New Ghostbusters: The Video Game explained in detail

April 30th, 2008 by Peter

About two and a half years ago Terminal Reality went to game developer Sierra to show them a game they had been working on, and although they liked the game as well as the technology used Sierra asked why not do a Ghostbusters game instead as they told them that the Ghostbusters icon is the second most known icon in the world. Terminal Reality then asked Sierra if it was a good property in which they replied it is a great property.

So six month past in which time Terminal Reality were able to come up with a great tech demo to show what they wanted to do with Ghostbusters, this was done by using their infernal engine. They wrote the software for the Sony PS3 first then the Xbox 360 and finally the PC. It was easier to do the programming first on the Sony PlayStation 3 as the same model can then be used on the Xbox 360 and PC. The physics engine used for the games is called velocity, this helps to recreate scenes from the Ghostbusters movie like when slimmer is flying around the hotel which was set up for a party. So when the Ghostbusters go in the room to try and catch him the hotel room gets trashed, so users are able to do this in the game and it really works well.

The physics in the game goes one step further where you are able to smash almost anything as well as put two objects together to solve puzzles in the game.

In the game Egon has built a new proton pack but the boys do not want to be the first to try it out so they pull someone of the street which is you to try it out instead. Bill Murray, Dan Akroyd and Harold Ramis all lend their voices in the game which makes it more enjoyable. Dan Akroyd has especially worked hard in the game to make sure that they get everything right.

Ghostbusters: The Video game will be available from October 2008 on the Xbox 360, Sony PS3 and the PC, but they are also working on a Nintendo Wii and Ds version as well as on PlayStation2.