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WITH THE MOVIE ABOUT to be unleashed on audiences around New Zealand, Ghost Rider is quickly blazing a trail and taking no prisoners. That said, we think the Ghost Rider character from the game of the same name might need to slay a few more demons before we're happy to start calling him the saviour of gaming kind.
Releasing on several formats including the PSP, Ghost Rider is yet another regurgitated hero from the pages of a comic book brought to life (again) in the shape of a video game. We really don't want to bag on the dude too much (after all, he does have a pretty cool looking bike) but the game is a far cry from anything we'd consider great or even good to play.
Taking into consideration that most of the gameplay looks like it's a direct ripoff of another rather popular and more entertaining title (which we probably shouldn't name here, just to be on the safe side), once you get passed the initial issues of 'copycat gameplay', Ghost Rider really doesn't have a hell of a lot left going for it – apart from the bike which incidentally, of which we couldn't get enough.
So, what exactly is a Ghost Rider and what does he/it do? There's quite a long and colourful history behind the character of Ghost Rider, a history we don't really want to drag out other than to mention Johnny Blaze (Ghost Rider's real name) has some serious issues to deal with and somehow manages to turn his complicated life into an even more complicated life by making a sordid deal with the demon, Mephistopheles.
That's the short version of the story. It's the whole demon thing that people seem to latch onto so we're going to go with the flow and focus on demons, death, motorbikes and of course, flaming chains.
As the Ghost Rider, you transform into a demon whose main objective is to wipe out other demons. And that's pretty much all you do in this game. It's repetitive and even enjoyable, for a little while at least. But we'd like to bet that even veterans of repetitious fighting games will soon tire of the lack of content and challenges.
You begin the game faced with a series of levels to complete. Your main weapon is a chain that you control much like a whip which can latch on to anything. As well as using your agility, the best part of the game is using combinations when you fight by button-mashing your way through the hordes of demons you're forced to take out to progress. That's really it in a nutshell.
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