Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed is basically an Afterlife sequel

pcgamesn.com:

Friday the 13th developer Illfonic’s new project is a Ghostbusters multiplayer game, and it’s basically a direct Ghostbusters Afterlife sequel. Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed is out later this year, and it’ll continue the story “shortly after” the 2021 movie’s post-credits scene.

PCGamesN recently sat down with the heads of Illfonic to check out Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed, the studio’s new ghost game that was accidentally confirmed last year prior to the release of Afterlife. It’s a 4v1 asymmetric multiplayer game where four Ghostbusters – all player-created and customisable – try to catch a troublesome spook haunting a building.

At the end of Ghostbusters Afterlife, the post-credits scene teases a sequel where a now-wealthy Winston Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson) buys the Ghostbusters firehouse and the iconic Ecto-1. Spirits Unleashed, for now at least, is seemingly that sequel. “The timeline is shortly after the Afterlife film,” confirms CCO Jared Gerritzen, “where Winston has reformed the Ghostbusters and you are one of the new hires.” Ernie Hudson and Dan Ackroyd’s Ray are returning, and the developer says they have a story reason for being there.

“We got these amazing actors to come and so we couldn’t just make them hub masters,” Gerritzen explains. “As you progress in the game, you get some story and some cinematics throughout so it’s really exciting for us… it’s a growing thing for us to add this.” Players can interact with Ray and Winston between missions in the firehouse and Ray’s Occult bookstore, as well as manually deposit their caught ghosts in the containment unit. Nevertheless, Spirits Unleashed is a multiplayer game first and foremost.

The game itself is a little similar to Midnight Ghost Hunt at first