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A classic film about eccentric ghost hunters simply could not be left without continuation – and it does not matter if it is about the book, the film, or .. Bill Murray And the company has so far decided to wait with a triumphal return (it was scheduled for 2012) and set to create a game about their adventures. Dan Ekroyd wrote the script, studio Terminal Reality I took up development, and Atari decided to publish this miracle. At your own peril and risk, by the way, because according to statistics, most of the facilities for the dog -facility do not pay off.
Fortunately, there is something completely different in front of us. The third film, as Ekraid put it in an interview. Actually Ghostbusters: The Video Game – This is what we would see back in the eighties, then exist the right technologies. The same faces, the same voices, the same bright characters and sharp jokes – absolutely everything has returned to us, and this is really great news!
Film, film, film!
Dilogy Dilogue Dilogue has long become a classic, and not only science fiction, but also comedy. The eternal sarcasm of Bill Murray and the constant submarines of Dan Ekroy and Harold Ramis to this day remain one of the most memorable and cheerful in the cinema.
Retelling the plot of ribbons of 1984 and 1989 is Moveton, so let's better talk about interesting details. For example, you knew that not the director, not a producer and not even a professional screenwriter, but Dan Ekraid, came up with “ghostbone”? From childhood, he was fond of everything that was somehow connected with paranormal phenomena, so he dreamed of creating a film where the ghosts will pay due attention.
Initially, Ekroyd imagined hunters from the future who traveled between the worlds, and their “Ecto-1” car worked on ectoplasm (actually the name). But on the advice of the director Dan transferred the action these days, and the car began to drive on gasoline. By the way, the famous ghost hunters are Cadillac Deville Station Wagon 1959.
First of all, Dan developed the concept of equipment for fishing ghosts: a rifle nuclear reactor for a proton emitter and a positron trap that sucks the ghosts. The creation of Dan’s clothes and equipment was inspired by real -existing ghost hunters who traveled on the black carriage of ambulance and wore overalls.
Well, the famous icon with a crossed ghost was directly related to the original name of the film – Ghoststoppers. Fortunately, he was renamed, otherwise instead of “ghost hunters” we would have watched “ghost stopping”, which, you see, does not sound.
By the way, recently announced that the dilogy will have a continuation. The cast will remain unchanged, but the director’s chair is most likely to take another person. Be that as it may, the project is declared for 2012, so much more can change.
The third coming
The events of the game will start two years later after the end of the second film. The hunters unfolded, launched advertising and work without lingering hands. True, lately there are fewer orders, and here the newcomer also dragged on the very eve of thanksgiving. But only he opened his mouth to introduce himself like a wave of paranormal energy swept through New York, and Dr. Venkman (Bill Murray) managed to bargain that the names did not want to become attached to the newcomer.
This is interesting: The main character does not pronounce a word for the whole game, and the inscription on the overalls does not change – rookie, which means "newcomer".
While the court and the case, Lizun manages to escape from his cage, and in an attempt to catch his hunters go to the Sedzhvik hotel. There they are attacked by the same ghosts, and outside the window there is a react of something huge, white, sweet … creatures from the ghostly world again broke into ours and want to subjugate it to themselves and rebuild at their discretion at their discretion.
In the script Ghostbusters: The Video Game found a place and a meeting with old friends and enemies, and a beautiful girl, with whom, of course, everything that happens, and the mysterious labyrinth of the ghosts, and a bunch of pleasant surprises are directly connected.
The actors gave the characters not only their appearance, but also the vote – their game is really incomparable. The caustic sarcasm of Bill Murray, the intelligent humor of Harold Ramis, the malice of Dan Ekroy – without all this "ghost hunters" could be anathematized.
It was also important to convey the atmosphere of films and arrange levels accordingly. Terminal Reality has no doubt. The protagonist was sent to the Historical Museum on the tour, and to the library, and to the flooded hotel, and to the island of a ghost. But the most memorable places – night cemetery, gloomy dungeons, children's classes. Their design is so good that sometimes it becomes really scary: pitch darkness, children's crying, stone rows of graves, a thunderstorm, blushing around the corner, stolen steps, strange sounds … damn great!
True, they won’t let us be afraid for a long time: almost all the time the protagonist spends with a partner or partners, and in the company it is no longer possible to fear somehow. The command spirit is felt not so much because of the same equipment, but thanks to the mutual assistance and one case. If the character stumbled under the pressure of ghosts, the partner will surely come running and help to rise. But if it is dumped from your feet, you also have to immediately come to the rescue. This is not only mutual benefit, but also a prerequisite to survive at the levels of the complexity of Experienced and Professional – there should be no problems on casual problems.
War according to the rules and without
"Ghost hunters" turned out to be much more complicated than that expected. Dozens of varieties of enemies, eight bosses and simply inaccurate behavior can quickly provide you with a one -way ticket. All sorts of devils, spiders, mocker, zombies, stone statues, golems, flying skulls and books, running candles and chests, harpies and a huge bestian ghosts are not jokes. Even the most harmless ghosts can launch a table or a box in you, what can we say about the spirits of former workers who hit the junk hammers, soldiers of the armies of the north and south shooting from rifles, and opera primals stunning high notes … and, believe me, this is still far away Not a complete list of enemies – there are much more of them!
Bosses to match them, ranging from an almost harmless old fisherman and ending with a marshmallow person and a huge architect of the ghostly world, which causes associations with the devil. To combat them, you have to refine and look for the desired approach, whether it is shooting into a single eye or dropping from the roof of the house.
Thank God, weapons are enough to give a worthy rebuff. Each hunter has four varieties of a proton emitter, each of which can be used in two different ways. For example, the blue ray of energy slows down and freezes the opponents, and an alternative attack resembles a shotgun – the fraction scatters in all directions. Or here is a thing that waters the district with green mucus, can shoot sticky and elastic ropes that attract objects to each other.
But the most important weapon is a classic emitter producing red energy rays. With the help of it, the most important thing is carried out – the capture and imprisonment of the ghosts. When the spirit weakens, a sort of lasso is pounced on it, and a trap throws on the floor, into which the prankster is sucked.
And in the arsenal of ghost hunters there is a Pke Meter – a paranormal energy sensor. With it, you can always find a hidden ghost or a cache with a damned artifact. For finding the latter, they give a good bonus, besides, it is quite unusual to feel like a treasure hunter in some kind of dark basement or sewer system. Among the artifacts there are both really damned things, like self -flammable portraits, and funny toys, such as a machine of hunters or figurines of a marshmallow person.
The proceeds can always be spent on improving the ammunition: making weapons more powerful, traps are faster, and the sensor is more sensitive. If you neglect improvements, then you are unlikely to get to the final.
The horrors of our town
And I would go from this place to the story of a good schedule, beautiful special effects and a bit of unfinished textures, and then to the conclusion, but it will not come out. And the thing is that Ghostbusters: The Video Game is one of the most glow games not only recently, but during their existence in principle. I don’t even know how to explain this – either with lousy optimization, or the relaxation of the developers, but only the project manages to sometimes brake even on the Xbox 360, what can we say about computers. Departures, terrible brakes, requests to reduce graphic settings, overheating of the video card, “blue death”, some stupid mistakes, a sharp drop in performance-“ghost hunters” can boast of all this.
And it would be the highest score here, if not for this annoying oversight. At the time of writing the article was still not there, but, we hope, it will definitely come out, and then we will deserve the rating.
In the meantime, bugs pull the game down, and this is a shame, because the rest of the Ghostbusters: The Video Game does not cause any complaints. Of course, I would like, of course, the multi -user regime, as on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, but, apparently, not fate. Or maybe they will add it with a patch? Let's see.
Verdict:
A very exciting, interesting and cheerful game is a worthy heiress of the dilogy about "ghost hunters". And it would be her topic of the number, if not for the monstrous number of bugs.
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Ghostbusters only at first glance seems easy, but this illusion very soon disappears – literally after the first serious skirmish. Perhaps you will not have problems at the level of Casual's complexity, but Experienced and Professional are guaranteed to be forced to sweat. What to do so as not to become a victim of ghosts?
- Try to dodge enemy attacks, especially when you are surrounded, fight the boss or anti -resistance to flying opponents. A couple of strong blows-and the main character will be on the ground, unable to rise and continue the battle. And who needs it? In addition, evading it in time, you dumbfound the enemy, and he will freeze for a few seconds, and this is enough to cause significant damage.
- Do not forget about partners: if one of them is knocked down, be sure to run to the revenue. Maybe this will take time, but if you fall, you can definitely count on help.
- Follow the level of weapon heating and reload in time. No one needs misfires at a crucial moment.
- Never stand in one place – creatures from another world are very fast and well -aimed, so that you can use your stop for your own purposes.
- Improve the weapon, because the more powerful it is, the less blood you get victory. Pay special attention to Boson Darts – the most powerful and dangerous variety of attacks, which acts on almost all ghosts and monsters.
- In no case do not try to run away from the fight. Firstly, they will catch up, and secondly, you leave the rear open, and what could be easier than hitting in the back?
- Use Pke Meter – it not only helps to determine the varieties of ghosts, but also works like a compass if you are lost. In addition, only this device will help to find damned artifacts, but they give additional money for them, which instantly go to improve weapons.
- If you hear crying, screams, groans, singing or something else from the same series, know, an artifact is hidden somewhere nearby. Sometimes it is worth looking at the ceiling or destroying some closet or bar-behind them may well be a cache. At each level – no more than six artifacts.
- Pour the pink holes from which opponents appear using Slime Blower. The faster you do this, the fewer enemies you will have to fight.
Guns for every taste
Ghost hunters have always been distinguished by extravagant equipment-overalls, shoulder nuclear reactors, proton emitters, positron traps … It sounds really scary, but is it really so?
The protagonist has four different weapons, each of which operates in two modes, as well as several varieties of ghosts and Pke Meter. We will talk about all this now.
Blast Stream/Boson Darts
The very first weapon that turns out to be indispensable until the very end. Blast Stream – This is a destructive energy that destroys everything in its path. In the literal sense: tables and chairs turn into chips, chandeliers fall on the floor with a roar, curtains light up, and ashes remains instead of wallpaper. Such a little apocalypse. And the most pleasant thing, it acts on ghosts no worse than furniture. The fully improved Blast Stream is able to lower the enemy’s health to a minimum in a matter of seconds, and at that moment Lasso appears on the stage – a bunch of energy that connects the ghost and does not allow him to escape (by the way, this opportunity will come in handy to move or throw objects). Then you “jerk” the ghost, hitting him against the walls, floor and ceiling, throw a trap, and it sucks inside.
An alternative attack is called Boson Darts. These are considerable power balls that cause very large damage. During battles with bosses and strong opponents, it is best to use it. The only negative is that the weapon is constantly overheated, but this can be corrected by acquiring an appropriate improvement.
This is interesting: Like another weapon, Mason Collider, this attack hints at the most loud project of recent years – a large adron collider. One of the goals of the project is to prove the existence Bozona Higgs. Actually, there are less exotic bosons (the usual quantum of light is a photon, for example, also belongs to the bosons), but the people under the boson usually mean this elusive particle, and the authors probably had it in mind.
Stasis Stream/Shock Blast
Shock Blast – A very controversial weapon, which, on the one hand, is almost useless in skirmishes one on one, but on the other – effectively against several enemies and bosses. The emitter shoots a family-nine with blue charges, which do not take quite a lot of health, but they can slow down or even freeze the enemy. Frankly, the last trick is very rare. But, given the number of discharged charges, Stasis Stream can be used as a shotgun against the crowd.
CO Stasis Stream The situation is completely different. This is a blue ray that can really slow down, or even turn the enemy into a block of ice. Unfortunately, this is all that he is capable of – there can be no question of any injuries. But if you are opposed by the harpies, you can freeze them in flight, they will fall and divide into small pieces.
Slime Blower/Slime Tether
Weapons watering the entire district with green mucus – this is what it is Slime Blower. He copes well with ordinary opponents, but best acts on the generations of black mucus – a viscous substance that has leaked from the other world into our. By the way, it is strictly impossible to step into it, otherwise the main character may die. And then Slime Blower comes to the rescue again, which can be cleaned of the room of mucus.
Note: Sometimes ghosts hide the doors from human eyes. To see them, you need to clean the alleged passage. Guess than?
Slime Tether – sticky, elastic, elastic and very durable green rope. He is completely harmless in itself, but https://black-magic-casino.co.uk/ if you experiment … In the last chapter (in the cemetery), stone bucids attack the hunters, who cannot be killed by any weapon. These are perhaps the most serious opponents in the game. So, in order to get rid of them as soon as possible, it is worth sticking the kids to each other. With a wild cry, they will break into each other and scatter into pieces.
This trick also acts on other creatures, but it is best to cut them into the walls or pin them to the floor or ceiling, then to finish off. And you can attach one end of the rope to the trap, and the second – to the weakened ghost. He will not have time to blink an eye, as he will be imprisoned.
Slime Tether is also indispensable when you need to twist some heavy wheel or attract plates or even whole islands to each other. Sometimes the use of this weapon is the only way to advance further.
Mason Collider/Overload Pulse
Perhaps the most dangerous weapon in the game that requires good aiming and a quick reaction. Mason Collider does not cause damage as such-this is a kind of signal fire that needs to be attached to the enemy. This is the difficulty, because none of the enemies lingers on the spot. But if you really got ..
Mason Collider works in tandem with Overload Pulse. If you managed to attach the beacon, then all charges will automatically fly to the given address. At the same time, it does not matter where you are aiming – just shoot. Of course, Overload Pulse can be used separately (in this case, you will get something like a quick-fire assault rifle), but the effect will be much weaker.
Ghost Trap
A trap for ghosts is an indispensable thing, which can not do without the final credits. However, before you manage to calm the ghost, you need to weaken it and try not to release it while it sucks it inside. Naturally, the process can be accelerated by baking Fast Trap.
There is also a trap called Slam Dunk Trap. It will cost very expensive, but you will send a ghost in it in just a second in the exact basketball throw, and this is very important, especially when there are many enemies around.
Pke Meter
Pke Meter – nothing more than a sensor of otherworldly energy. It works in three modes and shines, respectively, with three different colors.
• Green means that somewhere nearby there is paranormal energy. If you are lost and try to understand where the next – take Pke, and he will lead you to the goal.
• Red – Not far from you is hiding one or more enemies. They can be hidden in windows, vases and other furniture, and can hide behind the walls, in the floor or on the ceiling. In any case, as soon as Pke caught fire, instantly grab the weapon.
• Blue – nearby is the damned artifact. The closer you are to him, the stronger the meter will be squeak. To increase the range of its action, I advise you to buy an improvement.
This energy and for peaceful purposes ..
The pride of Ghostbusters: The VideoGame is not only humor, plot and hunting for ghosts, but also huge bosses. The word "huge" should be understood literally – I have not yet seen the creatures of such sizes, except in the series Devil May Cry and God of War.
There are seven chapters in the game, which means, according to the logic of things and seven bosses. In principle, this is so, only the latter has two hypostasis, and it is necessary to fight with him twice, so we can safely say that eight bosses. Each of them requires an individual approach, you can’t get around with simple shots here ..
Pappy Sargassi
The old fisherman is a rare bastard who strives to throw the main character with his catch. The battle with him takes place in two stages. The first one is not difficult – you just need to water the old man with energy from Blast Stream and dodge his throws with fish. Pappy has a bad habit of teleporting, and he can do it non -stop for several minutes in a row. See both so as not to blink a fisherman.
When his life indicators will finally fall to almost zero, the old man will fly to the kitchen and create a golem there – a giant of dishes, stoves, shells and pans. The rest of the ghost hunters will come to the rescue, but the monster will choose you to his goal, and therefore will constantly pursue and try to hit. There are two options: either run in a circle and wait until the partners are killed, or take part too and run away in time.
As soon as the golem is weakening, the hunters will together tear his head together and Papp will appear again. Everything that is now required is to drive him into.
Stay-Puft
A marshmallow person will pursue you the entire second chapter, sending his servants and arranging mini-markets, but the final battle will happen at the very end. The White Monster will climb the building from which the main character hangs, simultaneously throwing it with breaking henchmen. It is advisable to shoot them and not to deprive a marshmallow person with fire. Когда он пролезет несколько этажей, то хорошенько устанет и остановится передохнуть. This is the most successful moment to launch Boson Darts into it. The enemy will fall, get angry and get up again. Throw it off three times – and the whole street will be white, and marshmallow snow will sprinkle from the sky.
Azetlor The Collector
"Bookworm", as it is mockingly called by ghost hunters, in fact turns out to be one of the most dangerous bosses in the game. The collector of rare and old books appears in the image of a ten -meter black figure with a hefty mask on his face. He can set flying books on heroes, can launch several tornado in the arena, or even grow spikes from the ground.
First of all, it is necessary to clean the mask of black mucus that holds it – use Slime Blower. When the case is done, pull the mask from the collector's face using the Blast Stream and run several Boson Darts charges into his flickering green eye to end the monster.
It sounds easy, but almost every collector’s attack is deadly for the protagonist, so try to avoid them, dodging and using teleports scattered in the arena. Also do not forget about partners – help them get up so that in case they can help you.
After the mask flies off the collector, he will begin to move much faster. To slow down the monster, use Stasis Beam, although this does not always work.
Chairman
Like a marshmallow person, the chairman will bother you throughout the chapter – then the girl will kidnap, then it will revive the statues, and even again untie the war between the North and the south. During his lifetime, he was greedy, cruel and suffered from gluttony. His ghost – huge, thick and vile laughing – goes to a decisive battle at the end of the fourth chapter.
Naturally, not alone. The chairman flies around the arena, and portals appear on it from four angles, from which the generation of black mucus climbs. First of all, it is worth getting rid of the holes, the bay with green mucus from Slime Blower, and only then take up the chairman.
He has one weak place – the yellow sphere, similar to the eye, which hangs on his chest. To win as quickly as possible, aim and run Mason Collider into it, and then shoot from Overload Pulse. Several visits – and victory for you.
Again, do not forget about the comrades who can overturn monsters from another world, and also follow the chairman – periodically he himself enters the battle.
Spiderwitch
The Black Widow, as she was christened at the hotel, was a famous killer. She hunted men – lured them into her nets with beauty and charm, and at the decisive moment she stabbed a knife and … what was later – no one knows, but there were rumors that the lady was operating on the thirteenth floor, although we all know that in America that in America is in America There are no thirteenth floors in principle-because of superstitions. It is there that we have to get to fight with a black widow.
Her possessions, in fact, are a huge spider nest, and the battle will take place on several arenas. This woman is the second boss in lightness after the Pappy, as her attacks are reduced to bites and knocked down. And then the widow can be kept at a distance using Blast Stream and Boson Darts. When her health falls, she will climb into a safe place to restore strength. It needs to be found using Pke Meter and expel the lady from there. Now that you know where she is licking the wounds, it will not be difficult for you to win.
Juvenile Slor
A score (although in fact it is still a cub) will appear at the end of the sixth chapter. At first, he will watch you with the help of four eyes flying next to him, so you need to destroy them. As soon as you finish, the lizard will drop the mask and begin to water the hunters with black mucus. It is advisable to avoid it, as the main character may fall, and partners simply will not be able to help due to the fact that they will fall nearby.
Water the boss with mucus until he tilts his head and finds his weak place – the green hole on the crown. Aim and release Mason Collider, and then arrange Overload Pulse. The rest is a matter of technology.
Shandor
The old evil ghost, which got into the body of the mayor of the New York, has immunity to all your attacks, as it is surrounded by an energy field, fed by four green crystals. They need to be destroyed, but bad luck – they are like pearls inside mollusks and never stand open.
To push the designs, shoot a couple of times at the mayor, and when the crystals freeze, destroy them using Boson Darts. The portal will open to another world, and the efforts of hunters Sandor will go home. But not one.
The Architect
This is a huge monster – an architect of the ghostly world who wanted to break into ours in order to change him at his discretion. Ghost hunters practically managed to disrupt his plans, but there was still a chance to win, and initially the architect must destroy five impudent.
Not that it was the most difficult boss in the game, but you will have to tinker. At first, it is properly reduced to his health using Boson Darts, Shock Blast or Overload Pulse, and when the architect jumps out in the middle of the arena and begins to restore strength, destroy three altars. It is not a fact that they will succumb the first time, so you may have to wait for the second “treatment”.
The architect throws huge boulders, sets flying skulls and launches fiery tornado. Separately, all this can still be experienced, but all together is almost unrealistic, so do not forget to dodge the attacks and run back and forth. If everything is done correctly, then in a few minutes the battle will be won, you will see the final video, and the game will be completed. What am I congratulating you with!
Hunting beetles
Ghostbusters is one of the few games that manages to work equally badly both on outdated and modern computers. We have a whole bouquet here – brakes, freezes, departures, a sudden decrease in performance and even the so -called "blue death".
Fighting all this is possible and even necessary, but get ready for your nerves to survive the harsh abuse.
• A good proven way to get to the desired level – lower the graphic settings to the minimum, and the permission to install 1024×768. When the load is over, and you will find yourself directly in the game, you can put everything back to the maximum.
• A good way to increase productivity is to turn the game when starting, call the “tasks” (Ctrl+Alt+Del), go to the “processes”, find there Ghost_w32.EXE , Click the right mouse button and select low priority. After that, you need to deploy the game, and if it did not give an error and did not die, you can rejoice – the above method acted.