilight Princess. The difficulty might put off some but since there's always a hunger to beat it anyway, you get over it.

Get a second opinion

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Trauma Center: Under the Knife was one of the first games that truly showed what new types of games are possible with the DS. This re-make, ahem, Wii-make is just as good as the DS with added features that take advantage of the Wii's unique control interface.

The plot of the game is the same as the DS: you are the young doctor Derek Stiles with some super powered medical skills, like slowing down time. In the beginning every time one of your medical instruments is used your (very irritating) assistant pops on to tell you what to do. However she soon leaves you and you have to figure out what to do for yourself. Eventually you get involved with a government medical facility and treat an illness called GUILT which takes several forms.

Outside from the obvious graphical upgrade, the major changes from the DS is slight. They changed the forceps so you are actually pinching using B and A. Also they added a defibrillator which is lots of fun to use. The DS has the ability to be much more precise, so for example connecting veins had to be much simpler on the Wii and most of the puzzles involving veins (or wires in the board with the bomb) have been removed. The ability to turn the controller left or right has been added. Think for example the ability to turn a screw or rotate a bone so you can set it.
The control scheme is fantastic. The nunchuk is used to switch between tools rather than the cursor. Switching and the actual surgical actions are made significantly easier with this controller setup.

Also after you finish each set of levels a brand new board is opened up with a new protagonist. Her boards are all new and suggest the direction Atlus has for future installments of Trauma Center. They also include some new medical problems, like the patient with a broken arm.

Finally the negative - as much as you would like to follow the story it isn't very interesting and usually involves lots of text. However you can speed it up with the minus button, so it isn't too much of a drag. Also the characters have like four emotional representations and they rotate between moods with their text.

If you never played Trauma Center: Under the Knife you need to get this one. If you have played it already there is enough new content to keep you interested. This is an essential game for your Wii library.

Best Wii controls of all the Wii launch games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Trauma Center Second Opinion is a Wii-make of the original which was the first game on the DS to really show the DS true potential for new and innovative game types for the portable handheld gaming machines.

The version for the Wii fills exactly the same role for the new Wii console. It really shows the true potential of the Wii for new and innovative game types but for the home console. It is the most polished of all the Wii launch titles and has the absolute best controls. It controls even better than the Wii menu interface. The pointer functionality is extremely accurate as well as the rest of the controls and the game challenges you to fully utilize the excellent controls.

In fact the controls are soo good that the version on the Wii becomes much more accessible and fun game compared to the version on the DS which was much more difficult. The DS game only had one difficulty setting, your hand or stylus would get in your way and the control scheme didn't allow for rapid tool switching which the Wii version using the Nunchuk control style allows.

In addition to the better controls/gameplay the Wii version has. It also includes more content, better graphics, more refined tools, and better story overall. The first 5 chapters of the Wii version are more or less same as the DS version with minor changes (improvements) and it also has a chapter 6 as well as alternate doctor story called chapter Z. Also if you complete all 6 chapters and chapter Z than it unlocks the really challenging chapter X.

This is the single Wii launch title that I would recommend to everybody who gets the Wii console in addition to Zelda Twilight Princess. It is just that good and really the only Wii launch title (in addition to Wii Sports) that shows the full potential of the Wii innovative gameplay potential.

Trauma Center Deserves Second Opinion

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Atlus definately shows its strengths with this launch title. The gameplay, using both the Remote and Nunchuck, make Trauma Center feel fluid to your hands - and they need to be, because as you progress through the storyline, you quickly discover you need the fastest fingers on the planet.
The game begins simple enough, with basic surgery of lacerations and the like, but something gruesome happens in the year 2018, and you need to be quick on your feet and quicker in your hands. You will feel your palms sweat and your body shake as you try to remove the most bizzare and deadly diseases with not a moment to spare save for wiping the sweat from your forehead.
This is no childrens game. By the end, this game will keep you and your onlookers at the edge of their seats, not from the long, winding and enjoyable (I like soaps) storyline, but from the near impossible surgeries that you pull off usually by the skin of your teeth.
A required launch game. Do not rent. Buy.

great game, but a version for girls would be better

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: August 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Both this game and Zelda are too male specific - the gender identifications are wrong for girls. I would like to see versions with female heroes for my nieces.

This game is awesome!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I got the Wii sometime in late January and this was one of the first games I bought. What my two cents? One word. INCREDIBLE!

Okay, so most of the operations are not realistic, but who cares? In this game, you play Dr. Derek Stiles and Dr. Nozomi Weaver(Naomi Kimishima). The story takes place in the year 2018. Dr. Stiles is an inexperienced surgeon who starts at Hope Hospital that you can make the best surgeon in the world if you complete all the missions. He has an assistant name Angie Thompson. Dr. Weaver is a surgeon who works at St. Francis Hospital. She originally was a surgeon in Japan, but she was stripped of her license. In this game, you have to mostly operate on a fictional disease called Guilt.
There are 7 types.

Kyriaki- Little bats(the animal) that create lacerations internally. Comes in mature and immature versions.
Deftera- Mobile tumors that look a lot like fantail goldfish.
Triti- Multiple membranes with thorns holding them down.
Tetari-Little creatures that make poisonous abcesses.
Pempti- a gelantinous fluid that affects the lungs.
Paraskevi- a fibrous worm that can burrow into organs.
Savato- a spider that makes webs around the heart to steal its energy.

Well, this is the end of my review. Basically, this is probably the best game ever. Buy this game!

Buy this game

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.

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