System: Valve Index, HTC Vive & Oculus Rift
Price at Time Of Review: £14.99
Comfort Rating: Green
Genre: Virtual Job
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Standingg
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: 15+
Description: Surgeon Simulator is bringing the ER to VR! The most critically acclaimed and infamous surgery simulation game as you have never seen it before! Built for Vive and featuring all of the surgeries and twisted humour of the original favourite plus a few new surprises…
Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality transports you into some of the most unlikely and possibly unsanitary surgeries possible. Bob’s life is in your hands in this darkly humorous VR game, taking you closer to bloody surgery than you possibly ever wanted to go! From the operating theatre to the back of an ambulance, to outer space, your patient’s welfare will be in your virtual hands. In addition to the original surgeries, we’ve added exclusive new features for you to play within VR. How about brain surgery in the dark? What about a hand-held camera to admire your surgical efforts from any angle? New achievements? It’s all in Surgeon Simulator: ER! Whatever you do, don’t press that button in space!
Review: Have you ever wanted to become a real Surgeon? If you have Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality won’t really help you achieve that, but it can cure boredom in 99% of patients who try it. You probably don’t need me to tell you that you play the role of a Surgeon tasked with performing various operations and not always on humans. While this game is certainly very gory and often sounds very realistic, it keeps it’s feet firmly in the ‘fun simulator’ style and its a better game for it.
Once you’ve figured out what to do and how to do it, you will soon start to fly through the missions. But it is often not as simple as performing an operation in a nice and safe surgery, you sometimes need to operate in the back of an ambulance or moving operation scene, it can be very challenging, just trying to perform the simplest of tasks, but that is what makes them even more fun. You will more often than not perform operations that would get a normal surgeon sacked.
While many people will complain about the lack of control in this game I do think it helps add to its charm. After all, this is not supposed to be a real surgery simulator. However, the lack of a tutorial/instructions is a real nightmare and takes away from what otherwise is a fun game. Sure its fun to mess around until you get it right, but a little guidance wouldn’t have gone amiss. You won’t become a real surgeon playing this, but you will have a laugh or two.
