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GAME REVIEWED: Theme Hospital
RELEASED BY: EA
PRICE: £14.99
REVIEWED BY: Cheezy Knob
REVIEW: -
Theme hospital is a construction game that is much like theme park or dungeon keeper. The basic idea is to build up your hospital from scratch and meet the winning parameters which consist of a popularity rating and a cash in the bank requirement. The game is a new twist on the already over crowded god type game genre. This game though really stands out from the rest for several reasons. The massive amount of rooms and areas you can create in the hospital. The total power over the hospital right down to the heating. The patients own free will to do whatever they want and the hilariously funny amount of illnesses that are contracted by the people in your town.
You start off in a small town and need to build a relatively small unequipped hospital to meet the requirements. This is all very well but once you get offered a job in another larger town to build a larger more complex hospital you immediately accept and think you are the best at the game. This is not so as you will find out in the levels to come. The levels all have new illnesses that come on top of the normal ones which makes it harder to get every person cured. They also have new rooms in each of the levels so it gets more interesting and complex. When you get quite far on the levels get quite hard and you have to deal with emergencies and sick waves.
To play the game you must build the hospital first by constructing rooms and furnishing them. This is all very simple thanks to the easy system of building and can easily be mastered in five minutes. After this you have to hire doctors, nurses and caretakers. You have to pay them wages that are raised and lowered according to the employees skill level and his special skills.
The illnesses are very funny and have very funny cures. The illnesses are all very different and I think the most funny is bloaty head. This is the over inflation of the head and is remedied by the inflator. The doctor pops the persons head with a needle and the inflates it back up to the correct pressure. Other illnesses include slack tongue, the squits and tv personalities.
This game is very funny at times and is an amusing little game to play when you have nothing better to do but it really is nothing new and even with all the other options it really is just a new scaled up version of Theme Park. That really is the bottom line and that’s why it gets such a mediocre score.
SCORE:
75%
MINIMUM HARDWARE REQUIRED:
CPU: 486+
RAM: 8MB
25MB HD Space
DOS 6.2 +
LINKS: www.themehospital.com