Where To Buy Ghostbusters: The Video Game

For anyone who is a hardcore fan of the Ghostbusters, you don't need a review; just buy the game. You'll enjoy it regardless of any faults it may or may not have.

For everyone else, approach this one with some caution.

I've found the game play can be tedious and boring at times. Load time is kind of slow when you have to reload a checkpoint. And you will be reloading checkpoints given how difficult it can be to track some of the ghosts.

I can't tell you how many times I've had my proton beam trained on a ghost, only to have one of the other members of the team yell at ME for crossing streams, when in reality they began firing on the enemy AFTER I did.

There is no co-op option for the campaign. The only co-op options are to play in the multiplayer part of the game and it's not a complete campaign. You play one off missions with no story to them per say.

Graphics are good. Some of the lip synching, both in game and in cut scenes, is off.

Bringing back the original actors for voice overs? Great idea in theory. In practice, most of these people are real actors and seem to struggle to find an emotional range when simply reading lines. And yes, there are times when it feels like all they are doing is reading off of the script with little to no emotion involved. They do an OK job, but not what I had been hoping for.

I find constantly switching beams for the proton pack, while novel in the beginning, also very tedious. Having to scan ghosts for the Tobin Spirit Guide? Again, a nice touch to include the guide, but the actual implementation is obnoxious. You will find that instead of playing the game in real color, you will instead spend most of your time using the PKE meter where everything appears more like one of those silly ghost shows where they have night vision setup. I don't want to play a game with a sort of creepy atmosphere not immersed in said atmosphere. What the developers strove for, a convincing and scary environment in certain situations, is rendered meaningless when you're playing the game with night vision.

The game has its moments. It is definitely the best Ghostbusters video game ever released. Of course, when you look back on the video game history of the series, that isn't really all that great of an accomplishment.

If you can get the game for $20 it is worth the money. If you're a fan of the franchise, just buy it no matter the price. Those looking for a lot of fun in a game for the current $40 MSRP would be better served looking elsewhere.Get more detail about Ghostbusters: The Video Game.