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Great fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 14
Date: August 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

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!

Unique new game style!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: August 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is amazing. That's all I can say. The idea behind it is brillant and very enjoyable. With various ways to approach each scenario, it has unlimited replay value. I highly recommend you buy it.

Sadly, I've found this game hard to find in stores so far, so this might be your best bet to find it.

Incredible game if it runs well on your system

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 26 / 27
Date: August 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

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.

Big Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: September 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

A new idea very well executed. This one kept me playing for quite a while.

The idea was great...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: September 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

but my computer just didn't like it. Being a fan of The Sims, to control ghosts and scare people sounded great. Excited, I loaded it and it just went down-hill from there. The sound was fine, it was the video that was terrible. Instead of movies for the intro, I got random pictures of the video. When playing, the animation was choppy. Playing it was worse, the controls were delayed and frustrating. I didn't get it from Amazon.com, and I wish I did since I had one hard time trying to return it. Eventually, one of the techs loaded it on their computer and was experiancing the same thing. Again, the idea of the game was great, I just wish they would have spent more time on it before releasing it.

Buggy game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: October 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Update, game plays after updating my virtual drive software. What a pain to get fixed. I stand by my initial review below but change the rating because the game is fun to play, once I managed to get it playing!

I would really like to say something nice about this game but it will not play on my machine. Upgrade you say, well a pentium 3 2.5 gig pc with a AMD 9800 video card and half a gig of ram should play just about anything. Honestly, this is the only game I have had problems with. I should point out that this is the US retail version of the game. There are no patches available for the U.S. version, only the European versions. I have contacted tech support but received little help. What I am guessing is that my "virtual drives" that I use to load up images of perfectly legal and owned on-line games, such as Medal of Honor and Battlefield 1942, is somehow making the game executable think that a copy is involved. Well, if the software designers are going to make a game not play because of previously loaded software, than that should be stated right on the box - so one can make a decision before shelling out $40 to buy a game. Anyway, I can not rate this game as anything but unacceptable because of the obvious copy protection bugs that make it so that Ghost Master is unplayable on my system.

great fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: October 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game plays great on my system. It is loads of fun and a really great idea for a game. Please try this one out, you won't be disappointed.

One Of The Best I've Played For A Long While

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: October 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Ghostmaster is one of the most fun games to come along for quite awhile. The idea is fantastic - and the 3 years they spent implementing it was well spent. The basic premise is this: You have been promoted to Ghost Master, and have been sent by the counsel to descend upon the town of Gravenville and complete a series of missions to aid the glory of the dead or something. You start with a small selection of different sorts of spirits (elementals, sprites, poltergeists etc) with some powers - but with each mission you can complete "quests" and more ghosts will be under your command. Whenever you complete missions, you get scored on how much you scared people, how many spirits you rescued, the time used etc. This goes on the high score table - from which you can revisit past missions and beat your scores and times. As you can imagine, this gives the game TREMENDOUS replay value.
The points you earnb (not quite sure of the system) in turn gives you PLASMA, the only source of energy in the game. Plasma allows you to use different powers within the mortal realm, and also allows you to train your ghosts to learn new powers in the spirit realm. In attempting to pin down the genre of this game, I came to the following conlusions: It is similar to THE SIMS with the way the people talk, look, and the meter bars used to measure the three key aspects of a mortal: belief, terror, and madness. Different powers will raise different things. But it alsot involves deep strategy more often found in RTS type games. It has roleplaying akin to the final fantasy skill system in the way you distribute plasma to advance your ghosts and the manner in which they become better trained the more you use them. Also you can go inside your ghosts (or the people) and view everything that goes on - rpg/sim thing going on. And the high score table and point system gives it a sense of an old arcade game. Im sure it could be squeezed into more categories, such as adventure, but you get the point.
It has a low learning curve (say 3 minutes to be able to play), but has enough depth and micromanagment as you get into harder missions to make it quite challenging. It is not neccessarily challenging to complete the mission, but sometimes it takes quite a bit of strategy and good managment to complete all the quests and get pumpkins by your time (four levels of pumpkins 0-4 depending on how good your time was). The higher pumpkin levels are very difficult to achieve, especially in the later missions.
And its not just scaring people. Sometimes you have to drive them mad, or feed on one persons particular personal fear, or solve puzzles and figure out which powers to use in certain quest situations. It is not especially violent - more cartoonish and funny.
On a technical note, I did have a few problems with my mouse and the moving buttons but I installed the patch and it seemd to go a bit better. I have a little better than average computer: gforce II graphics card, 512 ram, amd xp2600+ etc. I havent had any major problems other than the mouse thing. And if you do have problems....well if you machine is a dinosaur, dont expect it to run this. Also, try installing the patch people.

Fun premise, delivers

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: October 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a fun, interesting, and unusual game. It didn't spew forth from the demand-controlled market model that, in the west, rules our video game and movie choics... so give it a try. It even has low system requirements, so it should play fine even if you have fabled hardware such as the imaginary AMD 9600 video card and Pentium 3 2.5ghz CPU. Great game!

ghost master is awesome!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: October 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a very fun and unique game,you control ghosts to scare the heck out of mortals.You get many different ghost to use for different hauntings and you have the ability to recruit more ghosts into your ranks.I have always looked for ghost,haunted house,halloween type games and they are way too few, i highly recommended this game.The game has nice graphics it is easy to learn and you can spend hours playing this and not get bored at all.I would love to see an expansion for this game. Get it you wont be sorry.

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