The challenge lies in removing any ribs and extraneous organs in your way without causing too much collateral damage. No matter the procedure, your goal is always to complete the operation before your patient runs out of blood. That fun is spread across three basic types of operations: a heart transplant, a double kidney transplant, and a brain transplant. The ease with which your watch falls off is one of this game's many clever touches. It's a game that's acutely aware of its own ridiculousness and wants you to join in on the fun. Surgeon Simulator has all the potential to be frustrating, but the sense of humor is so pervasive (the game-over screen reads "Brutal murder achieved") and the gore is so whimsically over the top (performing a brain transplant is like cracking a hard-boiled egg) that you can't help but cackle with glee even as you're fumbling a patient's life away. Whether you're causing massive blood loss by dropping an electric drill inside a patient's abdominal cavity or seeing hallucinations after accidentally pricking yourself with a syringe, this game is littered with hazards meant to make you giggle with morbid delight. This is surgery as a slapstick vaudeville routine, an eccentric comedy of errors where everything can and will go wrong. Performing a successful operation, meanwhile, is like juggling and riding a bicycle at the same time.Īnd yet, that ungainly control scheme is one of the biggest reasons Surgeon Simulator is such dumb fun. Surgeon Simulator makes it incredibly complicated to so much as pick up a scalpel.
If all this sounds a bit confusing, that's because it absolutely is. Clicking the right mouse button as you drag left and right lets you rotate your hand side to side, while dragging up and down lets you adjust the angle of your wrist. Dragging the mouse moves your hand about the screen, and from there you can control the grip of each finger through five keys on the keyboard. In Surgeon Simulator, you exist as an arm hovering above an operating table. Now Playing: Surgeon Simulator 2013 - Video Review By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's