Review Ghosthunter PS2 Overlooked Supernatural Shooter Should Be a Cult Classic
The ghost with the most.
What a difference a twenty years makes. When Ghosthunter released in 2004 for PS2 it was met with poor sales and mixed reviews from the critics of the time. Generally, reviewers thought it looked great, but it was too linear and at a mere ten hours or so in length it was far too brief. Today, Ghosthunter looks like a bag of hammers, but we really appreciate how the game just gets to the damn point, doesn't throw 100 meaningless side-quests at us, and isn't 40 hours long.
Ghosthunter tells the story of the ludicrously named Lazarus Jones, a detective on his first day on the job who is investigating an abandoned high school and discovers that there's something supernatural afoot. Within 20 minutes we're introduced to Lazarus and his partner, ghosts escape a confinement facility within the school, and a big bad ghoul voiced by Michael 'Dumbledore' Gambon starts throwing his weight around.
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