Emergency Room: Real Life Rescues is a mostly functional game that suffers from not having a proper audience and also just not being polished enough for me to recommend it. If you are really into these kinds of games, you'll at least find some enjoyment out of it and it will be a good time killer. If you have only a passing interest or didn't like Trauma Center at all, this game just isn't for you.
Frictionless Insight writes: "As a newly-minted paramedic for Harbor City hospital, start your professional career with a brief refresher course on a training dummy, then move on to rescuing real victims around town, starting with minor lacerations and moving on to life-threatening injuries."
TPG writes: "Real Life Rescues does a good job of instilling a sense of respect about a very important profession. The issue here is not whether EMTs are important, but whether they make good video game subjects. The picture on the cover of the game gave me the impression that the game would answer with a resounding yes. Unfortunately, life is full of surprises, some good and some not so good. Either way, I will let you be the judge. Just because I wasn't blown away, doesn't mean you won't be. Submitted for your consideration: storyline, the look and sound of the game, and the feel of controls/game play."
The biggest disappointment with this game is that, since you are an EMT and not a surgeon, there is no cutting and no digging around in a person's chest cavity. And let's face it: that is the best part of medical sim games. You can only perform virtual CPR so many times before it is tiresome, and it turns out, the number of times before it becomes tiresome is very, very small.
