![]() There’s no need to put everything back together, which is a good thing because most of the time it all ends up on the floor. Once you remove whatever organ your replacing, just pop the new organ in its place and that’s it. The surgeries themselves are pretty simple – just hammer out all the pieces of the rib cage to get to the internal organs and cut them out with one of the many tools provided to you. These need to be performed in 3 environments: lab, ambulance, and space. There are a total of 5 surgeries: heart, kidney, brain, eyes, and teeth. At first just a heart transplant is available but once that is complete a new surgery will unlock and so on. There is a clipboard on the desk that lists the patient’s name and all the surgeries that you will be performing on him. Actually starting my first surgery took a bit of exploration. ![]() Throwing things around the office was fun and slamming the keyboard across the monitor was pretty satisfying. ![]() Once calibrated, I found myself in an office filled with binders, notepads, and other desk related objects. I had to reboot the console to get the calibration to work correctly. My right hand would often be palm up even though I was holding the controller the opposite direction and my left hand was constantly going from flesh color to gray. I immediately knew something was wrong because my hands kept turning into a grayish color and shaking violently. To begin the game, Surgeon Simulator VR will attempt to calibrate your position. Hopefully now you don’t think I’m being too harsh. Holding down the options button to reset would just put me back inside the patient and my hands would turn into skeleton hands which is the games way of alerting me that I’m clipping into something in the game world that I shouldn’t be interacting with. I’m not sure what the issue is here but my body would relocate to different positions in the virtual room at random, sometimes even causing me to be stuck in the patient. I’m sure it’s not my camera position because I played The London Heist and Rush of Blood just to make sure something wasn’t screwy with my camera’s tracking, and those titles ran flawlessly. My right thumb is throbbing and it’s painful to press the space bar. It may sound like I’m being a bit harsh, but I’ve just finished an hour long session where I’ve held down the options button to reset my position about 20 times. They will hate you and they will laugh at you. I’m warning you right now that you should not let your friends play this game. From what I saw it looked like Surgeon Simulator was the perfect game to get the VR treatment. This seemed like the optimal game to get a bunch of drinking buddies around the television to watch a drunken friend perform a kidney transplant. Or better yet, stuck in a computer’s floppy disk slot. Attempting to answer a phone would result in several random objects on a desk being thrashed about, eventually ending up on the floor. I laughed along while watching gamers struggle with an obtuse control scheme that made remedial tasks such as picking up a pen look as difficult as, well, brain surgery. In the last 3 years I’ve been treated to several “Let’s Plays” where profanities and laughter went alongside the hilarious gameplay. ![]() That’s not to say I didn’t know what I was getting into. I’m one of the seemingly few players that never played Surgeon Simulator when it was released to PC’s back in 2013. Needless to say I was pretty excited when a review code for Surgeon Simulator VR was handed over to me, but little did I know that this code would lead to immeasurable amounts of frustration and anger. Sure, it’s gotten a few plays here and there, but those sessions have never lasted more than the 15 minutes it takes to complete Star Wars Battlefront’s VR mission. The honeymoon period is definitely over and the poor thing has just been collecting dust while it hangs on a makeshift hook that I’ve screwed into the wall unbeknownst to my wife. It’s been a while since I fired up my Playstation VR.
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