Ghostbusters sliming consoles June 16

By Luke Anderson, GameSpotPosted Jan 8, 2009 6:07 am PT

Atari confirms third ghost-busting adventure will be hitting on all platforms across Europe and America as the first half of 2009 draws to a close.

Ghostbusters The Video Game has certainly had an interesting journey so far. Dan Aykroyd, who is lending his hand to writing credits alongside fellow Ghostbuster Harold Ramis, confirmed the game's existence back in early 2007. At the time, the game was being developed by Sierra Entertainment. After Activision's merger with Sierra parent-company Vivendi Games, Ghostbusters was one of several games that Activision decided to drop from its release schedule, at which point the game's status became unclear.

That is, until rumours appeared and were eventually confirmed that Atari would take over publishing duties of the Terminal Reality-developed action game, which is a direct sequel to the original Ghostbusters movies. However, the leaks didn't stop there; yesterday, Sony Pictures stated in a press release that the game would be coming out "worldwide" alongside 25th-anniversary editions of the movies in the week of June 16.

Atari UK has now confirmed with GameSpot UK a release date of June 19 for Europe and June 16 for North America on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, and PlayStation 2. A spokesperson didn't confirm whether any special editions would be released. For more on Ghostbusters The Video Game, read GameSpot's latest preview.

118 Comments

  • PhoenixVenom

    Posted Jan 30, 2009 9:58 pm PT

    hopefully it turns out sweet i kinda want it. also hope there is co-op and not just solo campaign

  • Ithok

    Posted Jan 12, 2009 5:20 pm PT

    Oh I'm hoping its good. Was hoping for a third movie but this is much better.

  • clauwman

    Posted Jan 11, 2009 1:54 pm PT

    The trailer looked shockingly good (graphics wise).

    DON'T SCREW THIS UP ATARI !!! Yes, I know they're only publishing it, but it seems that everything they TOUCH turns to crap....

  • kiers_jimbo

    Posted Jan 11, 2009 12:27 pm PT

    I can't wait!

  • Chief_Kuuni

    Posted Jan 10, 2009 5:15 pm PT

    that's awesome, I can't wait, I most likely will get it

  • tbradford2

    Posted Jan 10, 2009 11:31 am PT

    I hope its good but it won't be no surprise if it tanks.

  • HellaStoned

    Posted Jan 10, 2009 7:05 am PT

    This game will be cool, but it's gonna be flooding the used game bins a month or two after it's release a la force unleashed.

  • dkjjabs

    Posted Jan 10, 2009 6:55 am PT

    ITS GOOD BUT atari don't have the best record (legendary)

  • dkjjabs

    Posted Jan 10, 2009 3:58 am PT

    I think maybe you would have to be from the 80's to appreciate ghostbuster can't wait (fingers crossed for online play to work well)

  • Media_Mind

    Posted Jan 9, 2009 8:42 pm PT

    goood, good

  • TheProdigyIV

    Posted Jan 9, 2009 7:52 pm PT

    What is the hype around Ghostbusters for?

  • xenonick23

    Posted Jan 9, 2009 2:04 pm PT

    Well this should make going to summer classes very difficult...

  • HUNTER-VENOM

    Posted Jan 9, 2009 1:55 pm PT

    Alright! my birthday's the 20th I know what I'm getting!

  • Warnerator

    Posted Jan 9, 2009 1:47 pm PT

    I was hoping it would come out before my birthday which is June 12, oh well, it's still close, It's going to be good.

  • cometkd

    Posted Jan 9, 2009 12:59 pm PT

    cannot wait, i think this will be a good game!

  • CountFabregat

    Posted Jan 9, 2009 12:15 pm PT

    this will be so sweet, im buying this just because of the fond memories of my childhood when i saw the movies. i love that they are doing the sequel in a videogame.

  • shawn7324

    Posted Jan 9, 2009 12:10 pm PT

    I'm looking forward to this game.

  • suprsolider

    Posted Jan 9, 2009 11:40 am PT

    It's not going to be bad.
    This is god damn GHOSTBUSTERS.

    I have faith.
    I hope is sells millions of copies, more than Guitar Hero to rub it in the face of Activision.
    Christ Activision you published the old games with David Crane doing the Commodore 64 version.
    Stupid Activision, go sling out your crap Rock Band, pointless Wolfenstein 3-D sequels, crap versions of DOOM (DOOM3 sucked, and the Xbox ports of the original DOOM games suck as well, which is disgusting seeing as the Xbox was a glorifeid computer and the original DOOM games ran on a 486 computer back in the day)

  • XxParasite

    Posted Jan 9, 2009 11:34 am PT

    Okay, I think that you missed my point. Yes, it makes sense from a business point of view, but these developers typically share assets between PS2 and Wii versions, and THAT is the biggest problem. PS2 and GAMECUBE were at different graphical levels, the Wii is so much higher than PS2 in terms of graphics, and I'm tired of people making games for it that look WORSE than RE4.(It looked great on GameCube, but that was last-gen.)

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