The controls work beautifully and the operations are varied. The Nunchuk controller allows quick selection of your surgical tools, while players need a steady hand and nerves of steel to use the Wii Remote in activities such as cutting out tumours, applying artificial membranes, removing glass fragments, repairing fractures, laser-zapping parasites, massaging a heart, draining fluid from a festering lesion and stitching wounds.
You must work under constant pressure during emergencies. Time limits are ruthless, and sometimes there are extra complications, such as operating on a plane experiencing turbulence or working in the dark. If you take too long and a patient flat-lines you'll need to revive them.
With the Switch bringing interest back into the realm of motion controls, it seems as good a time as any to dip back into the backlog and retrieve some lucrative nuggets from the one that launched the phenomenon in the first place: the Nintendo Wii.
Game Idealist take a look at the top ten gifts for new Wii gamers back in 2006.
Ms Throwback of TLR Writes "While branches of the military have made their own video games simulations to help improve military personnel in combat situations, it has been shown that different genres of video games make eye-hand coordination better over all."
