11/7/2023 0 Comments Kids in theme hospital gameWell, my gaming habits were not influenced by my friends as a child - I was influenced by my aunt. If you are inclined to take a trip to the yesteryear of medicine that doesn’t involve trepanning, you can pick up Theme Hospital for PC on Origin and on the PS Store as a PS1 Classic (in the US - it has been removed in the EU. IGN and Gamespot were both favourable about the PlayStation version, though Gamespot was quite critical of the PC original. This sweet little package of tough-as-nails management sim (just you wait ’til you get to the last hospital, Battenberg) and slapstick wonder earned it high praise on release, getting an 8/10 in Edge and 85% in PC Gamer UK for the PC versions. There were a couple of extra perks for pop culture fans, such as Hannibal Lecter being called to see security by the receptionist, who provides a dry dose of wit throughout the game. It ranks up there with deliberately not repairing your bouncy castles in Theme Park and waiting for them to explode, ejecting hapless park attendees 20ft into the air. Bloaty Head disease, and the treatment of popping your afflicted patients with a needle like a helium balloon, was surely one of the most ridiculous ideas ever injected into the traditionally stodgy management genre. The production team wisely decided to use made-up diseases instead of going for realism. The characteristic daftness of Bullfrog Productions’ games, as evident in the highly sarcastic Theme Park (released for a variety of PC and console formats starting in 1994), was amplified in Theme Hospital. Despite the relatively high price point for a non-AAA game, I was very excited about the release of Two Point Hospital, precisely because Theme Hospital was a milestone in my gaming history. The game is a tad more than a spiritual successor to Theme Hospital, with key figures such as Gary Carr and Mark Webley involved in both games, and operates on the same principle, but with more finesse. And if you were to suggest that I piece together a decent gaming rig and stop being so horribly dependent on Sony, you may as well be asking me to remove someone’s appendix.īut indeed, it has come back to haunt me, since I currently have no way of running Two Point Hospital - yes, my laptop is that craptacular. I’ve grown complacent about the fact that everything I want either 1) comes to the PS4, or 2) is so bare-bones in terms of its technical requirements that my cheap-as-chips elderly laptop can handle it, no probs. Usually, I’m quite indignant about any suggestion that my commitment to the PlayStation brand could bite me full force in the arse.
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