Trauma Center: New Blood
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North American cover
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| Developer(s) | Atlus |
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| Director(s) | Daisuke Kanada |
| Designer(s) | Taku Aoyagi Akira Odagaki Takashi Kato |
| Programmer(s) | Takaaki Ikeda |
| Artist(s) | Masayuki Doi |
| Composer(s) | Atsushi Kitajoh Kenichi Tsuchiya |
| Series | Trauma Center |
| Platform(s) | Wii |
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| Genre(s) | Simulation, Visual novel |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 77% (40 reviews) |
| Metacritic | 77% (43 reviews) |
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| Publication | Score |
| 1UP.com | C |
| AllGame |    |
| CVG | 8.4/10 |
| Eurogamer | 8/10 |
| Famitsu | 31/40 |
| Game Informer | 7.5/10 |
| GamePro | 4.25/5 |
| Game Revolution | B− |
| GameSpot | 8/10 |
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| GamesRadar | |
| GameZone | 8.6/10 |
| IGN | 8.5/10 8.1/10 (Australia) |
| Nintendo Power | 8/10 |
| Nintendo World Report | 8.5/10 |
| ONM | 67% |
| Play | 7/10 |
Trauma Center: New Blood (カドゥケウス ニューブラッド Kadukeusu Nyū Buraddo?, literally "Caduceus: New Blood") is a medical simulation game developed by Atlus for the Wii video game console. The third entry in the Trauma Center series, it was first released in North America on November 20, 2007.
New Blood starts off ten years after the events of Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2 in the year 2028. The game features a story independent of previous installments in the series. The storyline follows doctors Markus Vaughn and Valerie Blaylock, two surgeons with the Healing Touch ability who worked at the Concordia Medical Institute in Los Angeles. Dr. Vaughn moves over to Montgomery Memorial hospital in Alaska and is followed by Dr. Blaylock. They perform a few operations here, including one on Dr. Hoover, the director of Montgomery Memorial. In one episode at Montgomery Memorial, a man was shot with a rifle, and a young woman brings him to Montgomery Memorial, and she actually turns out to be a nurse, who then helps them in the operating room. Later, they find out that this nurse is from Concordia and her name is Elena Salazar, and she had come to ask Dr. Vaughn to perform an operation to replace an implant in her pancreas. Later in the plot Elena becomes a permanent nurse for Blaylock and Vaughn. When the hospital closed down, Dr. Hoover tells them to return to Concordia. Markus is reluctant to return to Concordia, but realizes that he must go back.
Once there, they learn from Professor Wilkens, an old acquaintance of Markus's, about a new and mysterious Virus called Stigma. After Markus and Valerie operate on Wilkens, who is infected with a strain of Stigma, the professor is kidnapped and all of his data regarding this new disease is stolen. Fearing for the worst, Dr. Vaughn and Dr. Blaylock are invited to join Caduceus, because of their valuable knowledge on Stigma. The first couple of cases, including a second strain of Stigma, are mostly kept from the public eye, but shortly after appearing on Miracle Surgery to take the show off the air, they are soon kidnapped by the Kidman Family, a criminal organization who have seen their skills and the profitability of Stigma, and forced to operate on patients intentionally infected with Stigma. Markus then confesses to Valerie and Elena that he was responsible for the creation of Stigma, which was from an accident from when he was working with Professor Wilkens. Professor Wilkens wanted to continue his research to the world with the intentions of becoming famous with the research. Markus, however, rejected the idea of using a potential threat to become famous and left for Alaska. After escaping from the Kidman Family, the three are ordered to the fictional country of Culuruma, a politically unstable country where an outbreak of Stigma had occurred. During their investigation in Culuruma, the rebel forces launches an attack on a government military base, during the government operation to reclaim the base, the three are requested to operate on wounded soldiers. After, they discover the Kidman Family who was supporting the rebels.
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