A new Ghostbusters game is on the way and it’s by the same team that made the asymmetric multiplayer Predator and Friday The 13th tie-ins.
First it was Friday The 13th, then Predator, then Texas Chainsaw Massacre (technically that’s a 70s film), and now it’s the turn of Ghostbusters to be turned into an asymmetric multiplayer game.
All but Texas Chainsaw Massacre are made by American developer Illfonic (who of the game last year), so it’s not hard to imagine how Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed is going to work. There shouldn’t be any worry that the game will be 100% accurate to the original movies either.
As you’d expect, four players are cast as Ghostbusters while the fifth plays as a ghost, with options including Slimer but not the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man (who technically isn’t a ghost anyway).
The game features both Winston and Ray in supporting roles, with Ernie Hudson and Dan Aykroyd providing the voiceovers. The characters you play as though are entirely customisable.
Proton packs and ghost traps appear to work exactly as you’d imagine from the movies, although no doubt there’ll be a need to wear out the ghost in some way before you can actually catch it.
How exactly the ghost defends itself isn’t clear but we’re going to guess that sliming is a big part of it.
There’s no release date, or even year, but Spirits Unleashed will be released on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC – with cross-play between all formats.
Spirits Unleashed is, of course, far from the first Ghostbusters game, with numerous titles having appeared over the years, with only the recently , which features voiceovers from the whole of the original cast – including Bill Murray and the late Harold Ramis – being even halfway decent.
Weirdly, it’s only the very first game, from 1984, that has you running the Ghostbusters business, as well as just fighting.
You would’ve thought a modern business sim would’ve written itself by this point, but then Hollywood also seems obsessed with downplaying the humour and increasing the action, so perhaps it’s no surprise.
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