Ghostbusters: The Video Game
A port of Ghostbusters: The Video Game
The Ghostbusters are back for an all new adventure. With Manhattan overrun again by supernatural creatures, gamers take the role of a new recruit joining the famous Ghostbusters team. Equipped with a variety of unique equipment and gadgets, players hunt, fight and wrangle a wide range of ghosts in an all-new battle to save New York City from its latest paranormal plague. Delivering a special gaming experience to the tremendous Ghostbusters fan base around the world, Ghostbusters: The Video Game features the original cast from Columbia Pictures' classic Ghostbusters films, including Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson - together again for the first time in over 20 years. Supporting the original Ghostbusters crew are the talents of Annie Potts, Brian Doyle Murray and William Atherton. Like the films before it, Ghostbusters: The Video Game is all-new classic adventure with Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis returning to the helm to script and create a new storyline that leads gamers through the trials and tribulations of the world's leading paranormal ghost busting team. Players experience a variety of frightening new ghosts, even some based on ideas from Aykroyd and Ramis that never made it into the original feature films.
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Fun Fact: PS2 and PSP ports of this game is the first work of War Drum Studios, now also known as Grove Street Games, yes THAT Grove Street Games behind GTA: Defective Edition and other craptacular ports, it's a mystery how they managed to survive this long while much better studios were shut down for less but they must be doing something right to keep themselves afloat I guess...
The End of Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters when it is bustin
Bustin, on your Wii
As far as this game itself goes, it's OK. I owned and played the Wii version only, though I've seen video of the "more realistic" PS3 one. I got enjoyment out of this game, to a point, though gameplay-wise it isn't perfect. Like most motion-only Wii games, the "waggle" shit isn't always as responsive or accurate as it should be, which can make the already frustrating "slam caught ghosts ALL over the damn place before you can trap them" mechanic more cumbersome.
The story was EH. IT was nice to have most of the old actors back voicing their characters, but the story was VERY lazy, without spoiling much, essentially a retread of the first movie. It was fun enough to play through, but it was one of those games where I played it to see the ending, and never touched it again.