It’s stil got a year to go, everybody. Terminal Reality has a sweet game engine, and just look at how much expense they went to to not only acquire the license, but they went the extra step and paid for the original cast and writers. Terminal Reality is a good studio, and Sierra has deep pockets. I think we should expect good things.

Also, remember we’ve only seen, like, 3 levels. And I’m pretty sure that was without the final anti-aliasing, shading, lighting, and textures. I think they got it just good enough to show the game press and whip up some excitement.

And finally, hey, it’s coming out on the PC as well. If there are things you don’t like about it, take it into your own hands and mod that sucker. But give the game a chance before you criticize it. Remember how underwhelming the Halo 3 Multiplayer Demo looked? Then the game out 4 months later, and it looked like an entirely new game.

Don’t be a hater, be a motivator.

What a lot of people don’t know (and neither did we GB fans until recently) is that preliminary work on the game started in September 2006 (over a year before the official announcement of the game’s existence was made) as evident by concept art that would eventually appear on the Game Informer website in November 2007. So it’s not like they just started to undertake this project recently. By the time the game is released, it would have spent TWO YEARS in production, which is more than a lot of games get these days – especially movie-based games. Because there is no recently-released movie that this game needs to be marketed with, there is no specific release date that needs to be met. They could spend five years on the game if they wanted to.

This isn’t a game simply created just to make some dough off of the name. I think it’s pretty clear that the game is being made because someone high up at Sierra/Vivendi loves Ghostbusters. THEY went to Sony to get the rights, not the other way around. Sony would not undertake a huge Ghostbusters project all by themselves, even if it would rake in lots of money, otherwise we’d all have Ghostbusters II Special Edition DVDs and box sets of The Real Ghostbusters and Extreme Ghostbusters right now.

The fact that a mainstream video game company is making a game based on a franchise that is dead in the mainstream, says a lot about how much they care about the game. So it would have to take a disaster of biblical proportions for a game that is even a labor of love to the companies developing and publishing it to get f’ed up to the point that no one likes the final product.

Oh, and by the way, the one really cool feature I’d love to have in the game, but know that will never be included (due to rights issues) would be all of the previous Ghostbusters games. It would probably be too costly to pay Activision, LSP, Hal, and Data East (and whoever else) for the rights to include emulated copies of their respective GB games as unlockables (find hidden icons in the game to unlock them). I’ve always wanted a “Ghostbusters Game Collection” to play on my PS2, but I know that the interest simply isn’t great enough to have it by itself.

I’m extremely optimistic about the game and I’d be more vocal about it, but I figure most of these negative Nancies are just trolls looking to pick a fight just to pick a fight. I’m concerned the game will have some serious flaws, but I’ve only liked what I’ve seen so far, so I’m going to keep being optimistic until I see or hear something that makes me go “Oh no, that’s not good.” The fact that there is a game and the possibility of it sucking is not enough for me to pitch a fit over when all I’ve seen so far has been stuff I like.

Rather than criticizing the developers based on limited information, we should just give them encouragement and do our best to wait until Oct. 08.

“Could I care less what color the energy bar is? or, whether or not the walkie talkie looks the same? Heck no!”

The game(s) are basically Ghostbusters III according to Dan Aykroyd. I would be disappointed if they didn’t change anything.

-_- so no angry emails please,

but what the hell?

Seriously why does every expect games to be awesome, yeah Terminal Reality (developers of the PC/360/PS3 version of Ghostbusters)
dont have the greatest of track records, but still I enjoyed Bloodrayne and Bloodrayne 2, largely because they where fun, that ultimately what it comes down too, do you have fun playing the game?

Now, from what I have seen of the game, I think its going to be at the very least enjoyable, and it looks like TRI is targeting the game at the fans,

so I look forward to October 2008.

regardless of good the game does in the reviews.

-Derek “Lord_Kane” no-i-am-not-that-derek.

However, gameplay wise, I expect it will not be on par with the next-gen games we are seeing these days.

On the other hand, Ghostbusters on a next gen system, f’ing sweet.

Personally I will wait for some reviews, and if it gets a metascore over a 40 on metacritic.com, I will be buying this game.