Customer Reviews

Trauma Team

5 star:		(17)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(6)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

My daughter, who bought the game, wrote the following review:

In my opinion, Trauma Team is the best game in the Trauma Center Series. I really liked that they took away the timer (on most of the operations, a few have time limits). That allows you to be more precise and not be so rushed. However, the fast-paced action is not lost. In first response, it's a race to keep all of your patients alive. Some of them are brought to you in critical condition. I also liked forensics and diagnosis (especially forensics). Forensics stars Naomi Kimishima (also known as Nozomi Weaver), who was playable in Trauma Center: Second Opinion. Naomi's field lets you examine bodies, investigate crime scenes, and put together information (which usually surfaces the killer's identity). This game, which is a steal for $40, was one of the best purchases I ever made!

All I can say is that if you liked Trauma: New Blood, you'll LOVE Trauma Team! Too many time game developers rush to make a sequel and it ends up a sorry re-hashed version of the first game. Not the case here. The game developers really did their homework.

The concept is pretty unique. You perform operations in 5 different areas and as you progress through the game an intricate story unfolds for each character. It's told through motion comic in an anime style and is extremely cheesy. It's like watching a bad soap opera. But trust me, the awfulness really draws you in.

You can play in any one of 5 areas:

General Surgery: Similar to the previous games in the series. This time the storyline is you play as a mysterious surgeon serving a 250yr prison sentence for a crime he may or may not have committed. HUH??!?!!

Orthopedics: Similar to surgery but you get to use special ortho tools. It makes the gameplay less redundant. Here you play as this big lumbering orthopedic doc who's also a superhero on his off hours.

ER: Here the focus is on stabilizing multiple patients as soon as possible. And again, some of the tools and tasks are different. Here you're this super-hot type A latina ER doc.

Endoscopy: I don't really like this part of the game. You basically push a scope down an orifice (mouth, GI tract, etc.) and burn things, clamp bleeds, etc. The controls are complicated and it can make you really dizzy but anyone who's pushed a scope in real life would say the same thing. So I appreciate the game designers trying to branch out and try something different. The character is pretty lame too.

Diagnosis: Here you work as this brash Internal Med doc (ie House) and have to find clues from history, physical exam, labs, and imaging to make a diagnosis. As someone who's about to graduate from medical school i love this part of the game because i pick up on what the game developers were going for with the clues. But for non-medical ppl I could see this part of the game being really boring and tedious.

Forensics: You work as this ghost-whispereresque forensics person who has to find clues after a patient has died to figure out what happened. This is my least favorite part of the game. but other ppl, especially CSI fans, may find it to be a lot of fun.

Basically the game has something for everyone in terms of gameplay and a progressive storyline that makes you feel like you are getting you're money's worth.

GET THIS GAME! It's a MUST OWN for the wii.

The controls are as tight as ever, and this game is still entertaining, but beware if you are looking for more of the high-pressure surgeries and challenging gameplay as you may be disappointed. To make the game more accessible (and also to keep it from becoming stale) this installment adds the possibility of working as six different doctors, not just the lead surgeon. There is a "doctor dash" which makes you treat 5 different injured patients at the same time, adding a very unique tension, although at times it can feel like half-baked minigames. The new Orthopedics and Endoscopy are more similar to the traditional "Trauma" series, but each adds new unique twists.

The two other new modes are a "diagnosis" and a "forensics." You have to analyze patient statements and survey a crime scene. They are very intriguing and some scenarios are quite engaging, though it feels fairly removed from the more traditional "Trauma" gameplay. These two modes also slow-down gameplay considerably.

It also has a coop mode, but if you decide to skip it you're not really missing a whole lot.

In short, the game offers more gameplay options, the overall difficulty is lower, the game feels shorter than previous installments (owing to the adventure-style diagnosis and forensics modes). Overall still entertaining.

(Written by the daughter)
I LOVE LOVE LOVED playing this game! Every second, every mode, it was just a wonderful gaming experience from the moment I clicked 'new game'. My friend recomended me the series and then my mom got me the newest one. Since the game is almost like six in one I'll talk a bit about each of gameplay modes and my opoion of them. (I played a good deal of multiplayer with my friends and brother so I'll talk a bit about that too)

Surgury:

Just like my friend's game, Second Opoion, but I don't have a timer :D This was fun to no end! On difficulty settings like Resident(intermdiate) and Specialist(hard) it proved to be ocsaoally challenging, but like I said it was nothing but fun as soon as you read the charts and pulled out your wii remote. And the multiplayer only added to it, causing ever more drama to enter as I yelled at whoever was playing with me to hurry up and raise the vitals while I took out a tumor. XD I also loved the angst-filled storyline of CR-S01 'from death row to the O.R.' as it made even the times when I didn't have my scalple extremly enjoyable.

First Response:

Exciting, dramatic, fast. Those are some of the words I could use to describe First Response. In this mode you switch between multiple paitents and treat them at the same time. It causes lots of tension and like Maria, the EMT who is the star of this mode, even as the operation ends you feel ready to yell 'Next!'...and then you realize its over. When you play multiplayer you have to split up the paitents and keep you eyes on the vitals. And once again like in Surgury, this causes the game to become even more fun and dramatic with someone else at your side.

Orthepedics:

This wasn't my favorite mode to be perfectly honest, but it was fun all the same! In this mode you basically follow guidlines to cut bone, drill holes, and insert screws(later on remove bone tumors, which is fun) Unlike the last two modes this is all about being percise, as there are no vitals for you to worry about. Because of this it offers a different calmer emotional dynamic apart from the fast paced levels spent in the E.R.

Endoscopy:

*sigh* what to say....its defiently a different type of sugury! In this mode you move an endoscope through a paitent treating small tumors and ulcers for the most part. but its suprisingly engaging as you have to push the wii remote forward every time you want to move and use the nunchuck to steer the camera, being sure not to hurt the paitent by hitting an inner wall. Some levels (like when you treat the lungs for example) turn organs we learned about in science class into vast laberiths and mazes that you have to traverse to find the affected areas to treat. ^_^

Dianosis:

After playing this every time you hear someone cough behind you you almost can't help but for you brain to say 'new symptom recorded' that being said you will smile thinking of playing this so it won't be annoying or anything X) In this mode you diagnose paitents as Gaberial Cunningham along with your robot assistant RONI. All the dialog makes this fun to play and the medical mystries are engaging. Its classic click and point for the most part, but still enjoyable and you'll be sure to see the people you diagnose in the various sugury levles connecting the stories. This and Forensics take much longer then suguries and are the only modes that allow you to save mid-chapter and are exclusivly single player. (but they make for fun nights having everyone guess what the illness is!)

Forensics:

I LOVE FORENSICS!!! If this one mode was its own game I wouldn't complaine once! Naomi's story really adds to everything and ends up being the most emotional and dramatic out of all of the various stories. You solve mystries with your parter 'Little Guy' and there is drama ahead let me tell you! This really should be played with a friend even if it is single player. Some of them can seem a bit far-fetched at times but that doesn't stop it from being pure fun! (think...Ace Attorny without being a lawyer and there's medical mystries)

All in all I loved this game to no end and will be replaying it over and over until they (hopefully) make a Truama Team 2 and I will most cetianly be buying the rest of the Truama Center seires (or asking for Christmas) My friends all promise that more challenging operations to come in the rest of the Truama Center titles and I hope I will come to love the characters from the rest of the seires the way I love these six doctors!

My daughter and I have played all the Trauma Center versions (both for DS and Wii) and they are some of our favorite games. Trauma Team was a Day One purchase for us this time and we are not disappointed!

Atlus has done the same thing with the Wii as it did with the DS versions of Trauma Center to adjust the difficulty level and make it a little less throw-the-wii-mote-against-the-wall. Trauma Team is not as difficult as its predeccesors. That's a good thing in some ways - but there is something to be said for the feeling of accomplishment you get in the older games when you beat one or complete one.

My daughter really liked the forensic parts of this game.

The variety in this game is quite nice but it does lead to a sort of disjointed overall offering. It doesn't feel as much like the others in terms of story continuation. For us this was fine because the story was not the primary - we liked the gameplay!

Given what is really out there for the Wii my family always recommends Trauma Center games as a priority for purchase and Trauma Team is going to the top of our list!

I bought this for my sister and I to play, she just loves bones and the body. I told her about this game and she also voted on getting it. Let me just say: we haven't stopped playing it for 3 days. It was addicting and fun.

We play this in my house of 4 medical students and are really impressed at how close it's getting to the real thing. . . .granted, it's not a full-out 100% simulation but it is on its way- and how amazing would it be to LEARN how to be a doctor while playing on the wii? We especially like the co-op mode where if you change who gets what tool, it feels like you have a surgeon and an assistant - almost like in real life.

It's kind of funny how we go on rotations, then come home and unwind playing trauma team.

There's different types of games too - longer versions for people who like CSI and Phoenix Wright, and more action-packed ones.

Overall, we bought this for $50 and it was worth every penny.

Thanks Atlus, and the more realistic your games get, the more we'll buy them down here! Keep up the fun!

the only reason this game got this rating was that it was too short! it was a great game to play, with twists, turns, and mysteries, and it involved a lot of skill just as well. its really expensive though, and it only lasts a short while. that's the only reason the game didn't relieve its final star. otherwise, i recommend this game.
gaming: 5/5
Length: 3/5
storyline: 4/5

When I first heard about this game it was here on Amazon and watching gameplay videos on youtube. SIDE NOTE:For anyone buying their kids games for any system [especially Wii] and are not sure what games are suitable or good I would suggest doing this! I mention this because I look into all games before purchasing them to make sure I'm not wasting money. I'd have to say Trauma Team is worth every penny. This is the first game I bought for Wii [black version/motion plus] and it does utilize all the Wii controls to a very good extent. Although I would agree with other reviewers that the controls on the nun-chuck peripheral do tend to change between each story arc. It gets confusing but the game does guide you through how to use them. Also in defense of the change in peripherals on the nun-chuck you get Ranks in each of the six fields to improve on which help you become more acquainted with the different fields. I found that it gave the game much more replay value and made it a lot more fun.

In Trauma Team, players will encounter unprecedented depth across six distinct fields of medicine: play as a general surgeon, diagnostician, E.M.T., orthopedic surgeon, endoscope technician, and medical examiner. My personal favorites were general surgeon, orthopedic surgeon, E.M.T and medical examiner. I found the controls for the endoscopic technician to be a little confusing and the diagnostician game-play I would agree was rather boring at times. The diagnostician and the medical examiner are the two fields that are definitely designed for the casual aspects of gaming in Trauma Center. In medical examiner your helping the FBI solve murder mysteries so the game-play is more reasoned based and requires thinking rather than speed to accomplish your goals. The same goes for the diagnostician who interviews patients to find ailments and matches them up with whats known. I found the E.M.T missions to be very challenging but rewarding considering you have to shift between numerous patients. Orthopedic surgeon and general surgeon were incredibly fun and I'd say that all fields to a certain extent utilize the Wii controls and peripherals nicely.

I was expecting this game to be a lot of fun and it was. It also has a lot of replay value which I find incredibly important in any form of media entertainment. I haven't played the previous installments New Blood and Second Opinion but I will definitely check those out. I would also like to point out that the story/plot-line was amazing and I felt that the developers did a great job developing the characters. When the developers can make you feel for the characters and get personal with them then they're doing something right. I originally bought this game because I'm a huge fan of anime and comic books so to see characters rendered in anime style and backgrounds designed like a comic there would be no reason why I wouldn't fall in love with this game. Its good to get away from murdering countless people in RDR or setting off nukes in MW2 to sit down and save lives for a change. Wii needs to make more games like this! I hope to see sequels of this franchise soon Atlus.

Trauma Team is a pseudo continuation of the Trauma Center style of games. Apart from just being a surgeon, they now include emergency triage, endoscopy, orthopedics, forensics and diagnostics. Only a surprisingly small portion is the bread and butter surgery that most people are used to. The stages are cut as expected, predominantly in cel-shaded stills and voice overlays, with very little motion images. This made me think that the game would be far longer, as the only visuals were in the surgeries themselves. Sadly, this is not the case, and assuming you don't have the urge to get an S ranking on every stage, you can blast through this in a little over 10 hours.

The story itself is subtle very well done. I was expecting more synthetic viruses, but the story interweaves several doctors and a ME, during normal work routines, encountering bizarre episodes of psychotic behavior and malignant tumors. The characters themselves have some back stories that are beyond ridiculous, and include a doctor moonlighting as a superhero and an endoscopic surgeon who is a ninja princess. But despite the best efforts of these characters to run the story into the ground, it still manages to persevere in the other plot threads.

Graphics and gameplay are surprisingly similar to prior incarnations. While I wasn't expecting completely different setups, this was almost similar to the original DS version that launched the series, and a lack of any real changes was rather disappointing. The gameplay itself was rather frustrating, as the characters would repeat instruction constantly in loud, obnoxious voices. This wasn't when you made a mistake, but a constant ramble that you had to tune out to be able to focus. Thankfully absent is the time slow power, which was rather annoying to try to shoehorn in, and means that every stage has to be feasible to complete without it. The forensics portion was the only real let down, as it introduced a play style that can only be described as tedious. Rather than perform autopsies, you examine a body for maybe 50 seconds, then go play an episode of CSI. For any who've played those games, you know full well what I mean by tedious.

Audio is barely tolerable, and the actors try very hard to make their voice to the character setup, but unfortunately, too much of the dialogue is sloppy and childish, reminiscent of school children struggling through social anxieties than trained doctors.

Overall, the game is fun, but is far too brief. Maybe double the current number of stages to include at least a few that weren't part and parcel copied from the original game, and a revamp of the dialogue would've significantly helped. As it is, this is a rental you can chug through in a little less than a week.