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Atlus Takes Gamers to the Hospital
The spiritual successor to Trauma Center is in the works.
By Kevin Gifford, 05/27/2009
In this week's issue of Famitsu magazine, Atlus revealed the first details on a project tentatively titled Hospital. The Wii game, which doesn't have a release date anywhere yet, is the spiritual successor to Atlus' well-known Trauma Center series, but taking a look at the premise, it's looking a great deal more ambitious than anything the development team's attempted before.
"This game is the penultimate work of the Trauma Center team," producer Daisuke Kanada told Famitsu "It completes one of the goals for a medical series that we've been striving for before, and it's also a wholly new title, not a sequel to Trauma Center. It's not just a surgery game, but an entire hospital in game form."
Hospital stars six different people who work at the same medical center, each with a different medical specialty. The six heroes all have their own story scenarios to play through, and while they're all naturally connected together, you'll be asked to perform different procedures in each one. Here's the main cast and their jobs:
- Gabriel Cunningham is the Dr. House of the crew; he likes yelling at people and is an expert diagnostician. His scenario has you examining patients at the doctor's office, using a stethoscope and such to figure out what's causing their symptoms.
- Prisoner CR-SO1 is a brilliant young surgeon who was sentenced to 250 years in cryogenic prison, but accepted a reduced sentence in exchange for his returning to the operating table. (Did I mention that this game's set in the near future, by the way?) His scenario will be the most like traditional Trauma Center; you'll be conducting assorted operations on very sick patients.
- Maria Torres is an on-site paramedic doctor; her story has you applying advanced first aid to multiple patients simultaneously at the scenes of disasters.
- Hank Freebird is a hotshot cosmetic surgeon; you'll use a variety of fancy equipment to help with his patients, performing procedures like hip-replacement surgeries.
- Tomoe Tachibana is a reserved Japanese girl who wears her doctor's white coat on top of her kimono. Her specialty is endoscopic surgery, the type where they run a tiny camera into your body.
- Finally, Naomi Kimishima is a genius surgeon who's appeared in the supporting cast of several Trauma Center games. She's changed careers since then and is now a CSI-style forensic specialist, reconstructing organic evidence from the scene of the crime, so her scenario plays out a great deal more like a traditional adventure game.
Gameplay will, naturally, involve using the Wiimote to control a variety of medical equipment as you race against time to save your patients' lives. Atlus promises the game will be accessible to players of all abilities, and a two-player co-op mode is also available. More details at E3, hopefully?
"The worst part about these reviews is they are [subjective]--and their scores often depend on how drunk you got the media at a Street Fighter event." — Mona Hamilton, Capcom Senior VP of Marketing
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