'Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed' translates the movie's comedy to friendly competition

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Want a blast of silly nostalgia in video game form? 'Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed' should be right up your alley. 👻

Video game adaptations of “Ghostbusters” have haunted us since the original movie debuted in 1984. But this week’s “Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed” asks new questions: What if you and your friends weren’t just tracking down apparitions fearsome and foul? What if you could be the ghost, yourself?

“Spirits Unleashed,” now out on Playstation, Xbox, and PC, pits a team of four against one ghost player who has to use their wits to stay unbusted. Lead designer Jordan Mathewson told me that the formula comes straight from a scene in the 1984 movie where Venkman, Stantz and Spengler wreak havoc on an upscale hotel while tracking down a particularly slippery ghost. In “Spirits Unleashed,” that kind of chaos is baked in the rules.

Developer IllFonic has plenty of experience balancing this “one vs. many” style of game. This isn’t even the company’s first dance with a Hollywood juggernaut — it’s also behind 2017’s “Friday the 13th” and 2020’s “Predator: Hunting Grounds.” But where those games pitted scrappy survivors against a horrific threat, “Ghostbusters: Spirits Within” keeps things light and breezy.In my inauspicious career as a ghost, my NPR colleagues usually captured me in less than 10 minutes.

Absurdities like that bubble up frequently throughout the game. So if you’re looking for a hit of silly nostalgia , “Spirits Within” should be right up your alley.

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