Hysteria Hospital: Emergency Ward (Nintendo DS)

if you like fast paced games and addictive games then this is the game for you. It tests your eye/hand coordination and has a great story. I love this game with all of my being.

It was fast. The product was exact the same as they inform you. Perfect!

Ok I suppose

Bought this for the girlfriend and she loves it .

Excellent

Great item will defo come back

Great!

I often purchase secondhand DS games, so have only just acquired this even though it's been around a while! I loved Theme Hospital on the PlayStation and PC but knew not to expect anything along those lines, thanks to other reviews here. Nevertheless, I found it highly addictive and a worthwhile purchase considering the small cost secondhand. For other Theme Hospital fans wondering how it compares, you have no or very little choice in the way the hospital is laid out, as most of it - such as the beds, machinery, etc - is automatically set up for you on each level. The exception being that if you can afford to add extra equipment - such as an x-ray machine - you can do so but it has to be placed in one of a few specific areas. You are in control of the nurse and the patients, and start off with just one floor to manage. As game play progresses you are given more floors to manage at the same time. As each patient walks in you have to drag them to the triage post to be assessed. An icon then appears showing you which type of treatment they need and you then drag them to the corresponding dept (ie. dentist, x-ray machine or to a bed). You then pick up a prescription from the desk and take it to them in order for treatment to commence. Depending on what the treatment is they then either walk out cured or you have to direct them from a machine to a bed or couch for additional treatment before they are cured. When they leave a bed or couch you have to clean sheet the bed or clean the couch before another patient will use it. You can't keep patients waiting too long else they will leave the hospital, so it gets a bit frantic when they start coming in thick and fast! In most cases there will be patients you can't treat as you don't have all the equipment, in which case you drag them into the ambulance to send them to another hospital. There are 3 sliders in the game options which allow you to choose how much resource to give 3 management expense parameters: Maintenance, Salaries and Pharmacy. If you don't set maintenance to full then equipment will break down and require you to fix it, taking up more of your valuable time. However, you may find you can't always afford to set it to full on certain levels. Similarly, with the other 2 parameters on full resource, the staff and pharmacy work quicker. To finish each level on the main game you have to cure a certain number of patients whilst making a certain amount of money, so its all about balancing your time and resources wisely according to the situation, which requires some trial and error to get right. As play progresses you'll find every second counts to get all the patients seen in time. Have very much enjoyed playing this.