Trauma Center: Under the Knife review

The DS sews up the most bizarre emergency room ever

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While hacking away at patients may sound like a bloody blast, Trauma Center is actually quite challenging. Each surgery is like a puzzle that must be deciphered correctly and in a timely fashion, lest you want to end up with a corpse in front of you. In addition to using the right tools at specific points in the procedure, you’ll have to deal with a ticking clock and plummeting heart rates that must be stabilized (often with injections) before you can continue.

Matt Cabral
Matt Cabral
A full-time freelance writer based in Lizzie Borden's hometown, Matt Cabral has covered film, television, and video games for over a decade. You can follow him on Twitter @gamegoat, friend him on Facebook, or find him in the basement of an abandoned building hoarding all the canned goods, med-kits, and shotgun shells.
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