Play doctor with a Wii Zapper in Trauma Center: New Blood

Console gun peripherals are normally used to take virtual lives, but in this case, they may very well save those lives instead. That’s right, players of Atlus‘ Trauma Center: New Blood use the Wii Zapper for a whole new approach to virtual surgery.

Find out how you can operate with the Wii Zapper after the jump!

Console gun peripherals are normally used to take virtual lives, but in this case, they may very well save those lives instead. That’s right, players of Atlus‘ Trauma Center: New Blood use the Wii Zapper for a whole new approach to virtual surgery.

This is how it works: the standard Wiimote and Nunchuck plug into the Wii Zapper’s shell, and proceed to operate on patients in Atlus’ Trauma Center: New Blood in light-submachine gun style. This is perhaps most clearly felt when New Blood players use the syringe or the drain.

While aiming is reportedly easier with the Wii Zapper attachment, some techniques in Atlus’ Trauma Center: New Blood may require counter-intuitive responses. For example, players will need to lunge forward to activate the defibrillator during those “cardiac arrest” missions, and they will also have to adjust their grip to press both the A and B buttons in order to clamp down on objects with the forceps.

Regardless, using the Wii Zapper as a surgical instrument in Atlus’ Trauma Center: New Blood should at least provide players with an interesting new way of activating the Healing Touch in a pinch.