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Trauma Team
- Nintendo Wii
- Price: $39.99
- Genre: Puzzle
Common Sense Media says
Medical drama with violence, profanity, and moral ambiguity.
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What parents need to know
Parents need to know that playing this game is kind of like watching a full season of a hospital drama on TV -- except it's interactive. And there's a fair amount of cussing (with words you can't say on TV), meant to add to the realism. While the game is mostly about the aftermath of violence, you do get to see the violent stories that lead up the the traumas you must work on. These violent and bloody stories, though, are depicted in graphic novel still frames. Also, one of the protagonists smokes.
What's it about?
If you're a fan of TV hospital dramas and crime shows, TRAUMA TEAM gives you both the thrill of solving a mystery and the drama of surgery in the ER. Here, you'll work in a half dozen roles, everything from surgeon to medical examiner, as you proceed through various twisting stories. But the most important is one involving a young, imprisoned doctor called CR-SO1. Was he really behind the biological terror attack that got him a 250-year prison sentence -- one in which he he's constantly shackled and wears an iron mask? If he can perform various surgeries, the authorities will take years off his sentence. And he might just discover who really caused that bio-terror attack.
Is it any good?
Think of Trauma Team as a very refined version of Milton Bradley's classic Operation game. Surprisingly, the Wii remote and nunchuk work very well as you examine, medicate, cut, and suture patients. Essentially, you have a wheel full of medical equipment on the lower right portion of the screen. Choose one with the nunchuk and perform the procedure with the 'A' and 'B' buttons. While the writing is decent and the graphics are quite beautiful in a manga kind of way, some of the dialogue and cut scenes feel long and cumbersome. Yet the combination of compelling mystery, nuanced characterization, and enjoyable game mechanics make Trauma Center a worthy contender in the action-puzzle game genre.
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Most of the violence in Trauma Team is depicted in comic-book panel still-frame images. Does this make the violence easier to handle? Does it seem less realistic that way?
How realistic do you think the medical operations in this game are? Does the game make you want to pursue a career as a doctor or as a forensic specialist?
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AWESOME!
IT IS THE BESTEST GAME EVER!!
Why do you people think that it is bad??? Gabe rocks!
Just don't let your obnoxious teenage boys play. Or five year olds. They do say bad words and smoke and stuff... but really? It ain't worth iffy for 13. More like on for 12+
Only prob... language. Which sometimes can surprise you... when you turn up your TV all the way. :)
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AWESOME!
IT IS THE BESTEST GAME EVER!!
Why do you people think that it is bad??? Gabe rocks!
Just don't let your obnoxious teenage boys play. Or five year olds. They do say bad words and smoke and stuff... but really? It ain't worth iffy for 13. More like on for 12+
Only prob... language. Which sometimes can surprise you... when you turn up your TV all the way. :)
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Teen, 15 years old
January 5, 2011
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Cool Game
I thought this game was pretty fun. I think that anybody who's NOT a teen shouldn't play this game, since it's rated T for teen. If anyone is worried about language, cussing doctors, or role models that aren't necessarily perfect, then you shouldn't play or let a young kid play. There are good role models as well, too and really good messages. Sadly, it's a bit soap opera-like. But no doubt it's educational. How else would you know what a scalpel is?
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Teen, 13 years old
May 25, 2010
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A good game for an older audience
I really enjoy this game, but only because I want to be a forensics analyst when I grow up. This is NOT recommended for weak hearts tho, that is fore sure! The comments made about female patients are nice like "Wow my skin was never that clean when I was her age!" not sexual at all. There are some bad words but nothing an average tween can't handle... unless you are a Duggar. LOL, i recommend this game to kids who watch shows like this game frequently, not new commers.
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Kid, 12 years old
May 30, 2010
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perfect 4 all ages.
THIS IS THE BEST GAME EVER!!!!!:D
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Teen, 13 years old
April 9, 2011
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Not for sensitive people
It's a pretty fun game but the controls can get a bit irritating and hard at times. Like when you have to extract things, I did the exact motion but it just wouldn't come out until I turned the wii remote a specific way. Also there were time in the "Forensics" and "Diagnosis" levels where I had no idea what to do next.. But to be fair the game does teach you about plenty of things. Like I never new that temperature increases during pregnancy and there were many other facinating things. Also there are good role models and bad ones. Like how the doctors work hard to save patients lives. One of them swears a lot but she is determined and hard working. However this game really isn't for the sensitive because it can get bloody and there are a few scenes that scared me. One of the doctors smokes and I find that pretty bad because he's a doctor and really shouldn't be doing that.
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Teen, 14 years old
January 23, 2011
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AWESOME GAME
CR-S01 and Little Guy are the SEX!!!
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Parent
January 1, 2011
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Not recommended for younger kids, iffy for older
My daughter has another game in this series (Trauma Center: Second Opinion), and based on our experience with that game I got her Trauma Team. Unfortunately, Trauma Team is much worse.
Profanity is ever-present, including several uses of B-S, G-D, SOB. Sexual references include characters expressing discomfort lifting their shirts or letting the doctor examine them...played for laughs when it's a male doctor and middle-aged business man, but the tone is completely different when it's a male doctor and a blushing, stammering schoolgirl in a school uniform. Another female character is shown talking on the phone, standing in her underwear, no shirt, with a towel around her neck. The ends of the towel barely cover her nipples..the rest of the breasts are shown.
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Kid, 0 years old
December 27, 2010
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6 years old are not allowed to play
i like to be a doctor because i can learn how to fix the body and i be good doctor in the world.
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Kid, 11 years old
December 18, 2011
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forensics scares 4 years to 8. it's pretty complicated , just get trauma center , it's better than this
NOT FOR YOUNG KIDS OR SENSITIVE PPL , nuff said , 10 and up
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| Platforms: | Nintendo Wii |
| Available online? | Not available online |
| Genre: | Puzzle |
| Developer: | Atlus |
| Release date: | May 18, 2010 |
| Price: | $39.99 |
| ESRB rating: | T for Blood, Language, Suggestive Themes, Use of Tobacco, Violence (Nintendo Wii) |
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