Ghostbusters: The Video Game (360)
- October 30, 2009 12:51 PM PST
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Grappling ghosts into submission in Ghostbusters is the supernatural equivalent of bass fishing, with a brightly colored particle stream instead of a hook and line. As I struggle with "hooked" spirits, my slam gauge fills, which enables me to hurtle the lassoed entities into hard surfaces with the flick of a trigger. For a while, the whole process looks and feels wonderful, despite the occasional drop in frame-rate, and I come to fancy myself an urban ranger at a paranormal rodeo. Still, I perform this same dance with my opponents countless times over the six or seven hours it takes to complete the solo-only campaign, and I'd be lying if I said it never got repetitive.
Ghostbusters stirs in some interesting ideas, but doesn't build them up enough to stave off monotony entirely. You'll track down haunted artifacts and scan troublemakers with the PKE Meter, but constant reminders of when to do so kill any sense of sleuthing. New weapons appear at predetermined points, but their effects seem subdued. For instance, the Stasis Stream promises to slow down creeps, but in practice seems effective only against golems and select bosses. There are fun possibilities, like using Slime Tethers to rubber-band specters into traps, but they're always less practical than hosing the floaters down with the blast stream.
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on the calendar you guys forgot to put wii for ghostbuster . it's out for wii also and im pretty sure it's one of the best thing ever come to wii this year . i think it's even better than that shitty concept of wii vitality censor . seriously , what was he smoking ?
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reading this reminds me that there still hasn't been a good goonies or back to the future game.
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DaveRudden wrote:
reading this reminds me that there still hasn't been a good goonies or back to the future game.
"Ouch! what do you do"
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Dude...I'll give someone $5 if they can explain to me WTF this means:
"There are fun possibilities, like using Slime Tethers to rubber-band specters into traps, but they're always less practical than hosing the floaters down with the blast stream."
LOL! I have no idea what the hell that means but I'm going out to rent this game!
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Well I was a bit older when Ghostbusters and Goonies came out, just old enough to know they were both really bad films... this is actually the kindest review I have read yet and I will definitely buy it tomorrow to try and beef up my PS3 collection that's starting to look a bit thin compared to the other console.
If this game sucks I will hold Gamepro personally responsible for pain and suffering. It actually looks like a nice fun light hearted game.
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7 hours I may have to take a swing. I have yet to complete any epic game yet. Maybe the online feature is the cause of this.
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Thank you for screwing the PC crowd. I dont want to hear anything from this publisher about the "sad decline of PC gaming". It is because of these losers, that the sales of games like this slant towards consoles.
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