Ghostbusters Demo ================= Saturday 11 July 2009 20:41 I've got two problems with Ghostbusters: the location reminds me to much of Liberty City and the combat reminds me to much of Folklore. That doesn't make it a bad game, but that means I would seriously have to switch skills to get into it's controls. The demo doesn't make it very clear how controlling the beams would evolve, but at first it doesn't feel as good as Folklore. Capturing monsters in Folklore relies on the SIXAXIS motion sensor and can get quite physical at times, but the motion, graphics and sound are in harmony and ending the battle with a swoop to wrap things up is very satisfactory, and I wonder if Ghostbusters finds the right balance between challenging and tedious for it's controls. Apart from those two issues, the game looks good. The library and the ghosts are done right, and the use of the PKE meter immersed me so much that when my controller got a low battery warning I switched it for the loaded one and only later realized that wasn't in-game. It's not a sandbox game, so I had to get used to waiting for something to happen to move on at times but when it's got a story to tell that won't get distracted or complicated by to much choices. So it's probably a pretty good game. But being of the Ghostbuster's generation, the game won't be as important as the first movie. I don't even care about the second movie. I've seen the movie on the big screen, read the book and listened to the audio track on D90 cassettes, memorizing large parts of the conversations (...my grandma used to spin yarns about a spectral locomotive that would rocket past the farm where she grew up...), and I consider the "Now what do you need from me?" part one of the most epic scenes ever. Viewing the movie on Blu-Ray will most likely put some pieces of the puzzle together that shows me why I am who I am today, growing up with the threath of global nuclear warfare makes today's global warming issue pathetic, and certainly not like "Real wrath-of-God-type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming from the sky! Rivers and seas boiling!". by Roland van Ipenburg http://www.xs4all.nl/~ipenburg/blog/posts/play/2009/07/11/ghostbusters-demo/