Ghostbusters: The Videogame
Ghostbusters™: The Video Game
FACT SHEET
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:
The Ghostbusters are back in Ghostbusters™: The Video Game! With Manhattan newly overrun by ghosts and other supernatural creatures, gamers take on the role of a new recruit joining the famous Ghostbusters team. Equipped with a variety of unique weapons and gadgets, players hunt, fight and capture a wide range of baddies in an all-new funny and frightening battle to save New York City from its latest paranormal plague.
KEY FEATURES:
• THE AUTHENTIC GHOSTBUSTERS GAME EXPERIENCE – Delivering a special gaming experience to the tremendous Ghostbusters fan base around the world, Ghostbusters: The Video Game features the original film cast from Columbia Pictures’ classic Ghostbusters films, including Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson – together again for the first time in over 20 years. Supporting the original Ghostbusters crew are the talents of Annie Potts, Brian Doyle Murray and William Atherton.
• UNIQUE GHOST BUSTING ACTION – Like the films before it, Ghostbusters: The Video Game is all-new classic adventure with Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis returning to the helm to script and create a new storyline that leads gamers through the trials and tribulations of the world’s leading paranormal ghost busting team. Players experience a variety of frightening new ghosts, even some based on ideas from Aykroyd and Ramis that never made it into the original feature films.
• WEAPONS, GADGETS & ENEMIES – Ghostbusters: The Video Game features never seen before ghost hunting, wrangling and trapping game mechanics with upgradeable gadgets. Gamers can blast ghosts into a weakened state with the proton pack’s blast beam and use the capture beam to wrangle them into the trap, execute different strategic tactics with the tether gun and stasis trap, and scan and analyze targets using like the PKE Meter and Ghost Light.
Developer: Terminal Reality (PS3, Xbox 360, Games for Windows), Red Fly (Wii, DS, PS2)
Publisher: Sierra Entertainment – a division of Vivendi Games
Release Date: Fall 2008
Platforms: PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft®, Wii™ and Nintendo DS™, PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, and Games for Windows™.
SRP: $59.99 (PS3, Xbox 360), $49.99 (Wii), $39.99 (PS2, Games for Windows), $29.99 (DS)
ESRB Rating: Currently rated “RP” (Rating Pending). Expected “T” (Teen – Content that may be suitable for persons ages 13 and older) for PS3, Xbox 360 and Games for Windows. Expected “E10+” (Everyone 10+ – Content that may be suitable for persons ages 10 and older) for Wii, DS and PS2.
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