System: Nintendo Wii
Publisher: Atlus
Category: Simulation
Available Now

  There aren’t that many games can put you in a doctor’s perspective as you must save lives by operating on sick or hurt people, sure you could pull out that old game of operation, hiding in your closet to test a steady hand but really it’s time to wipe off that Wii that hasn’t been used in awhile (unless you bought Mario Galaxy 2 before this) to play Atlus’s new Medical simulation game Trauma Team.

  Trauma Center games began on the DS using the touch screens to treat patients, for diseases and wounds and mysterious epidemics. Trauma Center then took a step forward releasing on the Wii and required a very steady hand for operations. Now in its 3rd Wii installment, a whole new set of challenges prepares itself for you.
  Where previous Trauma Center games main focus was on operation and emergency treatments around 2 main characters, Trauma Team ups those numbers to playable 6 doctors each with their own specialty in treatments.  The game will focus on introducing the characters and their separate personalities while helping their patients, these doctors include:

    •Gabriel Cunningham – specializing in Diagnostic with his partner RONI they work to help all patients no matter who they are.  ~You can’t pick your patients~

    •Hank Freebird – an orthopedic surgeon with an alter ego “Captain Eagle” who loves life, but questions himself since Captain Eagle isn’t as popular as he would like. Hank will focus on Spinal Cord damage, as well as broken bones, having to be very careful with a surgery that’s very critical. ~Life is a beautiful thing~

    •Naomi Kimishima – a returning face from Trauma Center: Second Opinion, she operated many times to fight the Guilt virus, but now is infected with an incurable disease. This time she doesn’t operate but instead works forensics for the Cumberland Institute of Forensic Medicine. Her impressive skills got her hired by the FBI to solve some strange and mysterious murders. She mysteriously has the powers to hear the final words of the dead through her phone. ~The truth never dies~

    •Tomoe Tachibana – A trained Kunoichi from a wealthy Japanese family, she trains her skills in both the art of a ninja as well as a doctor believing honor to be the most important thing she treats her specialty lies in endoscopy. ~Ignoring the small is not the path to honor~

    •Maria Torres – In charge of EMT, she is the first on the scene to treat patients in emergency situations, she is very fiery and believes everyone else around her is useless when it comes to treatment and believes she can do it all on her own. This causes people to stay away and fear her cause she will punch your lights out. ~Out of my way you useless Idiot~

      •CR-S01 – A man who doesn’t even know his own past, including his name. When he woke up he was arrested and charged with starting a biological attack that killed many people in the Cumberland Institute. He was found guilty and sentenced to serve 250 years in jail. Locked in his frozen cell, the only thing that helps him is his surgical skills and his knowledge of medicine allowing him to perform surgery for a reduced sentence. ~I will not run way~
 
  While you can test yourself in surgery with careful precision and a very steady hand, Trauma Team challenges your mind as much as your hands. While you cut, reattach, remove in operations endoscopy will have you sliding your arms back and forth as if your arm was the endoscopic tube. When you play the all new Diagnostic and Forensics mode new to Trauma games, it will test your eyes, ears, and logic skill. Diagnostic will have you listen to your patient’s problems and try to find out what’s wrong with them, while having the various test results to help you get a better understanding of what’s going on.  Forensics will seem familiar for fans of a certain “Attorney” game on the DS, allowing you to search areas for clues, but you will also get some little toys for Naomi to use to search the area such as dust for fingerprints, a spray to find hidden blood and a blue light to see it all. Naomi will also search the dead bodies and personal attire for clues.
 
  What I really enjoy of this game is the comic book style animation, with over 50 playable missions many of them featuring a co-op of surgery, you are treated to a full voice over game with an incredible story. You get the decision of how the story progresses for you, you can complete one characters path but it will give you certain plot holes, until you complete another characters story to piece it together, but at the same time you can go through each characters’ chapters one by one continuing the story since it is easy to know which one to pick next. Over all, the story is very well written, giving you laughter, excitement, and a deep understand of each of the character’s personality. The voice actors of this game did a really good job, but the only downfall is you want to know more about a character or their ability but it is left unanswered leaving you wanting more.
 
  Trauma Team takes roughly about 30 hrs to take play through, with surgeries taking close to maybe 5-20 minutes depending on the operation, and Diagnostics and Forensics taking close to an hour or longer when you play without any help, again with over 50 missions this proves to be a very fun and challenging game…but that’s not all once you beat the game you are given the Specialist difficulty which really puts you in a doctors position without being able to screw up. Trauma Team takes everything in the previous titles and expands it with great and amusing characters, and excellent story and wanting more.

**Written by Chris Del Castillo