Ghost Rider: The Game(s)

[PunisherPoster]

Looks like the Gameboy Advance version is the best. Gamespot gave it 7.8 out of 10 and wrote:

A trailer for it has been added to youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27rqFt0oPlQ

 

[webhead731]

That looks really cool. I'm getting it.

 

[jamesjuhn]

Yeah, well I live in NZ and the movie doesn't come out until 22 March, so I'm killing time playing the GBA game until the movie comes out.
I have to say it is quite addictive (don't know if that's a good or bad thing t: )
The button mashing do get repetitive, but combos are really good.

 

[NDX]

A trailer for it has been added to youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27rqFt0oPlQ

That looks surprisingly good. I think that will be a definite buy in the future.

 

[The68Pie]

anyone have pics of the Ghost Rider skins in Marvel Ultimate Alliance and the Ghost Rider game?

 

[Bishop2]

I've played through the GBA version and enjoyed it a lot. Yes, the beat-em-up stages can tend to run a little long, but overall I think it's got great control and lots to unlock and enjoy. And the storyline's a pretty cool sequel to the movie, too.

 

[scrown]

So you guys are saying that the GBA ver. is better than the console one? Damn I got my hopes up for nothing. I was gonna get it off the internet, but since it got a 4 at gamespot im not even sure it's worth to waste a DVD on it.

 

[crazy sock]

the ps2 version isnt great. the motorcycle levels are annoying because there are guys popping up everywhere like a swarm. so you have to constantly use the missles to get rid of em because some of em are shooting at you,others appear in the middle of the road, and there are the ones on motorcycles. if yer trying to chain whip the guys on the cycles that are kicking at ya, ya cant shoot the other guys that are in the road or shooting at ya, its a pain. and ghost rider himself doesnt look so great. if you beat the game on easy you unlock blade, vengeance, and ghost rider 2099. you can also unlock classic blaze ghost rider i think, but i dont know which level of difficulty you have to beat the game on. i prefer playing as ghost rider 2099 or vengeance because they look cooler than the actual ghost rider you start off with. you have the same powers n moves, unless you play as blade. you dont get to actually fight vengeance or blackout though, you face em off in some kind of motorcycle race thing where you have to chase em down n take em out. and they mention deathwatch in the game but you dont face him at all, just his ninjas, so thats pretty lame.i dont know who made the game but since it practically ripped off god of war, whoever made god of war should have just made it b/c the quality of the ghost rider game was eh alright.

 

[Benstamania]

I picked it up today because I had some spare credit and nothing else caught me eye. It was 24.99 used so I figured what the hell...no pun intended. I played it for about two hours and honestly? It's NOT bad. Is it a God of War/Devil May Cry clone? Yup, sure is but how is that bad? It's God of War with Blaze/Ghost Rider rather then Kratos, honestly, it's more Devil May Cry.

Ghost Rider is a beat 'em up, plain and simple. If you want to play as the Rider with a decent story, go find the game used. It's less the 30 bucks and well worth it IMO.

It will hold me over until GoW II releases anyway.

I'd give it a 7/10 so far, easy.

 

[Chris Wallace]

so how you guys are talking what kind of rating would you guys give the ghostrider game.

8.5

 

[InVictus]

Grrr here in Italy they are overpricing it for the launch: 49.99 euros damn! This month will be painful for my money =_=

 

[crazy sock]

the ps2 version rele isnt great. instead of copying god of war, they just should have had whoever made god of war do the GR game. the graphics were alright. GR himself looked ehkay. i hated the motorcycle levels b/c there were TOO many villains poppn up, on ground, on bikes, on the side shooting stuff at you. its like yo had to constantly be fireing hellfire at em just to clear a path. made it difficult to enjoy riding around as GR.

i didnt like the voice they had for mephisto, it didnt sound old or anything like fonda and when i first heard it i thought it was going to be blackheart. you dont get to actually face vengeance or blackout, you chase after em. i didnt like blackouts voice at all. and they mention deathwatch but you dont face off against him, plent of his annoying ninjas though. when i found out if you beat the game on easy you get to unlock other skins, like GR2099, vengeance, and the originaly comics JohnnyBlaze GR, i deleted the game i was already in which was on regular mode and started on easy. i played it through just to finish it so i wound up enjoying it even less. i really wanted to see how GR 2099 would look,not exactly like the comics but looks better than the regular GR in the game. vengeance looks sick too, on the motorcycle levels you get his bike in the game.
i forgot about Blade. hes alright, you cant absorb fire to get life back, so you have to suck someones blood when the circle button appears and thats a pain.

i rele would like a GR game where its like free-roam. kind of like how the ultimate spiderman game was, cept made by someone better. imagine riding around as GR in the city or wherever, finding bad guys n beating the crap out of em n' giving them the ol' penance stare n whatnot. also, from time to time facing off against villains. if someone were to ever make a game like that, thatd be really awesome.

 

[crazy sock]

it really is. i mean, does that open the possibilty that there are other Marvel characters in the GRmovie world? or at least the midnight sons? bahs to it all. i dont get the scene of blade getting blackhearts corpse either. just like the in the movie, this game has some plot holes. only real one i can think of is the blade getting blackhearts corpse thing. im prob kind of nitpicking, but how could blade manage to take out all of the lilin n whoever that have BH's body? cause when yer playing as GR yer practically swarmed with baddies. its not like blade has a gun like the movie Blade version. n then theres the question of where blade took BH's body? im sure its A morgue, but what kind of morgue and where? then theres the question of how did BH come back to life? who brought him back and when? how did they know he was stored in some what seems to be a random morgue. or was he even in the coffin at all to begin with? did blade bother to check? n why did the demon version of BH have two jewel bracelet things? never saw anything like that in the comics nor the movie. and my complaint of blade sides the plotholes involving his part of the game, did they rele have to make him sound like the blade from the 70s? all ghettoish? not to offend anyone that lives the ghetto life, im just saying it sounded cheesey. whatever. i can only hope someone else makes a GR game that isnt for the movie or sequel or whatever, but just a game for GR based on the comics (preferably the 90s rider).

 

[Bishop2]

it really is. i mean, does that open the possibilty that there are other Marvel characters in the GRmovie world? or at least the midnight sons? bahs to it all. i dont get the scene of blade getting blackhearts corpse either. just like the in the movie, this game has some plot holes. only real one i can think of is the blade getting blackhearts corpse thing. im prob kind of nitpicking, but how could blade manage to take out all of the lilin n whoever that have BH's body? cause when yer playing as GR yer practically swarmed with baddies. its not like blade has a gun like the movie Blade version. n then theres the question of where blade took BH's body? im sure its A morgue, but what kind of morgue and where? then theres the question of how did BH come back to life? who brought him back and when? how did they know he was stored in some what seems to be a random morgue. or was he even in the coffin at all to begin with? did blade bother to check? n why did the demon version of BH have two jewel bracelet things? never saw anything like that in the comics nor the movie. and my complaint of blade sides the plotholes involving his part of the game, did they rele have to make him sound like the blade from the 70s? all ghettoish? not to offend anyone that lives the ghetto life, im just saying it sounded cheesey. whatever. i can only hope someone else makes a GR game that isnt for the movie or sequel or whatever, but just a game for GR based on the comics (preferably the 90s rider).

At least the GBA version doesn't have any plot holes. Blade doesn't go after any Blackheart corpse or whatever... hell, why would Blackheart's corpse even be lying around? He was pulled down in Hell, right? There was no body there!

 

[crazy sock]

EXACTLY! i dont know exactly if BH was brought back to hell in the movie or what. but either way, the game makes no sense. i guess the game truelly has the spirit of the movie, that is it wasnt made very well or thought out.

 

[Nathan]

At least the action was more enjoyable than the Movie.

 

[crazy sock]

ehhh. it was hard to enjoy, since it was all a big mess of poorly thought out ideas.

 

[Nathan]

Well I thought the Ghost Rider action was pretty solid. I rarely had that much fun obliterating monsters.

 

[Fettstyl]

I love this game. By todays standards it might be just average, but if this game had come out in like 2000, it would have rocked hard to most peoples opinion. But I don't care that they could've done a better game and pulled out all the stops for it, the fact remains that it is a great game with awesome combos. Now that they know they can do Ghost Rider appearance justice and people will accept a good Ghost Rider product(movie and game) I hope the next game(as well as movie) well be stepped up a notch or two.
BTW, I completed it on the 2nd difficulty level and it unlocked Blade, Ghost Rider 2099, and Vengeance. Does anyone know what the remaining unlockable charater is. I'm trying to beat the game again on extreme difficulty setting, and its like hard as hell, I doubt I'll be able to do it anytime soon.

 

[BIGGUN]

BTW, I completed it on the 2nd difficulty level and it unlocked Blade, Ghost Rider 2099, and Vengeance. Does anyone know what the remaining unlockable charater is. I'm trying to beat the game again on extreme difficulty setting, and its like hard as hell, I doubt I'll be able to do it anytime soon.

when you beat the extreme level you get to play as the original GR (the 70s version). also you can beat the level pretty easy by setting the "cheats" to on. i didnt have the patience to beat the damn thing on extreme just to get the 70s GR so i set the cheats for invincibility and unlimited chain charges. game went pretty quicky after that t:

 

[Fettstyl]

when you beat the extreme level you get to play as the original GR (the 70s version). also you can beat the level pretty easy by setting the "cheats" to on. i didnt have the patience to beat the damn thing on extreme just to get the 70s GR so i set the cheats for invincibility and unlimited chain charges. game went pretty quicky after that t:

Excellent!!! Thanks.
I was hoping it was 70's version, consider the cheats on.
I was also happy to find out 1 of the combos is hellfire blasts, should accompany the 70's version nicely

 

[PunisherPoster]

I also beat the demonic mode, in about 3 sittings cause it is rather frustrating, but anyways, the game says it's 89% done. For several of the levels, I beat it 98 - 99%, cause you have to defeat every enemy and there are about 120 / level or more.. and collect all the orbs, and there are roughly 10,000 / level.. or more. (or less, depending on the level).

Yeah, you basically have to play each level perfectly to get 100%. The hard part isn't completing the levels, but figuring out how to work around the limitations the game imposes on you.

For each, you have to:

1. Get the highest multiplier possible (666).
2. Defeat all enemies.
3. Complete the multiplier challenge.
4. Collect all orbs (includes seeking them out and earning high orb counts from enemies).

Unfortunately, several things work against you for each of these:

1. Enemies aren't always plentiful enough to pull off the highest multipliers. Even worse, taking just a few seconds too long in between attacks can cause the multiplier to reset. You basically have to move the enemies around like cattle in order to create opportunities for multipliers.

2. Hellcycle levels can be difficult to reach a high multiplier, since enemies automatically stop the speed multiplier. In addition to this, chain attacks are required for earning higher orb counts. Unfortunately, enemies in the later (Carnival) levels will simply speed off if you don't dispatch them quick enough.

3. Defeating all enemies requires a thorough search of each level- which can often include a leap of faith to find enemies hiding on lower ledges.

Naturally, after doing all of this you unlock...an art gallery! It's so frustratingly old-school in both execution and reward, you can't help but laugh.

 

[Mr Nick]

I just popped into the DCvsMarvel Mugen project site to check on the progress of the Ghost Rider character.

Wucash is still working hard on it, but I'm sure it'll be worth the wait. He's put up this video of one of the transformations:

http://video.google.pl/videoplay?docid=-6139576848060242725

Tasty, eh?

 

[crazy sock]

that was awesome. i didnt think they would have him as dan ketch and transform into ghost rider. wow, that was definitely tasty.

 

[InVictus]

I just popped into the DCvsMarvel Mugen project site to check on the progress of the Ghost Rider character.

Wucash is still working hard on it, but I'm sure it'll be worth the wait. He's put up this video of one of the transformations:

http://video.google.pl/videoplay?docid=-6139576848060242725

Tasty, eh?

That's amazing!!!
The glowing medallion, the stance of Danny/GR head, awesome!
Interesting touch the transforming flame ending on GR skull...it has some japanese super robot/kamen rider taste...pretty original! Can't wait a Penance Stare super!

Hey Mr Nick, just found and ordered two days ago the ps2 UK version on ebay at 10 GBP!