Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2
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| Trauma Center : Under The Knife 2 | |
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| Developer | Atlus |
| Publisher | Atlus |
| Release | United States July 1, 2008 Japan August 7, 2008 |
| Genre | Medical simulation, visual novel |
Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2 is a direct sequel to Trauma Center: Under the Knife. It takes place 3 years after the events of its predecessor and features the same main characters along with two new characters: Adel Tulba and Heather Ross. Release dates are currently set at August 7, 2008 for Japan and July 1, 2008 for North America.
[edit] Plot
The story is set in the year 2021. The Republic of Costigar, in Africa, is a country that has been plagued by warfare for over a decade, and is finally on the road to peace. However, they still struggle with attacks by guerrilla militants, land mines, and many refugees. Despite this, the country is slowly on its way to becoming a peaceful nation. Countries around the world have been sending aid to the country, as well as building hospitals to help the citizens of Costigar. However, they are very short on staff and need more to be able to take care of all of the patients.
Doctor Derek Stiles, along with his faithful nurse Angie Thompson, get called to the war-ravaged country to study and figure out how to treat a new disease, dubbed "Costigar Disease". After saving a patient, Doctor Adel Tulba comes into the scene, and starts his work as a doctor. He, however, makes a misdiagnosis and forces Dr. Stiles to operate. Some time later, a child soldier takes Angie hostage, demanding to be released from the camp. Adel calms him down and gets him to cooperate, but the child then collapses from the Costigar Disease. Derek operates on him and demonstrates his Healing Touch.
Following the operation, Caduceus USA informs Derek that he and Angie must return the United States immediately. The three of them then fly to America, and Adel is in awe as he gets a glimpse of the first city he has ever been in. At Caduceus, the three then learn about Post-GUILT Syndrome, or PGS, which has been affecting past GUILT patients.
At Elysium, a hospital for past GUILT patients, Derek and Angie encounter Emilio Juarez, a Sinner who was saved during the events of Under the Knife, and his attending nurse, Heather Ross. Derek operates on Emilio due to PGS, but despite that, the severe damage done to Emilio's liver required a liver transplant. It is during this operation that the first strain of Neo-GUILT, Nous, is seen and treated.
Some time afterwards, Reina Mayuzumi, president of the Acropolis Pharmaceutical, meets with Derek and attempts to have Derek work with Acropolis, going as far as to bribe him. Unknowingly to him, Ms. Mayuzumi wants to unlock the secret of his Healing Touch, which she does by having Dr. Stiles filmed while performing an operation on a man with aneurysms.
Soon after, a GUILT outbreak occurs at Elysium. The Caduceus GUILT team mobilizes and then heads for Elysium. With four patients infected with mutated strains of Kyriaki, including Emilio and Heather, Derek decides to leave Emilio for last due to Emilio having GUILT antibodies and being able to last longer. However, after successfully treating the other 3 patients, Emilio's vitals reach a critical state. Derek tries to resuscitate him to no avail.
Derek, still traumatized by Emilio Juarez's death, attempts to operate on Adel Tulba who had come down with the Costigar disease. However, he soon realizes that he is unable to use his Healing Touch, forcing Robert Hoffman to take over. Derek then sinks into a deep depression, and it is decided that he will transfer to Hope Hospital for the time being.
At Hope he is mentored by Greg Kasal and Cybil Kasal, and by Mary Fulton. They take Derek under their wing for a period of time, until Derek is asked by Angie to visit her father, Kenneth Blackwell, who is in prison. Blackwell shortly comes down with PGS, forcing Derek to operate on him. However, the very nature of Blackwell's PGS forces Derek to suspend treatment due to the inability to use the Healing Touch. Derek, however, remembers the very reason he became a doctor in the first place, and proceeds to regain his Healing Touch ability and save Blackwell.
Soon after, two new threats appear to the Caduceus staff. The first is the Hands of Asclepius, a new medical organization headed by Patrick Mercer. Its latest advances in medical technology, including the development of an ability enhancement programme, has led to staff transferring to it, including Adel and even Blackwell. The other is the fact that Delphi is now behind the GUILT outbreaks. Though Adam, the former leader of Delphi, is dead, the terrorist group is being led by Heinrich von Raitenau, Adam's grandson, who carries the same ideals. Both organizations however are not united against Caduceus, as Delphi continues to spread GUILT, even going on to kidnap Mayuzumi. During the raid on the Delphi hideout, they inject a mutated strain of Pempti into Mayuzumi, forcing Derek to operate.
During a raid on a Delphi outpost, though, Derek and Angie are kidnapped by Delphi members, and brought straight to the main Delphi Headquarters. Heinrich reveals his plans to use Angie as cultivation of new strains of GUILT, and for Derek to be a test patient. Angie and Derek manage to escape imprisonment, and contact Caduceus, informing them of their location. Caduceus and the HOA proceed to storm the Delphi headquarters, where they find that Heinrich is using his son and daughter as cultivation for GUILT, and he plans to enter suspended animation just as Adam did. Adel attempts to use a GUILT serum developed by Acropolis to treat the GUILT present, only to activate the dormant GUILT. Derek proceeds to save the lives of Heinrich and his children.
After the breakup of Delphi, Caduceus receives a new patient - Annie Fisher - but kept her charts confidential, due to chiral reactions being detected from her body, but said reactions not matching any past GUILT strains. During the operation, they discover and treat another strain of Neo-GUILT, Bythos. It is eventually revealed that the Neo-GUILT is coming from the medications produced by Acropolis, and that Blackwell transferred to the HOA in order to trace the origin of the Neo-GUILT. During an investigation on the HOA, its doctors, who have received the medications as well, begin collapsing from brain trauma, and Adel coming down with Sige. Mercer is then tracked down to a plant where it is revealed that he was researching Neo-GUILT to revive his comatose wife, Tracy Mercer. His attempt fails, and then escapes to a deeper part of the plant, where he tries to use Aletheia, housed in Mayuzumi. This fails as well, and after Aletheia is successfully treated, Mercer attempts to take down the UN soldiers with him, but gets shot to death.
Over the following few months, Caduceus regains its standing in the medical community, Adel returns to Africa, and Derek and Angie begin traveling the world to improve their skills. The game ends with them on a flight to meet up with Professor Irvine, a cranial nerve surgeon, reading a letter of thanks from Heather and discussing Derek's training with him (possibly awakening Tracy Mercer as a result). Angie then chooses that moment to implicitly confess her feelings for Derek, with the closing text strongly suggesting a romantic relationship.
[edit] Gameplay
Under the Knife 2's gameplay remains relatively unchanged from the other Trauma Center games in the series, but with the addition of new tools from Second Opinion and New Blood, including the defibrillator. The game features the addition of difficulty settings, a nod to Second Opinion and New Blood. For a Neo-GUILT operation, in order to act as a gas compressor, the player blows into the microphone in order to clear gas from the field of view. The rank system remains unchanged from the past two games.
[edit] External Links
| v • d • e | Trauma Center series | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||
