Ghostbusters (2016) Game Angry Review 

Oh god.... NOOOOOOOOOO. Joe would be traumatized for life.

For Kinect

Published by a joint venture between EA and Activision

developed by ubisoft

+Sasuke's Phone# just when I thought it cant get worse...

Er, the script is a part of himself

+The Insane Sheep dont insult the GOAT Cena

HERstory is actually a real thing.

The same guys who were responsible for Destiny's "story."

+diogo silva You mean like thick memes?

Thank fuck I wasn't the only one who noticed that. How fitting that the tie in has the same nuts at the helm as the movie did, people so much more concerned with their obsession with gender than the quality of their work.

What point is that at

@@charlie-ol2bj 7:38

God I thought it was hearstery but herstory...no words

Are you sure it wasn't meant to be hearse-story?

nah free

The game should give the player $50

Thats a bit to much credit now isnt it

Max Brown they made a Mobile Game for this?

That's literally what I was going to say lol.

I think it should 10 or 15

They should pay people to take it off the shelves.

I wouldn't even pay 5.

Meanwhile, Alien Swarm is free.

$50 for that shit? the fuck

He's a man, not a god

+2dog14 sample obtained

THEY'RE TAKING THE COMMAND POST

There it is

*ghostbusters theme*

Guess who's gonna get a remastered version of 2009 Ghostbusters?

This comment aged pretty well now that we will get a remake of the 2009 game!

Yeah that game hasn't aged very well in terms of it's visuals...needs some polish there.

You're wish has been granted

Quick, ask for more shit

Yep. Three days after the game came out.

Seriously? I knew they were bankrupt but it really happened 3 days after the game came out? Wow.

What do you expect from Activision as it's publisher lol

+Humam Eastrawan That sounds a lot like the EA or Activision wringer that's for sure. Can't be coincidental.

Sounds like they were behind schedule and pushed the game out in w/e state they could. Honestly, most bad games are bad bc they weren't finished...like this one.

Activision has become the new ljn

i thought EA was bad but, Activation took their title as a shitty game company

The problem with EA is not that it makes (necessarily) bad games... but that they milk the franchises and the players to the last single dime with pointless DLCs, micro-transactions, and endless repetitive sequels... EA is not (always) bad.... it is evil. Activision and LJN are just shit :D

We're doomed... XD

ABORT! ABORT! WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST!

Sasha Agreed, dude. At least, since this was in 2016, the game should be safely forgotten, lost to space and time, or caught in a trap, Ghostbusters style, left to rot. But, I hear next year, there's a possibility of a Ghostbusters sequel with the original, cast. I hope that's a real thing, and I hope it works out better than this shit.

I agree dude. Don't forget the "holy trap" line either. It's that bad. I'm also glad for not knowing this game existed. I really hope there's a sequel next year that'll be good. We really need it in times like these. I know I need a great Ghostbusters movie again. There needs to be a great 3rd Ghostbusters movie, since the 2016 movie and it's stupid ass agenda only cared about shitting all over what made Ghostbusters good in the first place. Yeah, there has to be a good 3rd movie. We can't just leave it unfinished like this. It's not right, dude. Not right at all. Taking away something we love, and shitting on it is something we can't let these corporate douchebags get away with. You don't have to agree. I'm just saying, fuck this 2016 Ghostbusters bootleg. And fuck this 2016 game, which is quickly forgotten. All the better. Here's to hoping that we get the 3rd Ghostbusters movie we've been waiting the longest time for. A good Ghostbusters movie. Something that'll stand the test of time.

Sasha Her Story is actually good

@@austindevine248 Not what he meant, dude. He meant the line "her-story", not the game "Her Story" that's different from the awful line in this abomination of a game. There's also the line "holy trap" from the big idiot in the game too. We're not talking about the game Her Story, we're talking about the awful line from this shitty game that ruins the Ghostbusters by attaching itself to the actual Ghostbusters name.

Shawn Fields Bottom line play Her Story rather then this garbage

bustin makes me feel good... *SHUT THE FUCK UP*

Busting makes me feel good 🤣🤣🤣

Dr. Plague I know it's so funny XD

13:58

Dr. Plague 0

Dr. Plague 0

What's that from anyway?

0.0

I'll believe you. I'm not giving kotaku a single click

***** personal preference. I prefer to support honest and / or unbiased journalism.

Honest and unbiased? Then what the hell are you doing here? This is entertainment journalism. Go read the BBC if you want that.

It's also been confirmed by Polygon too.

You played the remaster yet? How good is it?

@@MeowHype Have you played the original? I didn't play the 2009 one... I didn't know it was going to be as good as the 2 Ghostbusters movies. I thought it was going to be like other movie licensed games. Guess not. I'll get around to playing it eventually...

@@shawnfields2369 I haven't played the original but I really want to. I've heard lots of good words.

@@MeowHype Cool. I hear the 2009 version is like playing the 80's movie, but done well. Never thought I'd hear that about a movie licensed game, especially based on one of my favorite childhood movies, even though Ghostbusters was before my time, I saw the movies on TV when I was a little boy. I loved everything about both movies. I don't count the 2016 movie. It's a spinoff. Just like the DMC reboot and the rest of the DMC series. It's an alternate canon. Can't convince me otherwise. The 2009 game is close enough to be a 3rd movie anyway. Even if it takes us through the first movie again, THATS our Ghostbusters 3! Or, maybe we'll get the 3rd one next year... just saying. I heard it somewhere. I hope it's true, and I hope it's great, not good, but fucking GREAT!!!

@@MeowHype I'm currently playing the remaster of the 2009 Ghostbusters game. It's great so far. It's got the theme song, the voice cast from the 1984 movie, saw the behind the scenes video where the cast talk about how this game is seen as the 3rd official Ghostbusters movie, that it takes place in 1991, 2 years after Ghostbusters 2, and Dickless from the first movie is the villain. The voice cast also has the voices of Vegeta from DBZ(Chris Sabat), Troy Baker(Booker DeWitt from Bioshock Infinite), and Yuri Lowenthal, the voice of Spider-Man in the 2018 Spider-Man game and Sasuke from Naruto. All in the 2009 Ghostbusters game, with everything you could reasonably want as a Ghostbusters fan, or as an anime fan. I mean, there's even a video ingame about how they restore the Ecto-1 and give Dan Akyroyd the first ride in the car, and let him drive the restored car around. Can't wait to actually start playing. Love the trophy names too. Lots of references to the Ghostbusters movies. Good luck playing the game eventually yourself, dude/lady.

1f5sda1991 alright! mission successful!

There was gonna be a sequel

@@aidanhamilton321 not the same continuity. They're non canonizing that universe

Michael Santamaria okay

On no Anyways

Yes... Yes she did

lord have mercy

female history. Herstory. because we have to put the gender card in everything.

HEARSEstory, actually, as in a shitty ghost pun.

+whatevr99 I highly doubt that.

10/10 would watch

vegeta...... vvvvveeeeeeggggggetaaaaaaaaa.......

ve vegeta geta..... ge ge ge ge geta.

That would be the only reason to play that game XD

Veeeeeggggeeettttaaaaaa.... I'm hunting you

😲

That moment is golden, legit

Other Joe singing the Bustin song is heccing good

He’s gone Ultra Instinct Mode.

I couldn't agree more...

I know right?, I have never seen him so worked up about a game.I guess ruining his childhood wasn't the best thing to do.

Ghostbusters was also my childhood, and I loved every moment.

Than

Tru

Doesnt help its Activision to, the publisher of the lowest effort games and shitty ports. #FUCKACTIVISION

Did i see grant kirkhope in the credits?

+Magicarpmaster yes

The devs are got bankrupt 3 days after it got released

+Nicolas Gomez A record if I ever heard one.

Really

Fuckin wild

@@landonrixxets2130 yeah, it's TRUE. It wasnt meant to be a tribute to any of the ghostbusters lore and puts in a papa John's outfit, just bad

Yeah, That's the code hahaha

@@davis54748 I guess it was a canned cross-promotion

I know this comment was made a year ago but FireForge ended up getting shut down shortly after this game's release *pog*

@@hallowseve5801 pog

@@hallowseve5801 3 days afterwards to be exact!

Welp, at least they went with it to hell as they went bankrupt 3 days after release

This stupid game existed

Or the 1990 New Ghostbusters 2 Famicom game.

Or the 2009 game

I was actually surprised at how metroidvania Luigi mansion can be.

Both Ghostbusters (2016) and Luigi's Mansion have Arcade Games. Guess which one is shit and which one is great.

Or ghostbusters 3. Which is a video game

Oh my god I just realized that was actually a thing in this game. How fucking pathetic does the writing have to be, it thinks the word HISTORY is sexist?

UltimaKeyMaster the sjw/feminist generation has ruined the modern world.

+Charles McKenna Herstory is from the 70's.

wow..... no words can describe how stupid that is.

Kiara Smith really? See it makes sense or atleast its a little more understandable within the context of the real feminist movements of the 70's. Bringing it back in 2016 though.. And honestly, it was dumb then and its dumb now. Replacing the words His He and Man within established english words, with the female equivalent is just dumb. There are better ways to get the message across I'd imagine

"Kill me now...."

Or in this case, a game that turns you into a zombie

Luigi's Mansion was a really good game!

+U Wot M8 it really was

Luigi is a much better Ghostbuster than the four in the movie AND in this game combined together. Who are you gonna call? Luigi!

LOL

I still have the original. It's one of my favorite games.

TheDreReichDude Publisher.

Amen to that. And that would make me this generation's AVGN.

retrogamelover2012 Yep

Activision was LJN they made games in the nes like ghostbusters for nes.AVGN review it

Daycrist The reason these companies grew to be such uncaring powerhouses is because of making such good games early on in their career.

Same here, dude/lady. Same here. How are the people who wrote those and performed those lines NOT ashamed of themselves?!? If I had to write or perform awful lines like that, I'd be cringing for days, maybe even weeks or months! There's no way they wrote those lines with a straight face. They had to be trying to fuck us fans of Ghostbusters in the ass. That's the only way I can describe how they'd come up with lines so utterly awful, there's not enough face palms in the entire fucking world! And, don't forget the "they're still out there, making supernatural her-story" line. Makes me want to punch a wall. Them referencing the lyrics to the original Ghostbusters theme is cringy enough, but how do they sleep at night, knowing they wrote the cringiest lines in Ghostbusters history? Well, I hear there's a new Ghostbusters movie next year, and the 2009 game with the ACTUAL Ghostbusters just got an hd remaster. People loved that game. It had the actual voices of the actual Ghostbusters from the 80's movies! Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson, Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis, before his unfortunate death. Along with the secretary lady, the dickless douche from the movie too. I hear that's worth playing. All I needed to know was if Bill Murray was in it. That's enough for me to want to play it! So, we can still cringe from those awful lines, but we've got enough good sounding Ghostbusters stuff coming in, that it may be able to wash the taste of these awful games and the awful 2016 "ghostbusters" movie out of our mouths. Well, that's what I hope anyways.

The first one never hit me until now, let me die pls

Yep. Nailed it right on the head there, dude. Nicely done! I hope the new, actual Ghostbusters movie coming out later this year also nails the atmosphere and actually gets things right, like the other 2 movies and the 2009 remaster did.

Amen! The trailer looked promising, so I'll keep my fingers crossed. 🤞

Get the flamers brothers ... the heavy flamers.

@@halo129830 *assault team, prepare to advance. heavy arms support, ready the multi-meltas*

that'll be 1 million dollahs

Males will have to pay more. xD

Men will be the new DLC enemies.

or $5 microtransactions for Power-Ups only 5 minutes

with another twenty to remove the interesting parts

Thats what makes him awesome

he has the most anger on franchises that he loves - like rambo, ghost busters, aliens

+Snoopy Doopy cuz they fuck it up, and he hates it

I wish there were more bad games out there.

Just look at any thing from the sonic franchise

Best Melodic Dubsteps It can kill a person.

30 bucks more for the Rambo Deluxe Gold Edition.

I’ll buy three loot boxes please...

For Kinect.

FullClip Edition featuring Duke Nukem from Devil May Cry

That's why most people love this channel.

I love bad game reviews

Worst games makes the best jokes

Yep I just love watching Joe tear the games a new asshole

+Markus Galifianakis the witcher was a good one and the review was funny as fuck 😂

For real ? If that is true, I mean damn. That definitely is 1/10 types of shit there. So they was sponsored by Papa John's Pizza and put in a fucking code in a Ghostbusters game ? Wow

Or FMNZ?

Or GIRL

Or DICK?

FEIG?

Girl

Gamebusted

I ain't afraid of no pandering trash.

12 million dollars in debt

First the movie and now the game. I think I'm starting to see a trend, here. Money is lost when you patronize your customers with cynical cash grabs. Amazing. I shall bring these results to Sherlock Holmes right away!

I wonder why?? Lol

I thought the punchline was gonna be "BUSTED", but it ended up being so, so much worse. I love it.

It's more terrifying then fallout 76

This game is horror beyond Hell!

I will play any f***ing games, but I won’t play THAAAAT

except spiderman 1,2 and three for ps2

+Saitama, The Strongest Man mad max,arkham series

+platinumwatcher oh that's right but im talking about videogames based on movies in characters feel locations etc

Lord of The Rings was a great movie based game

Except X-Men origin game. That game was awesome!

Herstory is worse

I'm trying to think of other godawful Ghostbusters shoehorned phrases that try to sound natural, but fail. "Shivering spirits!" "Great Caesar's ghost!"

It's a weird situation for me. On one hand, I love bad puns. On the other hand, no one, fucking NO ONE, EVER, would say "holy trap." Do fire fighters make fire-based exclamations when they're surprised? Come ON, now.

+Lotus Prince "Damn, this mixtape is fire" "This is lit!"

Sure, but those are stretches for puns, like I was making earlier. I mean instead of saying "Oh, crap" when you're surprised by something, your default reaction is "oh, trap." Like, really? Get out of here with this. :-P

It'll get this shitty 2016 Ghostbusters game outta your minds.

It is great I remember buying it on release at midnight and getting a squishy stay puff guy as pre order swag

And I still have the wallet I bought with it

Yes

THE GREATEST HIGH nice meme

Joe would burst into flames.

If it was it might be good for one. But as a videogame that costs 50$? No.

+AlexTheGamingFan I am so sorry for you

+??? But for some reason I'm not that surprised. maybe because they've been shitting on us recently.

Go to the appstore and download the ghostbusters game, It's almost the same shit, but free.

Hey! What have mobile games did wrong to you to deserve such words and comparison?;\ Warning! This comment might contain trace amounts of sarcasm. You were warned...

*uses audio from his mindjack review* ahh thats the stuff

best part XD

wut

neglesaks wut?

neglesaks That's even lower than paying for save slots.

you know what's even better (worse)? you pay 4$ to know the full names of the 4 playable characters

Me🤚🏻

Here!

One of my fav videos

Yep! Been revisiting some of Angry Joe’s earliest videos

Stfu and comment something original instead of this copy pasted trash which was old a decade ago. But who am I kidding, you just might be a bot

How the fuck could they do this to him?

remember. he did cityville 2.

who?

+lordxmugen Never forget Cityville 2... That was his crowning achievement!

+Stuart Maxwell enough with that

He's a ghost buster, Luigi, so yeah.

Yeah I noticed that similarity as well. Which is honestly kind of saddening considering Luigi's Mansion is far superior to this shit.

What the hell you think Luigi's Mansion is based on?

VirtuaSavage I doubt it's based on Ghostbusters, there were no games of Ghostbusters yet. At least good ones. I merely assumed they made a spinoff of Mario with a ghost vacuum thing. That doesn't change the fact that Luigi's Mansion is better than this game.

just gonna put this here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ghostbusters_video_games

lol I was thinking the same thing!

Yeah buddy!

Ghostbusters 2009 Video Game, don't forget! Aykroyd, Murray, Ramis and Hudson are on it.

agreeeeeeed!

Peter: that was an amazing game!!!!!!!

To be fair, anything else than this game had more effort put into it

Verity stfu kid

@@veeveri no shit.

@@bespinguard7129 Cry harder, goddamn.

@@connormacleod4922 Mhm.

Yup, he just got fatter! Lol

At least rambo maked us laugth

He's a man not a ghost.

Total Spartan Hilarious.

+Total Spartan well done

he gave ride to hell a 1/10 aswell

Now that's quality

W

yup

or ghostbusters(2009)

Or the 2009 game

Because the movie sequel has to butcher this concept too.

holy trap

Either movie sequel or they didn't have the budget to model the White House.

Because they couldn't pump enough political shoe horn propaganda in because the ghosts of assassins would fall on both ends thus make their position (clearly progressive left wing) slightly unfavorable for one fight which not only can't they have the very thought is the equal to Dr Mengela levels of crimes against humanity.

I'm pretty sure it's Mengele, not Mengela.

No it's masterpiece

TKG - THEKamikazeGamer Made by Atari. Who also made Driver 1-3.

Grass is Green.

AHHHHHHHH!!, Get away demon panes.

1 and 2 were great but atari's greedy hands shitted on driver 3

Got the APEX already?

DudeNumberOnePlus Yup.

The second i saw activision on a licensed property i knew it was gonna be fucking awful

I feel bad for companies owned by activation they are forced to Rape their consumers with unnecessary DLC a employee of treyarch got fired because he spoke out about it

With some micro-transactions as lube maybe ?

I prefer her instead of delrith

+Ⓓⓐⓥⓘⓓ Ⓡⓐⓜⓘ́ⓡⓔⓩ (Necro) LOL yeah

Pause.

In what way did she add anything?

I laughed my ass off at that point; now I'm a good 50 lbs lighter. Thanks, Angry Joe! :)

@Tech Hybrid So, how was it? I never played the original. I heard it was good though.

Of course they are better. Even if they are short, they still have HOURS of extra content, better cutscenes, better atmosphere, and a country mile better with its gameplay!

Duh, it's one of the greatest classic videogame franchises. And to add insult to injury, the "Wrangle ghosts and stomp them into the ground" mechanic was stolen from Dark Moon and LM3. Fuckin' hell.

Julia Cortez. Don't. Just... Just don't. Don't compare Luigi's Mansion to this low effort piece of shit. How dare you?

No kidding, it had a lot of variety and was pretty difficult. Oh and this is somewhat important, IT WAS FREE! My jaw dropped when he said 50 dollars! Sanctum of Slime was like 15! You tripled the price, and the game is worse. Goddamn it! Worse still, the SPECIAL edition is 65 dollars, and all it gets you, is a copy of the new movie when it comes out, fucking great.

Very true.

Dead ops arcade? Did you check ouy the one in black ops 3 its much better and extremely fun

That one is good as well, still free as well. I almost wonder if Treyarch should just make twin stick shooters and zombie games instead of mashing them together in a COD game.

Absolutely Genious Yeah, and its still pretty damn great.

Dag :)

+RandomChanceZ that's pretty pathetic

Yeah but all the Transformers movies made bank and they were just as terrible so box office profits aren't an accurate measure of quality.

true but Transformers did not claim that geeks are misogynists because people called them shit. It would be if Micheal Bay tried to claim the hate for Transformers was because people hated America or the military or jerking off to explosions. More important Ghostbusters 1984 is a classic and a great movie, while Transformers is just a bunch of cartoons.

This made my day

There was also another Ghostbusters 2 game on NES (the top-down one), which is rather good.

Luigis mansion is a gem

I remember that one it was good ey.

yep so true

If you're looking for a survival horror Ghostbusters, Ghosthunter for the PS2 is awesome.

for this year

It makes it worse because ride to hell was a standalone game with no talented devs this is a game as a cash in that thinks it is worth $50. And THIS IS FUCKING GHOSTBUSTERS ACT LIKE YOU GIVE A SHIT!!!!!!!!!!

+GI American Joe But Ride To Hell was $60

But at Least "Ride To Hell: Retribution" could be enjoyed in a 'it's so bad, it's good' sense.

Sonic Free Riders fam

The feminists have caused us to bring it back.

I had to scroll down to see if anyone picked that up too.

Feminism. Ass. Fucking disgusting

i thought it was hersestory because they were talking about ghosts

Tumblr is making me hate ghostbusters...

David Johnson I think he knew how shitty the game would be and said "fuck it its not worth my best effort" for the paycheck.

the guy who brought us the final boss theme's of Banjo Kazooie and Tooie, and was the puppetmaster behind Big Bad Bosses......IS CONNECTED TO THIS SHIT?! THATS IT THIS REBOOT IS EVIL i legitimately did not give an f about the ghostbusters debacle but when you mess with VG composers like that god among men YOU F#CKING CROSSED THE LINE

TheUndefeatedMagician Either that or he made more than one song for it and the devs decided to only use one song...on loop...continuously...forever. Lol But I do agree with the notion that perhaps Grant knew this game was gonna suck, so he put in a pretty minimal effort.

That must have been the easiest paycheck in the industry. What did he have to compose when all they did was loop an existing song for literally all the BG music in the game?

SirKinglink what ever happened to that young blonde girl that was in some of his reviews i never really understood who she was or anything about her she just came in out of nowhere and vanished in his more recent reviews ?

What is chapter 7 bankruptcy mean

John wolf The liquidation of assets, which results in the creditors receiving the proceeds.

so who is next Activision and EA?

Nelson's TAS and Game Archive

Hey people good people lost their jobs you fuckin disgust me

+Generic Gametag E .T.?

music from "Platoon" village burning scene plays in the backround

+Prowbar atari e. t. failure. Google it

This was funny and also depressing.

Don't you dare make me feel bad for whoever crapped this thing out.

"SHUT THE F*** **!"

@@Sheamuscz 🤣

Na ride to hell had a 1, mind jacked had a 1 and sonic free riders had a 1, and honestly all three of those were worse than this game

itsupdawg wow I must've forgot. I do think ride to Hell and mind jacked were way worse though, one had a major mechanic that failed and the other was completely broken.

Forgetting about Sonic Free Riders I see

Oh yeah those two reviews lol

Ride to Hell, Mindjack, Sonic Free Riders and now Ghostbusters 2016 are the only 1/10s

George Salisbury Congratulations You had the patience to sit through this Awful game You proved your nerdiness Now go fuck yourself!

George Salisbury Why isn't this top comment????

George Salisbury must be top comment

The Internet. You're winner.

LOL!!!

yes I also think that argument is incredibly infantile... or when people say "it was cheap what did you expect?" i expect that the advertised product has exactly what they advertise.It is not my problem if they sold it for so cheap. but the thing is this was 50 fucking dollars...shameful display

Truth ^

Exactly!! It's just going to happen over.. And over... And over... and OVER... AND OVERRRRR.... (Rambo video game Reference) If people want these shitty games to stop, they should slam the shit out of the devs

Yep

The original Ghostbusters game was better. FROM 2009!!!