Product Description

The hit Nintendo DS surgical simulator comes to Nintendo's new home console in this remake (or 'Wii-make') with vastly updated graphics, a second playable character, a new sixth chapter and new instruments to wield - this time with the Wii controllers. In Trauma Center: Second Opinion you take the role of rookie doctor Derek Stiles - a young surgeon with the extraordinary 'Healing Touch' ability - as he is enlisted into the secret Caduceus organisation to combat a deadly new disease. In the DS version you used the touch screen and stylus to perform surgical procedures but in this Wii version you can get totally hands-on by using the motion sensitive Wii Remote and Nunchuk.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #438 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Nintendo
• Released on: 2007-08-10
• Platform: Nintendo Wii

Amazon.co.uk Review:
In a nutshell:
Now everyone can be a brain surgeon as you pick up scalpel and forceps to battle the full horrors of an infected intestine, medical terrorism and angry anime nurses!

The lowdown:
The original Trauma Center is already one of the most original and fun games on the Nintendo DS but although this is largely just a remake of that game it's more than welcome on the Wii. As accurate a simulation of real medicine as Phoenix Wright is of law (i.e. not very much) you'll nevertheless have great fun repairing hapless patients with ailments that start of as simple tumours to bizarre fights against evil terrorist nanobots. What really makes the game though is the simple intuitiveness of the controls, with the precise movement of your scalpel being one of the best endorsements of the Wii Remote's accuracy. The game's no push over though and you'll need to employ the mysterious bullet time style "healing touch" to make sure you don't end up the Doctor Death of Hope Hospital.

Most exciting moment:
Although the game is a remake of the DS it does include several new missions, an extra playable character, new operation types and new surgical tools - including a defibrillator which demands a shout of "clear!" every time you use it.

Since you ask:
A surgery game was one of the first styles of games hinted at in an introductory video for the Wii, which also showed people appearing to play games involving fishing, cooking and playing the drums - amongst other non-typical games concepts.

The bottom line:
Major surgery has never been so much fun as the Wii and DS line-up combine.-HARRISON DENT

Manufacturer's Description
Heart surgery and tumour removal might look easy from the morphine end, but how do you think the doctor feels? Well, you're going to find out! In Trauma Center, the patients' lives are in your hands! You'll experience all the drama we've come to expect from the medical field. So go ahead, toss on some scrubs and step into the O.R.—it's time to play doctor.

Customer Reviews

Trauma Center: Second Opinion
You take control of Derek Stiles a surgeon that has just graduated from medical school and Nozomi Weaver a surgeon with a shady past. The year is 2018 and most diseases have been cured yet still people get sick and a group of biological terrorist unleash GUILT on the world.

Gameplay is alot fun and this game is quite long 40+ missions in total each getting harder as you go along. Luckly you get an ability called "The Healing Touch" which basically slows down time and can help you in a operation although you can only use this once per operation.

Graphically it looks nice switiching from graphic novel characters and 3D backgrounds. The dialogue is mostly text with a little voice work added to some sections of the game.

There is tons of replay value in this game. Trying to get the top ranks in each operation (good luck with that) will keep bringing you back for more.

Unfortunately no online play or co-op play which would have made this title even better then it is. This is a MUST BUY game for Wii owners.

brilliant fun
i love this game and i bought a wii and this was my first game. i then took it home and spent 4 hours on it after my toddler went to bed. anyone with a toddler knows this is precious sleep time sacrificed. anyhow i only have one complaint, you cant skip the dialogue. if you repeat an operation you have to go through the pep talk again and again. it bugs me. you get fed up pressing the A button to skip to the next sentence. even so i love it!!!!!!

A triumph, but a little samey
The game has been out a while, but I felt it fitting to review the game in two sections, 1) for those who have not played the DS version and 2) for those who have.
1) The game sees you, Derrek Stiles, a rookie surgeon at Hope Hospital, a man with dormant ability (he has the power to focus and slow down things) who is eventually enlisted to combact a nasty virus known as GUILT. That is the story spread out over the course of the game. It's brilliant but a little tedious at times using manga style stills to tell the story.
2) If you played the first game, then the story is virtually identicle (a couple of words are switched for ease) but the missions by Nozomi add a little depth to the game.
Controls (1+2) The nunchuck is basically for selecting surgical item or for allowing you to use your focus ability. The remote allows you to use the item and is thorougly pleasing and remarkably accurate! You hold A and B together to use forceps (like you would in real life) you zig zag the remote to stich, aim and point for the laser, and there are other tricks depending on what you're doing, i.e. cutting, injecting, magnifying, scanning etc. It is all well explained and gradually eases you into the game.
The new missions see you mending bones and dealing with new guilt suspects otherwise all missions are the same as the Ds version. There is 1 Nozomi mission for every section (group) of Stiles levels.
1) For those who haven't played this game before, the game gives you a number of ops such as removing guilt (weird varying parasite things) to removing tumours, dealing with Polyps, dealing with internal wounds to heart surgery. You will also get to perform surgery on a plane and defuse a bomb.

If you played and loved the first, I am loving this, so get it, if you are new, get it, it is unique and you won't regret it. However, this may not be everyones cup of tea (the squirmish need not worry, its all very tasteful :-))