➤ ER Doctor with helmet 🎮

Surgeon Simulator is an independent title that has been on the scene for more than three years now and has been able to carve out its own specific niche that has long seen it as one of the most coveted desires of any youtuber. Graceless and ironic, the title put the player in the shoes of a surgeon struggling with a handful of operations in sadly familiar scenarios such as operating rooms and ambulances.

But its originality was all poured out in the particular reinterpretation of the concept of simulator: controlling the doctor's hand was a disarming difficulty and interacting with the dozens of tools at his disposal was transformed in an instant into a nightmare for lovers of precision and precision. fussiness. However, it only took a few minutes to realize that the simulation was only in the player's head since Surgeon Simulator was more a fun and light-hearted sandbox of surgical operations than a serious replicant of real activity. There was no need to worry about how to cut or gently remove organs, much less carefully replace diseased or defective ones. As soon as one became familiar with the atrocious commands, the game was transformed in a moment into a real slaughter and a generator of paradoxical situations with lungs thrown to the right and left, surgical tools used on each extremity and organ of the patient, competitions for those who could insert more objects in the stomach of the victim lying on the bed and so on. The objectives of the individual scenarios took a back seat and everything was characterized by the maximum possible chaos to entertain themselves or the spectators. Obviously the guys at Bossa Studios could not miss the opportunity to exploit the virtual reality peripherals properly and here we are ready to review the VR version of their small and best-selling jewel entitled Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality, ER for friends and which follows a few months later the free experiment Meet the Medic released in partnership with Valve and focused on the Heavy of Team Fortress.

Surgeon Simulator: ER transports the game to virtual reality with few additions in terms of gameplay

You again?

Let's start by saying that in terms of gameplay absolutely nothing has changed. The view remains the same in first person and our avatar is in the immediate vicinity of the body to be operated on. A whole series of adjustments have been made to the geometry of the spaces to allow the player to move easily within the environment and some furnishings and elements with which it is possible to interact have been brought closer or placed in easier positions. Furthermore, using Vive or Oculus Touch controllers will have both hands on the screen instead of the single limb seen in the basic version of the game.

For the rest, this VR version is absolutely identical to the normal one, including the complexity of the controls. The boys of Bossa were in fact very smart in carrying on the new controls the same, frustrating imprecision already experienced with mouse and keyboard, joypad and touch and in fact try to squeeze a tweezers or a scalpel taking into account that thumb, index and the remaining three fingers of each hand are manageable through three different buttons, it is a determining factor in the playability of Surgeon Simulator ER and above all in its generation of hilarity. Among other things, we add a peculiar element of virtual reality that, especially with Vive, reaches its peak: the movement of the player's body and extremities in the simulated space. It will very often happen that we try to put our hands in the patient's cavities but fail to pass them correctly for a few centimeters perhaps due to a bone or some appendage of flesh and the result will be to see our hands transform into a skeleton and lose any physicality. . This stratagem, in addition to generating a sense of frustration that has practically no equal in the field of VR, is essential to set up that "trial and error" phenomenon that makes the title very replayable especially if you want to reach very high levels of idiocy. It goes without saying, however, that the same criticism of the original game and its iOS version can also be brought to this VR edition: if you are looking for something realistic or that in any case has a certain level of challenge and conveys a sense of progression, Surgeon Simulator is absolutely not for you. By making a commitment in a couple of hours you will have seen all the operations and scenarios that the game can offer and the small bonuses included in this VR version absolutely do not justify the increased price with which it is sold and which is exactly double the launch cost. of the original title.

But weren't we supposed to see each other anymore?

Even from a technical point of view, there are no major changes between what can be observed inside a viewer and what was experienced at the time through a monitor.

The points of interaction with the scenario have obviously increased dramatically and you can see a truly excellent cleanliness of the scenario, especially when compared with other exponents of the VR market. In particular, the minimalist style of the game, made of polygons with angular and well-marked geometry, helps to clean up the graphic aspect of aliasing phenomena while reducing the presence of low-resolution textures. You don't even notice the consequences of using the Level of Detail which significantly lowers the quality of the elements on the screen based on their distance from the observer, a phenomenon very present in most VR games and all this certainly contributes to making Surgeon Simulator : Experience Reality, however, a title that is pleasant to look at, even if it is meager and of few pretensions. On an audio level it is all a teeming of sounds that further enhance the splatter element of the game and its bloodstream streak while signaling that the Spanish localization is present. It being understood that the texts are really reduced to the bone.

PC System Requirements

Test Setup

Processore: Intel Core i5 4690k a 4.0 GHz
Memory: 16 GB of RAM
Video card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
Operating system: Windows 10 64-bit

Minimum requirements

Processor: Intel i5-4590 or equivalent AMD
Memory: 8 GB of RAM
Scheda video: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 o AMD Radeon 290
Disk space: 3 GB
Operating system: Windows 7, 8, 10

Comment

Digital Delivery Steam Price 19,99 € Resources4Gaming.com

7.0

Readers

Your vote

Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality is a great commercial move by the guys at Bossa Studios. It is very complex to criticize the developer's choice, especially considering how much the gameplay of this "simulator" marries perfectly with virtual reality, but it is also true that after so many years from the original game, you might expect something more in terms of scenarios. or operations available to the player or at least a more populist choice regarding its introductory price. It remains, basically, a really funny title in its being damn frustrating and we are convinced that it will be able to get you lots of laughs or even just entertain the viewer while you waving with the controllers with your face hidden from the viewer.

PRO

Immediate and fun from the first seconds
The detection of the commands is perfect and the vibrations of the controllers return a good feeling
The graphics are very clean indeed

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