Nintendo DS Buying Guide: Grey's Anatomy

Product Details

Amazon Sales Rank: #14766 in Video Games

Brand: UBI Soft

Model: 16508

Published on: 2009-03

Released on: 2009-03-10

ESRB Rating: Teen

Platform: Nintendo DS

Number of items: 1

Dimensions: .25 pounds

Features

Written with the TV show’s producers and writers: A completely new and authentic Grey’s Anatomy story.

Play as the stars: See Seattle Grace Hospital through the eyes of all the Grey’s Anatomy TV show characters.

Influence the storyline: Influence character dialogue and make critical decisions that affect relationships and the outcome of the hospital crisis.

Perform multi-step surgeries: Innovative gameplay takes advantage of the Wii Remote, DS stylus, and PC mouse.

Accessible gameplay: User-friendly interface appeals to casual gamers.

Customer Reviews

Simplistic in beginning, but fun and more challenging as it goes on.
This game is split up into 6 episodes, of 6 acts each. The acts are split into scenes, and when the plot or dialogue hits a turning point, you decide what to say, do, or pass a challenge to go on. The challenges begin too simply and too easy for most people, but they do increase in difficulty. The episodes all culminate in one final outcome for the entire story arc.

I did enjoy it, but was hoping for more surgery scenes. Some of the tasks you have to perform are very finicky in terms of the exact movement of the stylus, and others are just silly. For example, you have to push clouds of people's faces out of the way to get to the character. In other challenges, you have to perform surgery, (my favorites!) or manipulate mirrors to make a light shine through a configuration onto your character. The later mirror challenges were much harder than the first several. In others, you have to catch colored balls to tap out a beat to decide what the character is going to do, or tap on the same orbs that are three in a row to get past the section. Again, that one starts out boring and easy, and does become more challenging towards the end. You also don't get to choose your character, as the company information would lead you to believe. The characters rotate, and you are a different character in each scene. The graphics were interesting...the bottom picture of a character is the computer photo of the actor, while the computer generated scene of the same character looks nothing like the real actor. Strange.

I am not an avid gamer, and completed the whole game in about a week. I usually got through an entire episode in one day, even with two small children running around the house. I enjoyed it, but I will probably not hold onto this one. I did like that you can save your place in the game, and you can have three different people's places saved at the same time. All in all, it was fun but a little strange at times. I am a huge fan of the show, and enjoyed having O'Malley punch Karev at one point, as that was one of the action choices.

Seriously???? NO GOOD!!!
I'm a GA fan, and a newbie to DSi gaming. I thought I would really enjoy this game, having played trauma center-esque games ages ago.

Nope.

This game is AWFUL. A complete waste of time. Very boring and simplistic. I thought there would be some sort of challenge or intellecutal stamina required, but I think a 5 yr old could play this game.

If you want to play a game where you mindlessly tap the DS when required, and no thought is required or needed, definitely get this game. If you are looking for something more entertaining or challenging, stay away!!!