{"id":549,"date":"2021-08-11T14:55:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T14:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engadget.vip\/?p=549"},"modified":"2021-08-11T14:55:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T14:55:45","slug":"two-point-campus-offers-evolution-not-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Two Point Campus\u2019 offers evolution, not revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'><\/div><p>iThis content is not available due to your privacy preferences. Update your settings here, then reload the page to see it.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, <em>I\u2019m<\/em> benefitting from the world\u2019s seemingly-endless appetite for nostalgia for the good ol\u2019 days. 25 years after <em>Theme Hospital <\/em>was released, and four years after <em>Two Point Campus<\/em> takes players back to the world of Two Point County, this time tasked with building a chain of new universities in plots adjacent to the previously-dysfunctional hospitals you\u2019ve finished renovating.<\/p>\n<p>I recently played through an early build of the first two levels of the game. Freshleigh Meadows is a cut-down tutorial stage, while the Rome-inspired Piazza Lanatra is the second area players can expect to access. With the Update your settings here, then reload the page to see it.<\/p>\n<p>Universities are also a lot less of a gold mine for zany jokes compared to a cartoonish hospital. Sure, there are still menu gags and amusing radio commentary, but there are just less things to poke fun at in a campus setting. The weirdest thing I\u2019ve seen so far is trainee chefs cooking a burger the size of an SUV in a slightly bigger skillet. It\u2019s a far cry from unscrewing a lightbulb sticking out of someone\u2019s neck when they\u2019re suffering from \u201clightheadedness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Campus<\/em>\u2019 sense of scale has shifted fairly significantly, too, and <em>Hospital<\/em> players may find the bigger rooms are more of a challenge. While you could build a serviceable clinic out of just 3&#215;3-sized rooms, the default area in <em>Campus<\/em> is closer to 5&#215;5. There\u2019s a lot more stuff to cram into each room, too, with a more maximalist sense of design compared to the last game. I suspect it\u2019s because of those <em>Hospital<\/em> players  their hospital <em>Two Point Campus<\/em><em> will debut on PC, Mac, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X\/S, Xbox Game Pass and Nintendo Switch on August 9th, 2022. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iThis content is not available due to your privacy preferences. Update your settings here, then reload the page to see it. Finally, I\u2019m benefitting from the world\u2019s seemingly-endless appetite for nostalgia for the good ol\u2019 days. 25 years after Theme Hospital was released, and four years after Two Point Campus takes players back to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[130,360,115,724,56,725,726,728,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}