Ghostbusters: The Video Game (360)
- October 30, 2009 12:51 PM PST
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More alarmingly, what begin as minor frustrations pick up steam over time. I loved visiting the old Sedgewick Hotel, and battling the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man in Manhattan, but the story is often less a sequel than an alternate reality highlight reel from the first film, and the surprisingly inconsistent environments vary from polished set-piece arenas to tedious trudges through dull corridors. Meanwhile, any time my entire squad was together to dispatch a boss, I wished I'd selected casual difficulty, because I spent more time running around reviving ineffectual teammates than I did actually fighting.
I never found these annoyances truly aggravating, apart from the poorly balanced final encounter, but they certainly put a ceiling on my enthusiasm. What bothered me more was that the script simply lacks the exuberance of the movie. Maybe what was riotously funny in the '80s comes off as tepid now. Maybe it's just far more difficult to nail comic timing in a game. Whatever the case, apart from a smattering of laugh-out-loud moments, the comedic elements are only mildly amusing at best, leaving only light horror to pick up the slack.
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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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