Ghostbusters: Afterlife’s new minigame, playable through Dreams, has made us wish Bill Murray was still in the driving seat.
That’s not because Ghostbusters: Afterlife is a terrible movie – we haven’t seen the upcoming Ghostbusters semi-sequel. No, we’re talking about the way this otherwise excellent, official minigame boots you out it if you do too much damage. So if you blow up too many things or let the mini marshmallow men break things, your Ghostbusting days are over.
Peter Venkman just had to threaten to throw the spooks back, problem sorted. But you don’t have that luxury which is why this Afterlife game is so wonderfully frenetic. It’s not something you’ll while away hour after hour with, particularly since it takes place in a single location, a foundry, but it’s well worth dipping into. You do need Media Molecule’s game-creation app Dreams to play it, which means it’s PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 only.
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But it nails the fun of catching a ghost and struggling to wrangle it into a trap, a sensation which made the official Ghostbusters so appealing. And you’re not having to deal with shoddy AI, something that proved a let-down when we revisited that game. An especially neat bonus is the way you can play entirely in VR, dialling up the Ghostbusting immersion.
Above, you can see some of the upcoming movie’s cast members play the game, to varying degrees of success. Surprisingly, this wasn’t developed by Sony themselves, or Media Molecule, rather SlurmMacKenzie and byvsen, two community members. You can read about the creation of this minigame on the PlayStation blog and downloaded either from Dreams “Dream Surfing” main screen or, if it’s not there, by searching for “Ghostbusters”. Happy ‘busting!
Ghostbusters: Afterlife hits UK cinemas this November 19th.
