RIP Harold Ramis
An amazing way to experience something close to a direct sequel to the first two movies thanks to Harold Ramis(God bless him) and Dan Aykroyd's writing taken from a scrapped script of Ghostbusters III. The dialogue, characters, and story are on point, though Bill Murray seemed to have less of a presence most likely with his own personal stuff but showed more of Ernie Hudson because of it.
Gameplay actually feels pretty nice for a 2009 game. The satisfying sounds of a proton pack and the mesmerizing waves of a particle stream is just how I pictured it to be. Wearing down the ghost may seem a bit tedious or slow, but actually feels thrilling especially when there's 3 other ways of wearing them down. Once you capture a ghost with the particle stream, you can wear them down even further by slamming them into walls once your slam meter builds up from latching on to them and may even slam them directly into the trap which traps them instantly with one of the upgrades. You may even just directly tether a ghost into a trap without having to wear them down.
Because of how much I love the gameplay, it's sad that they didn't include the multiplayer modes in the remaster which would've been a great experience actually playing with other people and it seems Saber isn't going to be updating the game at all for it.
Speaking of the remaster, there are apparently some video settings missing from the original PC version like a borderless or windowed option making fullscreen the only setting present. Settings will also automatically reset to default once you boot up the game, forcing you to switch the settings everytime you start it if you wanted anything to change. And while you have the option for 60FPS with the 60Hz settings, the character animations still play out in 30FPS most likely due to missing some parts of the original game which they can't change without it or not wanting to bother with it.
Cutscenes constantly have a difference in quality too. Some will have been pre-rendered with really nice lighting while others are low quality videos of what seems to be in-game. Not exactly sure why they couldn't have been actual in-game instead of the low quality videos they put but I assume they lost some stuff from the archive.
And one thing I do have to nag on a bit is the soundtrack. It's great that the music is straight from the movies themselves which help make the experience feel like a genuine Ghostbusters moment, but it starts to get old when a song has been reused multiple times for tension in each chapter. It would've been nice to at least have a few new tracks to bring something fresh after two movies.
Overall, the game is still pretty solid over 10 years later as well as its story. Definitely play if you're waiting for Afterlife to come out
An amazing way to experience something close to a direct sequel to the first two movies thanks to Harold Ramis(God bless him) and Dan Aykroyd's writing taken from a scrapped script of Ghostbusters III. The dialogue, characters, and story are on point, though Bill Murray seemed to have less of a presence most likely with his own personal stuff but showed more of Ernie Hudson because of it.
Gameplay actually feels pretty nice for a 2009 game. The satisfying sounds of a proton pack and the mesmerizing waves of a particle stream is just how I pictured it to be. Wearing down the ghost may seem a bit tedious or slow, but actually feels thrilling especially when there's 3 other ways of wearing them down. Once you capture a ghost with the particle stream, you can wear them down even further by slamming them into walls once your slam meter builds up from latching on to them and may even slam them directly into the trap which traps them instantly with one of the upgrades. You may even just directly tether a ghost into a trap without having to wear them down.
Because of how much I love the gameplay, it's sad that they didn't include the multiplayer modes in the remaster which would've been a great experience actually playing with other people and it seems Saber isn't going to be updating the game at all for it.
Speaking of the remaster, there are apparently some video settings missing from the original PC version like a borderless or windowed option making fullscreen the only setting present. Settings will also automatically reset to default once you boot up the game, forcing you to switch the settings everytime you start it if you wanted anything to change. And while you have the option for 60FPS with the 60Hz settings, the character animations still play out in 30FPS most likely due to missing some parts of the original game which they can't change without it or not wanting to bother with it.
Cutscenes constantly have a difference in quality too. Some will have been pre-rendered with really nice lighting while others are low quality videos of what seems to be in-game. Not exactly sure why they couldn't have been actual in-game instead of the low quality videos they put but I assume they lost some stuff from the archive.
And one thing I do have to nag on a bit is the soundtrack. It's great that the music is straight from the movies themselves which help make the experience feel like a genuine Ghostbusters moment, but it starts to get old when a song has been reused multiple times for tension in each chapter. It would've been nice to at least have a few new tracks to bring something fresh after two movies.
Overall, the game is still pretty solid over 10 years later as well as its story. Definitely play if you're waiting for Afterlife to come out