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Medical drama with violence, profanity, and moral ambiguity.
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Trauma Team
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Based on 11 kid reviews
Kids say the game offers an engaging and realistic portrayal of medical scenarios through diverse storylines, but it may not be suitable for younger or sensitive players due to some dark themes, coarse language, and intense imagery. The gameplay is visually captivating and educational, yet some find the controls frustrating and the cutscenes lengthy, making it better for older teens interested in a more mature and complex gaming experience.
- engaging gameplay
- dark themes
- realistic portrayal
- educational elements
- recommended for older
- frustrating controls
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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.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
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?
Game Details
- Platform : Nintendo Wii
- Pricing structure :
- Available online? : Not available online
- Publisher : Atlus
- Release date : May 18, 2010
- Genre : Puzzle
- ESRB rating :
- Last updated : October 9, 2025
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