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Ghostbusters: The Video Game | 
| From: Atari Inc.
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 9186
Platform: PlayStation2
Genre: sci_fi_action_games
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: PlayStation 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.6
MPN: 72726
Model: 27766
UPC: 020626727266
EAN: 0020626727266
ASIN: B000ZK9QBO
Publication Date: June 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | An all-new storyline - same blend of humor and fright that made the movies a pop culture phenomenon. A continuation of the movie series, set 2 years after the events of Ghostbusters II. | | • | Blast and wrangle ghosts with an arsenal of unique and upgradeable equipment. Throw out a trap, hook a struggling ghost, and slam it into submission for final capture. | | • | Switch between 4 weapon sets to access 8 unique proton pack weapons ¿ different weapons are optimized for each enemy class. | | • | Use gadgets like the PKE Meter and Ghost Light to scan and analyze targets. Spend the money you¿ve earned to upgrade the power and duration of each weapon. | | • | Equipped with a variety of unique weapons and gadgets |
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Product Description
Ghostbusters PS2
Amazon.com Product Description
Ghostbusters: The Video Game, based on the smash hit motion picture franchise and featuring a completely new story, is coming to six game systems in 2009. Coinciding with the 25th anniversary celebration of the film’s original theatrical release, the game reunites original cast members to recapture the unique blend of humour and fright that established Ghostbusters as a pop culture sensation. Remember, don't cross the streams. It could end all life as we know it!
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| Customer Reviews:
 A weak game November 30, 2009
R. Whitesell (Milwaukkee Wi)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Game is slow and has too much commentary and delay built in. I dumped the thing into the garbage.
I'm very sad...It is too glitchy October 29, 2009
Mauricio Boulogne
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Like other people said...this game is plagued with glitches and bugs, it constantly freezes up. Ironically, is like the game is cursed or demonically possesed. I'm very desapointed, because, actually, it is fun (in some parts) the voice work and the story are really cool, and it has good atmosphere overall, but then: no shadows, poor AI for the support caracters, no multiplayer, low and ugly cuality of video resolution in cutscenes, etc, etc. I know is a PS2 game, but come on people, PS2 can do it a lot of better, for example: RESIDENT EVIL 4 is AMAZING!! And you must remember, that, like me, there is a lot of people in the WORLD who can not buy a PS3...not yet at least.
OK If You Can Get Past The Bugs October 21, 2009
Veil_Lord (San Jose, CA)
This is a game I really, really wanted to like more than I did. They did some aspects of this game unbelievably well. For example, the proton packs and the streams look absolutely perfect. Wrangling a ghost is fun and looks/feels like it is supposed to. When you're actually forcing the ghost into the trap, your power is then unlimited; you also have unlimited traps so there is no annoyance. All in all, it's really like being in the Ghostbusters cartoon.
The options are also really well done. You can invert the Y-axis or not and there's even a sensitivity option, but I never tried it. You can also go back and replay old levels if you feel like doing it. The weapons are pretty good including the normal proton pack, a sort of ghost shotgun/freeze ray, and a slimer gun. There's also the PKE meter which is used pretty well to leave you ghost trails so you don't get too lost.
You've generally got at least one other Ghostbuster watching your back to revive you if you die. They really do seem like they're trying their best to help you, but they are usually inept. Picture a FPS game where you have partners, but instead of getting better weapons as you do they only ever carry the starting pistol and you'll see the problem. Sometimes they got in the way, but overall they were still at least useful as cannon fodder.
If it's so good, why did I say I wanted to like it more? It's the bugs. This is without a doubt the most buggy console game I've ever seen in my life. You'll play a level, beat the end boss and just before he dies, the game locks up. Whoops, you can't save in game so it's back to playing the level again and hoping it doesn't crash again. Fortunately, I didn't have it crash in the same place twice, but I still had to replay levels I had already beaten way too many times.
While you can still beat the game, some bugs are nearly game stopping. There's a level in a museum where you and Winston are in this Mayan exhibit and have to enter a doorway. I started bouncing around like a rabbit every time I tried to. Eventually, I pushed Winston to the door and bounced off of him and got through. Odd. At another point in a hotel, after you fight a ghost, if you go through the portal you'll end up standing outside the building with swirling psychedelic colors all around and be unable to complete the mission. You can get by this by standing in the doorway and inching close to the portal, stopping, inching forward a bit more, and repeating that until the game registers you entered it. Considering how repeatable that is, it's unacceptable they left that bug in. There was even a cut scene where every time I skipped it, I lost all sound in the entire level, except for proton pack streams.
Speaking of cut scenes, there's at least one that I suspect was a direct port from the Wii version, because the PS2 just cannot render the video. If you remember those old TVs with rabbit ear antennas where you had static all over and barely any picture, but you could just make out the people on there, then you have some idea. There were also more than a couple times that the in game cut scenes dropped the video and hung the game. That was extra nice since they happened after the boss fight, but before the game had saved the progress. D'oh! I ended up having to skip cut scenes sometimes out of fear of having to replay a level.
All these bugs are made worse by the load times. Starting up the game, I literally went out to the kitchen and made a sandwich and came back and the game was still loading to the opening credits. Yes, they make you wait at least a couple minutes while it loads the freaking developer's intros and there were apparently a lot of developers. It just adds insult to injury after having to restart the PS2 to sit through their stupid self-congratulatory advertisements. Also, once you do get into the game, you go to the firehouse, not the last level you were playing, so you have yet more load time to get back to the game.
While, it's not on the level of the current generation of consoles, for a PS2 version it holds its own very well. If it didn't have all the bugs, I'd easily give it 4 or possibly 5 stars. It's a little short, but not unacceptably short. If you're willing to sit through the load times and play levels a couple times due to glitches, then you'll have some fun with this game.
 who ya gonna call not the Ghostbusters on the PS2 September 28, 2009
too buggy it sucked at loading but hey its the ghostbusters. IT PORTED FROM THE WII WITH OUT CO-OP
Wii version toke me about 5 hours PS2 took 8 hours!
 Fun & Entertaining, But Beware of the Freeze-Ups September 21, 2009
tvtv3 (Sorento, IL United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Fans have been clamoring for more Ghostbusters since the second movie was released twenty years ago. Though no movie is yet in the works, when all of the original actors (minus Rick Moranis and Sigourney Weaver) signed on to do the video game, it was time for rejoicing. The overall plot of the game has the player playing as a new recruit to the Ghostbusters. The crew has all kinds of new and highly dangerous experimental equipment that's never been tested and as the new guy, that's what you get to do. Something's fishy in NYC and ghosts and monsters are running rampant. It's up to the Ghostbusters to figure out exactly what. The game incorporates key elements from both films into the game, but in such a way that they don't seem redundant. Along the way, you get to scan ghosts and find missing pages from Tobin's Spirit Guide.
The graphics are very cartoonish which I really enjoyed. The cut scenes and overall game play reminded me of the Ghostbusters cartoon series. Besides that, the overall style of animation is perfect for the semi-fictional world of the Ghostbusters.
The overall gameplay is fairly easy and a novice player can enjoy the game just as much as an expert gamer.
With that said, the game does have a few flaws. The movement of the character on screen is a bit annoying at times as he walks around a corner of a hallway or enters a room and you are unable to see what the character sees until several seconds later. The load times are also quite long, ranging on average around 35 seconds and sometimes almost up to a full 60 seconds. I could overlook those things, but the one problem of the game that I had real issues are the freeze-ups. I'm not sure why, but the PS2 version of this game is notorious for freezing up. That would just be irritating, but the freeze-ups often occur towards the end of a longer segment or just after a major battle. The game only saves after the end of each segment, so when the game freezes it requires you to go back and re-play the level you just beat. It's very frustrating. I thought it might have been my PS2, but I tried the game on my brothers system and it did the same thing. We also rented a copy of the game from a local video store and were playing it on his system and it had the same problem.
I really enjoyed GHOSTBUSTERS: THE VIDEO GAME. It's a game that fans of the movies will probably enjoy, but is entertaining enough that it has an appeal to casual gamers even if they are not familiar with the Ghostbusters. Just be aware that the game will freeze up.
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