Ghost Master
by Vivendi Universal
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Video Game Reviews of Ghost Master
Customer Review: ghost master is awesome!!
Summary: 5 Stars
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.Customer Review: Fun premise, delivers
Summary: 5 Stars
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!Customer Review: One Of The Best I've Played For A Long While
Summary: 5 Stars
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.
Customer Review: great fun
Summary: 4 Stars
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.Customer Review: Buggy game
Summary: 4 Stars
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.