Lifesigns combines the Phoenix Wright styled gameplay with an excellent storyline, making this well worth the play!
Graphics: Surprisingly, this game features lots of aspects taken from the Phoenix Wright games, and graphics is one of them. The backgrounds are slightly cel-shaded 2D statics, with a tiny 3D touch. As playing PW, the characters will also move and have their own animations. A style that has been used before, but nevertheless good and well adapted. 8/10
Sound: It has some pretty great themes that will appeal to practically everyone. The SFX is basic, and instead of PW Objection!, you have sometimes someone screaming and the Japanese word on the screen (Lifesigns is a game deeply attached to it's roots, so it's like a subdubbed anime game,as the -San and Sensei terms, and all kinds of characters names are basically translations to our alphabet and not completely different names like some games use in their US region translation), and you also hear the 'ping' which indicates that you did something right (present correct information to this or that character, that will advance the storyline). 8/10
Gameplay: Really good. Unlike Trauma Center, this game makes great use of text, seeing as it's an adventure med simulator, instead of a puzzle one. TC failed in this aspect, as the text was basically a fill in to the actual operations, while in Lifesigns the storyline is essential and very well written, not to mention the great operations that are quite simple to perform. If you press the L or R buttons in an operation, it will tell you where to incise, suture, etc, with a tiny health loss penalty, however. Adventure wise, you basically go around the hospital or other locations, interacting with patients/characters involved in that episode (another PW similarity) and present information or objects that they will talk about and give more info and hints to help complete certain objectives. It's a good way of distracting you from the operations, which is not the only important part in a med simulator. 9/10.
Replay Value: I cannot evaluate this game based on it's multiplayer, because it doesn't feature any. Nope, that's true, but what multiplater activities would you put on a med sim? Mini-games? Neverthless, the main adventure will keep you well busy, not to mention the addiction it will give you. 8/10
Resuming, Lifesigns is a very good medical simulator. It's quite addicting, combining PW aspects that go well with this genre, with a great adventure and gameplay, reason why this game gets my seal of approval!