The Wii had a pretty good year, game-wise. Yes, first party games were the main darlings of 2010, but there were plenty of great games from companies other than Nintendo. With a few exceptions, it was overall a great year for new entries in existing series.

Join Gamertell as we look back and salute 10 of the best Wii games released in 2010. Perhaps you’ll see one or two of your recent favorites listed…

Amazon’s chopped 25% off the price of three Atlus games, Demon’s Souls (PS3), 3D Dot Game Heroes (PS3) and Trauma Team (Wii). Normally, all three games retail for $39.99, but they’re now only $29.99 each online. Not a bad deal, as you can get a new copy for the price of a used one…

I’m not sure when the point arrived that I mostly rejected television and turned to video games, but I now get geared up for Wii releases the way my wife anticipates a new season of Grey’s Anatomy. I could never pinpoint the reason until I recently finished playing through Trauma Team on the Wii. Imagination. I don’t care how creative people pretend television dramas are, because they’re not.

There are times where a game is released where you really want to know what happened but you either can’t or don’t want to buy or play it. To help you out, Gamertell offers Spoiler Alert. We’ll play the games and tell you what happened so you don’t have to spend, or waste, your time on it. This week, we’re looking at Trauma Team, the Wii surgery sim from Atlus that came out May 18, 2010. Prepare to be spoiled…

Trauma Center, one of Atlus’ beloved, cult classic game series deals with doctors. In the past, each game in the series has typically followed one or two select surgeons who happen to be gifted with a supernatural ability called the Healing Touch. These surgeons would have to deal with some kind of super virus that only they can help cure, because of that unique ability. Trauma Team isn’t like that.

Trauma Team deviates from the formula. You’re not following one doctor with a supernatural surgical ability, you’re following six, somewhat ordinary doctors. The healing touch is gone. (That doesn’t mean everything is realistic and by-the-book though.) There’s still a possible, growing threat to deal with though, and these six doctors will have to do their best to help people and save lives…

Here at Gamertell we’re down to our last Trauma Team preview before next week’s Trauma Team review on April 26, 2010. This time, we’re looking at the last available mode, Diagnosis Mode. It may sound familiar, as back in , 2010 Gamertell got to take part in Atlus’ Trauma Team preview and watch Aram Jabbari play through a case in the Diagnosis Mode.

Trauma Team‘s Surgery Mode will be familiar to returning Trauma Center players, since previous entries in the series only focused on surgery. It proceeds in a similar manner as in earlier Wii entries of the game, with a few notable differences.

First off, something that’s commonplace in the Trauma Center series is absent in Trauma Team. There’s no healing touch. So if you tended to rely a bit o much on that special move during surgeries, prepare to go cold turkey. Everything’s by the book now.

The doctor for Surgery Mode also possesses a different sort of personality and backstory than previous Trauma Center doctors. CR-S01 is a prisoner with amnesia. He was arrested after a biological attack at a college by the FBI and sentenced to 250 years in prison for what happened. Is he guilty? You’ll have to play and see…

Of all the modes in the forthcoming Atlus game Trauma Team, the First Response Mode with Dr. Maria Torres is the one that will leave your heart pounding. It isn’t like the Surgery or Endoscopy Modes, where you’re occasionally racing against a clock, but there’s the same sense of pressure.

Dr. Torres is a paramedic, and is always one of the first people on the scene when an incident happens. This means she doesn’t just have one patient to take care of – she can be tasked with caring for four or five people at a time. And that’s just at one moment. The second one person is stabilized, there’s a good chance one or two more will be placed at her feet…

In the Orthopedic Mode in Trauma Center for the Wii, players assist orthopedic surgeon Hank Freebird in repairing and restoring people’s bodies. At first, I didn’t know what to expect. I’d heard of Orthopedic surgeons before, but never really bothered looking into what parts of the body they work on on. In this mode you’re helping Dr. Freebird rebuild, fix and remove tumors from skeletons, muscles, tendons, joints and spinal cords.

Before I get start talking about the gameplay, there’s something I have to point out. The entire time I was playing the first two Orthopedic Mode cases, I kept wondering where I’d heard Hank Freebird’s voice actor before. It nearly drove me crazy, and I was thinking about it at odd times throughout the day.

Then, one day while watching Adult Swim on Cartoon Network it hit me…

Tomoe Tachibana is Resurgam Hospital’s endoscopic surgeon, which means you’ll be stepping into her shoes any time you decide to play the Endoscopy Mode. Since you’re journeying through the small intestines, large intestines and sometimes lungs or stomach with an endoscope, this means you’ll end up in a maze-like series of tubes.

Like the Orthopedic, Surgery and First Response Modes, Endoscopy Mode always begins with a short event scene presented in a comic book style. It’s through these moments we’ll learn more about Tomoe’s past and relationships with other doctors. These event moments are all fully voiced, and the actual surgery modes are voiced as well…