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.

Comments

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?!

Here's some spoiler cheat info for you

[Steeltalon]

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

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.

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!