Theme Hospital demo

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Editor's Rating:
5.0 stars
Average User Rating:
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391,798
Requirements:
Windows 95
Limitations:
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Date Added:
March 27, 1997

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Publisher's description of Theme Hospital

From Bullfrog Productions Ltd.:

Just as in real life, you have to make your hospital function, carefully using your resources to good effect, healing and repairing the sick and injured, and giving yourself a warm feeling inside. Of course, things can go wrong, and when you're facing a psychiatric ward full of Elvis impersonators, you'll think you're the one who's going to need to lie down on a couch. While the attraction of casualty-style blood and guts is obviously there, the development team is keen to keep it to a minimum. All movements and animations are fluid; everything moves as it would be in real life. To add to the realism, other computer players are playing against you, creating and running their own hospitals; if you have access to a network, up to three other players can play. The network game is an all-out war: poaching staff from the other hospitals, balancing budgets, attracting your competitors' patients, and researching new cures and machines.

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Editor's review of Theme Hospital

5.0 stars

Amusing animation and cheerful tunes combined with excellent gameplay make this hospital simulator one of the better economic strategy games on the market. Created in the late 1990s, this game is still visually pleasing. Patients at your hospital have goofy diseases such as "Bloaty Head," "Slick Tongue," or "Invisibility." Your overall goal is to build new rooms, furnish them with equipment, hire and train staff, manage hospital prices, and sometimes even decide if your doctor should trust a supposed diagnosis and attempt a risky treatment--with the possibility of a patient's death--or just send the patient to another hospital. Be prepared to watch how your staff will cure these ailments: they may simply replace the overblown head with a normal one using a special deflation machine; they may cut the long tongue; or the invisible patient will drink a violet potion at your pharmacy to become visible. The creativity of the developers is a constant source of amusement in Theme Hospital, and also provides an excellent gaming experience. The music is lighthearted, and a female voice that announces patients to the ward comes up with witty remarks such as, "Patients should be patient." Although the demo version of this game has some serious limitations, it's still a kick to play doctor. Note that you can run Theme Hospital in Windows XP if you set Windows 95 compatibility mode.

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1 stars

7 out of 7 people found this review helpful

Version: Theme Hospital demo

"Wont install"

by Karinzuja on May 28, 2006

Cons: Comes with a set of files in a zip folder. Once extracted, it doesnt matter which one you press. It does nothing. So unless anyone has any suggestions...

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5 stars

Version: Theme Hospital demo

"nice"

by kaivan_doshi on September 26, 2007

Pros: good

Cons: nothing

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4 stars

4 out of 4 people found this review helpful

Version: Theme Hospital demo

"Almost the perfect, fun and enjoyable strategy game."

by EliteXun on December 13, 2005

Pros: The game has many fun features such as comedy and user friendly interface. Almost perfect in the terms of game-play and game engine. I would reccommend this game to people with patients and a faint understanding on how to run a hospital.. Or at least understand what one should look like :)

Cons: The graphics, lets be honest set it back from its 5 star almost certaincy. We all can appreciate it isnt a new game but this game cannot offer much more without cutting edge graphics like the other top rated games. The game is quite slow-paced so this game isnt my ideal choice, i am sure there are many who would enjoy it much more than me.

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4 stars

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

Version: Theme Hospital demo

"theme hospital game - how to access"

by sheree_l on July 24, 2006

Pros: OKAY! This is the THIRD time I've typed this. Just wanted to REPEAT, that I left instructions on how to open the files in "karinzuja's" reply.

I'm too fed up with the internet to retype my review. To sum it up, the game's pretty entertaining and hilarious. Especially the originality/and animation of the diseases. The game's almost like sims, so if you like sims you might as well try this one too.

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4 stars

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

Version: Theme Hospital demo

"Absolutely LOVED this comical game and played it over and over again"

by friends lover on May 22, 2006

Pros: Loved the humorous diseases, sound effects and numerous challenges (bigger hospitals and new diseases)Though I wasn't ever able to finish the game (see below) I spent so many hours playing all the lower missions, and it was fun trying to beat my last missions.

Cons: Bought the full version CD. Hated the fact that as I had FINALLY made it to the last mission and totally stoked about winning,.....there was some sort of glitch, and you could NEVER finish the game! I played that game so many times, just to see if it was me, my computer, whatever, but to no avail. I can't believe I could not finish the game, how frustrating!

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