Each tile can be flipped over as well, hence them all being marked with a letter and number for quick and easy identification.

Of course a Ghostbuster can also help get rid of the slime on one of his team mates at the cost of a single action, making it the more preferable cleaning option of the two.The above picture shows most of the items marked "Kickstarter Exclusive" but on closer reading of the campaign you'll find everything - even the movie stuff like Janine, Gozer and Walter Peck - is marked as off-limits to retail. Sure, the big white deluxe box is lovely, but those bags on either side of the box in the above Instagram photo are also expansions in the same mode as the Slimer box. A few weeks ago, I traded away Ghostbusters: The Board Game for a copy of Takenoko , a game that I know will work better with my gaming group. The rulebook also contains artwork done by Dan Schoening, the artist of IDW’s Ghostbusters comic book series, and it looks utterly glorious. Venkman gets XP when he’s slimed by a ghost, and Zeddemore works by depositing adversaries in the Ecto-1.

This is indicated by a character card that also shows how difficult the ghosts are to trap and any special rules they may have. Ghostbusters : The Boardgame is inspired from the original American movie Ghostbusters directed by Ivan Reitman (1984). How the Ghostbusters license has been integrated into the experience is obviously important, and here we encounter something of a mixed bag, because in many regards it feels like Cryptozoic struggled to incorporate a lot of elements from the movie. Edward, a former flat-mate who we used to play some games with, complained that we would " mind-meld" and be effective as a team without ever giving each other verbal instructions.For Ghostbusters, however, the exclusive content is everything beyond the core game and that includes a whole bunch of mechanical stuff. When it comes to catching, the Ghostbusters must roll a die to see if their stream successfully hits.