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This US version was rushed too fast onto the market.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 15
Date: November 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game would be great if they ever work out a US patch. Ive been to ghostmaster.net(fan site), and the forum is full of people talking about how horribly bugged it is. Customer support is just a couple cookie cutter replies. This is the worst 30$ i ever spent. Shouldnt waste your money on a CHANCE your computer MIGHT run it. They must be aware of the problems too. Why else offer a "free video" AND a 10$ rebate really soon after it hits the streets. Hope they come out with a US patch. They sure aren't saying.....

Too many bugs, glitches, unplayable

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: June 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I installed the American Version for this game and had nothing but problems. The game would crash repeatedly. It was not my comupter or graphics card(ATI Radeon9800 Pro. It fact my system exceeded the requirements in everyway. There is practicly no technical support for this game so if you have a problem your out of luck. The game just does not work.

Frustrates Me!!!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 17
Date: May 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I got this game the first day it came out. By the third day I was on the second level. I was so excited because I had one more mission untill the third level. Well they don't explain in the directions how to save, so I came backk and by accident pressed new game. Therer was no way out so I exit out of the game and pressed resume game. My game was deleted. I warn you before you buy it is a fun game but not fun enough to start over. Listen to me and just play the demo.

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.

Your Personal Poltergeist Construction Set

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: January 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Vivendi/Universal has done a really good job of pumping out new and interesting ideas in their games without losing sight of fun being the overriding necessity. Ghost Master continues the tradition by combining both action and strategy in a simple premise - scare the heck out of everyone!

You start off with a fairly well made tutorial that explains the basics, including how to move around, zoom in and out, and set up your different ghosts for haunting in a classic "scare the sorority girls" setting. You also learn certain individuals are more prone to being frightened by certain ghosts than others. For instance, some may be scared of spiders, while others have a fear of fire. The scares are more cartoonish than violent and most kids should be able to play without nightmares, but young kids might be disturbed.

As you progress in the game, you have a certain amount of "scare factor" known as plasm to use to scare people with. As people become more and more frightened, your plasm level goes up, allowing you to increase the number of powers your ghost can conjure up. In short, the more scared the people get, the scarier the effects you can subject them to. Once their terror level peaks they run screaming from the house. The sooner you complete your mission, the more points you rack up, allowing to "upgrade" your ghosts with additional powers for later missions.

The game isn't just about scaring people, though. Some strategy is involved in figuring out secondary objectives such as luring or leading people to a certain area of the house or releasing ghosts so they can be used in later missions. Some of these puzzles are challenging, but most missions can be wrapped up in about half an hour.

My system is due for an upgrade, but the game itself ran fine at 1024x768 on a 1Ghz Athlon and a Geforce 2. The movie clips are a different story and regardless of what I did, I could not prevent choppiness and stuttering. It's also annoying not knowing your mission objectives upfront. The game would have been a lot easier to play by simply explaining the mission, then allowing us to choose which ghosts we want to use. Instead, we pick ghosts basically at random and find we may have to start the mission over if we're missing something vital. Finally, the voice acting is pretty bad. If you're lucky (or unlucky) enough to complete two or more objectives at the same time, you'll hear both announcements at once, which sounds like complete gibberish.

Aside from these annoyances, Ghost Master is a fun game. The music is cheerfully campy, providing the atmospheric creepiness typical of B-movies, and the graphics are bright and vibrant, with more than a passing resemblence to the movie Ghostbusters. If you're looking to create your own haunted house, filled with things that go bump in the night, then this is the game for you.

Hope the review helped.

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.

ok but has problems

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

ghostmaster is a good game. its easy at first, but gets harder along the way. it was all fun and games until I got to 1 part. most levels took me under an hour. i have quality time so i can't play 24 hours a day. i have to quit every when im running out of time. well, i had just reached the hospital. i tried it of course but then i was out of time. i really didn't want to quit... i had gone to far. i tried not quiting and just leaving it, but that would do bad stuff to the computer. save game right? well guess what? you can't do that!!! that's just sad! i couldn't have the game on pause and running for 12 hours strait. anyway... only buy this game if you have time to play it.

here are some cheats or just interesting things.
-- on the level of 'unusual suspects' in the main lobby bind an earth spirit to the plant in the corner. make it do the power 'tremor'. you will get a secret ghost named banzi. (however you spell it)
--you may already know this. when a mortal is sleeping, see his/her POV. You will see a dancing sheep on a fence.(not animated) bind a sleeping ghost, such as hypnos(2 legged horse) and use the power 'dream demon'. (it's better to uncover their fear first) again, see the mortal's POV. You will see an evil sheep with humongus fangs. trust me... it's kind of creepy..

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.

Great!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Ghost Master is one of my favorite games. It gets hard as the levels get more towards the end of the game though, but it's still very fun. My favorite haunt is when you bind that feather chicken thing to a kid and make them do 'seep blood'.

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.

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