Ghostbusters: The Video Game

1. SamLightfoot

   Jun 18, 2009

   10

   OK, where do we start. Using your proton pack is exactly how I imagined it should be after watching these movies for 20 years. It's OK, where do we start. Using your proton pack is exactly how I imagined it should be after watching these movies for 20 years. It's reckless and destructive, and it catches ghosts real good. This game rocks. It has great voice work from the original cast, a cool story written by Aykroyd and Ramis, and some pretty solid gameplay. It has some online multiplayer ghost busting mayhem too. If you're a fan of the movies at all, I can hardly recommend this game enough.… Expand

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2. Armitas

   Sep 21, 2021

   10

   This IS Ghostbusters the movie 3!! It nails everything about the ghostbusters franchise and carries the lore a lot further. The music isThis IS Ghostbusters the movie 3!! It nails everything about the ghostbusters franchise and carries the lore a lot further. The music is perfect, the voice actors ARE the Ghostbusters, the plot is like a mix of the movies and the cartoon. If you haven't seen the cartoon, it's just like ghostbusters, but they go off world a lot more, and you go into the spirit world quite a bit in the game. If you like ghostbusters even a little bit, get it, it's super cheap at this point.
   
   As far as a game it's polished, 0 bugs, you develop through most of the game though the upgrades run out before the last 20% of the game. Even though they run out you still have to think through your fights and progress because each weapon does different things. You still have the main proton weapon for capturing and weakening ghosts, and you have to lasso them into the trap like the movie. It's done so well you feel like you are in the movie, it looks and feels exactly the same. There are tons of easter eggs through out HQ, and each item you find in the field goes back to the HQ for more interactibles.
   
   Absolute blast, I rarely give a game a 10 but this is everything you want it to be.… Expand

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4. JimmyoftheDead

   Nov 4, 2010

   9

   I was really surprised by this game, i got is a present from a friend who got it cheep. Not to be the bad guy, i played it and found myselfI was really surprised by this game, i got is a present from a friend who got it cheep. Not to be the bad guy, i played it and found myself enjoying the experience a person would want from being a ghostbuster. The team is great with all the original voices and the story is actually really well done. If you have watched any of the movies, you will point at the screen going 'hey, i remember that' many times before the game is done. All your favorites are back, Slimer, Stay Puft, the Librarian, and of course there is the dancing toaster. The controls were surprisingly good, the game handles pretty well. There are several different beams/slime you can shoot, which adds well needed variety, but you can pretty much beat the game with nothing but the normal stream. One thing i found odd is that the game tried to pull a Dead Space by putting the majority of your hub on your pack, overheat, health, cooling, its all there on the pack. This would have been fine if not for the fact that sometimes the screens aren't visible and are too small. Most the time i just cooled off after every ghost i captured. What is a really nice thing to see is the verity in enemies, from possessed object to the super natural ghosts, there is quite a large verity. I did find this game to repetitive, it even repeats a few levels. One really big shocker was just how good the multiplayer is. Instead of having people beat each other up, they help each other by capturing ghosts and the more you get the higher you level up. This is a nice breather after all the shooters such as Mw2 or Red Dead, but i don't like how the it is set up. The leveling up system is confusing, and the community for it is failing fast, so soon it will be another lost server. The final work i have for this game is that it is the perfect game for those who love the movies or just want a good si-fy thriller.… Expand

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5. MarkD

   Jul 14, 2009

   8

   Well, this really does a great job of capturing the look, feel and wit of the movies. From the superb script and voice acting done by the Well, this really does a great job of capturing the look, feel and wit of the movies. From the superb script and voice acting done by the original cast, the Ghostbusters equipment, the famous theme tune. This is as authentic as you could possibly hope for and as Brad M below said it really does feel like they wrote a 3rd movie and you're part of it! All this would fall as flat as a pancake if the gameplay sucked though but thankfully this is also great fun to play. The controlls are well thought out, the weapons are imaginative and ther's enough surprises, scares, and epic set pieces to keep it fun through to the end. Ther's a few little irritations - the suddern deaths, linier level design and short time to complete (6-8 hrs). Nothing that's going to ruin your enjoyment too much mind but enough to stop this being a bona fide classic. This gets a hell of a lot more right then wrong though. In short this does justice to the original movies and is a cracking game in it's own right. What more do you want?!… Expand

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6. Reaperville

   Nov 4, 2010

   8

   well written, follows the storyline of the movies, however it was very short for a 50 dollar game, the multi-player is fun as well, however iwell written, follows the storyline of the movies, however it was very short for a 50 dollar game, the multi-player is fun as well, however i believe there are much better titles out there for the same amount of money, but if you are a ghost busters fan it enhance the fun.… Expand

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7. SuperkenGaming

   Dec 15, 2016

   7

   Ghostbusters the Video Game
   Decent but dated.
   It’s so rare to find a licensed game actually worth playing through... and thankfully this isGhostbusters the Video Game
   Decent but dated.
   It’s so rare to find a licensed game actually worth playing through... and thankfully this is one of them.
   In Ghostbusters the video game you play as a nameless and voiceless recruit…
   Perfect opportunity to have a customizable character... but no... You’re just some generic dude that joins the ghostbusters squad.
   Your journey starts checking out a hotel and ends up in a chase to shut down this giant ghost portal by taking care of different points across Manhattan.
   This game is about 7 and a half hours long, and is varied and well-designed preventing repetitiveness to kick in…
   You’ll visit spooky libraries, different dimensions, and a graveyard just to name a few...
   But this game is from 2009 and it definitely shows with its grainy texture…
   It’s very hard on the eyes after being so used to the graphics and textures of modern day games 7 years later…
   The actual gameplay here is engaging enough to force your eyes to just deal with it…
   You have a proton pack and a scanner..
   As you progress through the story you’ll gain new abilities and modes for the proton pack which tie into level progression itself, like being able to make a slime tether to pull items, and you of course have attacks and ways to capture the ghosts you run into…
   To capture a ghost you have to weaken it, shoot out your capture stream and try to wiggle it into your ghost trap…
   There are also possessed creatures that you can just straight up kill and not have to capture.. which I found to be way more fun to deal with…
   The ghost capturing sections of the game for me were by far the worst…
   they take way too long to complete and bring the game to a crawl… they are spaced out more the deeper you get into the game, but are still an eye roll when they pop up…
   And with the scanner you can scan a ghost or enemy to learn its weakness so you know which mode to use... but it also rewards you with cash, as do the collectibles in the game, giving true incentive to capture stats and seek items out to upgrade your proton pack modes…
   And at the end of each spooky location is a pretty awesome boss battle.. all of which feel unique from each other, and the game does a great job of hyping them up with their story as your progress through the levels
   there wasn’t one I didn’t have fun trying to defeat or capture…
   most if not all being fan favorites as I’ve never really seen a ghostbusters movie.
   There is a game save bug here though so be cautious…
   I Turned my ps3 off right before the final 2 bosses and when I woke up in the morning the game wasn’t reading my save.. Thankfully it did after I reinstalled... but be warry of this glitch going in…
   And this games multiplayer is lost in time, it’s no longer works.
   Other than dated grainy textures, this is a really solid game worth checking out if you’re a ghostbusters fan.
   I give ghostbusters the video game
   a 7/10… Expand

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8. dancinhomer

   Oct 31, 2011

   3

   I will qualify this by stating that, although I'm well old enough to remember the Ghostbusters heyday back in the early 1980's, I've alwaysI will qualify this by stating that, although I'm well old enough to remember the Ghostbusters heyday back in the early 1980's, I've always been rather lukewarm to the whole thing. The movies were okay, but nothing I wanted to see more than once. Still, I read good reviews and thought "a good game is a good game."
   
   Wow, was this awful. The graphics are very nice, and the story is okay, so there's no problem. It has a sense of humor and *does* play like a sequel to the previous films, so if you're an absolute Ghostbusters fan, this may be for you.
   
   The problem is with the gameplay. Catching those things is an absolute chore. I read one professional review where the critic said he "couldn't tell me how much fun it was" to catch and trap the ghosts, and I can only presume he's never played a game that wasn't made for the Atari 2600 prior to this. The actual mechanics of catching and trapping the ghosts is like trying to catch flies with a fishing rod and is about as much fun. Which, is to say, not at all. And that's the main point of the game.
   
   I suppose it *does* give you the feeling of what it would be like to be a Ghostbuster. Sadly, it turns out that being a Ghostbuster isn't fun at all.… Expand

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