Everybody’s worried about high medical costs, but it takes a social giant like Adult Swim to do something about it. The latest game from the publishers of Robot Unicorn Attack, Velocirapture, and– surprisingly enough– Amateur Surgeon 2 proves that you can slash your hospital bills by putting your life in the hands of novice doctors armed with pizza cutters.
John Bedford (Modojo): Apple will release a thinner, lighter, more powerful iPad this Friday named the iPad Air. If your wallet's feeling considerably lighter after your trip to the Apple Store, you'll no doubt be wanting some free games to keep you busy.
With that in mind, we've picked out some of our favorite free titles from the last 12 months of tablet gaming.
Amateur Surgeon 3 is all about healing patients who have had some bizarre, nasty and downright unrealistic injuries (which, considering that this is an Adult Swim game, that last part is to be expected). They range from the easy patients, to the insanely difficult patients. This game is all about speed, but before you even begin to think about speed, you need to actually know how to heal them. You start in the Bunker, Shanks a Lot Prison, Mumbo Jungle, then continue to Lunacy Falls, Robotopia, and finally, the Exile Clinic, and you use all kinds of bizarre and arcane tools to perform surgery.
TouchGen - he Amateur Surgeon games have never managed to make it onto my radar, and going in the third game in the series I expected that I would be playing through a mostly serious medical simulation. I could not have been more wrong. The game itself is so wrong, on so many levels, that I almost could not believe what I was playing. The body of this review will read like a list of things that one should absolutely not enjoy, and yet for myself Amateur Surgeon 3 ended up being a more engaging experience than a description of its content would lead you to believe.
