Ghostbusters Reviews
Finally, Ghostbusters’ price was the final nail in the coffin. Or the first one, actually. The price tag on this game is just too high for the amount of content and play time it provides; not counting the unnecessary hours spent because of how dragging passing through a level can be. Even while writing this review, the game is on sale but I still personally find it too expensive. Maybe it tried to ride on the popularity of the movie, which, in the first place, already got a negative reception even before it went out on the big screen. It’s a good looking game, but Ghostbusters is not a game we recommend to buy, so you may want to go look for a friend who already has a copy and play on it if you want to experience it.
Ich sage es mal so: das zerschießen der Müllsäcke in der U-Bahn hat mir persönlich am neuen Ghostbusters-Spiel am besten gefallen. Den ploppenden Sound der zerplatzenden Objekte haben die Designer gut hinbekommen. Was das übrige Spiel angeht, kann man den Machern nur wünschen, dass Sie von den Geistern (die sie riefen) gerächt werden und den Limbus-Level am Ende immer und immer wieder absolvieren müssen. Einen Downloadtitel unter dem Deckmantel eines Vollpreisspiels auf den Markt zu werfen, ist im Grunde eine Frechheit. Und Solospieler lassen schon mal gleich die Finger von einer Umsetzung, die keinerlei Abwechslung bietet und das Geisterjäger-Erbe zudem mit Füßen tritt. Wer unbedingt in die Rolle eines Ghostbusters schlüpfen will, schaut sich nochmal das Originalspiel von 1984 an oder greift zur Atari-Version von 2009. Beides kann ich an dieser Stelle uneingeschränkt empfehlen. Und wenn der Preis für Ghostbusters (2016) mal unter die 5-Euro-Grenze fallen sollte, dann taugt der Titel vielleicht noch als Trophäenschleuder und für einen (sehr) kurzweiligen Multiplayer-Abend unter Freunden.
Review in German | Read full review
Dull, repetitive and boring. Don’t buy this.
Is Ghostbusters on PlayStation 4 as bad a game as most people are saying? Certainly not. It’s a fun twin-stick shooter within the Ghostbusters universe. It’s also not broken or buggy – at least not from my experience. Is it a revolutionary release? Certainly not. But if you’re looking for some mindless fun with friends, you should give this one a go. I enjoyed playing this one for my Ghostbusters review. Let me know in the comments below how was your experience with the game!
DON’T BUY THIS. Ghostbusters get repetitive after 30 minutes of gameplay. It doesn’t have any innovation. The locations are completely boring. The music is always on the nerve and at all this game is a collection of boring things.
Review in Persian | Read full review
I like to think I give credit to a developer where it’s due. I also try to give them the benefit of the doubt. If they’ve made a bad game, perhaps there’s an element of potential there. Sadly however, FireForge really aren’t proving themselves with Ghostbusters.
Despite my initial impressions from the trailers I genuinely wanted to like this game. Sure, the price was a bit steep and it seemed to be taking cues from what I and many other fans considered the lesser of last generation’s Ghostbusters games but I was willing to overlook all of this if, put simply, the bustin’ made me feel good.
A mindless, turgid and tedious slog with horrible gameplay and zero depth. A travesty to the Ghostbusters name. Avoid at all costs!
What we have here is the definition of cash-grabbing and at £40 you’ll be as braindead as the ghouls ingame to buy. The release is obscenely catered towards parents or grandparents who would buy this for their child/grandchild because, it’s all the kids are talking about these days.
Ghostbusters is a massive missed opportunity and a huge setback for the franchise. The game won’t appeal to fans of twin-stick shooters or fans of Ghostbusters. Boring is the single most appropriate word to describe the game. Playing through the game from start to finish was a chore and a test of patience. Marcus is our resident Ghostbusters fanatic, and even he grudgingly could only stand to play through a single level.
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 in specters and spooks is so completely lacking in spirit.
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.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Ghostbusters is a bloated, boring piece of trash that forcibly lengthened an already miserable experience to try to justify a ridiculous price tag. We can only hope to return it forthwith to its place of origin—or the nearest parallel dimension.
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.
Ghostbusters is one of the worst video games I have ever played. It wears its disdain for the player on its sleeve, and the truly scary thing is that everything in it appears to be working as intended.
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.
There's an odd compulsion to return to Ghostbusters but the lack of thrills, excitement, and overall enjoyment permeates throughout as it avoids letting you play as your favorite Ghostbuster (old or new) while delivering unsatisfying gameplay in what the publisher calls action RPG, but hardly resembles.
Ghostbusters is the product of a greedy publisher and a lazy developer trying to cash in on the hype of both a recent film and an established franchise. If you care at all about maintaining the integrity of the Ghostbusters IP, stay well clear of this game at all costs.