Emergency Room: Real Life Rescues

Finding a job wasn't at all hard, and you soon find out why - you're the only nurse on call.

Gameplay is virtually identical in all platforms, being that the main differences between them come in the shape of rendered 3D visuals for the Wii and PC, while the DS sports pixel-art type 2D graphics.

The music and much of the sound effects are also different between the handheld version and the others, a more bleepy old-school approach having been taken in the DS while the PC and Wii feature a more hi-definition approach.

A few of the treatment machines also differ between the DS and the rest, but in the end the gameplay remains virtually the same, sporting no platform-specific mechanics.

Through a quick tutorial you learn the basics: patients must be taken to triage/diagnosis, and then different treatments will be in order using your DS stylus, Wii-mote or plain mouse.

Some patients demand more attention than others, and your limited equipment, when compared to the large and continuous flow of in-patients, means you have to juggle treatments, prescriptions and clean-up phases.

An unchanged Quick Treatment bed means no other patients can use it, which can quickly lead to a high number of angry patients.

If you let too many leave in wrath, then it's bye-bye money and try again (you are fired over and over, but they let you at it again since you're the only nurse available anyway).

Hysteria Hospital: Emergency Ward sports a casual atmosphere typical of Time Management games, something which is also reflected in the level of content and customisation available - add new sets of medical equipment to increase the number of patients you can treat; patients for which there is no treatment available can be sent to another center by mean

Emergency Room: Real Life Rescues for Nintendo DS is currently worth €15.74 loose, €10.23 complete in box, and €16.05 factory sealed. Prices are based on real sales and update regularly on Gamevaro.

Emergency Room: Real Life Rescues has a steady sales history on the tracked marketplaces, meaning it trades hands regularly and isn't considered particularly rare.

Loose means cartridge or disc only, CIB (complete in box) includes the original box and manual, and sealed means factory-sealed and never opened. For Emergency Room: Real Life Rescues, loose is €15.74 and CIB is €10.23 — CIB commands a premium because original boxes and manuals are fragile and often don't survive.