Check out my review of ghostbusters the video game on my blogg: http://gamestin.blogspot.com/2009/07/ghostbusters-video-game.html

I awarded the game 8.5/10

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Eh… its an ok review… you have a bunch of grammar and spelling mistakes in there though.

And if I may be honest, you really come off as wanting to make way too many jokes, or bring up controversial points that just make you seem desperate. You put down several aspects of the game, in quite grand fashion, attempting for laughs, that just makes it come off as if you hated the game. Then you go on to say you loved it, and the reader is quite understandably confused.

My advice to you for any future games that you may write reviews on… stick to the facts. Tell why you liked it, why you didn't like it, throw in some humor, but don't try to write a joke for every other line. It makes it seem like you're trying to write a stand-up comedy act instead of writing a review on a video game.

Doctor Venkman;152608
Eh… its an ok review… you have a bunch of grammar and spelling mistakes in there though.

And if I may be honest, you really come off as wanting to make way too many jokes, or bring up controversial points that just make you seem desperate. You put down several aspects of the game, in quite grand fashion, attempting for laughs, that just makes it come off as if you hated the game. Then you go on to say you loved it, and the reader is quite understandably confused.

My advice to you for any future games that you may write reviews on… stick to the facts. Tell why you liked it, why you didn't like it, throw in some humor, but don't try to write a joke for every other line. It makes it seem like you're trying to write a stand-up comedy act instead of writing a review on a video game.

Agreed, I mean in the very first section you spend a lot of time ranting about how ridiculous the story and whatever and then at the end of the section you gave the story a 7/10.. It made little sense to me because a 7/10 is generally a good score…
On top of that you seemed to really nitpick in ares just so you could throw in a forced joke…

I liked some of the humour but it was a bit too “in your face” sort of thing at times, and the review was decent overall at describing what you found good, but for future reviews take care of your writing and throw in the odd joke where you feel necessary but not everywhere like venkman said above. My advice is leave the ripping apart for games you didn't like and you can use many jokes for those to expressed how bad you thought the game was but here it didn't work because you were trying to praise the game at the same time!

You're not funny.

I had the same complaints about the story. It's garbage and completely uninspired and unoriginal. Not worthy of being a true sequel.

I also said that the last boss is basically the devil… People flamed me for thinking that Satan WAS the last boss and not the architect though… In actuality, they were too stupid to realize I was saying it was a standard Satan design. Hopefully they won't do the same to you!

StayinPuft;152619
I had the same complaints about the story. It's garbage and completely uninspired and unoriginal. Not worthy of being a true sequel.

I also said that the last boss is basically the devil… People flamed me for thinking that Satan WAS the last boss and not the architect though… In actuality, they were too stupid to realize I was saying it was a standard Satan design. Hopefully they won't do the same to you!

Whoa there slugger. No need for calling people stupid. The way your post was worded when you referred to the whole “fight Satan in hell” thing, was worded as such that you thought that, and not that you thought it looked like that.

And I still maintain this had a better story than Ghostbusters II and is FAR more deserving as a sequel. It builds upon the original story and makes it into one small part of a larger scale attack. I, for one, found it to be a really refreshing idea. Rather than rehash the plot and storyline like they did for Ghostbusters II, they turned what happened in the first movie into a small part of something else.

Its a ok review. I could barely read it as its all been said before.

Jokes? I only noticed two of them, and yeah not funny.

It's not the worst review in the world, and to be honest I agree with most of it. But a good review should also try to entertain the reader too, and be informative. Some background on your view coming in on this would have been useful, and how often you play games of the Gears of War type.

Doctor Venkman;152620
Whoa there slugger. No need for calling people stupid. The way your post was worded when you referred to the whole “fight Satan in hell” thing, was worded as such that you thought that, and not that you thought it looked like that.

And I still maintain this had a better story than Ghostbusters II and is FAR more deserving as a sequel. It builds upon the original story and makes it into one small part of a larger scale attack. I, for one, found it to be a really refreshing idea. Rather than rehash the plot and storyline like they did for Ghostbusters II, they turned what happened in the first movie into a small part of something else.

While GB2 followed the same general structure of GB1 the story was 100% original. They didn't fight slimer at the Sedgewick again, they didn't go back to the library, they didn't fight the Gozer destructor form in Staypuft again, the story wasn't in any way related to Gozer/Shandor and it didn't have the same score as Gb1.

Imagine going to see GB2 back in 1989 and they basically just fought the same ghosts and the same villian. Even as a hardcore GB fan, you'd probably moan, groan and throw things at the screen for having wasted $10 on seeing a complete rehash of the first movie. Just because 25 years has passed since this story was done the first time doesn't mean it's any less original.

Like I've said a BILLION times, if this game was intended to be like a Ghostbusters greeting card to fans, where you go back and play through GB1 and GB2, FINE. I'd be all for that! The fact that it's marketed as a true sequel and having been written by Aykroyd and Ramis really pisses me off. I'll never accept this game as “canon” or a true sequel.

And OK, I take back calling those people stupid. I should have said that they are very immature and relatively simple concepts go right over their heads. There were people that DID understand what I was saying and posted replies to that effect.

StayinPuft;152661
Just because 25 years has passed since this story was done the first time doesn't mean it's any less original.

The word you're looking for here is more, not less. Saying that "something doesn't mean something is any less original" means that it is original. You clearly don't think the game is original, so you meant to say "Just because 25 years has passed since this story was done the first time doesn't mean it's any more original."

I mean talk about a silly concept… grammar… guess that went over your head.

StayinPuft;152661
And OK, I take back calling those people stupid. I should have said that they are very immature and relatively simple concepts go right over their heads. There were people that DID understand what I was saying and posted replies to that effect.

Right… those people are immature because you typed that “you go fight Satan”, and they pick up that you were being sarcastic… because sarcasm always is obvious in text form on a message board. I suggest you look up the word “immature” so you can better understand the definition and use it correctly.

StayinPuft;152661
Like I've said a BILLION times, if this game was intended to be like a Ghostbusters greeting card to fans, where you go back and play through GB1 and GB2, FINE. I'd be all for that! The fact that it's marketed as a true sequel and having been written by Aykroyd and Ramis really pisses me off. I'll never accept this game as “canon” or a true sequel.

Do you consider The Empire Strikes Back or Return of the Jedi to be true sequels? Because they take an established storyline and then built upon it and made the original into something bigger. That's what a sequel is supposed to do. They used events that happened in the first movie and added to their stories. That doesn't mean its a rehash. Trapping Slimer and fighting Stay Puft are obviously 2 big characters that fans have always been clamoring for, so they put them in there to appease the fans sure. But they also built upon their stories. Slimer being drawn to the Sedgewick when escaping completely makes sense. They said in the first movie that he had been there for years. If he never left before, why would he have gone anywhere else now? Stay Puft being Gozer's only form in this dimension… it was never said that if Gozer returned to our dimension that a new form would have to be chosen for it again. So its perfectly acceptable that Stay Puft is Gozer's only form in our dimension. Complaining about going back to the library is hilarious. That brought to a close a very interesting chapter with the Library Ghost and gave us more depth into her storyline which a lot of fans have always been curious about. We saw the Library Ghost for all of 5 minutes in the first movie, and learned absolutely nothing about her, but you're complaining about her as if that's a rehash. The fact that you don't understand how the video game builds upon a story instead of rehashing it is quite sad. But its been explained for you several times and you still can't comprehend it, so there's really no point in trying anymore is there?

Plus, you'd probably just call me immature again and make me cry, and God knows I can't handle that.

Doctor Venkman;152664
The word you're looking for here is more, not less. Saying that "something doesn't mean something is any less original" means that it is original. You clearly don't think the game is original, so you meant to say "Just because 25 years has passed since this story was done the first time doesn't mean it's any more original."

I mean talk about a silly concept… grammar… guess that went over your head.

…Seriously whats up with that anal attitude? I mean he wrote down his views, and that is it. When did Ghostbusters become Proper English writing 101? Nothing personal but you need to think about the factor that this is the internet, not a essay class.