Ghostbusters: The Video Game

The Ghostbusters are back for an all new adventure. With Manhattan overrun again by supernatural creatures, gamers take the role of a new recruit joining the famous Ghostbusters team. Equipped with a variety of unique equipment and gadgets, players hunt, fight and wrangle a wide range of ghosts in an all-new battle to save New York City from its latest paranormal plague. Delivering a special gaming experience to the tremendous Ghostbusters fan base around the world, Ghostbusters: The Video Game features the original 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. 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.

Main story

8 h

Main + extras

10 h

Completionist

22 h

Released

2009 · see every game from that year

Modes

Single player · Multiplayer

Perspective

Third person

Engine

Infernal Engine

Multiplayer

• Online co-op 4Online co-op, Drop-in / drop-out

• TThreewave SoftwareDeveloper
• Terminal RealityDeveloper
• Sony Computer EntertainmentPublisher
• Atari, Inc.Publisher

• ESRBTComic Mischief, Fantasy Violence, Mild Language
• PEGI12Bad Language, In-Game Purchases, Violence
• GRAC12+Fear, Horror, Threatening, Violence
• ACBPGNo content descriptors

• Action
• Comedy
• Horror
• Science fiction
• 4 player co-op
• achievements
• action-adventure
• anthropomorphism
• arcade cabinet
• artificial intelligence
• auto-saving
• based on - movie
• cutscene menu
• digital distribution
• direct continuation
• exorcism

1. Ghostbusters II1989
2. Ghostbusters II1989
3. Ghostbusters1990
4. New Ghostbusters II1990
5. Extreme Ghostbusters2001
6. Extrme Ghostbusters: Code Ecto-12002
7. Extreme Ghostbusters: The Ultimate Invasion2004
8. This gameGhostbusters: The Video Game2009
9. Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime2011
10. Ghostbusters Pinball2014
11. Ghostbusters2016
12. Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered2019 · Remaster

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