Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime Demo

Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime is an action game developed by Behaviour and published by Atari that follows the adventures from an actual comic book.

It looks like it is really hard to replicate the success of the Ghostbusters movies, even with new film interpretations or other entertainment franchises. There have been a wealth of games released under this banner, and very few of them have made an impression on the gaming community. I can tell you that Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime is not one them.

The Ghostbusters franchise is owned by Atari, and they have been trying to make something happen, but they didn’t have much success until now. It’s difficult to understand why making a game with four guys shooting ghosts, but it must harder than the community might think. Gamers are still waiting for that game that will finally manage to put the Ghostbusters name to good use.

Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime is a story driven game. It looks like Dumazu the Destroyer is terrorizing New York and the four heroes must save the city once more. The one redeeming quality of this game is the fact that the story is presented in a comic book style, and it’s much more interesting than the game itself.

The game is presented from an isometric perspective, and you get to control one of the four characters. Since all of them play the same, it doesn’t really matter which one. You control the character with the WASD keys and fire with the mouse.

The weapons have different modes of fire, and they effective against certain ghosts. For example, red enemies die quicker from red energy, and yellow ghosts die faster from yellow energy, and so on. It’s not a terribly complicated game and most of the time you feel that you’re just wasting time so see what’s happening next.

The level is pretty linear, and you move from one room to another. From time to time you get some soft of a boss fight, and that’s pretty much it.

The gaming community didn’t really liked Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime and for good reason. It’s not bad, but it’s not all that good either.