Ghostbusters Reviews
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.
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 classic.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
If you're looking for an inoffensive movie cash-in to play with your couch co-op partner and you're tired of Lego games, well, here ya go. Ghostbusters will get you through a few levels of mildly pleasant action before you shrug and see what's new on Netflix. That's about all she's got in the ol' proton pack, but as far as movie tie-in games go, it could certainly be much worse.
If you can get it for far cheaper than it's going for, if you can play it with friends, and if you have totally exhausted every other twin-stick shooter on the market, then I can give Ghostbusters a very weary "maybe" recommendation. Yet everything this game does is done far better and far cheaper by so many other games.
Much of this review has been spent pointing out Ghostbusters’ flaws and issues.
Dull, repetitive and boring. Don’t buy this.
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.
Again, it’s not horrendous like the NES effort, and it’s a little more capable than Sanctum of Slime. But this Ghostbusters lacks any sort of charm or, worse yet, any reason to see it through to the end.
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!
A mindless, turgid and tedious slog with horrible gameplay and zero depth. A travesty to the Ghostbusters name. Avoid at all costs!
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.
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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.
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 was incredibly disappointing and this game is a bland experience I'd suggest staying away from until it reaches the price of other regular digital titles.
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.
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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.