It’s not just in the cinema that the Ghostbusters will make their comeback, in video games too, since Sony Pictures and Columbia Pictures have just announced the arrival of Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed on PC, PS5, Xbox Series , PS4 and Xbox One for the end of 2022. To set up this new one, the Illfonic studio was hired, just to offer us something new for the series, less for what has offered us the studio for several years. Indeed, the studio will resume its classic formula already adapted to licenses such as Friday the 13th and Predator, namely a game with asymmetrical gameplay. It should be understood by this that these are 1v4 online clashes, since 4 ghost hunters must leave to capture a creature per “game” played by a person solo. Each side benefits from its strengths and weaknesses, knowing that the player embodying the ghost has more advantages than the others who work as a team. And as usual, the game will mix subjective view and third person view, depending on the side chosen.
We already know that whoever plays the ghost will have the ability to pass through walls, which is quite handy for escaping enemies. It will be possible to take possession of certain objects to attack them, but also to detect their presence, even through walls. Practice. Obviously, who says Ghostbusters says cult characters and we can see in the trailer that Winston Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson) and Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) are in the game, while Peter Venkmen played by Bill Murray seems to be missing. call. As for Doctor Egon Spengler, the death of actor Harold Ramis should not facilitate the use of image rights. That said, other elements such as the HQ and the Ecto-1 car will be fine, knowing that the game will take place following the events of Ghostbusters Afterlife.
