Super complex and deep game. Nice development of diseases and their symptoms, for example, your patient may fall unconscious from dehydration or blood loss. Also somewhat decent building system, which, despite the fact it has super dumb turning system and most of objects are just decorations, still meets expectations. So why my rating is only 3/10? The answer is A.I. and U.I.
To startSuper complex and deep game. Nice development of diseases and their symptoms, for example, your patient may fall unconscious from dehydration or blood loss. Also somewhat decent building system, which, despite the fact it has super dumb turning system and most of objects are just decorations, still meets expectations. So why my rating is only 3/10? The answer is A.I. and U.I.
To start with, A.I. does not prioritize at all, for example, collapsing patient with multiple life threatening symptoms will not be examined on MRI before queue with low risk patients or will not be operated before a patient with planed operation with low risk. Operations and treatment is another level of stupidity. Operations do not reveal symptoms, for example after opening the chest of patient in order sew up patient’s lung, surgeons will not reveal damage of arteries and will not sew them up. Moreover, if multiple surgeons are needed, surgeons will not perform them at once, even if the patient is collapsing, and this makes me feel furious. Treatments and diagnostic procedures work the same way, but sometimes, as some of them can be done without stupid system of transportation. There is no logic in shared units choice. Staff A.I. is really awful too. ICU collapsing patients are not treated by nearest doctor, doctors go on breaks when they are needed the most in a way like this:
Nurse: OUR PATIENT IS DYING FROM SEPTIC SHOCK, HEART FAILURE, RESPIRATORY FAILURE AND SEVERE BLOOD LOSS AND GO HELP HIM!!!
Doctor: I DON’T CARE I WANT TO GO TO COMMON ROOM ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HOSPITAL!!!!
Nurse: ANYONE HELP PLEASE!
Other doctors: This is not my patient, so I don’t care
Patient: dies
Game: DeSpItE bEsT EfFoRtS, pAtIeNt DiEd. MaYbE a MoRe EfFiCiEnT hOsPiTaL cOuLd HaNdLe ThIs???!!!
There are more things like this, but they can be handled without that much harm.
So U.I. in this game is superb non obvious. Every day you get a report on load of department units. However, you can not discover which unit is loaded critically. The only way to find out which unit is overloaded is to look manually in management mode, but it is not obvious at all. Also there a lot of less vital, but still useful things that are hard to find, like the button which makes your cam follow patient or staff member.
There are a lot more things to freak the player out. It is almost impossible to make the hospital profitable, grant system is weird, ratings are quite random, thanks to A.I. Also the in-game tutorial does not give you enough skills to play on your own.
Overall, the game is rather disappointing at the moment. When I just began, I saw only the best sides of gameplay, what raised the bar of expected quality to high. But then, I saw what this game really is, and after I discovered that playing this game brings you more stress than joy, I deleted it and never came back to play it. So the final mark is: REFUND.… Expand
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