

Meanwhile, with use of one hand, Bob's ribcage is cracked into three pieces scattered on the floor, accidentally had his small intestine removed with an incorrect scalpel movement, and has been stabbed in the side so much he is spurting blood (complete with a stomach-churning animation). Trainer Pamela will come over the loudspeaker to cheerfully toss out casual instructions and suggestions.

Surgeon Simulator 2 is heart-pounding and thrilling for a while. If players perform the surgery delicately, using an implement to remove parts of Bob, he will bleed out more slowly. Throwing caution to the wind and tearing off bits of Bob will bleed him out more quickly, making it game over for the player. This will tell them what to remove and replace. The test patient, called Bob, has many ailments, and players can find out about these ailments using the scanner. Players participate in a story mode in a dilapidated training hospital under obvious construction and work on test patients. The controls in the game are, of course, wacky and difficult, and that is by design. Players must learn to control an outstretched left hand, which they can move and twist in almost any direction, and use it to perform these less-than-scientifically-accurate medical procedures. Related: Surgeon Simulator 2 Adds Co-Op and Lets Players Build Their Own Story While Surgeon Simulator 2 is a lot of wild fun, it doesn't go quite far enough with its concept to build on the original's great ideas. They can also build their own puzzle levels to challenge friends and strangers to make it back to the operating room. Unfortunately, once they return to the operating room, there is little variety in the procedures that would have kept the game from going stale after a while. They can recruit up to three other budding medical professionals to help them work on Bob and prevent him from bleeding out, or just create more chaos, in the new co-op mode. Players do not have to take on such daunting tasks alone, however. Playing the game in co-op Story Mode doesn’t ease the frustration but it does increase the odds of someone succeeding and helping to complete the task.If tools like the saw and scalpel aren't working or are taking too long, players also always have the opportunity to perform surgery the good old fashioned way: by ripping appendages and organs out and quickly popping in new ones. And later, when the surgical objectives become a little more demanding, that floppy, flailing arm isn’t funny at all. It’s funny until it’s not, which for me is pretty early in. Where the Campaign Mode, and the game as a whole, falls a little flat is that your single interface with the environment is a floppy arm and hand that comically flail around as you try to pick up objects, perform surgical actions, press buttons, or place fresh organs in a quickly bleeding-out body. It gets weirder and more absurd and there are definitely moments of outlandish humor to be had.
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To start, there’s the single player campaign (which also can be played co-op Story Mode), placing the player in the role of a new surgeon in a less than stellar training hospital, a facility that has many locked doors and secret areas, and an increasingly unhinged narrative voice that leads you through an escalating series of ridiculous operations, challenges and environmental puzzles. Surgeon Simulator 2: Access All Areas includes a lot of content.
