One hospital will ask you to spot aliens pretending to be humans, while another will need you to cure humans pretending to be cows – or risk them being abducted by aliens. In its three unique hospitals, you’ll encounter a host of new illnesses, rooms and items, as well as patients pretending to be… something they’re not. The “Close Encounters” expansion is all about extraterrestrials. While the original Two Point Hospital: Console Edition came with two expansion packs, “Bigfoot” and “Pebberley Island”, the JUMBO Edition includes two item packs as well as two additional expansions, now available on console for the first time. You’ll even encounter a few hospitals that challenge you to diagnose and treat waves of patients, where each wave will be more challenging than the one before it. Instead you’ll need to complete ongoing objectives set by various third parties, helping to keep gameplay varied throughout. Some hospitals, however, don’t make any money in the traditional sense. Typically, you run your hospitals using income from diagnosing and treating your patients. Some of the game’s hospitals work a bit differently, though. Some of these are quite challenging and/or time-consuming, however, so you’ll need to run a tight ship to make them happen. Most of these challenge you to maintain things like cure rates, staff morale, reputation levels or overall hospital value. To become the ultimate hospital administrator, however, you’ll have to invest easily 80+ hours into attempting to 3-star every hospital, which involves overcoming a host of, at times, very tricky challenges. If you’re looking to simply play through each hospital and experience all the insanity on offer, you’ve got a few dozen hours of hospital management ahead of you. While some illnesses are cured simply by visiting the Psychiatry or Injection Room, a ton of them require specialised rooms for these, uh, very specialised treatments. How about a patient who’s suffering from lightheadedness? You unscrew the lightbulb on their shoulders and replace it with a regular human head, obviously. How do you cure a patient who has essentially turned into Pinocchio? You have him jump into a pool where he gets swallowed by a whale, of course. The list of bizarre illnesses and equally inventive and fun treatments is long – and it’s part of what makes this game such a joy to play. You’ve got to diagnose and treat patients of all types, including some who think they are dogs, some who’ve become 2-dimensional 8-bit sprites, potheads who, well, have a pot on their heads, and even patients who’ve mysteriously turned into cardboard people. Want absurd? You’ve got it!Īs you progress through the hospitals and especially into the expansion content, including all the new things in the JUMBO Edition, things really start to get weird. There are also a host of hospital policies to worry about, like when to promote your staff, when a patient’s diagnosis is close enough for treatment, how much you want to charge for your services, and whether you want to take out loans to speed things along. As your needs change and evolve, you’ll have to upgrade machines, hire and train more staff and keep expanding far and wide. You can’t simply build and forget, however, as each hospital is a living place – even when patients inevitably die on you. Your decisions don’t have to be permanent though, as you can easily move both rooms as well as individual objects, or even copy them, for quick and easy expansion or re-decoration – and if you want to create the perfect hospital, these things are key. You decide where everything goes, how it looks and who works where. This includes anything from reception to diagnosis rooms, wards, staff rooms, bathrooms and more. You’re in chargeĪ big part of the magic of Two Point Hospital is being able to build and customise your very own hospitals to your heart’s content. As a brand new hospital administrator, I dove into this frankly absurd (in all the right ways) management sim to see what all the fuss was about. With the release of the JUMBO Edition, consoles just got a healthy dose of brand new content alongside the popular Two Point Hospital, all in one big package. Reviewed on: PlayStation 5 via backwards compatibility Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One & Nintendo Switch
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