I just yanked the latest GameInformer issue out of my mailbox, and as expected, I was met with this cover:




**UPDATED**


There's a lot of info we already know inside the mag. Bill Murray, Dan Akroyd, Harlod Ramis and Ernie Hudson will all be coming back to reprise their respective roles from the first two films. Annie Potts will also be back as Janine, and the awesome William Atherton is back to portray the EPA slimeball Walter Peck from the first Ghostbusters.

The game is a direct sequel to Ghostbusters 2. It takes places in 1991, 2 years after Ghostbusters 2. As a matter of fact, they're currently talking about actually calling the game Ghostbusters 3. At the start of this game, the Ghostbusters are loved by the city of new York. "Business is going so well, in fact, that the Ghostbusters want to start franchising so they can cut back on the 60-hour work weeks." However, they must be granted a franchising license before opening any other branches. Before the new Mayor will grant their request, he institutes a "paranormal oversight commission" to help better understand how the Ghostbusters conduct business. The man appointed to run this commission is none other than former EPA agent Walter Peck.

The Elmer Bernstein score from the original movies will be used, but no news yet if any of the other songs from the movies will appear.

Players do not play as one of the original four Ghostbusters, but as a "recruit hired as an 'experimental weapons technician', which basically means they'll be a guinea pig for for all of Ray and Egon's new inventions."

The game kicks off with the protagonist being hired by the Ghostbusters. Shortly after, "an ancient evil envelops the city, causing a massive surge in ghost activity." This surge "not only prompts a wave of entirely new ghosts, but a few old rivals as well." That explains the screens of Slimer and the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man. Old locations return as well, as Slimer's first appearance in the game will actually take you back to the Sedgwick Hotel.






I took a few quick pics of the mag with my shitty camera:
























I'll update this post soon with some grabs from the GameInformer Unlimited site and some interesting bits from the article.


**UPDATE**


Here are some grabs from the GameInformer Unlimited site:












Those appear to be the only in-game screenshots on the GI site. The rest is a lot of concept art, which I'll work on getting up soon.