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Gwynne Dixon
06/12/2007
DS owners will get the chance to manage their own Ghostbusters firm next year, apparently...
Some of the first details for the Ghostbusters games (announced last month) have been revealed for the DS version. It would seem that the causal title will step away from the up close and personal world of ghostbusting and replace it with the CEO's chair of a Ghostbusters firm, NGamer magazine reports.
Yes, that's right; you lucky DS owners get to send out Egon, Venkman, Ray and Winston on ghostbusting missions to earn money for the company. But, instead of getting your hands dirty with the grunts' work, you'll be sitting up in your comfy office chair telling your minions what to do.
Apparently, the management game (under development from Red Fly Studios) will be served up in a top down perspective when its released late next year. Players can send out Ghostbusters to earn money on missions, before spending this hard-earned cash on new equipment etc.
We're guessing this equipment will include old-skool classics such as proton packs and ghost traps, particularly seeing as the DS game is set in the same early 90s time period as the games on other formats. With the original cast on board for voice-over and mo-cap work, the game's story will effectively be a further sequel to the Ghostbusters II film.
What this information on the DS game means for the other Red Fly Studios casual versions (on the PlayStation 2 and Wii) is unclear. A separate studio, Terminal Reality, is responsible for the next-gen and PC games which appear to be shaping-up into third-person shooters in the Ghostbusters style.
