History VideoGame / GhostHunter

* Joe Morton voiced Professor Richmond as well as his younger computer incarnation, Digital Richmond. Ends up TalkingToHimself in the late game.

[[caption-width-right:270: "It's a living hell - minus the living."]]

* PantyShot - Lazarus can maneuver to see up the ghost Librarian's granny skirt as she floats through Hawksmoor's castle lecturing. There's nothing inside.

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''Ghost Hunter'' is fun survival horror developed by by SCEE Cambridge in 2003. The game has a lot more humor and less violence than the average survival horror, earning it a T for Blood and Violence, when the usual Survival Horror is rated at least M. Like the ''VideoGame/FatalFrame'' series, it's unusual in pursuing ghosts instead of zombies or BodyHorror monsters.

Play through a wide variety of well-modeled, well-textured detailed environments. Abandoned high-school, ancient cemetary, three increasingly evil versions of a decrepit southern mansion, a ghost ship, haunted prison, half submerged ghost town, abandoned mine, swamp complete with ghostly redneck snipers, and a military complex littered with old corpses and their lively ghosts.

* AbandonedHospital - in a prison. With a ghost surgeon gliding noiselessly about in a black old-fashioned surgical gown. Snipe him from a distance and he turns and points at you, directing the guards to you. Eerie to see through the telescopic sniper scope.

* AfterBossRecovery - [[spoiler: There's a secluded upper area in the Research Lab with plenty of health, and real and spirit ammo. It doesn't matter much because Lazarus dies shortly after and has almost no use for any of it.]]
* ApocalypticLog

* AttractMode - ''Ghost Hunter'' features the voice of Michael Gambon booming out "'''There are thousands of ghost stories...into some intrude the living.'''"
* BoomHeadshot - Headshots on the redneck snipers with the sniper rifle is a one-hit kill. Headshots are rumored to be more effective vs other monsters as well.
* BridgeLogic - [[spoiler: Detective Lazarus Jones uses a sniper rifle to blow up a cabin high on a cliff face by a waterfall. The debris falls into the river, floats down and fetches up against rocks in the stream forming a bridge.]]
* CaptainErsatz - The game itself for the Ghostbusters franchise.
* TheChosenOne - Kate Heller/Astral. Explicitly named so in a cutscene. [[spoiler:What she's chosen for or why is never explained. Her final fate is uncertain.]]

* DownTheDrain - Averted. Any underwater work is done by Astral, who is unaffected by water.
* EmergencyWeapon - Lazarus' starting pistol never runs out of magazines.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed - Character Sir William Hawksmoor is an Expy for "Oliver Cromwell

* FissionMailed - When Lord Hawksmoor has you realise that there is absolutely no way out of your predicament, and possesses your partner to shoot you dead, the game returns silently and sadly to the main screen. [[spoiler: Then the computer AI that's been guiding you on the game, and is present on the main screen, speaks up. And possesses a robot with a giant chaingun. And sets about fixing the problem and reviving the main character.]]

* GogglesDoSomethingUnusual - The Spectral goggles come in very handy.
* HaveANiceDeath - Dying will result in the [[SarcasmMode lovely image]] of Lazarus falling to the ground and his spirit rising up from his body, which is then torn apart by ghosts.
* HyperspaceArsenal - Averted. The main character picks up five or six weapons over the course of the game, and carries them in various holsters and slings on his body. it never affects his aim, of course.
* IdleAnimation - Lazarus will 'adjust himself'.
* LargeHam

* LighthousePoint - The Prison section has one.

* LosingYourHead - The ghost of the British commander on the ship.
* MagicMirror

* MirrorWorld - Ghost Hunter has two different versions of the [=DeMontford=] Mansion. There's a Weird version and an Evil version, so named in the save file titles. There's also a normal version, but only a few rooms of it are visited.
* MotionCapture

* SceneryPorn

* ShouldersOfDoom

* {{Spinventory}} - objects viewed in Lazarus inventory spin to show off the object models.
* SuperDrowningSkills - Averted
** Astral, being a spirit, moves through water like it was air. Compare to Scree in the sister-game, ''VideoGame/{{Primal}}''. A stone gargoyle that just sinks and walks.

* TakeCover - ''Ghost Hunter'' has cover system. In first person mode Lazarus can lean out from cover and shoot with almost no risk to himself. Too bad it was not at all obvious

* TankGoodness - Lazarus gets to operate the turret, but not on the move.
* ThirdPersonSeductress - Astral, pretty hot for floating spirit girl wearing an artfully arranged bedsheet.
* {{Troperiffic}} - What do you think?
* VariableMix - [[http://rexy.co.uk/2008/12/ghosthunter-music/ ''Ghost Hunter'' Interactive Music]]
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection - Digital Richmond contacts him more than once on missions with warnings and explanations.

* WhereItAllBegan - begins with two cops talking about the abandoned high-school they're checking out. It ends in the same place [[spoiler: talking about how they're going to report what happened.]]

"'[[AC:There are thousands of ghost stories, tales of loss, suffering and rejection - into a few - intrude the living.]]"

* Creator/RobPaulsen, probably best known for his portrayals of [[VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment Morte]], [[WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain Pinky]], and [[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} Yakko Warner]], voiced Lazarus Jones. His trademark ad libs show up in the game.

''Ghost Hunter'' is fun survival horror developed by by SCEE Cambridge in 2003. The game has a lot more humor and less violence than the average survival horror, earning it a T for Blood and Violence, when the usual Survival Horror is rated at least M. Like the FatalFrame series, it's unusual in pursuing ghosts instead of zombies or BodyHorror monsters.

*** Come on, a spoiler tag? Anyone that's been on this site for more than ten minutes can guess who that is and why.

--> Sir Michael Gambon in the AttractMode for ''Ghost Hunter''.

** Astral, being a spirit, moves through water like it was air. Compare to Scree in the sister-game, {{Primal}}. A stone gargoyle that just sinks and walks.

* Creator/RobPaulsen, probably best known for his portrayals of [[PlanescapeTorment Morte]], [[WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain Pinky]], and [[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} Yakko Warner]], voiced Lazarus Jones. His trademark ad libs show up in the game.

* GogglesDoNothing - Inverted. The Spectral goggles come in very handy.

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* HeyItsThatVoice
** Sir Michael Gambon voices the BigBad wizard in ''Ghost Hunter''. Currently Sir Michael is playing [[Film/HarryPotter Albus Dumbledore]] on the big screen.
** Rob Paulsen voiced Lazarus Jones. Rob is best known for Pinky, in Pinky and the Brain. His trademark adlibs show up in the game.

* TalkingToHimself - Joe Morton voiced Professor Richmond as well as his younger computer incarnation.

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* RobPaulsen, probably best known for his portrayals of [[PlanescapeTorment Morte]], [[WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain Pinky]], and [[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} Yakko Warner]], voiced Lazarus Jones. His trademark ad libs show up in the game.

* Sir Michael Gambon voiced Sir William Hawksmoor. Sir Michael took over playing Dumbledore on the big screen. This makes ''Ghost Hunter'' one of the few games with performances by a Knight of the British Empire.

* RobPaulsen, probably best known for his portrayals of [[PlanescapeTorment Morte]], [[PinkyAndTheBrain Pinky]], and [[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} Yakko Warner]], voiced Lazarus Jones. His trademark ad libs show up in the game.

Made IGN's list of [[http://ps2.ign.com/articles/606/606189p2.html The Top 10 Best Looking PS2 games of all time]].

The music and sound effects fit the action and scenery. The music is seamlessly context sensitive. The voice acting may be the best ever in a video game.