Those two ideas that come with gigantic BUTs attached to them are the kindest things I can muster about Ghostbusters. The rest is a vapid, hackneyed slog that feels incredibly long despite being rather short. Ghostbusters does the bare minimum required, and it's apparent that this is a project that nobody cared about. It's ironic that a game so entrenched...
Ghostbusters2016
Ghostbusters
2016 Activision26Painful
Playtime
ShortIt typically takes about 8 hours to finish the game, but players put about 3 hours into it on average.
Playable on
Game modes
- 2–4 players
- 2–4 players
Details
- Launch
- July 12, 2016
- Developer
- FireForge Games
- Publisher
- Activision
Overview
Ghostbusters, is a third-person action role-playing game positively charged for thrilling couch co-op with up to four players locally. As rookie Ghostbusters, players can level up their characters’ gear and abilities by tackling objectives, defeating ghastly creatures and discovering hidden collectibles in Manhattan’s most haunted haunts. There are four heroes to choose from, and each has his or her own unique personality and play style, bringing special strengths to support the team.
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Reception
Press30
Players32
TerribleTerrible- Metacritic30from 22 reviews
- OpenCritic30from 34 reviews
Ghosbusters is the perfect recipe for boredom. There is nothing wrong in its basic mechanics, but the pace is soporific, the level design is too linear, and the situations are the same over the entire course of the story. It is, in the end, a gaming monster to flee from, no matter what.
Ghostbusters offers a top-down co-op shooter with light RPG elements that fails to capitalize on the magic and humor of the supernatural franchise.
Whatever controversy there might be about the movie, there can be little argument that this spiritless cash-in is one of the worst video games of 2016.
Did we mention that the game feels the need to constantly throw out winks and nods to the films? You can almost hear the game try to reverse engineer the script so it can get out another “there’s something strange in the neighborhood” line . It’s pandering in the lowest form and clearly fails to understand anything that made the original film a cla...