PC-exclusive game Hospital Tycoon is a medical-themed sim in which players are put in charge of hectic hospital facilities that are constantly on the verge of crisis and collapse. Players are challenged to run, maintain, enhance and expand the hospitals while turning any chaotic situation around using ingenious management techniques.
The game’s high level of character interaction is full of humor and drama, creating living hospital that’s part soap opera and part comedy. Players will direct the hospital’s medical staff, ensure patients are cared for and have the treatment facilities required, as you can see in this trailer.
There’s also the upkeep of each hospital to control and develop; dedicated areas can be built to support additional medical needs – surgery, diagnosis, physiotherapy and more. The more patients that are cured the more your medical empire can grow and flourish, but watch out for the spread of infectious conditions like “Monkey Nuts” or “Stress Zombosis”, or you’ll soon have an epidemic plunging the hospital into absolute chaos.
“With Hospital we’ve added a generous helping of widely-appealing humour and a kind of soap-opera format too. The game is designed for play as either as a sandbox toy, making it accessible to a wider audience, or with structured challenges appealing to core gamers. Whichever way it’s played, it’ll be accessible, funny, visually gorgeous, and offer depth for those that want to dig for it.†says Steve Beverley, Project Leader at Deep Red Games, who previously created games like Monopoly Tycoon, Vega$: Make It Big!, and Tycoon City: New York.
Hospital Tycoon is set for release in America in spring 2007 and a European date will be around May 18, 2007.