Ghostbusters: The Video Game sold well. June NPD numbers indicate that consumers gobbled up 440,000 units of the game written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis in less than three weeks on the market. According to the LA Times blog, Ghostbusters sold more in its first month of release than many other recent film-based properties, including Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and even the vaunted X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
We’re sure Atari and Terminal Reality are pleased.
Unless a kid pops his hamster with a homemade Proton Pack or Atari announces a sequel, we’re pretty sure this is the last time we’ll mention Ghostbusters: The Video Game in a news article. So, we might as well get this out of the way:
Bustin’ makes me feel good. Also, don’t cross the streams.
We’re tickled that the game sold so well and hope that sales will force another game (of equal and hopefully better quality) to go into production. Or, hey, how about that fabled Ghostbusters 3 script? That thing needs to happen.
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3:20 PM on 07.22.2009
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Glad to see that this sold well, it shows that putting movie quality writing into games will sell copies. Well, that and a huge franchise attached to it :)
Ghostbusters is too awesome for video games. They'll never be quite as awesomes :<
Best part, Atari has YET to even post on the forums about any of it. Lots of angry players about this game.
http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=657
With all of Atari's financial issues as of late, I doubt they will release any updates or patches for the game, so good luck.
Also talks of a class action suit for the bait and switch for the PC multiplayer....because we all know how well class action suits work against game companies.
9/10 times i think companies don't respond to issues in their forums is because they know the problem is the users fault and not theirs.
You can't go wrong with Ghosbusters. I'm downloading the demo now, but i'm pretty sure i will buy this.
anyways, its not the wrost game ever i guess.