I Ain't Afraid of No Ghosts: Hands-On With Ghostbusters

If you're of a certain age--you know, over 30 or so--the first few notes of Ray Parker Jr.'s theme to Ghostbusters invariably will bring up warm memories of the classic 80s comedy film starring Bill Murray, Dan Akroyd, and Harold Ramis. Atari is looking to stoke those nostalgic fires with the upcoming Ghostbusters: The Videogame , a sequel of sorts tothe films,starring all of the original cast of the film. The game has had a long strange trip--including being bounced from one publisher to the next . It appears that we're now in the final stretch, however, as we creep closer to its release and (not coincidentally) the 25th anniversary of the first Ghostbusters film. Having last seen the game in November , I had a chance to try out both the Wii and 360 versions of the game last week. Wii Though the Wii version follows the same narrative as the other versions of Ghostbusters its controls, as you might expect, are substantially different. When I last saw the game in November, I was pretty ... (link)