If there’s something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call?  Since you won’t have the chance to call in live to U360 today, I figured I’d give you someone else to call.  You can call the Ghostbusters!  Well maybe not now but you can call them in Fall 2008 with the anticipated release of Ghostbusters The Video Game. 

All the regulars are back for some next-gen ghost bustin’ including Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson.  They’re back again for the first time in more than 20 years.  Supporting the ghost busting crew are the talents of Annie Potts, Brian Doyle Murray and William Atherton.  Equipped with a variety of unique weapons and gadgets, players will hunt, fight and capture a wide range of supernatural villains in a funny and frightening battle to save New York City from its latest paranormal plague.

“Sierra Entertainment is extremely excited to not only deliver fans, old and new, this next chapter in the Ghostbusters universe, but to allow them inside the universe for the first time,” said Martin Tremblay, president, Worldwide Studios for Sierra Entertainment. “Our collaboration includes working closely alongside the team at Sony Pictures Consumer Products, Terminal Reality and Red Fly Studios.  Together we will create the ultimate Ghostbusters experience, full of the characters, ghosts and other paranormal creatures so many have come to adore over the years.”

Screenshots: Ghostbusters The Video Game 2008

The most important part of this whole announcement and the part that really has me smiling like a little Slimer is the fact that Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis will return to script an event-driven storyline for the video game.  That is a big positive in my book knowing that it will be a true Ghostbusters story from the original minds of Ray Stantz and Egon Spengler. 

Are you ready for more Venkman, Stantz, Egon and even the Staypuft Marshmallow Man?  I ain’t afraid of no ghost!