![]() You can fill the halls with arcade machines and table football but also, importantly, items to build the student’s relationships with each other. Two Point Campus is all about finding the balance between academic success and raucous fun with friends. ![]() I hurriedly build a student union, complete with bar, and schedule a party and a cinema screening in a lecture theatre but it’s clearly going to take more than a couple of events to keep them entertained. As I quickly discover to my detriment though, awe doesn’t mean they’re enjoying themselves and my university appears to officially be a fun vacuum. The kitchens of the Gastronomy course are filled with giant pizza and pie makers, surrounded by bustling students chopping vegetables and watching in awe. While lecture theatres are just some tiered seating and a lectern, individual training rooms are packed with fascinating machines. The course rooms themselves are a delight. Getting involved with the nitty gritty here is essential. Plus, if they aren’t happy sharing with 20 other students in a giant prison like-structure with no bins, they’re not going to want to study in your well-equipped library, so finding a balance of dorm rooms and keeping them clean becomes vital. Students need digs with beds and wardrobes and the better you make their surroundings, the more they’ll pay in rent. It’s a refreshing breather before rushing headlong into another year.īuilding and decorating will be second nature to TPH players and those who have never played before will quickly enjoy the satisfying cartoony placement of rooms and required furniture. The time between academic years is a perfect excuse to get your affairs in order and make sure you’ve got enough lecture theatres, course rooms, and dormitories before hitting start. It’s a feel good loop as students arrive for three years at a time before being spat into the real world as the adults that you may or may not have cultivated. Once again, Two Point Campus steers deftly through an ocean of wordplay – the conspira-sea? – without sinking with cringe.Įach course comes with its own room requirements and upgrades as it progresses and adds a whole new subset of students to the halls. Before the academic year starts, we choose which courses to run and once each year is complete, we can use our earnings to upgrade those courses or add new ones such as Gastronomy, Virtual Normality or Knight School where students can train in the art of jousting. In a big change from Two Point Hospital, we’re actually in control of how much work we take on. To fully simulate university life, Two Point Campus makes the most of an academic year structure. I’m eased into a career in academia with the Freshleigh Meadows tutorial level before moving onto the Piazza Lanatra university that specialises in the art of Gastronomy. ![]() And spoiler, it’s just as ‘Oh God, I’m going to spend forever here’ levels of compelling as Two Point Hospital. Our success – and bank balance – depends on the crowds of young minds clamouring in the halls actually having a good time. Caring for them, feeding them, keeping them happy between classes, and giving them the ultimate university experience to remember for a lifetime. Instead, Two Point Campus is all about your students. Insert scathing takedown of global healthcare systems here. Who cares if one dies in the corridor? As long as you had a janitor to vacuum up their ghost before it spooked too many of the other patients, it was easy to ignore and concentrate on making the big bucks. Whether you were curing your clown-afflicted patients of Jest Infections in the main game or of the Bionic Plague in later DLCs, TPH’s patients were almost always secondary to your main aims. It takes place in the same county and uses a lot of the same systems, but designing and managing a university has very different requirements from the treatment cycle of the originals. READ MORE: ‘Weird West’ review: undead or aliveīut the good news is that Two Point Campus is no mere Two Point Hospital or, indeed, Theme Hospital clone.A sarcastic welcome home, if you will, as we’re taken back to this Aardman-esque world of happy cartoon characters and puns, shrewd management tasks, and a disturbing quantity of luminescent orange snacks known as Cheesy Gubbins. She’s also a clear indicator that this is very much a Two Point Studios management game. She seems to have moved on from healthcare and embraced a career in higher education but still doesn’t seem to have much patience for human beings. “Students are reminded that you came here on purpose…” If you played Theme Hospital spiritual successor Two Point Hospital, you’ll know exactly the bored tone of the university receptionist in Two Point Campus.
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