War Hospital Review (Xbox Series S)
For this War Hospital Review, we take charge of a WW1 field hospital on the Western Front and make all the decisions necessary to help the soldiers recover and to support the war effort. In this narrative management game, we are the last bastion of humanity.
War Hospital Review Pros:
- Decent graphics.
- 6.8GB download size.
- 1000 Gamerscore.
- Graphics settings – gamma correction, and brightness.
- Three chapters along with a chapter selection.
- Ten save slots.
- Cutscenes are a mix of in-game and hand-drawn animated art sequences.
- Good voicework.
- A full 3D game world with 360-degree camera control complete with zoom in and out.
- Worker management gameplay.
- Constant tutorial pop-ups as you play. (can be turned off)
- Three game speeds that can be changed at will.
- Day and night cycle along with different weather.
- Events will pop up where you have a multiple-choice scenario, you get all the facts both good and bad. In this time you can view the Dr and patient records.
- The morale bar is front and centre and your actions determine if it goes up or down.
- The goal of the game is to heal people, repair the war hospital, and manage everyone’s well-being and health.
- You must assign people to jobs and locations, as they perform their duties they can get tired, exhausted, and then collapse. Ordering rest times can help.
- The train station is where you can order supplies and receive goods.
- Improvements for every building type can be made by earning the necessary materials and time and then using the upgraded trees.
- When receiving patients you have the choice to assign them to a doctor or deny them care if they are too far gone.
- All actions have consequences.
- Hire and fire personnel.
- A handy train schedule helps you plan deliveries and hires.
- Quick access radial menus, one for staff and buildings with the other used for important actions and more general ones.
- Once rehabilitated you choose what happens to the soldier based on their stats/abilities and you can send them to the trenches, send them to HQ, or have them released from duty.
- There are four types of personnel – doctors, nurses, medics, and engineers.
- As it is a war game, you may at times have to help defend the trenches, this involves assigning personnel and filling up the numbers.
- A handy bar shows at the top of the screen showing your defense and the enemy’s offence.
- You can watch improvements and buildings happen in real-time.
- An easy to get to grips with a system of dragging and dropping personnel into slots under the marked areas.
- Good solid soundtrack.
- Clicking on buildings will bring up all the info and any news on what’s currently happening in them.
- You see the people walking around and carrying the injured.
- The cemetery is where you bury the dead.
- The compendium is where all the help and tutorials are stored.
- Save and load when you want.
- You see the fighting play out as cutscenes and then you get a breakdown.
- A thinking man’s war game.
- Rations have to be managed at all times.
- Improvements, resting, and anything like that happen in real-time.
War Hospital Review Cons:
- Cannot rebind or tweak any controls.
- Only the one-game mode.
- Small game text and no options to change it.
- So much to take in.
- The tutorial prompts are very pushy and if you don’t do as instructed quickly enough then they keep banging up on the screen.
- Slow burner.
- There is a lot of menu juggling and remembering what goes where to do this and that.
- Individual personnel management is not always easy or particularly quick.
- Even after the lengthy tutorials, you still get lost or confused by it all especially noises, alerts, and icons.
- There are no difficulty options or game settings to help break you in or make it a bit more manageable.
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War Hospital:
Developer: Brave Lamb Studio
Publisher: Nacon
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