Author: War Zone Observation
As a big fan of Theme Hospital, I was particularly happy to see the game's developers Mark Webbley and Gary Carr and others set up a new company, "Double Point Studios", and their first work, "Double Point Hospital", also made me addicted for hundreds of hours. Now, another new work under the same world view, "Double Point Campus", will be launched this year, and friends who like simulation management and light and fun games can look forward to it. Thanks to Sega for the invitation, I recently auditioned Double Point Campus a few hours in advance to see the features of this game.
As the name suggests, this game is to build a university campus, of course, this campus is not very serious. You need to offer a variety of courses to attract students and then try to enrich their after-school life as much as possible during the school year, which is essentially similar to "Double Point Hospital", except that "the head of the hospital is a liar" to "the head of the school is a liar".
In the hospital of the previous game, there will be a new disease and corresponding department in each level, and each level in this game should be to add a new course for you to open. The demo version includes "Vicosity" in the first level, where a group of people will experiment around a large flask, and someone will pick up the strange liquid on the shelf and drink two sips to try, which looks like a centralized treatment, and then unlock the "virtual reality" class. The second level is to open a new Oriental cooking school, we want to open a course is salty food class and sweet food class, in the class every time you open the lid of the cauldron will appear different food, failure is more joyful.
When you trick a bunch of students into coming to campus, they can't go out until the end of the school year, so find a way to make the cash cows happy. Since the time in the game does not have the traditional day and night cycle, so the university dormitory is shared, this group of people tired to find a bed to sleep, probably maintained in the proportion of two people with a bed. Then you need to build student lounges, toilets and baths, various catering facilities, social places to meet various needs, hire assistants and handymen to serve, then you need to build ladder classrooms, libraries and other areas for students to take theoretical classes and self-study, and sometimes ladder classrooms can also spend money on movies, or have a party in the student union to help everyone entertain.
"Double Point Campus" continues the joy of "Double Point Hospital" in every way, and all kinds of funny courses, facilities and people are ready to make fun of you. The game also contains excellent Chinese dubbing, which can take the level of joy to the next level, and the riot masters of the two-point radio station still appear in this work - Sir Nigel Bekovos's radio program, the strange advertisement of "low-end technology", and the school announcer sister will come from time to time with a cold joke: "Notice: The 'nibbling book' in everyone's mouth is not the literal meaning" "Teachers please note that dogs do not eat homework." Unfortunately, in the demo version, it seems that the voices of "Old Ray" Reggie Hawthorne and "Old Wolf" Harrison Wolfe are not heard, and I don't know if there will be any in the official version. There are still some new voices in this game, and I hope they can bring more laughs.
The developers of Two-Point Studio said that the player community in the previous game reported that there was more custom content, so there was a big improvement in this aspect of "DoublePoint Campus". Indoors you can customize walls, floors and various items, etc., outdoors you can build your own roads, plan classroom areas, place landscapes and items, of course, if you are troublesome, you can also choose to spend more money directly to arrange for you when buying new land, this aspect of freedom compared to "Double Point Hospital" has been greatly improved.
"Two-point campus" in the release of PS, Xbox, Switch and PC synchronous release, the support for the controller is the host players do not have to worry, this time I tried to play is the PC version can also be operated with the controller, some places to operate more convenient than the use of keyboard and mouse, no need to worry about the controller operation will delay things. However, since the game is still under development, some localized translations have not yet been completed, and the details may be changed.
Overall, Double Point Campus is still a fun business simulation game, with a variety of whimsical courses and facilities that will give you a fresh feel in each level, and if you indulge in it, you should be able to play for hundreds of hours, which is a work worth looking forward to for players who like this genre. With a slight regret that the game will be postponed from May 17 to August 10, Game Director Mark Webberry said: "From the beginning, our goal was to release Two-Point Campus on both PC and all console platforms to meet the expectations of the community. That means we need to invest more time in Two-Point Campus to make sure we can deliver the best games on all platforms. We will use this three-month period to optimize DoublePoint Campus for all platforms so that it is ready in time for the start of the new school year! "Friends who like this game need to endure for a while."