First up is Syphon Filter: Logan’s Shadow for PS4 and PS5. First available on the PlayStation Portable, it sees Precision Strike operative Gabe Logan return and features new mechanics. You can lean from cover, blind fire and even use humans as shields. There’s also Blade Dancer: Lineage of Light, a PSP action RPG developed by Hit Maker in 2006. It’s also playable on PS4 and PS5.

Bigbig Studios’ Pursuit Force from the PSP era will also be available on PS4 and PS5 and focuses on the titular elite unit engaging in high-speed chases and vehicle-hopping to take down criminals. All three PSP titles will support custom video filters and up-rendering while allowing players to quick save and rewind.

Finally, Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered on PS4 will be available. Though it doesn’t have online support, it sports visual improvements and voice work by the original film’s actors.

While the Halloween season passed us by now, there’s always time to make for the Ghostbusters franchise. The series has not had a particularly long (or particularly good) history in video games, but one title sticks out: Ghostbusters: The Video Game. It was remastered and re-released last year and now it’s coming to Steam.

If you are unfamiliar with the game, it follows the original cast shortly after the events of Ghostbusters 2 as more ghostly havoc is released on New York City. In essence, it serves as something of the third film in the franchise we never got and picks up on several of the threads from the previous two entries. It was originally released on PC exclusively via Epic Games Store over a year ago on October 4th. The game’s Steam page is now live, which you can see here, with the November 17th date.

Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered is available now on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch and PC. You can check our review of the game through here.

As the global community still grapples with the COVID outbreak, it doesn’t really feel much like Halloween, does it? Yet, in only a couple of days it will be the beloved spooky holiday. For this week the Epic Games Store is giving you some early treats that’s a big fit for the faithful day.

This week you’ll be able to redeem Blair Witch. The game is from Bloober Team and is set in the same universe of the film franchise of the same name. You and your dog, Bullet, will find yourselves trapped in some haunted woods as all types of strange things happen. The second game is Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered. It reunites the original cast and tells a story that picks up not long after the second film. It’s a big treat if you’re a Ghostbusters fan, and if you haven’t played it, you really should.

Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered and Blair Witch will be free on Epic Games Store until November 5th, and you can redeem them through here or the official client. After them, the free title will be Wargame: Red Dragon.

"While the core enjoyability of the Ghostbusters experience is buried inside, the remaster has very little to offer in 2019, and it’s hard to recommend to anyone who doesn’t have extreme nostalgia for the game or the series."

The gameplay in the remaster is just as it was in the original. You’ll find yourself faced with ghosts of all kinds, forcing you to shoot them with your photon cannon and capture them in your traps. As pure gameplay goes, this is a simple and fun process, and it’s pretty rewarding when you’re able to beat the biggest enemies. It does get a bit repetitive at times, though, especially in the trapping process. Understandably, enemies seem pretty hesitant to being trapped, but the process of getting them into the traps, even with all upgrades to the process, is somewhat frustrating because any misstep restarts the process, which can come back to bite you, especially when you’re facing a group of strong enemies.

The gameplay is most preferable in short doses because of this frustration. When you jump into the game, you’ll quickly have the satisfaction of defeating the numerous enemies that you’re faced with, especially when you’re against tougher ones. When you begin to play in longer spurts, though, the gameplay’s flaws will start to become clearer. The aiming can become pretty floaty, most evidently when you’re trying to bring down ghosts that move around the arenas quickly, and the button combinations to capture the ghosts forces you to use the claw hand combination on your controller pretty frequently.

The primary and most prominent problem with the gameplay, though, is that its archaic design has not aged well and is very outdated in today’s landscape. While your photon cannon has four main phases, most of the gameplay is an exercise in choosing the right one and shooting them for as long as possible. It also falls into the trap of increasing the difficulty by just increasing the number of enemies you’re facing, as enemies often spawn behind you or in hidden areas in order to take you by surprise. Instead of forcing you to use skill to beat them, you’ll find yourself just trying to spam the button as much as possible until you catch some luck and defeat them. This comes as part of a larger symptom of the difficulty curve, whose spikes are, at times, outrageous, especially in the latter stages of the game.

"The primary and most prominent problem with the gameplay, though, is that its archaic design has not aged well and is very outdated in today’s landscape."

Level designs also become labyrinthian in some areas, and the signposting is, at points, almost nonexistent. You can use your PKE Meter, which is meant to detect signals from ghosts and act as a guide to your next objective, but in many cases, it does very little to help. Because there’s no objective marker system and there are many places where you need to backtrack or find your way through a long series of intertwining areas, I found myself getting lost pretty often and hoping my teammates would start going where we needed to go next, because otherwise I would not have been able to find the way.

As there was difficulty in recovering the multiplayer code from the original, the only option in the remaster is the single player story. For most of the game, you’ll be in a team of up to five Ghostbusters, and you’ll need to be working in a team with them in order to keep everyone alive. Unfortunately, this means that a lot of the game is focused on you locating your downed teammates and reviving them or being downed and waiting on them to revive you. Unfortunately, your teammates’ AI is another aspect that shows its age, because they will usually stop at nothing to revive you, even if it means downing themselves and failing the mission. Even when you’re not down, you’ll usually be the one who has to take down the majority of the enemies. It makes for a system that isn’t fun when you’re alone because the mission immediately fails if you die, but when you’re in a team it feels like you have the highest workload and have to make up for the lack of work they’re doing.

The narrative is the aspect of this remaster that holds up the best, primarily because of the humor infused throughout. As it was in the original, you’re getting another Ghostbusters story that hits a lot of the themes of the movies, and Bill Murray’s humor is timeless. While the story isn’t necessarily saying anything particularly special, it hits a lot of the points that Ghostbusters fans will enjoy, and there’s a lot of fan service for the fans of the movies. Outside of cutscenes, the banter is often funny and enjoyable, though it gets pretty repetitive because there aren’t too many unscripted lines and you’ll be hearing the same jokes multiple times if you die often.

"The narrative is the aspect of this remaster that holds up the best, primarily because of the humor infused throughout. As it was in the original, you’re getting another Ghostbusters story that hits a lot of the themes of the movies, and Bill Murray’s humor is timeless."

One of the most difficult aspects of the game to reconcile as a release in 2019 is the presentation itself. While the graphics are slightly upgraded from the original 2009 release, I would have believed you if you told me I was playing this on a PS3 or Xbox 360. Textures are flat and often unappealing, the lighting is inconsistent, and the environments, while diverse throughout the game, are unimpressive. While it’s nice to see the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, the number of times you’re impressed with the game’s visuals is vastly outnumbered by the number of times you’ll find yourself wondering if textures haven’t loaded yet. In terms of its performance, it’s also pretty inconsistent. I had a few crashes and consistent stuttering, and AI teammates would frequently get stuck or not trigger their script, forcing me to restart checkpoints.

Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered is a game that comes from a different time and whose age does not show well. Though its gameplay is fun in short doses, its game design is outdated and frustrating, and its visuals are comparable to PS3 games. As a remaster, this game does well enough to make fans of the original game happy by presenting the experience again, but it requires an investment in the series to offer much. There are very few things that allow it to compete in today’s landscape of third-person shooters, and its only real appeal is to the diehard fans. It has its bright spots, but there are too many issues with the remaster to offer anything to non-fans of the series.

This game was reviewed on the PlayStation 4.

Saber Interactive’s Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered, an enhanced version of the 2009 title by Terminal Reality and Red Fly Studio, is out now. It’s not the mythical third film – which is finally being made as Ghostbusters 2020 – but it does offer a fun action adventure. Check out the launch trailer below.

Taking place in New York, under siege by ghosts again, the title sports in-game likenesses and voices from Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson. That’s right – the original crew is essentially present and accounted for. Even better, the story was written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis who scripted the first two films.

Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered is out now for Xbox One, PS4, PC and Nintendo Switch. The PC version is exclusive to the Epic Games Store. If you ever wanted to know what Ghostbusters 3 would have been like, then it’s worth checking out on top of being a pretty good game as well.

Ghostbusters is returning to cinemas next year, but before that we get to revisit Ghostbusters: The Video Game. The original game released all the way back in 2009, the game was a huge treat for fans of the franchise as it reunited the original cast for what was essentially Ghostbusters 3. The release for the remastered version is coming close, and today we got a trailer to reminisce about it.

The trailer shows fans from various regions talking about their favorite experiences playing the game. From getting to play as the original cast, to the various settings you got to travel through, we get a trip down memory lane. For those who haven’t had the chance to play the game just yet, there are some spoilers, so beware. But if you’re a fan of the franchise and missed this on the first go around, the game is worth a look.

Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered will release for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch and PC on October 4th.

We found out earlier in the year that Ghostbusters: The Video Game would be getting a remastered version later in the year. Well, we finally know when that will be and, fittingly, it will be right in time for the spookiest holiday of Halloween as the game will hit this October, the publisher and developer announced via a press release.

While there’s been several Ghostbusters games in the past, this one was particularly special. Originally released on a gauntlet of systems, the game saw the reuniting of the original Ghostbusters cast for what was essentially a playable Ghostbusters 3 (this was obviously before we got the actual Ghostbusters 3 that will release in cinemas 2020). If you have an admiration for the older films and haven’t play this one, you’re in for a big treat. And if you did, you’ll now get a chance to revisit that feeling all over again.

Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered will release on October 4th for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC.

We reported earlier that a Taiwanese rating board had leaked a remaster of 2009’s Ghostbusters: The Video Game. Now it’s been made official with a new trailer from publisher Mad Dog Games and developer Saber Interactive.

You can check out the trailer below- it’s brief but gets the point across. If you’re not familiar with the game, it’s essentially Ghostbusters 3. Set a few years after the events of Ghostbusters 2, the game features all of the original Ghostbusters motion captured, modeled, and voiced by their original cast members in a new adventure that pits them against tons of ghosts, which ends up being far more than it seems. With an actual Ghostbusters 3 film coming next year, this game does lose some novelty, but fans of the franchise owe it to themselves to try it out. And with the passing of Harold Ramis, it will also mark the last time the original Ghostbusters crew will ever be together again in any format.

Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered is slated to release later this year for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC. The PC version will be exclusive to the Epic Games Store.