Predator: Hunting Grounds and, er, Arcadegeddon developer IllFonic looks set to slime the Ghostbusters next, as studio co-founder Raphael Saadiq let the project slip on a podcast. Speaking about his company on Questlove Supreme, he talked a little bit about the games that his team have made: “Friday the 13th, the last one, Predator, and we’re working on Ghostbusters right now.” Whoops!
This is particularly interesting from a PlayStation persuasion, because Sony worked with the Colorado-based developer on the aforementioned Predator: Hunting Grounds, and distributes the Ghostbusters films. The Japanese giant has made a big deal out of unifying its various business divisions, and so some kind of console exclusivity wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibility here.
In fact, Sony has form for making Ghostbusters games exclusive: it famously locked down the PS3 and PS2 versions of Terminal Reality’s title for three months in Europe, which was roundly criticised at the time. We’re going to assume, given IllFonic’s pedigree, that this will be some kind of asymmetric multiplayer Ghostsbusters vs ghost affair, which sounds like a solid idea from where we’re sitting.
[source podcasts.google.com, via comicbook.com, thesixthaxis.com]
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I’m so tired of the asymmetrical thing but Ghostbusters is the best. Here’s hoping for something more along the lines of a co-op PVE type game.
Ok, I won't be rasing my hopes too much about this so that If they do a good job I'll be pleasantly surprised.
All I can say is I hope it's better than the last Ghostbusters game. I had to review that dumpster fire.
@johncalmc what did you give it, a 6? 😋😊👍
I really hope this isn't yet another asymmetric multiplayer offering from this studio. This is a particular sub-genre of multiplayer games I can't stand.
I don't need it to be amazing. I just need it to be playable. Anything else is gravy.
If it’s anything like the 2009 game, sign me up.
Arcadegeddon is so damn fun from an old school "just want to set a high score" perspective.
@Integrity :') I think it was a 2 actually. So it's pretty grim.
I'd be more "amazed" if Illfonic could actually produce a good game! Friday the 13th was a buggy online mess,& Predator not much better!🙄 Ghostbusters remastered wasn't perfect,but the storyline was the closest to a Ghostbusters continuation we'd ever get...certainly better than anything Illfonic has managed to date!
@johncalmc
I really had too check because I thought you where talking about the 2009 game and it's remaster.
Hope this turns out well but found all their other games poor, just don't seem a very capable stuido
@johncalmc oof. That's Life of Black Tiger territory. I wouldn't even give that 5 minutes of my time during a lockdown.
@suikoden Oh no it was an awful twin stick shooter that came out at about the same time as the lady ghostbuster movie.
I dream of the day, when idiots who cannot make singleplayer game, won't get licences for these famous franchises...
If their the devs its going to be some trash mp game.....HARD PASS
Seems like the only good Ghostbusters game that will ever release is the one Atari published a few years ago.
@lolwhatno my playful dig aimed at Gentleman @johncalmc was in reference to his review yesterday of Alan Wake, which itself got very mixed reviews from readers like myself.
As I'm sure you are well aware, there's nothing that we who comment on websites like this like to do more than review the reviewer's review and post that opinion in the relevant thread 😁
So for a relatively unassuming release like Alan Wake, a AA, old Xbox exclusive title remade for PlayStation the thread has reached nearly 200 comments mostly fuelled by the reaction to John's prose and the interpretations it inspired.
A big win for PushSquare there though I don't think for a minute that was John's intention. It just worked out that way. For what it's worth, even though there was an aspect of it that made me raise my eyebrows in surprise at the time, now after I've reflected on it I can better appreciate John's reply to me when I questioned it and have come to think that how he phrased things in the review was more clumsy than partisan.
The joke isn't really all that funny now that I've explained it so dryly but I didn't want to give John the impression that I'm a petty, point-scoring troll 😊👍
Meh, giving what I've read of their past games, I have little faith in this being good.
Should have went with Terminal Reality again. They did a great job on the previous Ghostbusters game. Its basically Ghostbusters 3 for me.
@johncalmc
Ok, good, because if you were talking about Terminal Reality's game, thems be fighting words! 😄
Well, it has to be better than the VR title but that doesn't set the bar much more than an inch above ground. Probably not for me if it's another Dead by Daylight type thing.
Hard pass, don't care for multiplayer Ghostbusters!
@lolwhatno see you there 😁 I'm still sticking my big nose in there giving away opinions like I'm Santa doing overtime.
@lolwhatno
Well that was unexpected, and lovely! Thanks!
You know being nice is much more difficult than being mean because you actually have to care about another person's feelings above and beyond your own. That's why there are so many arguments and so many fanboys operating here.
So it's a positive measure of your actual, real life character that you took time, the most precious commodity you have, to say something nice to someone else and make them the chief beneficiary of that time spent.
You, sir, are a class act 😊👍
@lolwhatno I love that cheetah. So cute!
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