Ghostbusters

"Be ready to fight ghosts and... boredom"

You can overcome your fear of ghosts.. but not the fear of boredom.

STORY -7/10

For a short while, everything was calm in the city so no more jobs for the Ghostsbusters. Suddenly, a earthquake occurs and ghosts pop out of nowhere, invading the houses of innocent people. These people call up the Ghostbusters to clear up their houses from ghosts. The Ghostbusters are pleased so they go. Each housekeeper has his own little story but the main story is that and it\'s really ordinary. Too ordinary for my tastes.

GRAPHICS -5/10

This is plain ugliness ! I\'ll go straight to the point : this game doesn\'t look good at all. I\'ve seen very good looking Genesis games recently and this one just isn\'t looking fine at all. The main characters look all like small chubby figurines and this isn\'t right. For ALL the entire game, you spend your time inside buildings. Inside ugly designed buildings. Bland and empty ugly buildings. And not only that, but all the interior of the buildings is almost always the same, one has a yellow wall.. the other has a green wall.. but all the same wall ! No variety. Too often the same buildings but with different colors. Nobody deserve to look at that more than half an hour. This isn\'t good for your eyes. The 5 points out of 10 allowed for the Graphics are for the nice looking bosses, decent enemies and good animations (the ice and fire looked fine too).

MUSIC/SOUNDS -7/10

Better than the graphics but nothing special either. The music is fine, despite you won\'t really notice it and nothing will stick into your head. It\'s often the same, repeating over and over in most of the buildings. The main theme is pretty good though. The sounds are okay too but I didn\'t really pay attention to them.

GAMEPLAY -6/10

Not only is this game extremely difficult but it also is very boring. At the start, you can choose which character you wish to play as between Raymond, Peter and Egon. The only difference is that one is slow but strong, the other fast but weak and the other one is medium. It doesn\'t really affect gameplay that much. The goal of the game is to collect money by clearing houses from ghosts. With the money, you can buy useless items and weapons. You go inside buildings, fight ghosts (you\'ll recognize some from the movie), defeat bosses and earn the money. At the beginning, 4 buildings are available to go through. After you clear, there are 2 more levels and the final boss. The game, like I said, is very hard (and I was in Easy Mode !) so I don\'t think you\'ll ever want to clear a single building. They are long, hard and boring. The ghosts just pop out of nowhere, bouncing on the walls and then at you, it\'s extremely difficult to avoid them or to shoot on them and anyway, there is way too many ghosts so it\'s annoying. You\'re trying to fight a ghost, but suddenly 3 other ones attack you. Not fair... The bosses are really hard to defeat too. So what\'s the point of this game ? Each building is almost the same as the previous one !

OVERALL -6/10

This game isn\'t worth anything. Or maybe you like difficult and tedious games ?

Reviewer's Score: 6/10, Originally Posted: 08/08/03