Ghost Master

by Vivendi Universal

Product Features

• You'll marshal an army of minions and scare away citizens -- watch as they scream, faint and scatter before the power of the dead
• You'll also have to solve puzzles and unlock many mysteries, to unleash the beaddest monsters and spectres of all
• The ultimate challenge, combining elements of strategy, adventure, and resource management games -- for an all-new experience!

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005WVCN
• Item Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: August 19, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #26,200 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Grim specters, howling banshees, and sly gremlins are yours to command as you unleash ghastly spirits on the town of Gravenville and scare the wits out of its citizens.

In the world of the Ghost Master, spooks do your bidding, as you solve puzzles and unlock mysteries in a challenge that combines the best of strategy, adventure, and resource management games.

Features

• Up to 15 unique, hair-raising adventures with multi-branching scenarios--all within a coherent plot and complete virtual world.
• Easy-to-play interface--forget the manual!
• Spooks-eye view--an innovative 3-D camera lets you view the action from the perspective of humans or ghosts.
• Revolutionary special effects, incredibly detailed characters, and macabre settings inspired by classic horror films.
• Groundbreaking artificial intelligence--interact with up to 30 AI-driven characters at every level.
• Eleven expansive and distinct locations, including the town's lunatic asylum, military base, sorority and frat houses, and police station.

As a Ghost Master, you'll set knees knocking, hearts thumping, nerves jangling, and spines tingling. For you and your minions, haunting is truly an art!

Product Description

Ghouls and Spirits!  Exercise Your DemonsProduct InformationGrim specters howling banshees things that go bump in the night... and that'sjust your starting team! Frighten lowly mortals from their homes and places ofwork in a game that casts you as an afterlife civil servant with command overlegions of ghosts ghouls and spiritsProduct Features Up to 15 unique hair-raising adventures with multi-branching scenarios - all within a coherent plot and complete virtual world. Easy-to-play interface Spook's eye view - an innovative 3D camera lets you view the action from the perspective of humans or ghosts. Revolutionary special effects incredibly detailed characters and macabre settings inspired by classic horror films. Groundbreaking artificial intelligence - interact with up to 30 AI-driven characters at every level. Eleven expansive and distinctive locations including the town's lunatic asylum military base sorority and frat houses and police station.As a Ghost Master you'll set knees knocking hearts thumping nervesjangling and spines tingling. For you and your minions haunting is truly anart!Activities Include Gremlin creates havoc with electrical appliances. A mortal is controlled like a puppet by a Mane. Air spirits can create thunderstorms and other weather effects inside. An animal Trickster prepares to shapeshift into a mortal clone. A Spider Horde unleashes a legion of creepy crawlies. A Wraith shocks mortals out of their skins. An Earth Elemental makes the ground open and swallow a mortal. Make mortals believe they're on fire. A Specter strikes terror into mortals by manifesting in all its gory splendor. Watch out for enemies (a witch exercises a Spook). A sandman invades the dream of a sleeping mortal. A banshee entices a mortal with her Siren Song. Mirror dwelling fetches play with mortal perceptions. A Phantom plays 'Spin the Mortal'Product Reviews"Look out 'The

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Incredible game if it runs well on your system, August 30, 2003

By 

Lisa Shea "medieval swordfighting enthusiast" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ghost Master (CD-ROM)

In Ghost Master, you get to control a group of ghosts and try to frighten out sorority sisters, rescue trapped ghosts and much more!

We bought this on the recommendation of a friend, and I have to admit that the idea was an amazingly neat one. It is very much like Dungeon Keeper but with ghosts. You get a well detailed house to work with, with multiple rooms and multiple floors.

The graphics are great, and you can move easily between the floors, examining the items in each room, zooming in and out, turning around.

You attach each of your ghosts to an item in the house and give them a set of instructions. Some ghosts create spiders, other shake objects, others cause electrical items to go haywire. Each level has its own objectives - scare out all the humans, help a ghost go free, lure police to a certain area to discover a corpse. It's a riddle to figure out which best combination of ghosts and ghouls will achieve your objectives.

The spooky music is neat, the way the well-designed characters move around is quite neat. You can follow a given person around and learn about their fears, you can watch as they become more and more terrified. It's sort of like the Sims meets the Amityville Horror.

However, we encountered a BIG downside that we simply could not resolve. Despite having a rather high end system that plays all other current games without any issue, we hit problems with both the video and sound on this one. The video was only randomly annoying, with the beds turning into tie-die neons swirls, for example. We could live with that. But the sound was INCREDIBLY annoying with constant stuttering and loud machine-gun-like noises. We tried many different solutions to fix this but the issue remained. We could only play the game with all sound turned off and subtitles turned on. It took away a lot from the gameplay.

If you can get this to run on your system configuration, I'd recommend it highly to any fan of sim-like and dungeon keeper-like games. But be prepared to return it (or give it away to a friend) if your system seems to act as if a poltergeist is inside it when you run the game.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unique Idea - Great Fun!, December 4, 2003

By 

Kala (Ft Lauderdale, FL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ghost Master (CD-ROM)

I just started playing this game recently - I bought it because the idea seemed so unique and fun compared to most other games I've been playing lately!

Some other people have mentioned bugs, but I have yet to have a problem with the game. It installed clean and has played extremely well.

The basic idea of the game is that you are "master" to a group of ghosts and other ethereal monsters. You take your spooks to a house and use all sorts of neato powers to scare the people living in the house. Also in the houses there are usually restless spirits that you can rescue and they will become part of your team!

The graphics are pretty cool and the "scares" are great! I love watching my spook make items fly around the room and scare the mortals. Your spooks get all sorts of powers, from poltergeist stuff (items flying around) to making storms outside to causing tremors to more violent stuff like ripping their own head in half and making blood spurt out. Because of that, the game might not be appropriate for young kids!

I highly recommend the game - I've had a great time playing it and it's refreshing to play something really different once in awhile. :)

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great fun, August 2, 2003

By 

James K (England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ghost Master (CD-ROM)

Ghost Master is an excellent game where you build up a team of ghosts to scare humans away from their locations!
You must perform your hauntings in a variety of locations including a large spooky house, a hospital/lunatic asylum, a boat (where humans will have to jump overboard!) and many more.
The game is separated in to missions.
There are just under 50 haunters in total, ranging from regular spooks to witches, and gremlins to swarms of spiders!

There are so many good things about Ghost Master. The graphics are excellent - each location is totally 3D and you can zoom in and out and rotate 360 degrees to see it from all angles.
The detail is also really good. Each mission is based loosly on a horror movie, and each character has a name from that movie.
You can find out about how each ghost died, and you can read bios for each character so you know how to scare them best!

If you're in to ghosts and horror movies, or you want a fun game for all ages, buy Ghost Master!