Atari's senior producer for Ghostbusters, Garret Moehring, recently spoke with MTV Multiplayer about the upcoming title and its focus. He said the team is really going for a mainstream experience with Ghostbusters, best described as "an action-shooter - Gears of War Lite, in a way." Moehring described how Atari had made the game more accessible by changing the process of wrangling up those ghosts, making it more of an automatic process.
Apparently, after acquiring the game, Atari spent the majority of time on polishing it up, with "probably 70 different people playing the game" throughout the development process. Terminal Reality will continue making various tweaks until Ghostbusters arrives on June 16.
Reader Comments (16)
Posted: Mar 19th 2009 11:51AM (Unverified) said
Yeah, personally I think wrangling ghosts should be challenging. Some Sixaxis love guiding the ghosts towards the traps would also be nice.
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Posted: Mar 19th 2009 11:57AM MarkezJM said
Yeah, it's certainly an odd comparison, GoW? That's not exactly a complex game at all, control-wise. Pretty simple actually, so hopefully they'll incorporate enough other compelling elements to still make it schweet.
I expect B, but hope for A?
How bout a little music?
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I expect B, but hope for A?
How bout a little music?
Posted: Mar 19th 2009 11:50AM (Unverified) said
Basically, he means every PS3 owner who ever said GoW sucks but then enjoy this Ghostbusters game would actually like GoW too.
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Posted: Mar 19th 2009 1:01PM MLS said
No. I think Gears sucks because it's a testosterone filled 15 year old boy's wet dream of sci-fi redneck violence. I get no aesthetic satisfaction from it whatsoever. Ghostbusters, on the other hand, is a film I've cherished since I was five. I love all the characters, ghost-gizmos, music... everything. So this game could be a total gameplay/camera/controls clone of GoW, and I'll think it's awesome; but I'll still hate on Gears because their universe is garbage.
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Posted: Mar 19th 2009 1:07PM Ricky Bango said
MLS - thank you for so eloquently summing up my feelings about GOW and all of Epic's games lately.
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Posted: Mar 19th 2009 12:01PM MarkezJM said
Obviously, as are most folks, I'm a bigger fan of the original than the sequel. But I did always enjoy this scene a great deal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fHLOgYc43w&feature=PlayList&p=E12B907E9DB6F3FA&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=60
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fHLOgYc43w&feature=PlayList&p=E12B907E9DB6F3FA&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=60
Posted: Mar 19th 2009 12:30PM samfish said
This news servery reduces my previously throbbing hardon for this game. Didn't like Gears much, I didn't. I'm still hard for it, just not big, throbbing veins purple headed hard.
I'm also a cynic at heart, so I expect to go completely flaccid once I actually play it, if only because early hands on with the game haven't been bad, but haven't been exactly good, either. Wii version is apparently the one to get, but I don't want the cartoon style graphics. I want this experience to be as close to Ghostbusters 3 as possible!
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I'm also a cynic at heart, so I expect to go completely flaccid once I actually play it, if only because early hands on with the game haven't been bad, but haven't been exactly good, either. Wii version is apparently the one to get, but I don't want the cartoon style graphics. I want this experience to be as close to Ghostbusters 3 as possible!
Posted: Mar 20th 2009 11:33AM Swizzler said
I think atari is doing a very smart move here, with all the development studios going down, they're using what moolah they have left to buy up the assets, and then even if the game is almost done, they're spending extra time on it polishing it up. I mean, was there even one atari game published in 2008? I'm not sure, but I think there will be alot less "filler" games and until they climb back up the mountain they're just trying for AA and AAA titles to get their rep back. Smart move, Atari, smart move.
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