IllFonic, the developer behind Predator: Hunting Grounds and Friday the 13th, has officially unveiled Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed along with a spiffy announce trailer. What’s most interesting is the Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed multiplayer, a 4v1 asymmetric mode in the same style as Dead by Daylight.
What we know so far on Ghostbusters: Spirit Unleashed’s gameplay, release date, and platforms
According to the official description of the announce trailer, players will join other Ghostbusters in order to go after the Ghost, or instead, choose to play as the Ghost and slime innocent civilians and those pesky Ghostbusters:
“As a Ghostbuster, join with other Ghostbusters to chase and trap ghosts in museums, prisons, hotels, and more, and capture the ghosts before they can fully haunt the areas.
Or, as the Ghost, hide, sneak, surprise, scare, and of course, slime Ghostbusters and civilians until everything has gone completely spooky. Use trickery, deception, and Ectoplasm to gain the upper hand and drive the Ghostbusters out.”
The Ghost is responsible for trying to frighten all the civilians, building a global haunt meter, while the Ghostbusters attempt to save them and destroy rifts from which the Ghost can spawn. Each Ghost will have unique abilities, which cost a resource called Ectoplasm, like possessing objects and immobilizing foes.
While the characters shown in the trailer will be new, players will still be based in the iconic firehouse and be supported by Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) and Winston Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson) as NPCs. As far as the plot, the game is a direct sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife with both Ray and Winston reopening the Ghostbusters business.
As Illfonic has experience with the 4v1 multiplayer game Predator: Hunting Grounds, though to rather mixed results, the developer should be able to carry their expertise to this Ghostbusters adaptation.
Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed multiplayer promises to have crossplay support across all platform releases, which includes PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PC through the Epic Games Store. It is currently slated for a Q4 2022 release.
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