Enough has been said about latest new title of administration of a medical hospital in the First World War: War Hospital. In general, the criticism has been quite heterogeneous, because some important flaws have been seen. Let's analyze in detail what this game offers us and if it is worth it.
Pizzerias, pastry shops, roads, cities... management games usually present you with fairly calm and friendly situations. A business at its best, nice people, happy music and bright colors that show the most positive tone possible. Although the game we will talk about today is not the only one that forces you to think strategically for management in a war; It does present important peculiarities that make it quite unique.
War Hospital sees war from the perspective of the less fortunate
War Hospital places you in hell itself, the music is melancholic and all the structures that can be seen are destroyed and present a gloomy gray color.. You are in the First World War, and while you try to steal lives from death, a few kilometers away, there are men murdering each other. It is grotesque, and at the same time real.
On the French front, you take the role of Major Henry Wells, and here there is no good news. Your job, that of a war doctor, could only have been created by the same species that managed to sight a black hole. The title is a management and strategy video game that at the same time makes you fight for survival.
What do I have to do in the game?
In one of the events that can occur during the game, they reach the front a group of residents with a rare disease, pleading for medical attention, some have already died. In the role of Major Henry Wells, the player wanting to save as many lives as possible cannot refuse such a request. War Hospital is going to teach you a very important lesson.
Within a few days, the unknown disease had spread throughout the campaign. The doctors were fainting from exhaustion.Hey the soldiers, with easily curable wounds, died from other complications. Resources were slowly running out, and you were faced with the difficult decision of who to treat, if you react in time. If not, perdition is inevitable.
*I don't know if the same decision can turn out well, probably yes.
The game shows you with raw realism that there are no heroes or perfect endings in the first world war. For some to survive, others must die.
On the other hand, if you turn your back on the locals, you sentence them to die without any care, giving a blow to the morale of the medical post.
And that's how most of the vicissitudes happen, managing what you have to save whoever you can. When medical supplies run out, you can ask for more, but is that or food more necessary? ¿What's the point if patients and staff are starving?? It's your job to find the balance, keep the doctors happy, because you want them as motivated as possible.
What do critics say about War Hospital?
Many people have come to enjoy it a lot, and the game is good, but when we go to see the ratings, we don't find such generous reviews. Because?
Everyone agrees on something, bugs hinder the game. From errors small ones that ruin the dive, to larger problems that can ruin entire games. Let's hope all of these (or most at least) are salvageable. A patch could do a lot of good for this game.
Another common complaint has been that does not have auto-save, I mean, it's something simple, but we're not in 2005 anymore. Games should be able to be closed and when you open them, be where they are. This is another feature that could really help the player experience a lot but should be fairly easy to fix.
Generally, the menu architecture feels poorly worked and not at all optimized, even making it difficult to find some options that are essential for the progress of the game (because they are practically hidden).
Actually, there is a very important part of the game that saves it and makes it be the good it is: the idea.
War Hospital stands out due to its fairly underexploited theme and the moral crossroads that the game exposes you to all the time. The writers really did a great job of showing us the consequences of the great War.
The fidelity to show the most dramatic and least “FPS” part of the war was its strongest point.
Am I going to like War Hospital?
What is also true and very important is that this title not for everyone. You can definitely try it, but it's possible that you won't get into the game. The first thing to generate interest in you is that you like management games. After that, pretty much the only thing you can do is play it and try to commit to the cause.
A part of the criticism, beyond the bugs and the good idea of the game, They have found him lifeless, and they have not been able to commit to the wave of faceless characters that come to be treated. Yes, it could be said that the title also fails in this aspect, but for many people it does not, and we cannot turn it into a visual novel to fill the tastes of some people. The way I play the game reaches its audience.
The reality is that it is not an exceptional game for history, and despite being a good title capable of entertaining you and making you reflect, I don't think it will be a release that we will remember next year or the next. There's a good idea there, but it doesn't reach us as much as it could due to the mechanics used.
Let's hope to continue learning about projects that further exploit this idea in the near future.
Where can you play War Hospital?
The game is available for PC, Play Station 5 and Xbox Series X/S. It can be purchased at Steam y epicgames(for PC), or in the stores of each of the consoles.
And that's all. Let me know in the comments if you're enjoying War Hospital, and where you think this game went wrong.