Ghostbusters: The Video Game - Interview

Ernie "Winston Zeddemore" Hudson puts down his proton pack long enough to tell us about his new game.

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Kikizo: You were demoing the game earlier. It really does capture the atmosphere of New York in those movies.

Hudson: Yeah, I think so.

Kikizo: There's something about New York that you can't describe, and to capture that in a game would be quite an achievement.

Hudson: I think it helps with Danny and Harold not just writing it but being there to shepherd it and kind of help them get that, because they wrote the first two. And it was always Danny's idea from the very beginning. He had the concept of developing it, so I think that helped. I think had they just said, "OK, you can do it" and some other writers came, it might be a problem. Harold's an incredible writer, and his vision, I think that shows up in his directing.

Kikizo: One advantage of this being a game is that you can have a lot more time to play out the story. Could you tell us about character development of the characters now that you have this bigger canvas to work with.

Hudson: It's a bigger canvas and it feels pretty authentic. I mean a film script is 120 pages, this script was 480 pages of trying to cover every dialogue possible.

Kikizo: So is Winston more settled in the team now, because he was only freshly recruited in the first movie.

Hudson: Right, in number one. In number two he sort of came back. But he's definitely part of the team. Luckily, thankfully, like in the first two movies, he doesn't come in halfway through, so he's there from the very beginning. I think there's time for the characters to all develop and be uniquely their own, which is kind of hard to do in the time limit of a movie. Here everyone has the chance to develop. And it depends on how the players wants to play the game.

Kikizo: And what about actually believing in ghosts. I believe Dan is a believer...

Hudson: Yeah, he's a believer. Harold's not a believer.

Kikizo: ...so what about you?

Hudson: You know, I believe that there's something beyond what we see with our five senses obviously. it's like having an old computer and you can't read the new stuff. Doesn't mean the new stuff doesn't exist, it just means that you're not programmed for it. So I think there's something going on a little deeper, and I think most people on some level do. My youngest son wants to believe he's an atheist now, maybe he is, I don't know. It doesn't matter. I believe there's something out there, intelligence. It really doesn't matter how you think about it. You have the choice if you want to.

Yeah, I believe that there's something beyond this. I think there's a barrier there for a reason and I'm certainly not to go out there looking for it. If something wants to make itself know to me, please don't [laughs]. I meet people all the time who go, "I saw Ghostbusters and I became a ghostbuster, and what we do now is we going into these haunted places and stay the night," and they have all this equipment that was actually inspired by the movie. I guess that's something to do if you want to. It's not something I want to do.

Kikizo: It'd be the equivalent of going into the Ghostbusters headquarters and opening up that big tank where you keep all those ghosts. It's not going to be good...

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