[spoiler]Okay, after playing the game, who else has detected the missing level?
In the original trailer released by Atari (Before all of the updates) we see that Mickey Mouse float from the thanksgiving day parade possessed balloon that we also see on the TV just before the GBs all go out for the final confrontation.
But in the trailer, we see that same float with the guys standing underneath it looking up.
Not to mention that really cool shot of all the ghosts chasing after the Ecto 1B. I can see where it would fit into the game; just before we see Ecto speeding through the park, but do we have any idea what happened to this level? Might it be released as downloadable content later?
Anyone heard anything? Anyone who beta tested the game get to play this level? Is there something we are missing?
Well, I think the clown ghosts you see in multiplayer are probably from the thanksgiving day parade level they cut out. I didn’t see them any where else in the game.
such a shame that they cut that out, a parade level would’ve been AWESOME.
i remember on the tech demo for the new graphics engine they showed a gb running down the street with 100s of people running away, down the street as the rookie ran through them, that would’ve been awesome for a parade level.
not to mention the part of the old trailer when the guys look up at the evil balloon was honestly one of my favorite parts in the whole trailer cause that captured the “oh wow this is so creepy/weird/but cool” feel
Without the parade level the game might as well take place any other time of the year. I mean all the talk about it being a 4 day weekend and the parade being ruined and it being a holiday was basically there to set up an awesome parade level with giant possessed balloons. I’m really upset at the way some things have been handled with this game. And the cut is so obvious. I mean, the ghostbusters see giant ghosts attacking innocent people and they go to the park first and level them to be terrorized?
It’s bad enough the wii version is ridiculously stripped down, after we were told it wouldn’t be. Now we find they stripped down the regular version of the game as well. It’s a great game but it really suffers from having too many hands in the pot.
Maybe somebody should as Skanker (I think that’s his name) about this. Surely he would know. On a personal note, I couldn’t care less about a missing level. What we were presented with, in my opinion, is freakin’ awesome.
Probably, I don’t remeber, but the whole point of putting this game during thanks giving was to have a kickass parade level, otherwise there is no reason to have it take place during that time.
GB2 takes place during the christmas season because Vigo wanted in on the new year. It had a reason to take place during that time of year. GB1, as far as i know, could have taken place at an time and thus no season specific comments were made as far as i know because there was no reason to make them. The game takes place during thanks giving and seasonal comments are made, but without the parade level is makes it all pointless. Now you just kind of go…ok…it’s thanksgiving…so?
The parade float battle is still in the DS version…
The boys fight a giant turkey…But are unable to blast it with the proton streams for fear of causing a massive explosion, so they have to burst it with gas…
It really makes no sense, and if that was the plot for the next gen version, i’m kinda glad they left it on the cutting room floor.
After you beat the game, if you look in the extras under misc. concept art, you can see the storyboards for at least what looks like a cutscene from the float level. It’s got the GBs rolling out of the firehouse and they meet up with peck and the mayor to get the sit rep, then one of the floats tries to attack peck and the boys jump into action.
Also, yeah, their were no scoleris, but them coming back was definitely mentioned by the development team in one of the many interviews, probably back around october-november. People aren’t just making that up.
