Ghostbusters Firing Up for Autumn '08

The cast members of the hit movies are coming back together for a videogame sequel.

Eighties specter-catchers the Ghostbusters are coming to video games and you can thank Scarface for that.

A deal announced this week will see the main cast and creative talent from the seminal Ghostbusters films return to the franchise for a video game follow-up to the events after Ghostbusters II, according to Variety.

After Vivendi sold more than 2.5 million copies of its game based on Scarface: The World Is Yours, the company was on the lookout for other iconic hits of that kind that could make the transition.

"Ghostbusters is unquestionably among the small number of movies in that class," Vivendi chief executive Bruce Hack told Variety.

According to the report, the star quartet of Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson will be reunited with Annie Potts and other actors from the movies, lending their voices and their likenesses to the produciton.

Aykroyd and Ramis will be doing writing for the game, which is set during a ghostly invasion of New York City in the early 1990s.

The game is being developed for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 by Terminal Reality, which most recently worked on Aeon Flux and BloodRayne 2. There's also another version coming for Wii, PlayStation 2 and DS that is being developed by Red Fly Studios, who is also working on a new DS and Wii game called Mushroom Men for Gamecock.

Notably missing from the developer list is Zootfly. Earlier this year the developer put an unsolicited Ghostbusters game trailer on YouTube, but Game Informer, which has a cover story on Ghostbusters in its latest issue, reports that this game has nothing to do with Zootfly's effort.

The game will be out during autumn of 2008.

Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo