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Summary: Unique new game style!
Review: This game is amazing. That's all I can say. The idea behind it is brillant and very enjoyable. With various ways to approach each scenario, it has unlimited replay value. I highly recommend you buy it.Sadly, I've found this game hard to find in stores so far, so this might be your best bet to find it.
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Summary: great fun
Review: This game plays great on my system. It is loads of fun and a really great idea for a game. Please try this one out, you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: This US version was rushed too fast onto the market.
Review: This game would be great if they ever work out a US patch. Ive been to ghostmaster.net(fan site), and the forum is full of people talking about how horribly bugged it is. Customer support is just a couple cookie cutter replies. This is the worst 30$ i ever spent. Shouldnt waste your money on a CHANCE your computer MIGHT run it. They must be aware of the problems too. Why else offer a "free video" AND a 10$ rebate really soon after it hits the streets. Hope they come out with a US patch. They sure aren't saying.....
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Summary: Fun premise, delivers
Review: This is a fun, interesting, and unusual game. It didn't spew forth from the demand-controlled market model that, in the west, rules our video game and movie choics... so give it a try. It even has low system requirements, so it should play fine even if you have fabled hardware such as the imaginary AMD 9600 video card and Pentium 3 2.5ghz CPU. Great game!
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Summary: ghost master is awesome!!
Review: This is a very fun and unique game,you control ghosts to scare the heck out of mortals.You get many different ghost to use for different hauntings and you have the ability to recruit more ghosts into your ranks.I have always looked for ghost,haunted house,halloween type games and they are way too few, i highly recommended this game.The game has nice graphics it is easy to learn and you can spend hours playing this and not get bored at all.I would love to see an expansion for this game. Get it you wont be sorry.
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Summary: A Great Game
Review: This is probably one of the best games that I've played in a long time, as it combines the most addictive and fun aspects of a number of genres into a unique gestalt that is indeed greater than the sum of its parts. The concept of the game, as mentioned in other reviews, puts you in the role of a ghost master in control of a team of spooks and sent to teach the people of Gravenville proper respect for the supernatural, typically by scaring them senseless. Throughout the game, various aspects of assorted genres are apparent: there is some of the resource management and unit placement of real-time strategy games, there is some of the character development of role-playing games, there is some of the simulation of The Sims and related titles, and there is some of the collector's mentality that is found in Pokemon and similar games. All of these aspects, when combined, give the game an undeniably addictive quality. Added to this is the fact that almost every mission in the game is a spoof of, or tribute to, some pop culture movie icon and an irreverent sense of humor in dialogue, character names, and concepts. When combined, these elements make this game seem irresistable, and that it is. As a note: having bought the US retail version and installed it on a 1.5 year old Gateway laptop, it's running fine with no stalls, crashes, install errors, music difficulties, or anything else. That, and it looks wonderful!
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Summary: Buggy game
Review: Update, game plays after updating my virtual drive software. What a pain to get fixed. I stand by my initial review below but change the rating because the game is fun to play, once I managed to get it playing! I would really like to say something nice about this game but it will not play on my machine. Upgrade you say, well a pentium 3 2.5 gig pc with a AMD 9800 video card and half a gig of ram should play just about anything. Honestly, this is the only game I have had problems with. I should point out that this is the US retail version of the game. There are no patches available for the U.S. version, only the European versions. I have contacted tech support but received little help. What I am guessing is that my "virtual drives" that I use to load up images of perfectly legal and owned on-line games, such as Medal of Honor and Battlefield 1942, is somehow making the game executable think that a copy is involved. Well, if the software designers are going to make a game not play because of previously loaded software, than that should be stated right on the box - so one can make a decision before shelling out $40 to buy a game. Anyway, I can not rate this game as anything but unacceptable because of the obvious copy protection bugs that make it so that Ghost Master is unplayable on my system.
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Summary: Your Personal Poltergeist Construction Set
Review: Vivendi/Universal has done a really good job of pumping out new and interesting ideas in their games without losing sight of fun being the overriding necessity. Ghost Master continues the tradition by combining both action and strategy in a simple premise - scare the heck out of everyone! You start off with a fairly well made tutorial that explains the basics, including how to move around, zoom in and out, and set up your different ghosts for haunting in a classic "scare the sorority girls" setting. You also learn certain individuals are more prone to being frightened by certain ghosts than others. For instance, some may be scared of spiders, while others have a fear of fire. The scares are more cartoonish than violent and most kids should be able to play without nightmares, but young kids might be disturbed. As you progress in the game, you have a certain amount of "scare factor" known as plasm to use to scare people with. As people become more and more frightened, your plasm level goes up, allowing you to increase the number of powers your ghost can conjure up. In short, the more scared the people get, the scarier the effects you can subject them to. Once their terror level peaks they run screaming from the house. The sooner you complete your mission, the more points you rack up, allowing to "upgrade" your ghosts with additional powers for later missions. The game isn't just about scaring people, though. Some strategy is involved in figuring out secondary objectives such as luring or leading people to a certain area of the house or releasing ghosts so they can be used in later missions. Some of these puzzles are challenging, but most missions can be wrapped up in about half an hour. My system is due for an upgrade, but the game itself ran fine at 1024x768 on a 1Ghz Athlon and a Geforce 2. The movie clips are a different story and regardless of what I did, I could not prevent choppiness and stuttering. It's also annoying not knowing your mission objectives upfront. The game would have been a lot easier to play by simply explaining the mission, then allowing us to choose which ghosts we want to use. Instead, we pick ghosts basically at random and find we may have to start the mission over if we're missing something vital. Finally, the voice acting is pretty bad. If you're lucky (or unlucky) enough to complete two or more objectives at the same time, you'll hear both announcements at once, which sounds like complete gibberish. Aside from these annoyances, Ghost Master is a fun game. The music is cheerfully campy, providing the atmospheric creepiness typical of B-movies, and the graphics are bright and vibrant, with more than a passing resemblence to the movie Ghostbusters. If you're looking to create your own haunted house, filled with things that go bump in the night, then this is the game for you. Hope the review helped.
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Summary: Your Personal Poltergeist Construction Set
Review: Vivendi/Universal has done a really good job of pumping out new and interesting ideas in their games without losing sight of fun being the overriding necessity. Ghost Master continues the tradition by combining both action and strategy in a simple premise - scare the heck out of everyone! You start off with a fairly well made tutorial that explains the basics, including how to move around, zoom in and out, and set up your different ghosts for haunting in a classic "scare the sorority girls" setting. You also learn certain individuals are more prone to being frightened by certain ghosts than others. For instance, some may be scared of spiders, while others have a fear of fire. The scares are more cartoonish than violent and most kids should be able to play without nightmares, but young kids might be disturbed. As you progress in the game, you have a certain amount of "scare factor" known as plasm to use to scare people with. As people become more and more frightened, your plasm level goes up, allowing you to increase the number of powers your ghost can conjure up. In short, the more scared the people get, the scarier the effects you can subject them to. Once their terror level peaks they run screaming from the house. The sooner you complete your mission, the more points you rack up, allowing to "upgrade" your ghosts with additional powers for later missions. The game isn't just about scaring people, though. Some strategy is involved in figuring out secondary objectives such as luring or leading people to a certain area of the house or releasing ghosts so they can be used in later missions. Some of these puzzles are challenging, but most missions can be wrapped up in about half an hour. My system is due for an upgrade, but the game itself ran fine at 1024x768 on a 1Ghz Athlon and a Geforce 2. The movie clips are a different story and regardless of what I did, I could not prevent choppiness and stuttering. It's also annoying not knowing your mission objectives upfront. The game would have been a lot easier to play by simply explaining the mission, then allowing us to choose which ghosts we want to use. Instead, we pick ghosts basically at random and find we may have to start the mission over if we're missing something vital. Finally, the voice acting is pretty bad. If you're lucky (or unlucky) enough to complete two or more objectives at the same time, you'll hear both announcements at once, which sounds like complete gibberish. Aside from these annoyances, Ghost Master is a fun game. The music is cheerfully campy, providing the atmospheric creepiness typical of B-movies, and the graphics are bright and vibrant, with more than a passing resemblence to the movie Ghostbusters. If you're looking to create your own haunted house, filled with things that go bump in the night, then this is the game for you. Hope the review helped.
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