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The 1-Upper: Dark Cut 2
posted by dominic mercier
Remember that scene in Dances with Wolves where Kevin Costner is walking around the field hospital and the Union surgeons are getting ready to lop off a fellow soldier’s limb? All that talk about sawing with no ether was pretty gruesome stuff, and it’s no wonder it led him to trot off on his horse in front of what seemed like the entire Confederate army where, inexplicably, volley after volley completely misses him. In Armor Games’ Dark Cut 2, you get to step into the role of a Civil War surgeon and drive your own Lieutenant Dunbar to the brink of suicide.
Using 11 different tools, you face quite a variety of battlefield problems: gunshot wounds, shrapnel, and infections. If you’ve ever wanted to get your patient drunk on whiskey and then saw off limbs, staunch bloody wounds, and even put skull fragments back where they belong, you’re in luck. I’m not sure how accurate this game is from a medical perspective, but it’s one of the best uses of Flash I’ve seen. Armor Games has the gruesome factor down pat, so make sure you don’t eat anything before playing, as it’s extremely violent. So, fair warning.
Dark Cut 2 is definitely a step above its predecessor, the original Dark Cut – which was all about medieval surgery (think of the old man in Braveheart and his many ailments) – but it’s worth a play-through, too.
Play Dark Cut 2 here and the original here.
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