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.

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In Soviet Russia

[onkelonkel]

the streams cross you!

What do you mean big?

[Iphtashu Fitz]

Well, let's say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of psychokinetic energy in the New York area. Based on this morning's reading, it would be a Twinkie thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds.

Re:Oh god

[morgan_greywolf]

Does this mean that damn song will be coming back too? So what if it did? Who ya gonna call?!

Multiplayer?

[JK_the_Slacker]

I see an opportunity to coin a term here... when you're engaged in multiplayer, and your teammate crosses streams with you, resulting in both your deaths... we'll call that streamkilling. Or teamcrossing. I'm still working on it.

First Screen here

[EGSonikku]

http://kotaku.com/gaming/ghostbusters/ghostbusters-screen-co+op--mp-info-322990.php

They've said the game is set in the early 90's after Ghostbusters II so either the Stay Puft Marshmellow Man makes a comeback or there is a flashback. Im voting he gets ressurected, or they are taking some license with the flashback since last I checked they never did and scaling of walls ;-)

Here's some spoiler cheat info for you

[Steeltalon]

In this game if someone asks you if you're a god YOU SAY YES!

Hilarious screenshot:

[bruins01]

http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2007/11/gbstaypuft.jpg

Interesting way to avoid the strike.

[HaeMaker]

Since video games manufacturers are not under WGA contract, they can write video game scripts but not movie scripts.

Scraping bottom?

[fullmetal55]

What about that movie that's opening up soon? or has it started already? Beowulf...

it's based on an epic from 1300 years ago!

Talk about unoriginal!

I mean it's 1300 years old! who would want to see those characters in a different medium... /Sarcasm

Re:Video games based on movies are not fun to play

[mibalzonya]

As I seem to remember there was a movie about some Mario brothers that turned out to be a pretty big game.

Re:Scraping the bottom of the barrel.

[ddrichardson]

The movie came out in 1984. It's the end of 2007 now. Are they hurting that badly for material?

The Warriors came out in 1979 and the game in 2005 yet is one of the best film tie-ins I've ever seen, expanding the story and letting you play through the movie.

I guess a good game is a good game, maybe when they aren't being rushed out to coincide with the movie's release, not to mention having a cult following.

Re:To heck with the game

[pete-classic]

You can hardly say that the original had a good script. A substantial amount of the film (a lot of the best parts) were ad libbed. Most of the sense of a "good script" came from the fact that Ackroyd had all this weird, but internally consistent, stuff in his head.

I think the second one had a "proper" script. Naturally, lightning didn't strike twice.

-Peter

Re:Scraping the bottom of the barrel.

[vidarh]

What that means is that those of us who were kids when the movie opened are now right in the middle of the largest gaming demographic, and have lots of disposable cash.

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.

Very true, not the first time...

[Panaqqa]

Actually, there was a Ghostbusters game written for the Commodore 64 that I can recall playing back in about 1984. Surprisingly good graphics for the standards of the time, and considering the machine could only user 8K of RAM for video (and that 8K it had to steal from the 64K RAM total in the machine).

As I recall, the program was a little over 30K in size. Hmph. These days a "hello world" executable can run 1.7 MB.

Variety has a better article

[Champion3]

There's a way more informative article with additional screen shots here. Looks like Ernie Hudson (Winston), Annie Potts (Janine), and William Atherton (Peck) are signed on!

who ya gonna call?

[Corf]

HE-MAN!