Comedy bio-engineered disease capers coming to Nintendo Wii this summer.

Trauma Center: Second Opinion will be released for Wii on 10 August, bringing all the drama of interactive surgery to the living room TV. Whoopee.

We all like a bit of surgery don’t we. Among all the things on telly we’re not sure it’s right to watch, seeing somebody’s spine exposed of an evening is always worth a conversation the next day in the office. Well now you can take this a little bit further, quite a lot in fact, with Trauma Center [sic] for Wii. Although there is already ‘Trauma Center: Under The Knife’ for Nintendo DS, which uses the stylus / touch-screen to make the cuts and suck out all the muck, the experience is made considerably more vivid on a bigger screen handling the remote. Better graphics also mean that globules are globbier and blood is more… bloody. We don’t want to think about the sound effects this soon after breakfast.

You’ll discover an iron stomach with lives at stake in your quivering hands as trainee doctor Derek Stiles. Working out of Hope Hospital, Stiles encounters a disease called GUILT (Gangliated Utrophin Immuno Latency Toxin), apparently invented by terrorists. So much for the storyline, but we can vouch for the entertainment value – Trauma Center on Wii is one you’ll want to own after spending five minutes behind the mask. The remote / nunchuck controls are smartly implemented so that fiddly tasks can be learned in seconds (but take a lifetime to master, yarda yarda). Anyway, we like.

Although the story centres on Dr Stiles, occasionally you’ll need the assistance of other specialists. All characters have a unique Healing Touch, in other words a Surgical Super Move that can only be used once per operation. But this is nothing compared to the miracles performed by our very own NHS of course.

Trauma Center: Second Opinion will cost £35 ERP.