Two Point Hospital: Video Game Overview

Probably, many of us in childhood loved to play “Hospital”. Complex “operations” over native, peers and pets, imitation of the present and cinema doctors – was fun. Those who older probably cosplay doctors Aibolita, modern children, probably play some “Dr. Plusheu” – yes, there was no children’s heroes in white coats at all times?

But the happy owners of the computer (or the PlayStation console) two dozen years ago could try their strength already in the role of the head doctor – all thanks to the magnificent game from BullFrog Productions And himself Peter Moligno (Peter Molyneux) called Theme Hospital. Oddly enough, this Taikana never found decent imitators – attempts to create something like that were, but the popularity of the founder of the genre was achieved and could not be achieved.

Two Point Hospital from Two Point Studios – a serious application for a successful remake of a 20-year-old strategy. Among the developers there are comments from BullFrog Productions And Lionhead Studios, so we just did not have the right. Welcome to the hospital of the district of two vertices – and do not forget to put the booties!

You have Volchanka

Tycoon genre, as we all know, implies indirect management of a certain economic unit in order to extract maximum profit. Treatment of people – also business. Of course, we are more familiar to the system of health care, which is entirely completely under state administration, but in capitalist countries (and in modern Russia, too) private clinics are not something unusual. IN Two Point Hospital We occupy the position of the head of just such a hospital. Our main task is to be treated so that the patients leave as many cash as possible at the checkout. Sounds somewhat cynical and maybe it’s not serious – but the whole game is.

Obviously, comic entourage is noticeable in everything: that deliberately caricature characters, that their actions, but the fun here are diseases and ways of their treatment. How do you like color therapy, which is literally painting patients lost color, or a declator laboratory, in which, with a magnet in patients, the kitchen utensils are stuck on the head?

About other trifles, such as the names of settlements, and there is nothing to say. Oddly enough, humor keeps a pretty high bar and does not roll in a banal seal. Against this background, the work of translators is especially noticeable. Locallas worked surprisingly well – the jokes not only do not lose sharpness, but in some cases they get excellent adaptation for a domestic player.

Laugh laughter, and to provide patients with treatment and care is necessary, despite the most ridiculous diseases. Throughout this, two vertices will have to do in the district, the benefit of various medical institutions is enough.Sometimes employees raise small tasks. There is no particular sense to do, besides, they are often completed successfully and without the participation of the player.

And you will cure!

Campaign B Two Point Hospital is a chain of linear tasks opening one after another. In each chapter, under our management issues a certain clinic, and the management puts various tasks, the execution of which allows you to raise the hospital rating. As a rule, to unlock the next clinic it is necessary to perform the tasks per star of the ranking in the current chapter.

Objectives are very diverse: cure a certain number of suffering from one or another disease, to provide staff with the necessary working conditions, accumulate the necessary amount of money … you don’t remember everything.

The hospital begins with the registry – it is this account that will be the first in the construction list. In the registry, visitors are celebrated and receive a direction to specific doctors. General Practice, Diagnostic, Surgeon, Pharmacist – This is from our usual specialties, but as the hospital develops and the diagnosis of new diseases have to build new and new cabinets for the treatment of the most exotic pigeons. Here, people healed from excessive pixelization (this disease is such), and here you get out the light bulb, which suddenly appeared instead of the head.

In addition to the direct treatment of patients, it is necessary to take care of it to be comfortable in the walls of the clinic. Available toilets and machine guns with gas production, heating batteries (or, on the contrary, air conditioning), flowers and other decorations – everything for the visitor to prefer our hospital. Queues, dirt, close corridors … somewhere I have already seen it.
Employees require no less attention – they need a living room, a study of advanced training and cafeteria, where you can have a snack.

In addition to doctors, there are younger health workers, administrators and sanitary cars. The first are engaged in directly treatment, the second helps them, others are needed to work in the reception and marketing department, and on the shoulders of the Sanitars there are all concerns to maintain order in the clinic. Each employee has not only general specialization, but also an indicator of experience, as well as five cells for learning. They are needed for both various bonuses, such as a faster diagnosis, and for specialization in a particular area – for example, a surgeon is required for operations.

To open new types of cabinets, you can use the services of a research center in which doctors with scientific education work, and the purchase of neighboring land allows the clinic to expand to cope with the influx of patients.

Finally, perhaps the most pleasant lesson, which is in the game, is the hospital layout and interior design. Various objects such as purely ornamental and having a certain meaning (for example, a rack with brochures dispels boredom, and the pictures increase the attractiveness of the cabinet), – a great set. You can safely try to recreate your district clinic. It is a pity that all hospitals in TPH – single-storey.Pay attention to the description of the disease. Localization – at the height.

Ah hoods!

If you look attentively, then the gameplay in this game is also some kind of “one-story”. Non-reliance in the entourage leaked to the most basics of Taikhan – on the strategic level everything is too easy. Interest is present while there is to expand, – spend all your free time for planning new cabinets and hiring employees. The hospital, such a feeling, works by itself – the head doctor is not needed to interfere with the course of events. Go to minus for money is almost unrealistic – despite all the complaints of patients on long queues or boredom, they continue to visit the clinic. Employees are also not particularly demanding on working conditions and are not in a hurry to dismiss.

If you completely score on what the hospital lives, nothing will change. For the sake of the experiment, I tried to close the toilets and forbade the sanitation to clean up, and the game itself left to work in the background. What do you think, because of the mud, the flow of patients is dried, and the doctors massively wrote applications for their own accord? Nothing like this – a few gaming years the whole hospital happily gone to uncleanness, signing about the mess, but everyone continued to do their affairs. It was even possible to get a couple of awards at the end of the year, including for the most beloved hospital among visitors. Increased to the maximum price – the same! The clinic stopped making a profit, but before bankruptcy was still far.

Of course, if you put a goal to achieve two or three stars in the ranking, then with such an attitude of success. But still, I want more “Challenge” and the opportunity to remain with nothing, and now the monotonous repetition of the same actions is required for a high rating. Very lacking random events – more precisely, they are (blowing a zipper, earthquake or epidemic), but their influence is minimized. To all right, add an excess of the microcontrol here – copy offices can not, to increase the attractiveness it is necessary to build all the rooms with a bunch of objects, and the process of learning employees and research projects require constant attention from the player. Strategic planning and management, in fact.

TPH Reminds The Sims, And in the part of its part, which concerns the arrangement of their own dwelling, is only here we are planning the interior of the whole hospital. You can do this as a soul, taking care only about the external attractiveness of the cabinets and buildings, – I do not need any super passages to increase labor productivity.The most advanced technology on guard of your health!***
At first sight Two Point Hospital happy eyes and soul. Everything is pretty, chinno-noble, it seems that he is – Taikhan about the hospital of my dreams. But after a couple of hours of games, there is no trace from the past delight. Yes, there is an excellent design, a good humor, a convenient interface, but not enough of the main thing for the genre – here it simply does not need to deal with the strategic management of the enterprise. There is no feeling of well done after you decide the next logistic or economic problem, which good Taikhan should create independently, without the participation of scenarios. The “sandbox” mode is absent, and the discovery of new heads of the campaign with the help of ranking stars is only a way to increase the duration of passage.

Of course, all this is solved by patches and additions – but will they? Judging by statistics and reviews, the game was not bad and in the current form. But those who want to do something more complicated than the placement of pots with flowers in the corridors, probably, it is worth waiting for more serious projects.

Pros: Magnificent style and design;excellent localization;humor.

Minuses: insufficient depth for a full Taikana;Excess microcontrol in certain points;There are not enough automation of monotonous actions.