Who ya gonna call? Try Ghostbusters for iOS

To bust the city's ghosts, you'll need to earn money and other resources, hire more 'busters, and upgrade your gear.

(Credit: Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET)

There's not much to explain the timing behind Beeline Interactive's new Ghostbusters game for iOS. It's not like there's a new movie coming out, nor even a Blu-ray or 3D re-release of the original.

But here it is all the same, a cartoony but complex resource-management sim that's reminiscent of other freemium games like Men in Black 3 and The Simpsons. If you're into that sort of thing, I'd say you're in for a treat.

The new Ghostbusters (not to be confused with Ghostbusters: Paranormal Blast, an augmented-reality action game) tasks you with clearing the spooks from a 50-story haunted tower.

To do so, you'll need to expand your team, conduct research, upgrade your equipment, and, of course, ... [Read more]





by Rick Broida via CNET