Amateur Surgeon 2

Amateur Surgeon 2: Suddenly the NHS doesn’t seem so bad!

If games are anything to go by, just about everyone who has access to some unsuspecting kitchen utensils and a car battery would be able to create some pretty drastic surgery in the comfort of their own home. Thankfully, despite all the horror stories, not even our health service has managed to go back to such medieval medical procedures - allegedly.

Amateur Surgeon 2 is a rather twisted and adult humoured game which involves doing some pretty repetitive tasks in an increasingly challenging combination. Using a lighter you can cauterise small cuts and then use magic cream to heal the scars. For more serious matters you may need to use the pizza cutter to do some not-so keyhole surgery, tongs to pull out a variety of nasty objects in a way that reminds me more of the boardgame Operation (so don’t touch the sides), sew it up and then suck up the blood using a vacuum cleaner and going through the lighter and cream procedure.

Sometimes it’s not easy to tell what the matter is, in which case you must use the metal detector to give you a clue as to where to cut. Once you’ve sussed out where to slice, you are in for a nasty surprise.

The level only finishes once you’ve managed to successfully treat all the patient’s issues. Before you get to treat the next rather colourful patient you will be treated with a cut away scene with some funny plotline for you to keep your interest.

For me the most amusing part of the game did actually come from the cutaway scripted plot and the game became more of a mild distraction. I’m sure the younger testosterone players will find this ‘close to the bone’ humour and gore too appealing to turn down, but otherwise it is a bit of a shallow title which misses out on the more entertaining finesse other titles do offer. Whatever you must do is try not to play this game whilst waiting in to be seen by your GP!

Positives

Dark humour

Plenty of challenges

Quirky

Negatives

Repetitive actions

Lends itself to the teen audience too much

Crashed whilst playing

2 stars