Ghostbusters: The Video Game (PS3)
- June 15, 2009 12:30 PM PST
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I was a little kid when the Ghostbusters movie came out and I went nuts for it. If it was playing in a theater, I snuck in to see it. If a friend's family rented the video, I invited myself over for an extended stay. I quoted dialogue lines and sang along with the theme song. So it wouldn't surprise you to hear that the prospect of actually joining the team set my inner ten-year-old loose like he's on a sugar bender. Sadly, Ghostbusters: The Video Game doesn't quite live up to my childhood fantasies but it's still a solid game that manages to capture at least some of the magic.
Like Goonies and Back to the Future, Ghostbusters is one of those classic film franchises that a lot of gamers remember fondly from their childhood. From Cameron's review, it sounds like the developers did a good job of keeping things faithful but as was my suspicion after getting a couple of preview demos, the ghostbusting gameplay gets a little repetitive after a while. Still, the multiplayer modes and nostalgia factor are enough to convince me to play it.
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That starts with the game world that the developers have created. The game takes place in New York and everywhere you look you'll find little touches that harken back to the movie. The major players have all returned -- no Rick Moranis or Sigourney Weaver, though -- to give voice to their slightly awkward 3D caricature counterparts, and everything from the proton pack on your back to the ECTO-1 is recreated in detail.
The game takes place in 1991 and puts you in the shoes of a new recruit who joins the Ghostbusters. The Natural History Museum is set to unveil an exhibit dedicated to the wrathful god Gozer; as you can expect, things go awry and one enormous wave of energy later, New York City is once again crawling with ghouls, ghosts, and other things that are far stranger. After getting a lesson from Ray on the basics of how to "zap 'em, cap 'em, and trap 'em", it's onto the main goal: ridding the world of paranormal evil.
