Ghosthunter[PS2]

Lodin

Der Waaaah
#1
Dette forumet er forløpig så dødt at jeg tenkte det var ok å sprite det opp litt med en gammel anmeldelse fra Gamefaqs. Regner med at ingen av dere dør av å lese litt engelsk, men uansett bør dere kjøpe GH fordi det eier. Og plukk opp Primal når du først driver på. :tommelopp:

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Well I recently bit the bullet and picked up Ghost Hunter, a game I had heard very little about. All in all there's been almost no fuss about it, but with this review I hope to do my little part to rectify that.

It's actually a bit different from what I expected. The game is much speedier and action filled than the average survival horror. At first the controls seem a bit weird, but the game holds your hand through the beginning so you get used to them. You basically have two ways to control Lazarus. One mode where he runs and moves like a normal Resident evil\Silent Hill character, the other which let's you shoot and controls more like Syphon Filter. As in you walk and strafe with the left stick and look with the right one. Needless to say this gives you way more control and I think anyone who's ever cursed out a survival horror game will appreciate it.

To fight ghosts you have a disk thing (think Tron) that you constantly toss onto the ghosts. Then you shoot them with anything from pistols, pulserifles and grenade launchers. When the ghost takes enough damage and you hit it with the disk it get's sucked into it. Both life and ammo get's replenished from ectoplasm which the ghost looses when you shoot it.

The graphics are gorgeous and pretty much rival those of Silent Hill 3. There's also quite a bit of interactive environments. Things like chains, grass and sheets sway away realistically when you pass them and furniture and windows can be shot to pieces.
The soundscape is also fairly good with lots of moaning and screaming ghosts and excellent voice work. Lazarus himself is especially entertaining, being voiced by some smartass who slightly sounds like Steve Buscemi.

While the story at first might seem a bit generic I can assure you that it gets better once the game gets rolling. Anyway, you play as a cop named Lazarus Jones (Who came up with that name anyway!?!) out on his first day at a new precinct. You and your female partner show up at an abandoned high school after a distress call. Turns out the school was the sight of a grisly murder of ten kids a few years back and now there's constant rumors of ghosts.
Lazarus gets the enviable job of checking out the basement and heads down. There he finds a bunch of freaky tanks hooked up to a giant computer and a jukebox. Being the member of Mensa that he is he starts screwing around with this machine and let's loose all hell.

Turns out the tanks were full of ghosts who were captured by some ghosthunters ages ago and now they're loose again. One of the bigger bad ass spooks, some ancient crusader knight also kidnaps your partner. All in all it's not really hard to guess who has to clean up this mess.
To help you in this quest you are guided by the computer who shows up as a hologram on certain screens and gives you pretty useless clues and the ghost of one of the former ghosthunters, one Astral who's lodged inside your body. She's the one who let's you see the other ghosts and from time to time you also get to control her. She can float around and solve certain puzzles (think Scree the gargoyle in Primal).

So anyway, this game seems to be quite the little hidden gem. It is very similar to it's forerunner Primal in a lot of ways with the same high production values and themes in the story. Lazarus also seems to have that certain something that makes him appear human, just like Jen did. Only major difference it seems is that the controls are actually very good and functional. Some of the design decisions might seem horrible, like your character dressing up like a mix between a biker and a candy raver, but this is outweighed by the utter kickass look of the ghosts. Their creepiness level might even equal that of certain Silent Hill monsters.

Basically I think anyone who appreciates both good action and survival horror games would find this one a must. Too bad it seems Sony is pushing it about as much as Primal, a game very few people had the pleasure of trying out.
It seems Sony Cambridge have learned from what few mistakes where included in their last game and made an even better product this time around. A definite game to buy
 

Yetipants

Mein Gampf
Medlem av ledelsen
#2
Okay, noen språklige ting først...
- Apostrof+s brukes ved eieform på engelsk, ikke ved flertall. Ser faktisk at mange som har engelsk som morsmål også begår den feilen ganske ofte, så gå foran med et godt eksempel. :)
- "Loose" betyr løs, "lose" betyr miste.
- "Sight" betyr syn, "site" betyr sted/åsted.
- Du har litt rar ordstilling noen steder, som f.eks. "[...]who slightly sounds like[...]" og "[...]let's loose all hell[...]", hvor jeg ville skrevet "sounds slightly like" og "lets all hell loose".

Rent strukturmessig er det litt rart at du omtaler Lazarus direkte før han blir introdusert - jeg skjønner jo at du mener hovedpersonen i spillet, men når så introduksjonen kommer etterpå virker det litt bakvendt.
Ellers er det kun en virkelig feil jeg kan se i omtalen - du regner med at leseren kjenner godt til andre survival horror-spill fra før av. Helt greit at du sier at ting X i Ghosthunter er bedre enn ting Y i Resident Evil (for eksempel), men skriv hva som var feil før. Det er alltid greit å gi leseren et lite bilde av hvordan andre spill dette minner om funker, og det knytter spillet opp i en større sammenheng.

Ellers vil jeg si at du skriver veldig bra, fin flyt og godt ordforråd selv om jeg noen steder merker ganske godt at engelsk ikke er morsmålet ditt. Skulle bare mangle, kanskje. :p
Og enda en ting: jeg likte godt at du tydelig ikke har falt for hypen rundt spillet (negativ i dette tilfellet), og klarer å gi en fin omtale som trekker frem det positive. Jeg eier Primal - og hadde nok spilt gjennom hadde bare ikke jævla fittedama satt seg fast i et tre etter at jeg hadde spilt ca. 80% - så det er gode sjanser for at jeg sjekker ut Ghosthunter om jeg ser det billig.
 

Lodin

Der Waaaah
#3
... Jeg posta bare noe gammalt ræl fra GF for å få litt mer innhold i forumet.
Fint at du går inn og analyserer anmeldelsen, men jeg kunne ikke gitt mer bukk.
I stedet for å klage over alle skriveleifene mine bør du heller gå ut å leite opp en kopi av selve spillet. :p
 

Yetipants

Mein Gampf
Medlem av ledelsen
#4
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