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Legacy games continue to decline

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 21 / 27
Date: November 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have bought most, if not all, of the Legacy Interactive Emergency Room Games. I also bought the first and second Veterinary Emergency Room games. I think that Legacy started out well, but each succeeding game has been dumbed down. The first and second Emergency Room games had different staff in each room, each with different personalities. After that, the succeding games dispensed with this, and had the same type of staff member in each type of room. Too bad--the personality types reminded me of real situations in real emergency rooms.

In ER, the types of medical skills have also been dumbed down. In earlier games, you had to place the right diagnostic instrument on the right part of the patient. If you did too many tests, the chief of service would castigate you for wasting money. Again like real medicine. The nurses and technicians--despite their attitudes--were the most helpful individuals when you were in a tight spot. Well so much for reminising about the previous Emergency Room games.

ER is not like those games. You do not realy use of learn much about real medicine. You do not even really learn much about what is wrong with your patient. It is more about smoozing with other ER staff and making sure that you do not get too low on hygeine or nutrition points. Treatment is completely nonspecific. As far as actual medical practice is concerned, you might as well be playing Pong. It looks as if someone was trying to emulate the Sims on the cheap.

The graphics are not as good as the ones on Emergency Room Disaster Strikes, or Veterinary Emergency Room. If truth be told, I much preferred the earliest truly functional Emergency Game, Emergency Room II. Even though there was not as much animation, the experience was more realistic.

If you want to play the Sims II, buy it. This is a poor imitation of the Sims and an even poorer imitation of previous Legacy Emergency Room Games. I would suggest that Legacy get a REAL emergency room physician to help them with this series of games.

Totally Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: July 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

A really fun game, and not to mention that Noah Wyle's voice and likeness is really hot!

The game is a bit short, but it is still fun! Glad I bought it.

It's not so much a medical game as it is a simulation game.

I recommend this game to people who like the show, and to gamers who like simulation games.

loved the game- its just not one of those indefinite ending games

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: August 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

i absolutely loved this game. i am obsessed with the ER show and i really liked this game. Its not complicated at all, but definitely kept me not wanting to stop playing it.
It is one of the games, though that is similiar to the csi/law and order series in that its only a set number of missions you can play, unlike the sims or rollercoastertycoon/etc. There are enough missions to keep you going for a while though and its really fun to try and become a good doctor and then get your own med students.
you definitely should download the patch and the game works perfectly fine after that.(otherwise it gradually runs slower and slower).

overall, i totally love this game. its challenging, but easy to learn and it kept me interesting and kept me wanting to get better as a doctor and earn the specialty personality traits. you can even form relationships with other doctors and kiss them and talk or you can just focus totally on getting your skills way up there. either way, if you love the show, youll love the game!!

ER made fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: September 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game proved to be challenging and held my attention for hours on end. The possibilities are endless which adds to the
challenge of the game.
Would highly recommend for anyone who is a fan of ER, and this game will prove entertaining long after the duration of the television show.

Not quite what I expected

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: July 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

When I saw ads for this game I was really excited because I am such a big fan of the show. Overall, the game was pretty good. At first it was very addicting, I played it for like 4 hours straight. After that it started to get kind of redundant. I also found it to be really easy, and quite short. It only took me a few days to beat the whole game. It is very similar to the Sims, so if you like that you will like this game.

Completely unplayable due to bugs

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: February 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game would be fun if you could play it for any period of time. The amount of bugs is astounding. I purchased this game last year and there is still no fix for the many problems despite complaints to their technical support. If you look on Legacy Interactive's tech support forum for this game( http://www.legacyinteractive.com/forum/list.php?4 ), you will see how many problems there are and how they have been ignored. This is a complete waste of money.

Fun, but SHORT!!!!!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: February 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I loved this game at first, I was addicted!!!! But I was so very annoyed that it took me forever to be able to play it, it had so many glitches that I had to put it on my Dad's new computer in order fo it to run at a good speed. Word of advice, if you have an old computer or a computer that runs the least bit slow it won't run fast at all. Another thing I was annoyed about is that after the week it took me to play it, it was OVER!!!! I thought that maybe you would have advanced to Chief of Staff instead of Intern but it just congratulated you on becoming a resident at the hospital and then the game was through!!!! So if Legacy Interactive does make an Emergency room 2 I hope that they let you continue and make the gameplay longer!!!! But other than that the game was fun, for a little while!!!! Hope this review helped!!!! Meghan :)

Interesting game with alot of potential.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: January 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

ER, the official game from the television show ER is a game that offers you the chance to work in the Emergency Department of the hospital, starting as an intern and working your way up the ranks.

The game starts with you deciding what you, as the doctor should look like, you can only decide your hair colour, eye colour, scrub colour (your clothes), what pre-made head you would like and if you want to wear a jacket or not. There aren't many available "looks" you can choose but the amount available is good.

You then get the option to play the tutuorial, although helpful to begin with it leaves out some important information that you have to work out, so if you didnt play it, you could work it out.

The main aim of the game is to help the many patients who fill the waiting room. You as the doctor walk over to the patient, diagnosis them (which will make them become a colour depending on how sick they are, there are 10 levels of sickness, level 1 is bright green and is not sick as all, these patients take only a small amount of time to heal, the colour changed to yellow and then to level 10 which is flashing red, if your patient is level 10 they die.) Once the patient is diagnosed they are moved into one of the available beds in different rooms. Once the patient is in bed you just click on the patient and you start to heal them. This was the frustrating part as you can't actually heal them yourself. Once healed the patient walks out of the hospital and you start the process again.

The game does consists of many challenging-at-first situations, on one level you get the chance to taking care of 5 interns, who indefinatly will end up killing the patient if you dont step in and take control, you can at times choice who to fire from the emergancy department and you take care of many interesting characters who will all come in with something wrong, but then will need a new diagnois, heading to the lab for the majority of you shift.

You can make friends by talking with other doctors and nurses, which has many advantages, such as raising you emotion levels, and getting you perks that will make your time in the Emergency depeartment less stressful. Or you can do the opposite and make enemies who will make your life as hard as they can.

An at times annoying aspect of the game is the need to refresh your needs. At the start of this shift you energy, hygiene and emotion bars are at max, but working a stressful 36 hour shift will make the bars drop, with results such as patients apparently not wanting to come near you cause you smell, or you collapsing because your energy is so low so you end up in the staff lounge in bed. This can create problems in a emergency.

The game only has 2 levels of the hospital, the emergancy level and the staff level (where the bathroom is, the canteen and the gym...) with an added section for the ambulance area.

This game is not very hard once you know what you are doing, many aspects of the game can be frustrating, but the generaly game is very fun and addictive to play. I was disapointed as there are only 6 or 7 levels , a level being the 36 in-game-hour shift to complete, which resulted in me finishing the game quickly, but the good thing about it, is that there are many different ways to play the game so you can just restart and play differently.

Not what I expected

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: June 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I expected more decisions on how to treat patients..the people were hard to maneuver at times.
The game is fun if you have a lot of time to spend on it..could not find a pause button-crutial for those with kids.
overall--ok game-just not whjat I was expecting.

For ER Fans

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: November 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I'll start of by saying that this game is NOT for a person interested in "learning medicine" while they play. This is more of simulation game, role playing game.(like The Sims) ER is very vague in medical details. It is rated T, and it is not at all graphic. No blood, no guts, etc....It is a game that makes you feel like you're in an ER episode. The TV show--not a real Emergency Room. The voice overs are great. And I like this game because it's a family game.

This game is not a "Medical Challenge" it is a STRATEGY game. It's definitly built to try to break your composure! You just have to be able to think quickly, and multi task. You don't have to know the difference between Tylenol and Advil to play! HA HA!

If you're a real ER fan, that wants to take the show into another level, then you'll like this PC game. It really just gives you the feeling that you're really there with the cast of the show.

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