The Vile One's Dungeon: San Diego Comic Con 2008 - Ghostbusters Video Game Preview
Posted by Jeffrey Harris on 07.31.2008
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GHOSTBUSTERS: The Video Game
Another big, popular thing going on this year in the exhibition hall for San Diego Comic Con '08 was the highly anticipated release of the Ghostbusters: The Video Game by Sony and Sierra Entertainment. The booth was set up with a big building like archway with ectoplasmic slime. Attendees could sample a video game demo of the new, tight, sick looking video game, as well as pick up free t-shirts and even an Ecto-1 license plate, and glow-in-the-dark laniard.
According to reps at the booth, the new game set to be released in the fall of this year (around October), has been in development for about two years. With the permission of Sony, they developed a demo for the game which was capturing Slimer in the dining hall. It eventually made its way to cast member/writer, Dan Akroyd, who was blown away by the impressive demo. Akroyd himself got the rest of the cast and crew behind the game. Each actor had to sign off on the game as well as the utilization of their characters, including director, Ivan Reitman. So for this game Ray Stantz (Akroyd), Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis), Winston Zeddmore (Ernie Hudson), and yes even Peter Venkman (do not adjust your eyes or computer, Bill Frakkin' Murray) all reprise their roles for the game. Bill Murray was apparently the last and hardest person to get in the game, but they did it. William Atherton's Peck character will also be in the game with a story written by Akroyd and Ramis themselves, the original writers of the classic 1984 movie.
The only major actors and characters from the movie that didn't do the game were Louis (Rick Moranis) and Dana Barrett (Sigourney Weaver). But Weaver has never done a video game before anyway, so it doesn't really count. That they got Murray alone without him degrading the project like he did with Garfield is pretty amazing.
Photo by Sheldon Lee
The story is set in 1991, three years after Ghostbusters 2. Gamers will play as a rookie ghostbuster recruit. The game will have online and multiplayer capabilities. The multiplayer function will allow fans to play as the classic characters from the movie. The PS2 version due to the tech, had to use a more lighter, cartoonier type of design since they couldn't fit the similar graphics on the system, but it will follow the same basic story. Ghostbusters definitely looks like an exciting game.
