{"id":2621,"date":"2011-02-28T23:19:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T04:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=2621"},"modified":"2011-02-28T23:19:40","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T04:19:40","slug":"meet-the-new-ghostbusters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/meet-the-new-ghostbusters\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the New Ghostbusters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe franchise rights alone will make us rich beyond our wildest dreams!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Remember that scene near the beginning of <em>Ghostbusters<\/em>?  Peter Venkman\u2019s eyes lit up at the moneymaking possibilities opening up  to him and his friends after their first successful encounter with a  ghost. It seems like an oddly prescient comment considering the video  game franchise, which is taking a turn away from those original actors  toward a whole new four-person crew. In the new <em>Sanctum of Slime<\/em> video game, a new, inexperienced team takes over for the team from the films.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, the more things change, the more they stay the same. This  \u201cnew\u201d crew has fresh faces, but their bios sound awfully familiar. You  can tell the game\u2019s developers designed these new characters to fill the  group\u2019s pre-established roles.\u00a0 Atari\u2018s supplied concept art and details for each one, so take a look and let us know what you think.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"6428allan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forevergeek.com\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/02\/6428allan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"512\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alan Crendall<\/strong> is the crew\u2019s level-headed workhorse,  steady but fast-thinking, who always has his team members\u2019 backs.  Functions as their de facto leader when a plan is needed in a hurry. I  always thought of Venkman as the original team\u2019s leader, but this  Crendall guy\u2019s description sounds more like the blue-collar Winston  Zeddemore.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"6431samuel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forevergeek.com\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/02\/6431samuel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"512\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Samuel Hazer<\/strong> is the happy-go-lucky scientist of the  group, aka the new Ray Stantz. Unlike other members of the team, he has  some experience as a student of the paranormal \u2014 knowledge that comes in  handy in the field.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"6429bridget\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forevergeek.com\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/02\/6429bridget.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"512\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bridget Gibbons<\/strong> is the token \u201ctough chick,\u201d the  wisecracking female who spends most of her time poking fun at others,  but becomes all business when it\u2019s go time. Yep, she\u2019s a female Peter  Venkman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"6430gabriel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forevergeek.com\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/02\/6430gabriel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"512\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gabriel Sitter<\/strong> is the team\u2019s resident egghead, a  technical genius who\u2019s always looking to develop new technologies that  the Ghostbusters can use in their work. Might as well be a clone of Egon  Spengler.<\/p>\n<p>It was inevitable that future games in the <em>Ghostbusters<\/em> franchise would have to move away from the original crew \u2014 because wrangling those four actors and their schedules for <em>any<\/em> sort of project probably requires an act of God.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime<\/em> will hit Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, and PCs everywhere on March 23rd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe franchise rights alone will make us rich beyond our wildest dreams!\u201d Remember that scene near the beginning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2622,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions\/2622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}