Release Date: July 12, 2016
A co-op-oriented TPP role-playing action game by FireForge Games, based on the popular movie series of the same name. Although the game's release coincides with the release of another movie in the franchise, their plots are not directly connected, and players become a beginner ghost hunters, whose task is to clean Manhattan of various wraiths and other spectral nuisances.
Ghostbusters for PC, PS4 and XONE is a co-op-oriented TPP role-playing action game based on the popular movie series of the same name. It's one of the two titles (the other being Ghostbusters: Slime City for mobile devices) released alongside the new movie in the franchise, directed by Paul Feig, which is a completely new version of the cult classic comedy film from the 1980s. The game is the result of the cooperation bewteen Activision ans Sony Pictures Entertainment.
The plot of Ghostbusters utilizes many characteristic motifs and elements of the movie series, although it's not directly connected to any of them. You play as a group of beginner and inexperienced ghost hunters, whose task is to clean the streets of New York City of wraiths and other spectral nuisances.
You can choose one out of four available characters (two male and two female) and every one of them has a unique personality and fighting style, complementing the rest of the team. The game features a bird's eye view (at a small angle), and the gameplay is focused on completing a series of story quests, consisting mainly of fighting the ghosts haunting Manhattan — from common poltergeists to powerful bosses, which you can only defeat by maintaining good cooperation between the members of your team. In combat, the team uses a varied range of weapons and gadgets known from the movies, including the iconic proton pack. Ghostbusters also features a level-up system, thanks to which the characters can develop their abilities and equipment, and go from being a rookie to becoming a true warrior.
Ghostbusters for PC, PS4 and XONE is concentrated mostly on a local network co-op mode for up to four players. In case of insufficient number of players, the rest of the team is controlled by the AI.
The game bears a strong resemblance to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan, released two month earlier, also by Activision; they both feature similar cartoonish cel-shaded visuals. Just like its movie predecessor, Ghostbusters is filled with many jokes and a wacky sense of humour.
Platforms:
PC Windows
PlayStation 4
Xbox One
Developer: FireForge Games
Publisher: Activision Blizzard
Top downloads for Ghostbusters Video Game:
System Requirements for Ghostbusters Video Game:
PC / Windows
Minimum System Requirements:
Intel Core i5-750 2.67 GHz/Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz, 3 GB RAM, graphic card 2 GB GeForce GTX 660 or better, 12 GB HDD, Windows Vista/7/8/10.
Game Ratings for Ghostbusters Video Game.
Twinfinite: 1 / 5 by Collin MacGregor
Did we mention that the game feels the need to constantly throw out winks and nods to the films? You can almost hear the game try to reverse engineer the script so it can get out another “there’s something strange in the neighborhood” line . It’s pandering in the lowest form and clearly fails to understand anything that made the original film a classic.
Digital Spy: 2 / 5 by Stuart Andrews
There's precious little sign of excitement, imagination or progression, the weapons are weedy and the storytelling poor. Given that there are plenty of other twin-stick shooters with better gameplay and graphics out there, you'd be mad to buy it were it a fiver. At [its launch price], however? That's the biggest joke of all.
DualShockers: 4.5 / 10 by Steven Santana
Nothing redeems Ghostbusters from coming across as an overly priced tie-in to the movie’s release in theaters. If you thought bad licensed games were a thing of the past, you thought wrong. Though the game is only bad in the sense of how boring it is to play, if commits the worst gaming sin of being mediocre. It’s not good enough that you enjoy playing it, and it’s not bad enough that you can enjoy its awfulness. Instead its smack in the middle and totally passable because of it.
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