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Ghostbusters Game Coming From Atari

Posted by Soulskill on from the who-you-gonna-call dept.

Variety reported last week that Atari secured the rights to a Ghostbusters video game from Activision Blizzard, intending to publish something next year to coincide with the first movie's 25th anniversary. "The Ghostbusters game, which features all four actors from the original movie and a new script by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, is a follow-up to Ghostbusters II." Now, Eurogamer confirms that the game is indeed in development for the PC, PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 and DS.

6 of 48 comments (clear)

  1. Awesome! by TrekkieTechie · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was horrified to find that it had been dropped.

    I'm really looking forward to the whole video-game-as-a-sequel-to-a-movie, and have high hopes since the original team have such an involved role in it.

    Just remember -- don't cross the streams.

  2. Re:Who ya gonna call? by philspear · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah really, the writer's strike didn't affect games, who decided that the 80's were officially "it" this year again? There are plenty of decades that haven't been brought back every other year. The 1810s, for example.

  3. Oh my by White+Flame · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hopefully it'll be better than the Atari 2600 version! (starting at 5:30 of the video)

    1. Re:Oh my by d34thm0nk3y · · Score: 2, Interesting

      You don't need to wait 5 minutes, that game (as the review said) was horrible from second zero. I remember renting it back in the day and being so angry at how bad it was. There was actually a pretty fun arcade version that I remember playing at the time.

      Anyway, the nostalgia grabbed me and the narrator said there would be a followup. The link is here, it was a bit difficult to find.

  4. ho-ray by juventasone · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Like a lot of games of the time, Ghostbusters II (the 1989 Activision release) was impossibly hard. It had pretty cool graphics and sound for the time, but poor controls and little content. When it comes to games based on movies, things never changed.

  5. The news isn't the game... by hal2814 · · Score: 4, Informative

    We learned about the game long ago. It was supposed to be released already. The news is that the game found a new publisher after the old one passed on it for some reason. That doesn't make me too confident the game will be that good. If Activision is passing on publishing a game with the name recognition of Ghostbusters with all 4 lead actors reprising roles, it probably sucks.