What’s the best way to get the city into debt?  Ghost busting of course!  Just think about it!  I’m sweeping the building for “ghosts” and then the “ghost” ran around so I have to use a particle beam to capture it, destroying everything else in the process.  However the city pays for this, so I’m all good!

This is basically what I did in the game.  You get rankings on how much money you waste destroying buildings while trying to capture ghosts as a new Ghost Buster rookie.

In this multiplayer shooter game you get to work together with a friend and highly experimental devices that could explode and blow you to somewhere you do now want to go…New Jersey!

Ghostbusters: The Video Game Gameplay

Okay while I have mentioned getting in debt by destruction of furniture and other things, but the game isn’t really about all of that.  No the game is actually about

Smashing ghosts aren't as easy they say!

catching ghost, thus the name ghost busters.

Things get going as you get into each level.  As you equip your blast stream (basically your weapon), you can basically destroy the whole level.  Everything has value so if you break it, you pay for it.

By pressing the d-pad you can switch to more weapons.  You start out with 2, but as the game moves on you get more weapons, and some upgrades.  One object is the PKE Meter.  This allows you to scan ghosts and other objects for data you can look into.  SO you gotta scan-them-all pokem- I mean Ghostbusters!

When you encounter a ghost you blast the enemy by pressing B.  Once you weaken them you smash them into the walls, and then throw a trap by pressing just Z (no swinging even though the game said so) to capture the ghost.

Be careful though, because ghost busting isn’t always a…clean job.  You have to get rid of the mess, if you know what I mean.  To do that just shake your wiimote to get rid of slime or whatever else is on you, messy, messy, messy.  Oh and if you die you’ll be revived after a brief moment.  If you teammates die you can revive them too.

Ghostbusters: The Video Game Multiplayer

What do you mean- the ghosts did it!

There is no Nintendo WFC game (and if there is I haven’t found it), but there is split screen action in this game.  Personally I find it that split screen is actually easier to control then one player.

Split-Screen

It’s a 2-player Co-Op.  You can attack each other, but that’s not gonna do squat, because they can still move properly, so no, you can’t attack each other.

You can play Co-Op by going to the firehouse and then click A on the car.  It’s impossible to miss, because the car is the only way to bring you to your missions.

If you’re a boy your partner will be a girl, and vice-versa.  You can both do whatever you want, destroy whatever you want, but when you encounter an event you both get dragged into it.

Conclusion

What can I say, it’s not a good game, and it’s an awesome game with a good sense of humor (opinions may

I'm still getting payed...right?

vary).

Another thing that I loved about this game was the ability to destroy everything around you.  This is one of the few games that allow you to pile your life with debt, where you and your friend race to be the one most in debt (another game being Dokapon Kingdom).

But the greatest part is that you know you are contributing to society by smashing ghosts into valuable and most likely very expensive furniture!

if you’re interested, you should try renting this game first at Gamefly starting as low as $8.95 or Try For Free!

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