Atlus bringing Trauma Center 2 for DS stateside before Japan

by Jason Dobson { Apr 7th 2008 at 11:00PM }

Atlus this afternoon announced plans to bring Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2 stateside, giving us plenty to keep busy amidst reruns of Scrubs and E.R. when the game ships for the Nintendo DS this summer. Atlus confirmed that the sequel, which follows the 2005 release that made us all believe that we could cure cancer with a flick of the wrist, will make it to retail on July 1, offering new modes and operations for armchair surgeons.

But wait, isn't that a full month before the game will be released in Japan? Has the world gone topsy-turvy? We touched based with Atlus and learned that this is indeed the case -- not that the world had gone into a tailspin, but rather that we can expect to stitch up wounds vicariously through Derek and Angie before our friends overseas. The official we spoke to also noted that while the team struggled with a number of titles for the sequel "there really was no other more fitting thing to call the game than Under the Knife 2." Honestly, they can call it anything they want, just get it in our hands STAT!

Gallery: Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2

Tags: atlus, japan, north-america, northamerica, sequel, trauma-center, traumacenter, under-the-knife-2, undertheknife2

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

theturtle363 @ Apr 7th 2008 11:09PM

WTF is that picture?

Mr.ESC @ Apr 7th 2008 11:25PM

Trauma Center:Nip/tuck.

The Artist formally known as Jesus @ Apr 7th 2008 11:27PM

For a sec I thought I saw tentacles. Don't ask me why

jcd @ Apr 7th 2008 11:33PM

hotness

Mr.ESC @ Apr 7th 2008 11:35PM

An Anime woman, tentacles...mmmm sorry I just don't know how anyone can connect those things, I think is impossible I don't know how anyone could relate an anime cartoon to a tentacle.

So nop I don’t what you are talking about The Artist formally known as Jesus.

ChooChooCharlie (Brawl: 1504-5357-9285) @ Apr 7th 2008 11:37PM

There were tentacles, but they slipped back into her GAPING CLEAVAGE.

Worst Review Ever @ Apr 8th 2008 12:59AM

ChooChooCharlie,
Maybe you perform some kind of surgery that makes that heaving bosom relevant to the game.

ChooChooCharlie (Brawl: 1504-5357-9285) @ Apr 8th 2008 5:10PM

@ WRE

That would actually be pretty funny if they had some plastic surgery bonus missions or something. Of course, they'd have to raise the rating to M (unless they made her like a Barbie doll).

Wyvernlink @ Apr 7th 2008 11:11PM

Finally a place where this is actually on topic...

First!!

I apologize.
Anyway, I should probably get the first one sometime, hopefully I can find it for less than $15 or $20.

theturtle363 @ Apr 7th 2008 11:19PM

lol, looks like you lost the game

Ace121212 @ Apr 7th 2008 11:28PM

We laus this round, get ready for the next one.

Mr.ESC @ Apr 7th 2008 11:31PM

Congratulations you just lost the game too for mentioning the game, in fact I just lost the game as well another fact is that anyone reading this just lost the game, yes you reading this right now, you just lost the game as well.

don’t worry you can only lost the game so technically you just manage to beat the whole damn ga-ame, we are happy you made it but how are you going to spend the rest of this day?

Maybe you watch a video?

Maybe press refresh and start again.

Yes is over….

Zorink @ Apr 8th 2008 12:09AM

@Esc.
That is the second best ending credits after Portal.

Mr.ESC @ Apr 8th 2008 1:03AM

No one continued my post, the Internet defrauds me once more.

Anyway yes that is actually a good ending I wish there was a MP3.That song could improve tons of games with crappy endings such as Assassin's Creed.

Sir Fidlious Wong (Zeon Defense Force) @ Apr 7th 2008 11:25PM

I would enjoy this game alot more if it didn't go from "simple" to "fucking impossible" so quickly. I like the concept, enjoy it heavily, it just gets rough to the point where I'm no longer haviing fun.

ChooChooCharlie (Brawl: 1504-5357-9285) @ Apr 7th 2008 11:32PM

It's true, man.

I loved this game on the DS so much that I bought it on the Wii as well, but the difficulty was impossible at times. I couldn't even get an S rank on the tutorial mission in the beginning (though I could for others).

Goddamn Paraskevi made me scratch my original DS screen too, when I tried to drag the stylus too fast in one of the later missions. Luckily it was still under warranty.

doom saber @ Apr 8th 2008 12:01AM

Did they localized the names too? I mean, didn't the first one kept with the japanese names?

Spin44 @ Apr 8th 2008 1:09AM

the first one was really good and got a 4/5 average rating at expotv :) http://www.expotv.com/videos/reviews/22/198/TraumaCenter3AUndertheKnife/159672

ChooChooCharlie (Brawl: 1504-5357-9285) @ Apr 8th 2008 1:19AM

Yeah that actually coincides with some of the comments found in the review here:

www.internetisseriousbusiness.com

Quit spamming, asshole.

Mr.ESC @ Apr 8th 2008 1:28AM

Faceplam.JPG.

Is really that hard to just contact Joystiq and say I want to advertise my site in your blog.Pay for the ads like everyone else spamming monkey.

What? @ Apr 8th 2008 3:46AM

the game play actually looks like it's improved a bit from the last ones

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU

Cutty @ Apr 8th 2008 8:50AM

I'm glad they're bringing Trauma Centre to the DS. Second Opinion worked well on the Wii but it was superior with a touch screen.

Phil @ Apr 8th 2008 10:39AM

Mmm, this is good. I've been hoping that this would be the case.

It does seem Trauma center is much more popular over here than in Japan and honestly, I'm fine with that. America has a better appreciation for cheesy yet good sci fi medical plots anyways. :P