Trauma Center: New Blood
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| Developer | Atlus |
| Publisher | Atlus |
| Release | United States November 20, 2007 Japan January 18, 2008 |
| Genre | simulation |
Trauma Center: New Blood is the third game released for the Trauma Center series, available exclusively on the Nintendo Wii.
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[edit] Plot
Trauma Center: New Blood takes place 7 years after the events of Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2 (but not mentioning any of the events of UTK2 in New Blood, since the former was launched after New Blood), and follows doctors Markus Vaughn and Valerie Blaylock, two surgeons with the "Healing Touch" ability who worked at the Concordia Medical Institute in Los Angeles. Dr. Vaughn moves over to Montgomery Memorial hospital in Alaska and is followed by Dr. Blaylock. While they are there, they treat a former patient of Dr. Vaughn's, Elena Salazar. When the hospital closed down, the director of Montgomery Memorial, Miles Hoover, tells them to return to Concordia, and Elena joins them as their nurse. Once there, they learn from Lloyd Wilkens, an old acquaintance of Markus's, about a new and mysterious parasite called Stigma.
After Markus and Valerie operated on Lloyd, who was infected with Stigma, the professor is kidnapped and all of his data regarding this new disease is stolen. Fearing the worst, Dr. Vaughn and Dr. Blaylock are invited to join Caduceus. The first cases of Stigma were kept from the public eye until appearing on Miracle Surgery and getting the better of Dr. Leonardo Bello. Dr. Vaughn, Dr. Blaylock, and Elena are later kidnapped by the Kidman Family, a criminal organization that has studied the doctors' skills and the profitability of Stigma, here it was revealed that Markus was responsible for the creation of Stigma, which was from an accident from when Markus was working with Professor Wilkens, whom had the intentions of becoming famous with the research. Markus however rejected the idea of using a potential threat to become famous and left for Alaska. After traveling to South America to find Wilkens and Kidman (which ended with the death of the latter), they discovered Cynthia, a woman working at Caduceus, was in league with a man named Master Vakhushti, who planned to give an implant to Elena similar to Cynthia's (the implant in Cynthia's heart hides a remote control which could stop the organ's proper function). After removing the device from Cynthia, they encountered Vakhushti, who carries Cardia, the final strain of Stigma. Valerie and Markus deal with the final Stigma and find out that Cardia was meant to be used a treatment for a terminal illness, but in infecting himself with it, Vakhushti became sociopathic and insane. He dies acknowledging his sins shortly after the operation. As life returns to normal, Valerie, Markus and Elena contemplate how it is up to them to save a life when needed.
Derek Stiles and Angie Thompson from the previous Trauma Center games make a cameo appearance in Episode 7-4 and the fourth Challenge mission, in which the player must combat both Stigma and GUILT in a virtual reality simulation. Stiles, compared to his appearances in Under The Knife and Second Opinion, has shorter and lighter hair, and Angie's hair is shorter.
[edit] Gameplay
At the end of each operation, a rank is assigned based on the style and accuracy of the player. The rankings are:
- C- Rookie Doctor
- B- Specialist
- A- Senior Surgeon
- S- Master Surgeon
- XS- Medical Prodigy
The XS rank can only be achieved in Hard or Extreme difficulty.
Scores are calculated differently from the other games. In addition to the Stage score - the raw score value gained while operating during the level, there is the Skill score. This comprises of the Vital bonus, Time bonus, and chain length bonus, while Special bonuses award multipliers to the Skill score. The Skill and Stage scores are then added to give the final score that determines your rank.
The game progresses in chapters, just like Under The Knife and Second Opinion. There are seven chapters total, and each operation in each chapter must be completed in order to proceed.
At the end of every few chapters, there is a Challenge mode, usually three to five operations performed consecutively, all operations from the chapters since the last Challenge. Each challenge is marked with an A and the number challenge it is; therefore, Challenge 1 is called A-1. There is no Stigma in these operations except in Challenge A-4, where both Stigma and GUILT must be operated on simultaneously. The chain works differently too - scoring a Good or lower where a Cool could have been scored will break your chain. If a Challenge operation is failed, the game will automatically give the player a rank of C.
Like both Trauma Center games that came before it, New Blood features the X missions once the entire game is completed. These games are merely a challenge to the player and are set on "Extreme" difficulty. There are 6 of these operations in New Blood, one for each strain of Stigma.
[edit] Soundtrack
The soundtrack was composed by Atsushi Kitajoh.
[edit] External Links
| v • d • e | Trauma Center series | |||
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| Games | Under the Knife • Second Opinion • New Blood • Under the Knife 2 | |||
| Characters | Derek Stiles • Naomi Kimishima • Markus Vaughn • Valerie Blaylock | |||
| Organizations | Caduceus International • Delphi • Eidoth Pharmaceuticals • Humani • Parnassus • Acropolis Pharmaceutical • Hands of Asclepius | |||
| GUILT | Kyriaki • Deftera • Triti • Tetarti • Pempti • Paraskevi • Savato • Bliss • PGS | |||
| Stigma | Cheir • Soma • Ops • Onyx • Brachion • Cardia | |||
| Neo-GUILT | Nous • Sige • Bythos • Aletheia | |||
