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With a new movie now announced, reviving the Ghostbusters franchise, there’s a level of uncertainty surrounding the Ghostbusters video game.

The Activision and Blizzard merger a couple months ago made one of the largest gaming companies in the world. With Blizzard came other Vivendi properties, including Sierra games, who earned their fame in PC point-and-click adventure series about a decade and a half ago. As part of the fold-in, Sierra dropped into the cracks, along with their scheduled games. They, of course, were going to be publishing the Ghostbusters video game. Since, Mark Randel, the head of developer Terminal Reality has assured fans the game is still on the way. Unfortunately, other signs are still against the game’s positive future.

Retailer Gamestop recently cancelled all pre-orders for every version of the game, offering customers a full refund or transfer to a different pre-order. The game is in fact no longer on their website or their list of upcoming games at all. It was scheduled to come out Halloween 2008, but had been reported as delayed to 2009 shortly after the merger.

While the new movie will reportedly be a reboot of the franchise, the game takes place about 2 years after Ghostbusters 2. All four original ‘Busters have been deeply involved in the game, from writing the story and script, to lending their likenesses and voices. The timeless quality of animation allowed Aykroyd and team to live as younger versions of themselves, and make a special effects laden mega-sequel to the now two-decade-old films. The script is said to be approximately three times as long as the script for either of the movies, allowing for a whole lot of ectoplasm to be splattered around.

Realistically, with a near complete game in a popular franchise that’s now getting more media attention, if Activision chooses not to publish the game, someone else is nearly sure to snatch it up. The website is still up, and curiously has the Activision logo (as well as a Vivendi copyright) emblazoned to it. With the media spotlight shining brightly, I’d imagine we’ll find out who Terminal Reality’s gonna call for publishing duties soon.

Good!!!!! Ghostbusters as a game suckS.,...and the movies sucked as well..

Just when I was starting to have respect for you. The ones JMS wrote were great!

Snarf, you need to make your own trivia game based on cartoons. You would make millions.

Indeed! The only episode of GB I thought was terrible was the Christmas episode. In it, the 'Busters go back in time to Victorian England and accidentally bust the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future that were haunting Scrooge.

Damn Welker and his many voices...

The images I've seen for the Wii version look kiddish and not at all like the 360/PS3 versions. I hope minds were changed on that. The Wiimote and nunchuk would work great as a proton gun/ghost trap combo. Ghostbusters, how can you not love it?

Sadly, from what I understand, a different team worked on the Wii/ PS2 versions, focusing more on multiplayer and a cartoony look.

the wii version might be the most fun to play, but it looks like poo in comparison. the ps3/360 versions look awesome, like an actual ghostbusters 3.

i even really think its the ultimate way to turn a movie / franchise into a video game -- not only are they writing an entirely new story for the game, instead of just reliving the movie(s), but they do the character assignments perfectly. you don't play as one of the ghostbusters, and you don't play as some random guy across the world from the ghostbusters -- you play a guy who just signed up to be the 5th ghostbuster. really good efforts into it.