ER

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Product Features

• Based on the top-rated television series ER
• Features voice talent and 3D likenesses of Noah Wyle, Mekhi Phifer, Sherry Stringfield and others from ER
• Simple, yet elegant, strategy role-playing system and controls
• Designed for fans of the TV show and enthusiast gamers alike
• Full real-time 3D environments and characters with 360° camera rotation

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002YITTI
• Item Weight: 5.1 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: May 31, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #7,571 in Video Games (See Bestsellers in Video Games)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

As the new intern in the ER, you’ve got your work cut out for you. No sleep in 36 hours…you lay down for a well-deserved rest…then the call comes in…There’s been a freeway pile-up with multiple victims. The ambulance is 5 minutes out. You drag yourself up and prepare for the next onslaught. Welcome to the life and death drama that is Chicago’s County General Hospital!

Make the rounds alongside your favorite stars of the Emmy award winning hit TV show. Become part of the drama as you maneuver through the minefield of hospital politics, juggle your personal concerns, and race to save the lives of your patients on your path to prestige.

Key Features:

• Voice talents and likenesses of Noah Wyle, Mekhi Phifer and Sherry Stringfield
• Create your doctor and train in six different fields of medicine
• Unique character management sim / roleplaying gameplay
• Increase your prestige in the hospital by successfully treating patients, maintaining positive relationships and achieving your goals in each of the dramatic and sometimes humorous mission-based episodes
• Immersive gameplay features highly-detailed 3D environments and over 100 unique characters
• Utilize Perks and Special Abilities for the greater good, or just to spite your rivals! Give them as gifts or trade them with fellow staff members to build stronger relationships
• Experience a huge variety of patient disorders and group emergencies both inside and outside of the ER

Product Description

For an unprecedented nine years in a row, ER was TV’s highest rated drama among 18-49 year olds. Currently, in its tenth season, ER is ranked #2 in overall households by Nielsen Media Research. Created by Michael Crichton and produced by John Wells, the series has earned 21 Emmy awards and 108 nominations, an all-time industry record. Approximately 20,000,000 people each week watch the show on NBC and TNT.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Legacy games continue to decline, November 10, 2005

By	Carol Watkins "Psychiatrist" (Baltimore, MD United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

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.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Completely unplayable due to bugs, February 12, 2006

By	B.P. (United States) - See all my reviews

Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

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.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fun, but SHORT!!!!!, February 25, 2006

By	Alan Edwards "Meg158" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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 :)