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: #255 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Atari
• Released on: 2009-11-06
• Platform: Xbox 360
• 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

Great game just a little too short.
Several months after release on the PS3 UK Xbox players finally get a chance to see what all the hype was all about. However many people couldn't wait and those sneaky Americans made there version Region free so many people just ordered the US version instead.

I find the game pretty hard to rate as it is good fun and has excellent Game play and graphics, it's just pretty short, pretty easy and has very little replay value. I had done everything I could in about 4 days except online play.

The game itself contains a new story for our ghost busting heroes and includes the voices of all the original actors. It is the best thing we can hope for after the 2 brilliant films (especially the first).

The environment is pretty rigid and you have to go wherever the game decides and does not include free roam around New York which would have been great fun. What you do see looks fantastic though. It would also be nice if the character you got to play actually spoke instead of being a mute and looking pretty gormless throughout.

Overall this game is good fun to play however maybe wait for a drop before handing over your hard earned.

4 Stars.

OK, gets a bit tedious to be honest
May contain SPOILERS!
Bought this for my nephew for Christmas, until he then told me he wanted a Star Wars game, so kept it and decided to play it for myself, after about 1 hours play I started to become bored.
You start in the Ghostbusters base as a rookie, after a bit of chat etc. you and the other Ghostbusters venture off to investigate a disturbance at a nearby hotel, its actually slimer who has just been at the base which is strange, anyway, catching 1 ghost soon turns into catching about 8 in the hotel, all caught in the same way, catch them in your stream and slam them until their tired them trap them, over and over again..............
Straight from the hotel you are onto the street after the Stay Puff Marshmallow man, who spawns more ghosts you have to catch in the same way, ghost after ghost, catch them in your stream then trap them in your trap or one on your car, again and again.........
If you get knocked down, you simply get back up, if a team mate gets knocked down, you help them back up, can you die ? I don't know, I didn't.
At the end of a very long level you have to zap the marshmallow man to stop him climbing up the building you are on, this takes about 5 minutes to do, just by zapping him, he is not threat whatsoever, he falls and explodes, then thats the end of the level, about 1hr later.
My overall verdict after playing the first mission is that its a good kids game and they will enjoy it for a while, my nephew who played it was bored after 45 minutes of doing the same thing, don't get me wrong its good to watch, but I think what would have been better instead of having extra long missions, if the Ghostbusters we called to each seperate incident and you had to get in your ghostbusters car and drive it looking for where the disturbance was, not just a cut scene with no interest for the player, in a way the game is more like watching a movie where all you have to do is catch the ghosts, you can't venture off anywhere and do something different, you have to do what the game wants you to do, so there is no real replay value whatsoever !
I would wait until the game is reduced in price before buying it, its probably worth £15 not in the same price bracket as games like COD MW 2, unless you are a die hard Ghostbusters fan, which would be pretty weird !
(sorry for any contradictions or repetition in my review, but currently not got time to read through and vet it, so it will have to do for now, good luck)

Classic and new
Thsi game is more than just the classic Ghostbusters, its gameplay is great the story is good and its supercool to play the game with the real actors from the movie as your co-ops.