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Fire up your proton pack and get ready to take down some ghosts in the newest Ghostbusters game. Playing as the un-named rookie who gets to test all the cool new equipment you help and follow around the others from the Movies as a new crisis descends upon New York city.

The game takes place in 1991, setting it as 2 years after the second movie. Since then business has been good for the Ghostbusters, with a new Mayor running New York city they are now contracted out by the city of New York. The story surrounds the Museum's opening of the Gozer exhibit. Gozer being the villain from the first movie.

The game starts off with the lovable disgusting Green Ghost known as Slimer escaping, and running a muck in the firehouse (Ghostbusters HQ). As the new recruit you aid in his capture and accidental damage the contement unit holding captured ghosts, some escape forcing you to capture them, while Slimer escapes. This opening sequence in the game gives you a good feel for controls and mechanics of the game as well as moving you into the main story of the game.

The main story of the game is great, bringing back old characters and few new ones. Although this being said I found my biggest issue with the game's story to be that it drawed too much from the first Ghostbusters movie. Despite this it is still a great storyline with lots of fun & laughs to be had.

The voice acting provided by the original cast is great giving you that feel that you are truly with the Ghostbusters. As well as the characters feel natural with the pitty bickering between them. As well as Bill Murray's character Dr. Peter Venkman's womanizing & sarcasm, to the technobable being spout out by Dan Aykroyd's Dr. Raymond Stantz & Harold Ramis's Dr. Egon Spengler. Even down to the more simple everyman Winston Zeddmore played by Ernie Hudson.

The graphics for the game are great giving, being among some of the few games on the PS3 that support full 1080P HD. The character models resemble there real life counter-parts while being able to show the emotions and facial expressions. The Character models for the ghosts also looking great giving them that same kind of feel in the original movie of having an aura around them being visible while somewhat transparent. The proton beam also looking amazing showing that raw power displayed in the movies when blasting something like a table and destroying it. Even down to the wild control of the streams from the proton packs.

The music is again more so heavily poured on from the original movie, and yes of coarse the Ghostbuster theme. The other sounds from the movie are spot on from the sound of foot steps to that of the some what more disturbing grosser sound of the slime.

Controls for the game are well done giving you easy access to your arsenal against the paranormal spectres. Although the game does have a lack of a easy dodge function, which I think would have been incredibly helpful. While the game has no sense of ammo, the Proton packs do other the hand need to vent off heat to prevent the packs from over heating, which you can do manually or the pack will do it on its own. While understandable from a game point of view to not have a weapon that is unlimited but it can be annoying in the middle of a fire fight.

The has no real sense of a on screen display except for when switching modes on your proton pack or using night vision type goggles with your scanner, most of the other displays are on the side of your proton pack which are always visible.

All & all Ghostbusters is a great game of lots of fun, allowing anyone to live out being a Ghostbuster with the original cast. I give the game a solid 8.3/10. While the game is great fun with a good story, the added ability of a dodge as well as in my opinion not drawing so much from the first movie could have truly made this a much better game.

If you were a fan of the movies don't pass up a chance to play this fun game, and my advice to those who do play...remember Don't cross the Streams....Crossing the streams would be BAD!

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