Ghostbusters" video game

Ghostbusters 3': Gamers to Get 'Slimed' in 2008.
Apparently the original three Ghostbusters -- Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis -- "ain't afraid of no ghosts." The three are slated to join forces to create a "Ghostbusters" video game set for release in fall 2008.

Ghostbusters The Game," a collaboration between Sierra Entertainment and Sony Pictures, allows players to join the team as it ghost hunts its way across Manhattan.

In development for the past two years, the game's developer worked hard to bring the original film's cast to the table, according to Tom Stratton, a senior global public relations manager at Sierra.


The Game's Not Over for Ghostbusters

Maybe you thought that you would never hear Bill Murray say the words “He slimed me,” again but it looks like you will, at least if you play video games. Work has begun on another “Ghostbusters” but this time the story will happen on video game consoles and not at movie theaters.


Reuniting are the film’s stars including Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson as the four heroes. Also coming along for the digital ride are Annie Potts (the Ghostbusters’ secretary/receptionist), William Atherson (the health inspector that caused them grief in the first movie) and Brian Doyle Murray, Bill’s brother.


Unfortunately no Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis, but we’re guessing that there might be appearances by the team’s ghostly mascot Slimer and maybe even the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.


Ackroyd and Ramis have been hired to write the video game storyline to ensure that it falls in step with the quality of the two movies. The action will take place sometime in the early 1990s, after the time of “Ghostbusters 2”, and find the supernatural squad the only line of defense against a plague of ghouls marauding New York City.


Vivendi Universal will release the game on the PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS and for the PC in the fall of 2008. If the game is a hit (and everyone is hoping that people still want to get slimed) expect to see more “Ghostbusters” games.


Heck, it might even convince Murray to come back and don the brown jumpsuit one final time in a “Ghostbusters 3”. Ackroyd and Ramis have a movie script ready to go that would take the guys straight to Hell.




"From the beginning, it was very important that talent be involved with this. It was a goal for everybody [that] it was going to be as authentic to the original films," Stratton told ABCNEWS.com.

The original three will all lend their voices to the game, and Aykroyd and Ramis will resume the writing duties they shared in the 1984 megahit "Ghostbusters" and its 1989 sequel as they pen the game's events.

Ernie Hudson, who played Winston, and Annie Potts, who played the crew's receptionist, will also be featured in the game. As of now, Sigourney Weaver, who played the romantic lead in both films, isn't signed on to participate.

"We're doing our best to get everybody involved," Stratton said.

Sierra's foray into the video game version of movies, like "Scarface," prompted the game's development.

"We were looking at the portfolio of really hot iconic film properties. 'Ghostbusters' was in the top five -- up there with 'Scarface,'" Stratton said. "It made for a great opportunity for us."

The game will be released on all major platforms.