TRAUMA CENTER SECOND OPINION D RANK SERIAL
The plot includes ghosts, psychic powers, superheroes, Saw-like serial killers and wisecracking AI robots. You can play the plots in any order, although the final story will only be available once you've finished the first six story lines.Īs a franchise, Trauma Center has never been overly interested in reality, but Trauma Team takes it above and beyond the norm. Once you've finished the six plots, a seventh final story opens that revolves around the treatment of this virus and the culmination of all the character's plotlines. Their stories all end up dealing with a mysterious virus that is spreading around Portland. Likewise, Gabe may diagnose a patient, only for S-01 to treat him. Maria, for example, is the First Response paramedic for Resurgem, so patients she has treated show up in another doctor's story. She is solving murders using a strange psychic power, but she stumbles across a mystery that threatens the world.Įach of the six doctors has a story that is separate from the others, although they frequently intertwine. Suffering the aftereffects of her previous encounters with the GUILT virus, Kimishima only has a short time to live and is unable to perform surgery anymore. Finally, returning from Trauma Center: Second Opinion is Naomi Kimishima. Tomoe Tachibana is the scion of a wealthy Japanese family who is torn between family responsibility and her desire for freedom. Gabe Cunningham is a curmudgeon who is going through a divorce. Hank Freebird is a former war veteran who has adopted a superhero identity to prevent anyone innocent from dying again. Maria Torres is a paramedic who is haunted by the ghost of a mysterious little girl and is struggling to overcome her desire to control everything. He's also joined by a number of other doctors. The same act has left him with amnesia, making it impossible for S-01 to know whether or not he was really guilty. The main surgeon, and the closest the game has to a main character, is S-01, a former doctor found guilty of an act of bioterrorism that has left countless dead.
Trauma Team's plot is structured around six separate doctors working at Resurgem General Care near Portland, Oregon.
It is more accessible, making it the ideal Trauma Center game for beginners and longtime fans alike. It branches out the standard Trauma Center gameplay, adding a mostly new cast and removing a few features that had been standard in previous games. Trauma Team on the Wii reboots the franchise in multiple ways. Later games in the franchise lowered the skill requirements but still felt intimidating to the average person. Even if you could advance, you'd likely see a morale-draining C ranking, regardless of how well you thought you did. It was a pretty common problem for gamers to get stuck midway through with no way to progress. On top of that, it was known for its punishing difficulty. Trauma Center: Under the Knife was one of the earliest titles to take advantage of the Nintendo DS' capabilities, and to this day, it remains one of the few games that really uses the touch-screen.