Grey’s Anatomy is a rerun tonight, but if you absolutely, positively cannot handle a Thursday sans new MerDer drama or heavy-handed metaphors (his face is like their relationship! her disease is like…their relationship!), then maybe the GA video game is for you. Yes, indeed, the Seattle Grace shenanigans have been turned into a game. Well, "game." It’s more like a SIMS-produced episode of the show with little flash diversions interspersed in the action. Well, "action." I’ve seen comas more invigorating than this.
Yeah, Grey’s Anatomy: The Video Game is superhumanly dull, and you control so little of the action it hardly feels like a game at all. Ostensibly, you pick the characters’ actions — Meredith wants to kiss Derek; should she just go for it, or play hard to get? No, really. But it seemed like no matter what I chose (Alex should be honest! Izzie should be bold!), the story progressed the same way, whether that was through honesty or boldness or not. I was even more disappointed with the lame-o surgery parts. Other than the really biological sound effects, the surgery was basically Dark Cut, sans irony.
As strenuously unfun as the game itself is, it did help me clarify some issues I’ve had with Grey’s over the years, namely that most obstacles the characters face are static and self-imposed, and almost every episode includes a part where I shout "get some therapy!" Hmm, I can’t be committed to my relationship because I’m afraid of being hurt. Get! Some! Therapy! I’m so scarred by my lousy childhood that I act like a butthead — but deep down, I just want to feel loved. Get some therapy, Alex! I use sex as a way to avoid intimacy. Sloane, get thee to a shrink! Daddy issues, grief issues, sexual identity issues, a rocky marriage, chronic self-doubt — all together now, PopWatchers: Get some therapy. So I have the game to thank for making it abundantly clear that the characters on Grey’s can be dangerously simplistic (one of the game-lets instructs players to "avoid love, collect cold [ness]"). It’s that lack of depth that stunts character development, which is one thing that holds Grey’s back from greatness (and sometimes from just goodness).
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So if this were April 1st, I’d totally think this would be an April Fool’s joke! How awesomely bad! (And I don’t even watch Grey’s!)
Finally something to play besides my Peyton Place video game!!! I hope they make it for ColecoVision so I don’t have to buy a new console!!!
I got this game the day that it came out for DS. It took me about 3 nights to finish the game. There were so many things that they could have done with it and yet didn’t. It was a pretty big let down.
OMG the game sucks!!! The graphics are awful the “game” aspect of it is pointless there is really no redeeming quality to it. If it came with a money back guarentee I would send it back. Hopefully I can sell it used and get some of my money back….
Who would buy this piece of crap????? Whoever came up with this idea should be fired.
worst idea for a video game ever how did this idea even make into production.
I really hope that the game includes a ferry boat crash, giving CPR to a bleeding deer, and bonus points for using the word “seriously”! What a McSteaming pile of doo doo.
LOL Peaches! XD
you are all wrong it is on the top 3 games list its absolutly brilliant. the graphics are sooo cool and the voices are so acurate il have all of you know the worst game in the world is high school musical and anything to do with football.
The game was horrible. I can’t even finish it. I’m very disappointed. It seems like they just threw the game together with not much thought at all. I can’t even try and sell it because I bought it as a download.
The game was horrible. I can’t even finish it. I’m very disappointed. It seems like they just threw the game together with not much thought at all. I can’t even try and sell it because I bought it as a download.