Following a closed beta earlier this month, the boffins at Bossa’s medical wing have open the hospital doors, trust their patients to any would-be doctors, surgeons, and medically-sanctioned murderers with today’s release.
Where the first game gave you a single grubby hand and a stomach cavity to explore, Surgeon Simulator 2 opens the floor to four-player operations with fully-ambulated medical professionals. You’ll all have to awkwardly coordinate by stumbling around the theatre, haphazardly throwing around tools as you all try and stitch a bloke’s head back on with anything you can find. Y’know, perfectly normal doctor stuff. Of course, you needn’t settle for Bossa’s schedule of operations. Surgeon Simulator 2 launches with an co-op “Creation Mode” editor, which lets you build entirely new bodily harm minigames with up to three friends. Our own in-house doctor Nate dreamed up a particularly nasty sport back in his hands-on preview of the stomach-cutting sim. “For all that I enjoyed learning to be a surgeon on a team of elite medical professionals, what I think this game really needs is a mode that focuses on playing basketball with human organs, while all your mates do the Squatting Witch at a medical-themed rave,” said Nate. “And if Creation Mode lives up to everything Marc and Nate told me about it, that should be eminently possible.” Surgeon Simulator 2 is out now on the Epic Games Store - no appointment necessary - for £20/$25. That’s privatised healthcare for you, innit?
