![]() ![]() ![]() Patients and staff are now a lot more fussy, and maintaining their happiness is actually pretty tough. What’s so tough in that?Ī great deal, which you'll know even if you’ve just played Theme Hospital. Cure patients, get money, continue researching and expanding before moving on to the next level. Most require just a trip to Pharmacy or a Psychiatrist. Several of these require unique treatment rooms, as a Dehumorfier to remove Jest Infection. ![]() Excellent.Īll the wacky illnesses are new, including the likes of Jest Infection (turn into a clown), Verbal Diarrhoea, Mime Crisis, and Pandemic - not as bad as it sounds, patients just have a pan stuck on their head. There are now Snack and Drinks vending machines. Toilets can now break down or get clogged, and have to be fixed. Rat shooting is now a Monobrow hunt (yes, really), and picking up objects can sometimes see dozens of the little disgusting hairy blighters scurry out. Every type of staff now can be trained in new skills, not just doctors, whether it’s personality improvement or something specific like Ghost Busting for janitors. Curse those 1997-era memory constraints.Įvery feature in Two Point Hospital feels like Theme Hospital was taken as a base and the studio asked “how can we make this deeper and better?”. Oh, and all staff can be male or female, a feature we're amazed wasn't in Theme Hospital. They have different personality traits which affect their mood or the moods of others, and if their happiness drops too low they might quit or walk out. That goes for all patients and staff, in fact. In Theme Hospital you had one receptionist who never moved from her single desk, but in Two Point the assistants are actually people with wants and needs. If you’re a fan of the original Theme Hospital, this is definitely a title you’ll want to keep on your radar as it definitely looks like it’s going to capture the essence of those classic Bullfrog titles.For a simple example, receptionists get tired. Right now there’s no set date for Two Point Hospital’s release, but it will be coming to PC and Steam later this year. Afterall, laughter is the best medicine, right? For instance, the tutorial that teaches players about hiring janitors and keeping things sanitary is called “Charlie Work.” There are a ton of amusing made up names for both doctors and patients, and even some of the illnesses like “Monobrow” may induce a chuckle or two. It sense of humor was much more amusing than I expected as well. Two Point Hospital take a casual approach to creating a sim environment that also has a lot of nice nuanced details for players to improve their hospitals with. Fortunately, there doesn’t seem to be any sort of serious punishment for going at your own pace or losing a few patients here and there, though you may have to hire a janitor that’s good at bustin’ ghosts if too many people die. Every location has its own pre-shaped floor layout and series of problems players will have to find solutions for. Leveling up each of the game’s various hospital locations to three stars is the key to unlocking newer locations and completing everything. After building two more rooms filled with beds I was able to move up a level in almost no time at all. After applying a filter to see where all these infected were hanging out I realized they’d all been waiting for the one bed I’d made to open up. For instance, during my demo, my hospital got stuck at a certain level because I couldn’t figure out why some people with a certain illness weren’t being treated. In order ensure happiness is maintained, a certain level of cleanliness is kept, tired workers get their breaks, and those closest to death are treated with the most immediacy, several visual filters are available to help hunt down trouble spots. ![]() pamphlets, soda & snack machines, along with an arcade game or two possibly. Patients need things to do while waiting to be seen, so be prepared to supply books. This means making sure hospital staff get reasonable wage increases and get some rest in a break room now and again. Along with keeping each hospital supplied and staff, the general happiness of staff and patients is also in the hands of players. ![]()
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