Nine Over Ten writes: "What would be the first thing to cross your mind when you hear that the hit TV show Grey's Anatomy has been turned into a Nintendo DS game? A Trauma Center clone?
Well, you got that nearly right. Couple your answer with some role-playing elements to help the whole cast of characters achieve their individual goals, which includes trying to get it on with each other, and you would have scored a home run."
GP writer Marcus Estrada discusses 5 terrible video game adaptions of TV shows and what made them so bad.
I normally avoid the TV show adaptation games made. Haven't had the best of luck with any of them. :(
Sad part is that I think Dexter would have potential.
Is the guy in the CSI game actually just a really fast growing baby? Just look at him. Nothing adds up.
GameZone writes: "Not that the sound is much better. The Grey's theme is surprisingly absent as are the voices of the actual actors since the game is read and not heard. A low point in the game is the absence of any real tangible sound".
Like your doctors beautiful, rife with sexual politics, and invasive surgery tinged with witty banter? Then watch the TV show; this game's a disaster. Blending soap opera and surgery, both sides of the doctor coin are dire minigame affairs. The ultra-simple ops are too bitty to hold any challenge – like WarioWare meets Trauma Center. When kidney transplants remind you of GTA's hotwiring, something's gone wrong.
Emotional bits, on the other hand, are literal representations of moral dilemmas. Wafting away clouds of doubt with the stylus and dumping lovers by tearing them out of photos would be endearingly dumb if it wasn't so limp. Not even the pretty faces remain; Dr. Bailey morphs into a squat Yoda figure and lovely Izzie Stevens looks like a victim of botched plastic surgery. The diagnosis? Dead on arrival.