Ghostbusters: The Video Game -- Final Opinion.

I've completed the single-player game of Ghostbusters twice over earning all of the offline based achievements. The production value of Ghostbusters is exceptionally impressive. The game looks and sounds and better yet feels like a Ghostbusters movie. And not a crappy one like Ghostbusters 2, but almost up there with the original. The graphics are great. The character models are impressive and detailed, especially the faces representing the characters from the movies. The environments follow the simple and clean approach that works wonderfully. The ghost designs feel right at home within the Ghostbusters universe. They have that slightly comic flair that is essential for them to feel as if they properly belong. The writing is as good as you're ever going to see in video games. The story and characters are perfect and smart. Everything just feels right and it continues to fire on all cylinders from start to finish. Much like The Simpsons game before it, it helps that the original writers were involved. It's their voice coming through loud and clear. It's not someone from a developer who may or may not even be a fan of the source material trying to mimic someone else's voice. It really shows. And I'd go so far as to say that Ghostbusters: The Video Game will most like walk away with the best writing in a video game for 2009. It's that good. Ghostbusters: The Video Game isn't perfect however. The gameplay isn't the deepest thing to ever grace a console. And Ghostbusters exhibits some of the worst moments of unfairness I've seen since Left 4 Dead. The stone angels sequence in particular is abysmal, especially on the professional difficulty. Overall the game is a must own title for any fan of the original movie. And I hope that the game is a massive success to the point of luring all of the celebrity talent back again for a second game as I'd like a go at another game flaws and all. I'm giving the Xbox 360 version of Ghostbusters: The Video Game a 8.