


Although, when there’s an emergency due to touch down on the helipad, you tend not to notice it as much when seven people are waiting to be cured in the slack tongue clinic – it’s quite the sight. There’s a simplistic charm to not having certain features at your disposal and only having eight songs to accompany your seemingly endless shifts. No one likes stress, but for some reason, if you’re not holding a mild panic about the queue times for the GP’s office, spending time covering the numerous mice holes with KitKat vending machines or constantly mopping up mess, then it’s just not a shift well done for me. It’s constantly a wild ride from start to finish and if the wheels haven’t well and truly come off, you’re doing it wrong. Two Point has certainly found its audience with newcomers and fans of its previous, yet it’s more than just the nostalgia for Theme Hospital that keeps us coming back to, year after year. Thankfully, both the gender inequality and pay gap from Theme Hospital has been scrapped, as well as a more diverse cast of characters. Being able to find out a little more about patients and staff, as well as having the ability to build on pause mode, is a welcome blessing. Let’s be clear, the Two Point titles are well-loved and the additions that the studio has made embellish the business sims genre to no end. However, there’s something about the Two Point series, Campus included, that just doesn’t hold the same feeling of chaos that Theme Hospital continues to emit. The announcer returns as well, delivering hilarious quips as you manage your wards and ensure that the patients are being tended to. The comparisons are certainly there it features a wider range of items, new illnesses and far more music to listen to, complete with radio hosts, yet it still holds the same feeling as before in respect its tongue-in-cheek nature. Just two years later, Two Point Hospital was released - a spiritual successor to Theme Hospital. Yet in 2016, original Theme Hospital producer Mark Webley and lead artist Gary Carr co-founded Two Point Studios along with Ben Hymers, a previous programmer who worked with Webley and Carr at Lionhead Studios.
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As time amassed and PC games continued to graphically push the boundaries, as well as other sim titles taking the reins, Theme Hospital still appeared to hold its presence.
