It is, after all, a game about learning to become a surgeon: the game is set in the sprawling, eerily 1960s-ish Bossa Labs, a facility constructed, in the words of the developers, "to teach surgery to the masses".Īnd what's an education without other students to piss about with, right? The headline feature of SS2 is the fact that the whole thing, while playable solo, is built around 2-4 player co-op, and for this first lesson, my cohort of fellow learners would be senior producer Marc Pick and designer Nate Gallardo. But they said it would be better if I went in clueless, and made up my own mind as to what Surgeon Simulator 2 was about.
SURGEON SIMULATOR THE MOVIE PC
When developers Bossa Studios invited me to play a preview build of the sequel (which will arrive this August, according to the PC Gaming Show just now), I asked whether I should get hold of the original to get myself used to the premise. Thankfully, Surgeon Simulator's bodies had more in common with anatomical demonstration models than actual humans, so the gore was extremely limited, and the inevitable operating failures always fell comfortably on the right side of the slapstick/harrowing divide. The gag was, you had to carry out surgery from a first-person POV, but the game's controls mapped different keys to every conceivable arm, hand and finger movement, so you ended up doing everything with wild, inarticulate movements that almost instantly made a mess of your patient. I didn't play the original Surgeon Simulator, but I did watch a fair bit of it being played on YouTube.
I am, of course, playing Surgeon Simulator 2. So I straighten out, compose myself and, after the rest of the crash team count me down from ten, take a running jump off a balcony and slam-dunk a human heart into a bin. But we can't muck about dancing all day, there's work to be done. My hosts, who've been inventing their own moves for months, are well impressed, and congratulate me on my ingenuity. It's my second best move after the Driving Crab, where you curl your fingers over a pretend steering wheel and steer left and right while scuttling from side to side. You grasp an imaginary ladle, and stir it slowly around an invisible cauldron while doing squats in time to the music.
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