Gaming’s eighth generation allowed asymmetrical, four-players-versus-one-character action a more viable genre for console gamers. Starting with the critically lambasted “Evolve”, gamers with friends or who could tolerate teaming with randoms who didn’t understand the class system could come together and succeed or fail to kill monsters, survive horrific events, and embrace the grind of leveling up multiple characters & creatures. As the years progressed so did the genre gaining studios who had the ability to attain access to actual Hollywood properties including “Friday the 13th”, “The Predator”, and even having character-specific levels like those inspired by “Saw” in “Dead By Daylight”.
Developer Illfonic returns to the genre that not only helped make them famous in the gaming community, but also set a standard for 1980s franchises being turned into a multiplayer video game. Giving players the chance to play as either a Proton Pack-wearing Ghostbuster or an ectoplasm-covered ghost ready to hunt or haunt respectively. Clean your Particle Thrower, make sure your Ghost Trap is charged, and gather these first impressions of “Ghostbusters Spirits Unleashed”.