Most operations – at least the first few times – devolve into aimlessly mangling the patient’s insides with something sharp to find the points that can be cut, before reattempting on a “serious” run. Your arm further compounds things, completely obscuring lower sections you need to cut, making the entire thing guesswork, and I had to restart one level because the replacement organ I dropped in fell the wrong way round and I had no way to flip it over. It’s a level of finesse that is almost impossible to pull off, particularly when you can’t change the angle of the scalpel you’re using. Bone isn’t so bad – in fact you can see lines separating the sections it will break into if you look close enough – but removing the large intestine in the kidney operation requires you to cut two points that are slightly darker than the rest. Wrestling with the controls is kind of the point – there would be no challenge otherwise, so it’s hard to pick on that as a flaw – but the system is tied to incredibly specific points on each organ that can be cut. The line between fun and frustration is a tight one in games such as this, and unfortunately Surgeon Simulator crosses it far too often. It has all the trappings of a comedic game, and you’ll giggle the first few times you play it, but the novelty soon wears off. Along the way you can accidentally drug yourself by touching a syringe, drop vital equipment on the floor or in the patient, and even electrocute yourself. and transplanting various organs into and out of your unfortunate patient without him loosing to much blood. Operations have you clumsily grabbing scalpels, bone-saws, lasers etc. R1 meanwhile grasps with the forefinger and thumb, whilst R2 closes the remaining fingers. Your disembodied hand is rotated either with motion control or the right stick, moved around with the left and lowered with L2. While it could be a bleak training game, Surgeon Simulator instead goes down the comedy route, with ungainly controls making your life as difficult as possible. You control a hand, using a variety of surgical tools to complete various operations without killing your patient. A patient needs a heart transplant? You just need to rip open his chest cavity, pull everything out and fling a new one in! Left your watch inside of him? No matter, he wanted a new ticker anyway! Ha ha ha.įor those of you who don’t know, Surgeon Simulator: Anniversary Edition is the PS4 version of last year’s PC game. Surgeon Simulator feels a lot like you’re controlling one of the doctors in that late 90’s classic. Did you ever play Theme Hospital? Who am I kidding, of course you did, it’s brilliant.
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