By Jim Rossignol on December 2nd, 2010 at 2:44 pm.
A new game based on the comedy wraith-wrangling movies has been revealed by Atari, via USAToday for some reason, and it’s going to be called Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime. Mmm, sanctum. Although it returns to the tale of the rookie ‘buster from the previous game, it looks like Atari (and developer Wanako) are going down a slightly different route, with this game being a top-down action game distributed via the magic of a series of tubes. There is online and offline 4-player co-op. You will be able to drive Ecto-3, too. So that’s a thing that will happen.
The original game apparently sold of a million copies, which seems like a lot. Release date: No.
02/12/2010 at 14:49 Sp4rkR4t says:
Wot I want to say is, erm… good?
02/12/2010 at 14:49 frags says:
Let me guess, Diablo style action?
02/12/2010 at 14:58 Mistabashi says:
Looks more like Alien Swarm style cop-op action to me.
02/12/2010 at 20:20 ScubaMonster says:
Yeah I was about to post the same thing regarding Alien Swarm, then I saw your post.
Alien Swarm with ghosts! If that’s what this is actually going to be like, this could be pretty awesome.
02/12/2010 at 21:17 Mistabashi says:
Could be really cool if they made a good ‘trap’ mechanic, so you have to pin the ghosts in place with the shooty-ghost-gun thingy and someone else has to deploy a trap to actually ‘kill’ them. The Ghostbusters setup actually has a lot going for it as far as co-op play is concerned, but we’ll have to see if they can actually make a decent game out of it.
02/12/2010 at 14:50 fuggles says:
No more cherubs please!
02/12/2010 at 15:04 Jim Rossignol says:
That can be a guiding principle for all games!
02/12/2010 at 15:10 blind_boy_grunt says:
obviously messiah should be granted an exception
02/12/2010 at 16:07 outoffeelinsobad says:
@blind_boy: Agreed and where’s my sequel.
02/12/2010 at 16:50 fallingmagpie says:
Alright, hands up if you read the name as ‘Wanko’ on the first pass?
02/12/2010 at 17:25 westyfield says:
*Puts hand up*
03/12/2010 at 06:40 TheTingler says:
That’s a clothes shop here in China. Oh, the fun! :)
03/12/2010 at 12:49 Urael says:
We have plenty of ‘wanko’ clothes shops here in the UK too,mate. They just don’t call themselves that.
And yes, *hand up*.
02/12/2010 at 16:53 Bioptic says:
Ooh – only need one more slightly-flagging 3rd-person action game franchise to be reimagined as a top-down co-operative game for it to formally become a trend. In fact, I reckon it’ll be one of the major trends of 2011 – publishers realise they can release immensely satisfying top-down digital download titles at a fraction of the cost of the equivalent ‘standard’ version, and everbody wins!
02/12/2010 at 16:54 Shagittarius says:
If it’s not on a disc its not in my collection.
02/12/2010 at 17:27 Mistabashi says:
You can download it then burn it to a disc, if that makes you happy.
02/12/2010 at 20:46 Starky says:
Well enjoy your last few years of PC gaming then.
you’ve got maybe a decade left on consoles though.
02/12/2010 at 21:42 FDS21 says:
Yeah, get on the team for the big win. Digital downloads are the future… I only joined the bandwagon this year, and I haven’t looked back since. Steam, Steam, Steam, Steam, Steam!!!
02/12/2010 at 17:43 Gabbo says:
I’ll wait and see how Atari blunders this release. As much as I want coop Ghostbusters on PC, they’ve made similar promises in the past.
02/12/2010 at 19:55 rocketman71 says:
So, a complete game or only half a game for the PC, like the last time?
02/12/2010 at 21:51 Dominic White says:
Don’t get your hopes too high for this. It’s by Wanako, formerly Wildtangents games division. Their last release was Assault Heroes, a completely generic and soulless twin-stick shooter. It wasn’t BAD, but I don’t think it had any particularly good elements to it either.
02/12/2010 at 23:39 Chris says:
So you’re saying it’s only going to run as a WinAMP plugin? ;-)
02/12/2010 at 22:23 jonfitt says:
Busting makes me feel good. As does bust feeling.
02/12/2010 at 23:35 Gabe McGrath says:
Now that I finally have a current-gen PC, I’ve started playing my “long ago purchased, but didn’t have the Ghz to play it” copy of the Ghostbusters game.
(Background info: My online handle since 1997 has been Mr_Staypuft, so I’ve been hanging out to play to do some hi-res busting.)
Unfortunately, I’m rather stuck very early on. (In the Staypuft level, the flaming gargoyles & construction ghost with the airgun keep wiping us all out). Sure, I’m playing on the hardest difficulty, but bloody hell… I always do that… any tips, hivemind?
I’d *hate* to have to restart the whole bloody game and play on medium.
Oh – and I really hate this “No you can’t save just anywhere” crap. Playing through the same bit just (with unskippable conversation) to get up to the section where I’ll probably die again is just arghghhrhghgurrrrrrrrrrrggghgh.
03/12/2010 at 06:48 TheTingler says:
I’m pretty sure you can change your difficulty. I think you might have to do it on the menu before loading your game, but I’m sure it can be done. You MAY have to restart the episode, but not the whole game. Once you get past Stay Puft you can ramp up the difficulty again.
The gargoyles should go down easy, just immediately slam them to the ground using whatever key you have as the slam function. Keep moving to avoid the bloody construction ghosts, revive a Ghostbuster whenever they go down, and remember that the top of Ecto-3 is the trap.
02/12/2010 at 23:39 The Tupper says:
I’d be more happy if they managed to stop the current Ghostbusters game from crashing every two bloody minutes.
02/12/2010 at 23:55 TeeJay says:
Will we get Sigourney Weaver as Dana Barrett?
03/12/2010 at 06:56 TheTingler says:
No. And no Rick Moranis either.
03/12/2010 at 01:05 Alistar says:
Can’t wait to see this bad boy in sale for $2.50 on Steam a few weeks after release.
03/12/2010 at 02:44 gummybearsliveonthemoon says:
Aww, man, top-down? Way to ruin the cinematic style of the previous…
03/12/2010 at 03:21 iSoLateD1 says:
Looks a bit crap compared to the last Ghostbusters game, which was quite impressive on a high end pc.
03/12/2010 at 08:53 Gerrit says:
I hope it will be some coop 3rd person action with vehicles AND a couple of good music tracks.
03/12/2010 at 10:44 PC_Gamer says:
If anyone can tell me how to force the international version of the original Ghostbusters to run in english instead of german on a german Win7 I would be very grateful.
Changing country / region location doesn’t help at all and neither does config/registry muddling.
What good is an intl. version if I can’t CHOOSE ffs. :(
*sighs*