Release Date	Distributer	Publisher	Developer
Q'3 2008	Vivendi	Sierra	Terminal Reality
Offline Players	Online players	Price	Anticipation
1	TBA	$TBA

Now that's a nice explosion.	Graphics will hopefully improve?

Taking on slimer in the hallway.

In January 2007 Zootfly released a teaser video for a concept they were working on of a Ghostbusters game. It looked pretty fantastic (you can see a clip of it here) and the fan boys around the world all lept up in excitement. Unfortunately that project seems to be dead, or at least it now will be, due to this 'official' Ghostbusters game in the works at Terminal Reality for publishers Sierra. Announced in November 2007 the title is still a little way from release and while just a game itself would be great, it's the fact that almost everyone that appeared in the movies is returning for this game.

Like the films before it, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis will return to write the script and event-driven storyline for Ghostbusters The Video Game that will lead the player through the trials and tribulations of the world's leading paranormal ghost busting team.

The scene outside city hall.

The year is 1991 and Manhattan is once again overrun by ghosts and other supernatural creatures, players will take on the role of a new recruit joining the famous Ghostbusters team. Equipped with a variety of unique weapons and gadgets, players will hunt, fight and capture a wide range of supernatural villains in a funny and frightening battle to save New York City from its latest paranormal plague. While it does sound a little like the rumoured script for the third movie, that's probably not a bad thing given the amount of time that would have gone into that project over the years (apparently it only fell apart due to Bill Murray's lack of willingness to return).

Certainly the most exciting aspect of this game though is that it will feature likenesses and voiceovers from the original cast including Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson as well as supporting cast including Annie Potts, Brian Doyle Murray and William Atherton. This really elevates this game from 'cool' to 'geek cool' in our books.

Taking on a ghost in the library.

There are still at tonne of questions to be answered about Ghostbusters The Video Game. While there won't be multi-player on a single console there will be online multi-player however the number of players, and game modes still haven't been confirmed. How much of the game will be set around the events of the first movie, and how much will be original? How deep will the plot be? Will the plot be related for the third movie which has been in development hell for years? Will the game actually be any good? Will Sigourney Weaver or Rick Moranis make cameo appearances? Will there be any events from the second movie in this game? So many questions which will be answered in time...

Technically Terminal Reality have stated that the XBox 360 and Playstation 3 versions of the game will be nigh on identical, and the developers are targeting 1080p visuals at 30fps which would be sweet. As you can see from the surrounding screenshots the game looks pretty cool, although not quite up to the standards of the original 'announcement' screens although with several months of development remaining before release there is time to improve still. Perhaps more important is the fact that most of the objects in the world are destructable so when you fire your proton beams the objects are destroyed. Video footage we have seen of Ghostbusters The Video Game in action, albeit in rather low quality, was still impressive, particularly when the the weapons were firing. Most impressive was the vision of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man who, while scaling the building while on fire, looked every bit as impressive as his big-screen counterpart.

Action in the ballroom.

In April 2008 the developers confirmed that the classic theme song from Ray Parker Jr. will be in the game, and they have secured the rights to include 75 minutes of unused soundtrack that never made it into the movies which should keep the game synched up to the movies perfectly.

I can't emphasise enough just how exciting Ghostbusters The Video Game is to me. Even just being able to whip out the old PKE Meter to check for ghostly happenings should be a blast. The original movie is one of my all time favourites and having the cast back to provide voiceovers and likeness for the game should be a blast - as long as it's not just a couple of repetitive lines. Expect this game to be released around Q'3 2008.