![]() Though admittedly, it does feel like a mobile game that’s just been adapted to work in your browser, but whatever. While we don’t have any mobile game movie tie-ins at the moment, over at the official website, you can play the ECTO-1 Speed Trap browser game. Those business gains have taken a toll on the craft, though all it takes is one look at games like Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 and Ghost Recon: Breakpoint to see that.With Sony finally getting the buzz going once again for Ghostbusters: Afterlife, the marketing team has gone to work for those of us who like to play a little while we wait for the film (and our morning coffee). ![]() It’s been working quite well for them too Activision and the other major publishers are bigger now than they’ve ever been, so one could definitely argue that this path is good for business. Massive companies require massive profit if they want to keep growing and pleasing investors, so it’s no surprise that they’re only interested in producing massively-budgeted games capable of yielding massive and constant return. Games with modest budgets tend to only generate modest return and that’s just not good enough for the modern mega-publisher. Big publishers like Activision, EA and Ubisoft have largely moved-on from investing in mid-to-low budget titles like this the reason being money of course. In other words, it’s something that’s almost never seen outside of the independent space nowadays. ![]() It isn’t all that long and isn’t all that impressive in terms of its visuals, but it still delivers a charming and memorable experience. The sum of all this is an average game for the time. The technology the ghostbuster carry around on their backs gets ever more zany and dangerous-looking as the game progresses there’s even a system that keeps track of just how much collateral property damage is caused during the ghost-catching process. Capturing/defeating ghosts varies between each ghost type and the act of wrangling them into the trap is still unique even ten years later. It’s also creative in several small ways. It’s linear, casts the player as a mostly unimportant role and doesn’t trust them with small actions like opening doors. Put simply, modern gaming is a very different animal than it used to be.įrom beginning to end, Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered is obviously a product of the late 2000s. ![]() It seems odd at first, but not when one thinks about what gaming is now versus what it was ten years ago. For us, the game is kind of a nostalgic experience even though it’s only ten years old. This is likely true for many gamers out there, but not for some of those who originally enjoyed it during the PS3/Xbox 360 generation. With all manner of high-profile titles releasing in October and November, an old Ghostbusters game should bear almost no significance whatsoever. The release of Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered should have been something insignificant. ![]()
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