Product Description

The game features an all new storyline but still manages to replicate most of the major scenes from the films, including the hotel-room capture of New York library ghost, Slimer, and the attack of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. Almost all of the original cast are involved, including all four Ghostbusters, the mayor, and even Walter Peck.

The game itself is mission based and has you catching ghosts with your proton packs and then manoeuvring them into a ghost trap--just like the movie. Whether thats enough to fill a whole game isnt clear, but the funny dialogue and celebrity voiceovers should help paper over any cracks.

• Tools of the trade: Use all the same gadgets from the movies, including the iconic proton packs, particle throwers, the ghost-locating PKE meter, and Ecto-goggles.
• Direct-to-game sequel: Bill Murray, Dan Akroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson all reprise their roles from the first two movies, and Akroyd and Ramis wrote the game's story.
• Nice day for a drive: Get behind the wheel of the iconic Ecto-1 vehicle from the movie and chase down the faster-moving ghosts.
• He slimed me: The game features all the most famous ghosts from the first two movies, including Slimer, the terror dogs, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, and Vigo.
• New York, New York: The highly detailed environments allow for plenty of collateral damage, as a special counter rates the carnage youre causing in dollar amounts.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1654 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Sony
• Released on: 2009-06-19
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Platform: PLAYSTATION 3
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
Usually video game tie-ins are released at the same time as the movie they’re based on. Sometimes there can be short delay--but twenty years is something else. Ghostbusters never seems to age, though, with the new game a real labour of love for the developer.

Not all of the ghosts and locations will be recognisable from the movie

Some ghosts need to be destroyed--not caught

Getting slimed is all part of the fun when you’re a Ghostbuster

The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man is back for revenge

The game features an all new storyline but still manages to replicate most of the major scenes from the films, including the hotel-room capture of New York library ghost, Slimer, and the attack of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. Almost all of the original cast are involved, including all four Ghostbusters, the mayor, and even Walter Peck.

The game itself is mission based and has you catching ghosts with your proton packs and then manoeuvring them into a ghost trap--just like the movie. Whether that’s enough to fill a whole game isn’t clear, but the funny dialogue and celebrity voiceovers should help paper over any cracks.

Key Features

• Tools of the trade: Use all the same gadgets from the movies, including the iconic proton packs, particle throwers, the ghost-locating PKE meter, and Ecto-goggles.
• Direct-to-game sequel: Bill Murray, Dan Akroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson all reprise their roles from the first two movies, and Akroyd and Ramis wrote the game's story.
• Nice day for a drive: Get behind the wheel of the iconic Ecto-1 vehicle from the movie and chase down the faster-moving ghosts.
• He slimed me: The game features all the most famous ghosts from the first two movies, including Slimer, the terror dogs, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, and Vigo.
• New York, New York: The highly detailed environments allow for plenty of collateral damage, as a special counter rates the carnage you’re causing in dollar amounts.

About the Developer: Terminal Reality
Texan developer Terminal Reality first found fame with the PC-based 3D shooter Terminal Velocity in 1995. Since then, this group has created everything from Monster Truck Madness to flight simulator Fly! to the BloodRayne series of vampiric action titles.

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Customer Reviews

(DO cross the streams)
In my opinion this is one of the best movie games ever, precisely because it wasn't a movie tie-in game. There was no new film to cash in on yet. They made it because they actually wanted to, and as such, they (mostly) did a great job. It's playable, it's fun, the mechanics work (and are pretty novel in games, and it looks and sounds awesome. It has some definite balance and pacing issues (the pro reviews are right,) but bottom line? It's fun, it doesn't suck, and it's true to the material, all in all its brilliant 5 out of 5

Definately worth it
Don't be put off by people saying this game is samey. It is a ghost catching game, so yes, every mission is going to be about catching ghosts in the same way that every Driver mission is going to involve driving a car and every Modern Warfare game is going to be about shooting the opposition. The missions themselves are varied in story, backdrop and content and I wouldn't call it samey at all.

The voice is acting is great and they throw in a lot of one liners and tongue-in-cheek humour which keeps you chuckling. The graphics are fine - they're not spectacular but they're not shoddy either; I'd rate them as good.

Downsides? The game takes maybe 20 seconds to reload every time you die and you are then put back to the last save point which is usually just before a section of movie content, which can be frustrating if you get to a hard bit.

Also, having played the demo, I felt confident enough to play it straight through on the maximum difficulty setting and I still managed to complete it over one weekend. That's not to say it's a short game, it's not, the game was a lot longer than I initially gave it credit for and there are a ton of trophies for people who like such things.

I've not yet done the online play so I cannot give an opinion on that (I'll be trying it out tonight).

Summary: Good game worth replaying (I will be).

Great dialog does not make a great game
Well just let me start by saying that I am a big fan of ghostbusters and have been ever since I saw the film at the cinema back in 84. Now I had high hopes for this game as I feel that there hasn't been much to look forward to Game wise from the Ghostbusters franchise since the Megadrive version.

Firstly I would like to point out that this game has one of the worst cases of slow down I have seen on the PS3, I really have no idea why the developers of the game are saying that the 'Infernal Engine' is capable of so much as that clearly isn't the case. 1000 objects on screen with no slowdown is what they say but in all honesty it's not even close to that I's say its more like 100(and thats including background objects).

Everyone keeps going on about how great the dialogue is and in all fairness it is but lets remember that this is a game first and foremost and that fact seems to have been forgotten somewhere along the line. It seems that having the original cast (who I love) have been used to give the game a much needed sheen.

The main problem with this game apart from very poor frame rate issues is that fact that the backgrounds look like they belong in the realms of the PS2. The textures on the backgrounds and objects are close to abysmal, low res textures that have been stretched out and smoothed out using hardware are all the rage is this title. VERY disapointing. The ghostbusters themselves look good but that's just not good enough in my book.

Another niggle is the loading times when you die, it takes about 20-30 seconds and becomes very annoying. Once loaded you then have to sit thought to sit through the same dialogue. Playing the game also feels quite old fashioned and I can't help but feel the game plays out by itself and you are just there to 'do your bit' its all very linear.

I wanted to love this game but can honestly say that I only just like it. I would have given it 2.5 stars but seeing as you can't have halves I rounded it down as its not good enough to round up to a score of 3 stars. It's not all bad, just most of it.

If you are used to software that has been polished until it gleams then avoid this game as there are too many things that will annoy you about it but if you are happy to play average games through rose tinted glasses then this game may be for you.