Trauma Center: Second Opinion claims to bring a real working hospital operating room to your very own living room. That's right ladies and germs, all the fun and excitement of slicing open your fellow human beings is now available in a home version. And don't get me wrong, I'm not a squeamish guy, but I did find myself wondering how much entertainment value I could derive from vivisection. Turns out not a whole lot. Just to let you know in advance, this is going to be a quick review.

You become Dr. Stiles, a recent med school graduate who is interning at Hope Hospital. Every level consists of cut-scenes explaining what the up-coming operation is going to entail followed by the operating theater.

I'll start off with the cut-scenes. They're horrible. There is no animation, only still cartoon images with captions and sound effects. And the storyline is lame. The nurse yells at you for no real reason, other doctors come and go seemingly at random, its just a lame story line that attempts to string together the operations.

As for the operations themselves, they are, in the early going, a surprising amount of fun. You use the Nunchuck to choose what tool you want your Wii Remote to act as (scalpel, sutures, antibiotic gel, etc.) and then you slice, laser, and sew your way through increasingly complicated surgeries. Although I enjoyed the first few operations, the game quickly loses me. At the beginning of the second level, you are forced to learn a new technique, called the "Healing Touch". (I would personally rather play a game that teaches the "Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique" But you do what you can...) I spent over an hour trying to get this down correctly but to no avail. And since the game was a rental, I decided to return it to get something that wouldn't make me want to put my system through a wall. So that was it. I was finished with it. Its dead to me.

Overall, if you have infinite patience, an insatiable blood-lust, and a hand that's as steady as Joanie and Chachi's love, you may want to give Trauma Center: Second Opinion a whirl. Otherwise, I'd skip the whole procedure.