Kotaku reports that the Japanese surgery-adventure title Trauma Center: Second Opinion will be a Wii launch title. The game is being developed by Atlus, who created Trauma Center: Under the Knife for Nintendo DS, which I reviewed last year. A surgery game on Wii sounds like a sure thing, and I'm sure Trauma Center won't be the only one we see.

Atlus insists that the title is not a port but a "wii-make," which has "new graphics and animation; new surgical implements and operation types; a second playable character with new missions; multiple difficulty modes; and a revised control system that takes full advantage of the Wii Remote." We'll have to wait and see how intuitive or awkward it will be to perform surgery sitting up, as if the patient were suspended vertically in front of the player.