Ghost Master

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Summary: Big Fun
Review: A new idea very well executed. This one kept me playing for quite a while.

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Summary: RPG that changed my view of gaming.
Review: Believe it or not, this is the first RPG that I have ever played. I know, I was missing out(Fallout, Arcanum, Neverwinter Nights, etc.)for a while. I only recently started playing RPGs but Ghost Master was truly one hell of a game. I am not a RPG expert but once I started playing, I got into it so bad that I had to finish before the sun rised up. I started playing it on a saturday morning about 7 am until the next morning. Possibly, that was the best day of my life. That game got me hooked so bad that all I did that day was eat, pee, and play the game. This game is very worth your money and I ran it fine on my medium grade pc with Geforce 2 MX. The graphics are great, sounds are nice but sometimes annoying. The idea was fantastic and the execution was better. This is not a normal RPG where you just hack and slash, you have to scare the living hell out of the humans. You have to use your creatures' powers to scare the humans. And if you are a newb, you can press recommend in the selecting screen and you will get a tutorial. This game changed my life. It made me realize that RPG is one of the most breathtaking genre that gamers enjoy alot. After playing this game, I started searching for games like Diablo, Fallout, and other RPGs that you know of. I knew all of those RPGs but didn't care to play them until Ghost Master came and made me start playing RPGs, one of the most controversial genres in our gaming society. Thanx to Ghost Master, now I'm playing very addictive games like Arcanum, Baldurs Gate, Temple of Elemental Evil , and so much more. All I know is that now one of my favorite genre of gaming is RPG and I hope my review helped you realize that Ghost Master is a great game and RPG is a great genre.

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Summary: The idea was great...
Review: but my computer just didn't like it. Being a fan of The Sims, to control ghosts and scare people sounded great. Excited, I loaded it and it just went down-hill from there. The sound was fine, it was the video that was terrible. Instead of movies for the intro, I got random pictures of the video. When playing, the animation was choppy. Playing it was worse, the controls were delayed and frustrating. I didn't get it from Amazon.com, and I wish I did since I had one hard time trying to return it. Eventually, one of the techs loaded it on their computer and was experiancing the same thing. Again, the idea of the game was great, I just wish they would have spent more time on it before releasing it.

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Summary: Great fun
Review: Ghost Master is an excellent game where you build up a team of ghosts to scare humans away from their locations!
You must perform your hauntings in a variety of locations including a large spooky house, a hospital/lunatic asylum, a boat (where humans will have to jump overboard!) and many more.
The game is separated in to missions.
There are just under 50 haunters in total, ranging from regular spooks to witches, and gremlins to swarms of spiders!

There are so many good things about Ghost Master. The graphics are excellent - each location is totally 3D and you can zoom in and out and rotate 360 degrees to see it from all angles.
The detail is also really good. Each mission is based loosly on a horror movie, and each character has a name from that movie.
You can find out about how each ghost died, and you can read bios for each character so you know how to scare them best!

If you're in to ghosts and horror movies, or you want a fun game for all ages, buy Ghost Master!

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Summary: Great!
Review: Ghost Master is one of my favorite games. It gets hard as the levels get more towards the end of the game though, but it's still very fun. My favorite haunt is when you bind that feather chicken thing to a kid and make them do 'seep blood'.

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Summary: One Of The Best I've Played For A Long While
Review: Ghostmaster is one of the most fun games to come along for quite awhile. The idea is fantastic - and the 3 years they spent implementing it was well spent. The basic premise is this: You have been promoted to Ghost Master, and have been sent by the counsel to descend upon the town of Gravenville and complete a series of missions to aid the glory of the dead or something. You start with a small selection of different sorts of spirits (elementals, sprites, poltergeists etc) with some powers - but with each mission you can complete "quests" and more ghosts will be under your command. Whenever you complete missions, you get scored on how much you scared people, how many spirits you rescued, the time used etc. This goes on the high score table - from which you can revisit past missions and beat your scores and times. As you can imagine, this gives the game TREMENDOUS replay value.
The points you earnb (not quite sure of the system) in turn gives you PLASMA, the only source of energy in the game. Plasma allows you to use different powers within the mortal realm, and also allows you to train your ghosts to learn new powers in the spirit realm. In attempting to pin down the genre of this game, I came to the following conlusions: It is similar to THE SIMS with the way the people talk, look, and the meter bars used to measure the three key aspects of a mortal: belief, terror, and madness. Different powers will raise different things. But it alsot involves deep strategy more often found in RTS type games. It has roleplaying akin to the final fantasy skill system in the way you distribute plasma to advance your ghosts and the manner in which they become better trained the more you use them. Also you can go inside your ghosts (or the people) and view everything that goes on - rpg/sim thing going on. And the high score table and point system gives it a sense of an old arcade game. Im sure it could be squeezed into more categories, such as adventure, but you get the point.
It has a low learning curve (say 3 minutes to be able to play), but has enough depth and micromanagment as you get into harder missions to make it quite challenging. It is not neccessarily challenging to complete the mission, but sometimes it takes quite a bit of strategy and good managment to complete all the quests and get pumpkins by your time (four levels of pumpkins 0-4 depending on how good your time was). The higher pumpkin levels are very difficult to achieve, especially in the later missions.
And its not just scaring people. Sometimes you have to drive them mad, or feed on one persons particular personal fear, or solve puzzles and figure out which powers to use in certain quest situations. It is not especially violent - more cartoonish and funny.
On a technical note, I did have a few problems with my mouse and the moving buttons but I installed the patch and it seemd to go a bit better. I have a little better than average computer: gforce II graphics card, 512 ram, amd xp2600+ etc. I havent had any major problems other than the mouse thing. And if you do have problems....well if you machine is a dinosaur, dont expect it to run this. Also, try installing the patch people.

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Summary: Frustrates Me!!!!!
Review: I got this game the first day it came out. By the third day I was on the second level. I was so excited because I had one more mission untill the third level. Well they don't explain in the directions how to save, so I came backk and by accident pressed new game. Therer was no way out so I exit out of the game and pressed resume game. My game was deleted. I warn you before you buy it is a fun game but not fun enough to start over. Listen to me and just play the demo.

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Summary: Unique Idea - Great Fun!
Review: I just started playing this game recently - I bought it because the idea seemed so unique and fun compared to most other games I've been playing lately!

Some other people have mentioned bugs, but I have yet to have a problem with the game. It installed clean and has played extremely well.

The basic idea of the game is that you are "master" to a group of ghosts and other ethereal monsters. You take your spooks to a house and use all sorts of neato powers to scare the people living in the house. Also in the houses there are usually restless spirits that you can rescue and they will become part of your team!

The graphics are pretty cool and the "scares" are great! I love watching my spook make items fly around the room and scare the mortals. Your spooks get all sorts of powers, from poltergeist stuff (items flying around) to making storms outside to causing tremors to more violent stuff like ripping their own head in half and making blood spurt out. Because of that, the game might not be appropriate for young kids!

I highly recommend the game - I've had a great time playing it and it's refreshing to play something really different once in awhile. :)

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Summary: Ghost Master - best game for all
Review: I was asked if this game is appropriate for my little cousin. After playing it all the way through - I can say with that this is most addicting, appropriate, engaging game for all ages. I would highly endorse this game(this is coming from a person who doesn't endorse many things). I would say that this game is one of least violent games of its genre. Believe me or not, but try it - you will love it.

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Summary: Incredible game if it runs well on your system
Review: In Ghost Master, you get to control a group of ghosts and try to frighten out sorority sisters, rescue trapped ghosts and much more!

We bought this on the recommendation of a friend, and I have to admit that the idea was an amazingly neat one. It is very much like Dungeon Keeper but with ghosts. You get a well detailed house to work with, with multiple rooms and multiple floors.

The graphics are great, and you can move easily between the floors, examining the items in each room, zooming in and out, turning around.

You attach each of your ghosts to an item in the house and give them a set of instructions. Some ghosts create spiders, other shake objects, others cause electrical items to go haywire. Each level has its own objectives - scare out all the humans, help a ghost go free, lure police to a certain area to discover a corpse. It's a riddle to figure out which best combination of ghosts and ghouls will achieve your objectives.

The spooky music is neat, the way the well-designed characters move around is quite neat. You can follow a given person around and learn about their fears, you can watch as they become more and more terrified. It's sort of like the Sims meets the Amityville Horror.

However, we encountered a BIG downside that we simply could not resolve. Despite having a rather high end system that plays all other current games without any issue, we hit problems with both the video and sound on this one. The video was only randomly annoying, with the beds turning into tie-die neons swirls, for example. We could live with that. But the sound was INCREDIBLY annoying with constant stuttering and loud machine-gun-like noises. We tried many different solutions to fix this but the issue remained. We could only play the game with all sound turned off and subtitles turned on. It took away a lot from the gameplay.

If you can get this to run on your system configuration, I'd recommend it highly to any fan of sim-like and dungeon keeper-like games. But be prepared to return it (or give it away to a friend) if your system seems to act as if a poltergeist is inside it when you run the game.