Ghostbusters Reviews
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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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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A mindless, turgid and tedious slog with horrible gameplay and zero depth. A travesty to the Ghostbusters name. Avoid at all costs!
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 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.
Simply put, this is a cash in the likes of which I’ve hardly seen. I usually find some redeeming qualities in a movie tie in, even if it’s lacking. Here I’m not seeing much of any redeeming qualities, at all. There was one check mark that Activision most likely needed to ensure when creating this game and that was keeping the franchise license from expiring.
Roger Ebert once famously opined that video games are not art, and Ghostbusters is Exhibit A for his case. This is not art. It barely qualifies as a game. Sure, it's not broken like some games are. It's functional. It works. But there's no risk, no ambition, and not a trace of anything resembling the personality of the Ghostbusters movies or cartoons. This is a game that seems like it was made with the specific purpose of tricking parents who don't know any better into buying it for their kids.Who ya gonna call? The Samaritans, probably.
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.
Ghostbusters (2016) is a cynical bit of licensed drivel
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.
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.
Ghostbusters as a couch co-op game is a dream on paper. Unfortunately, the execution from FireForge Games is so lackluster and devoid of quality that publisher Activision should be ashamed in having released it. It’s a shameless tangential cash-in based entirely on the power of an already-maligned reboot that nobody asked for. I’ll go see the movie for the popcorn, but let’s leave this game in the Containment Unit. Light is green, trap is clean.
Ghostbusters incorporates a local co-op mode where you can play with a friend which would be a nice addition if the game was any fun.
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.
Dull, repetitive and boring. Don’t buy this.
Much of this review has been spent pointing out Ghostbusters’ flaws and issues.
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.
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.
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.