After numerous delays in development, Ghostbusters will finally arrive to the PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PC, Play Station 2 and DS this June. Released under the Atari label (always scary), it features the voice talents of Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Bill Murray who–until now–has been reluctant to be involved with any new Ghostbusters projects. It also stars the voice of Ernie Hudson as Winston and the voice of Annie Potts as Janine.
In the game you will become the 5th Ghostbuster and are basically the newbie tasked with joining the team and taking down ghosts. The Ps3, Xbox 360 and PS2 versions have amazing, movie-quality, realistic graphics while the Wii version has been tweaked a little to look more cartoonish. Think more–“The Real Ghostbusters” cartoon rather than the film. The Wii version also apparently has some cool motion control action.
All of the previews and gaming agencies online are reporting good things about the game. If you search for Ghostbusters on the Google it brings you to sierra.com which redirects you to the Ghostbustersgame.com website which is loaded with trailers and other content. Go have a look and watch the embeded youtube video below. Note for the HD version you’ll need to click that HD button in the lower right of your YouTube window.
Finally something we can all get excited about without defending our platform of choice! Enjoy.
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Is this game 20 years in the making?
In a matter of speaking, I suppose. Sure feels like it. ;-)
Doesn’t even look like a game. Looks you just follow along with the characters on their adventures. More like a movie than a game.
The scenes in the trailer are largely cut scenes. The gameplay promises to be quite good from what I’ve read. The big question with this game is: Will it allow for multiplayer ghost hunting?
Nobody ever shows actual in-game gameplay anymore. We are only shown the cut scenes. See TV commercials, back of the box screenshots, etc.
That’s because the cut-scenes are so much prettier. It’s really no different than the marketing scamming in the 80s and 90s when screenshots sometimes were of the arcade game rather than their 4 or 8-bit counterpart.
I remember the laughably fake screenshots for many 2600 games. The fade-out gradients for motion, etc.
I remember the pole position commercial. It featured about 2 seconds of gameplay total. :)
And talk about production values. They had formula one knock-offs in that thing! It’s here on GridCycle somewhere…
–Here it is–
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