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good game if you like these kind

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

i bought this game for my wii when i first got it, and i remember playing it and liking it until i got to a certain part that make no sense. so i thought that for the ds it would be a little different. as i was playing it, things didnt react the way the were supposed to and therefore i would fail missions or get a crappy score. then i had the same issue as i did with the wii version, i got to a part that they dont give you any instructions on and you cant get past it because you have no idea what your supposed to do. so this game is good and bad!

You Have to be Fast

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Speed is more important than precision in Trauma Center: Under the Knife. It's not a game I want my surgeon to play. We thought the game was fun for awhile, then the speed and skill level required became overwhelming. The soap opera story line was more irritating than inspiring. Unless you are a really good gamer, the diagnosis for this one is terminal.

Fun But Impossible!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is fun for the first 10 challenges. Then, it is pretty much impossible. I have had this game for two years, and I am still stuck on the level where you have to rescue 5 patients in 10 minutes. It is impossible! I hope that if they re-make the game that they make it simpler.

Trauma Center Is There really only 4 surgerys in the whole game?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game a couple weeks ago.I completed the first 3 surgerys w/ no problem and the I get to the one with that angie nurse and I almost get to the end of this surgery.The one with the polyps on the rock stars larynx,but is this actually all the surgeries in the game?Or are there more?Please someone tell me.Thank You!!

You can't be serious...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

When I first got this game, I was really excited about the concept of an operating game and the first few surgeries were great... until we get to the freaking virus... @_@ To be honest, I was counting on the game getting harder with terminology and technicality, not by trying to mutilate and poke increasingly faster moving bugs.

Too much talking! There are times when I caught myself just gunning past all the mundane dialogue just to get to the surgeries. I am NOT a big fan of text heavy games, unless the conversations are interesting or at least animated! I realize that polite society causes us all to do the "Hello, how's the weather?" thing, but do surgeons really spend so much time playing nurse?! And since this is clearly fantasy, that's all the more annoying! I'm thinking that all in-game dialogue EVER should be able to be sped up or skipped altogether. Sometimes, people just want to get to the action!

My last complaint is the sometimes asinine sensitivity of a task. When you're working on a screen this small, there has to be some allowance for minute error. I mean, even my usually careful handwriting looks like crap on a slick surface... but the technology will only improve with time. Okay, my randomly affectionate cat doesn't help matters...

Overall, the series has some potential but I'd much rather have a more realistic game that actually teaches usable medical terminology and lets you combine brain power with surgical technique. I imagine I would REALLY suck at the Wii version-- I can't imagine trying to follow lines I'm not touching with a stylus.

Overall, this game was a disappointment. I swore like a sailor and it wasn't even worth it! Although, I still like to poke at the first few surgeries from time to time. coughhinthintcough

This Game is great!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

It was a great game. One iaaue is that the difficulty is random. One level is pretty easy abd the next becomes hard.

Hand cramping, stressful frenzy of a game, not that there's anything wrong with that.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I've played probably 20 different Nintendo DS games to the finish and I have to say this is the most frustrating game I've ever played. I love the early missions and the creativity is awesome, but the controls are kinda blah. Several times you'll find yourself redrawing the zoom, over & over & over as your patient (& patience) dies. Redrawing stitches over & over gets tedious fast. The game has good intentions, but unlike most games that I just couldn't put down, this one I have to put down to release tension both in my hands and in my mind. I am looking forward to seeing the improvements in the upcoming release.

Grandaughters love it

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this for my grandaughters. They both love it. One has aspirations to be a doctor. She has fun pretending she is a doctor. The other grandaughter is one year younger (7) and likes to keep up with the older one. They have fun playing this together.

I know it is a little bit expensive, but the girls thoroughly enjoy it.

Doctors Can't Save Everyone

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I would probably love this game if I could advance any farther in it. I know it's a game, but honestly, sometimes people die. If a person suddenly has a million and one aneurisms at the surgical site, they most likely would have a million and one aneurisms other places in their body. I would prefer to have an occasional mundane surgery so that I won't get fired if one patient dies. If you aren't an experienced, hard-core gamer, don't buy the game. It's impossible for any human (or, any human I've met) to complete.

Cures boredom...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game came to my attention very late, since they now have newer story lines out regarding this game. Yet, I wasn't sure if I was going to like this game, so I decided to rent it from Gamefly before purchasing it from Amazon for $30 (plus Gamefly will let you keep the used rented copy for about $18 bucks if you like it that much). The game wasn't like anything I was expecting...well truly I didn't know what to expect.

However, the long winded background story line bored me. All I wanted was to operate. The operations are cool. You have to remember what to do or else the patient will basically die, but they lucky for you; you get to retry the operation. There is some skill involved as the clock and the patient's heart rate monitor bleep down.

I need to play the game some more before deciding to keep the game, but thus far it's something to do if you're really bored.

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