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New Ghostbusters Video Game in the Works
Next month's issue of Game Informer has a big, familiar symbol on its cover. On their website, they tease the announcement of a brand-new Ghostbusters video game. This isn't some knock-off, either: "Harold Ramis, Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd are getting back together and revisiting their roles to make a sequel to Ghostbusters 1 and 2 - in video-game form, and we've got the first details. Both Aykroyd and Ramis are teaming up for scriptwriting duties and are going far beyond just the typical licensed add-your-voice-to-the-game-you-had-nothing-to-do-with formula" Commentary on the announcement provided by Rock, Paper, Shotgun.
Here's hoping the trio are teaming up for a third go-around out of love for the franchise instead of love for another paycheck. I can think of far too many ways this project could go sour, especially since it's been, what, almost two decades since the 2nd flick? Good luck, guys. We're pulling for you.
There was an old Ghostbusters game--I remember playing it on a PCjr, I think in the late 80s. You needed one of the joystick accessories.
(The PCjr itself, incidentally, is a remarkably funny machine. To add the second 128K RAM, you... wait for it... take a cover off the side of the case and plug in a unit the depth and height of the case that makes it about an inch thicker. There isn't a parallel port on the main case, but there *is* one on the back of the extra 128K RAM, which also takes its own external power supply, if I remember correctly...)
(And you could keep going, adding inches to the case until you had 512 or 640K or some-such.)
Since video games manufacturers are not under WGA contract, they can write video game scripts but not movie scripts.
I had heard for a while that there was going to be a Ghost Busters 3, though it would be fully CGI. I really hope that this is what became of the rumors. The film would have sucked, no-doubt. A videogame has the chance to at least be decent however. It worked pretty well for Tron 2.0 ;)
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
Hah, this won't hold a candle to GhostBusters DooM2!
And why do you think there's been so many superhero movies over the last few years all based on storylines from the 80's? I mean, I've hardly gone to a see a single superhero movie in the last ten years that's not been based heavily on storylines I remember from the comics I bought as a kid.
The timing is great - both in terms of the people who saw it in the cinemas and all of those of us who were too young and had to wait a few years to see it on TV or video.
We know nothing about this game except that it will be a sequel to a movie and you claim it was meant for the Wii? What on earth are you smoking and how deep is that Wiimote up your ass anyway?
It could be an adventure, it could be a sim, it could be a management game, it could be a shooter, it could be a stategy game.
What makes this game a Wii game? Take one look at the released screenshot, does that look like something the Wii can pull off?
About the only Wii connection I can think of is using the remote to control the beams, possibly a fun way of doing it, but nothing you couldn't do as easily with a mouse.
Anyway the story so far is that it is going to be on all the platforms. This usually means the game is going to suck some major donkeyballs as it will have to fit to the restrictions of ALL the platforms.
If anything, I hope that this game will have some bloody humor in it for once. The hotel shootup in game form, oh yeah, I pay for that.
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You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
It seems to me that The Odyssey is begging to have an RPG made based on it. It'd be a little like Chrono Trigger/Cross + God of War. Awesome.
For that matter, The Iliad (or better yet, the whole Trojan cycle, filling in the gaps where necessary) would make a kick-ass multiplayer hack-n-slash, a bit like Gauntlet meets Dynasty warriors, with control points and a bunch of allied NPCs helping you out. Maybe the ability to call for divine intervention from whichever god happens to be on your side. Damn, that would kick ass.
Funny you should mention Lovecraft in connection with modern movies. Guilermo del Torro is directing "At the Mountains of Madness." I'm not sure if this is the Guillermo del Toro who directed Hellboy or the one that directed Pan's Labyrynth, but either way it's going to be a Lovecraft film with an actual budget. Also, at the other end of the scale the H P Lovercraft Historical Society produced a Call of Cthulhu film last year which is actually very entertaining (really!). They've also just released the trailer for The Whisperer in Darkness which looks even more fun. (I sincerely hope I haven't just slashdotted their servers).
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Word is that Aykroyd desperately wants to do another film but Murray refuses to even consider it after the disaster that was Ghostbusters 2. Perhaps if the game is a runaway success, that might change his mind.
An interesting addendum to this. The movie The Warriors was based on a book written by Sol Yurick in 1965. Who himself based it on a book that is required reading for classical Greek students and West Point Cadets called the Anabasis by the Greek writer and soldier Xenophon that details his rise to leadership within a small mercenary army that got stuck deep in Persian territory and had to fight their way back home--Although I'm pretty sure he stole the idea from Herodotus.