IGNN–The Imaginary Game News Network

• For: Wii
• From: Sing Science
• Rating: One spicy chalupa
• Reviewer: Ib Sanchez

Three years ago, when I went to the doctor about a sore thumb and was released from the hospital two weeks later with one leg and half a liver, I began to suspect that what goes on behind the OR’s closed doors isn’t exactly what we see on TV. Now, having played Karaoke Surgeon every day since last Tuesday, I suspect that my surgeons weren’t harvesting body parts for profit (as I had previously suspected, particularly after spotting a guy at the beach last summer with a tattoo that was identical to the one on my missing leg) but they were most likely just singing and dancing to help pass the time. Pardon the pun, but Karaoke Surgeon is one of them most infectious games I’ve played in years. Like many music/action/performance games that have come before it, Karaoke Surgeon is all about keeping time, but the twist here is that you’re also performing delicate surgery while singing your heart out to a hit list of medical-themed standards. The game starts you off easy with an appendectomy (King of Pain) before testing you with a grueling angioplasty performed to Heart of Glass. Two player mode, in which one player assists the other while singing close harmony, is particularly tricky when you’re trying to read the lyrics and suture a bleeding artery at the same time. I have to confess to losing a patient when I tried to crank out some  bonus Air Guitar moves during Mötley Crüe’s Dr. Feelgood while simultaneously performing a tricky endocranial procedure on a 54-year old male with hematosis. (I should have seen that one coming.) But even after losing a few virtual patients, my final prognosis on Karaoke Surgeon is that it is sure to cure your ills.