Trauma Team, known in Japan as Hospital.: 6 Doctors (HOSPITAL.: 6人の医師?) is an upcoming video game for the Wii console. Atlus’s “Trauma” franchise has long been a staple on the Wii, offering up high-drama operating room-based gameplay, intense surgical situations, and fun Wii-centric controls. Now, the publisher is readying to release the latest game in the hospital-based franchise with Trauma Team. Instead of putting you in control of one surgeon through a variety of frantic surgeries, Trauma Team instead shifts the narrative to a group of doctors, each of them with a different specialty that comes into play in the game’s story-driven campaign. The basic mechanics still fit the tried and true Trauma Center formula, but the game does feature some new elements to keep series regulars interested.

Trauma Team is a fine addition to the franchise, offering a changing narrative and some new gameplay features to help it stand out against its predecessors. However, the changes to surgery aren’t very major, and some of the elements can be tedious and repetitive.

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