Game Controls .

Game Controls ............................................................................. 4

Firehouse (Ghostbusters HQ) ....................................................... 5

Pause Menu .................................................................................. 5

Options Menu .............................................................................. 5

Heads Up Display (HUD) .............................................................. 6

Equipment ................................................................................... 7

Wrangling and Capturing .......................................................... 10

Upgrades ................................................................................... 10

Xbox LIVE .................................................................................. 11

Atari Web Sites ........................................................................... 14

Technical Support (U.S. and Canada) ......................................... 14

End-User License Agreement .................................................... 15

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WARNING Before playing this game, read the Xbox 360

Instruction Manual

and any peripheral manuals for important safety and health information. Keep all

manuals for future reference. For replacement manuals, see www.xbox.com/support

or call Xbox Customer Support.

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confusion, or momentary loss of awareness. Seizures may also cause loss of

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left stick Move

right stick Turn/Look/Aim

x button Primary Fire

w button Secondary Fire/Slam

B button Jump/Evade/Sprint

directional pad m Equip Blast Stream/Boson Dart

directional pad o Equip Meson Collider/Overload Pulse

directional pad s Equip Stasis Beam/Shock Blast

directional pad q Equip Slime Blower/Slime Tether

Y button PKE Meter/Paragoggles

_ button Capture Stream

z button Vent Pack

h Display Teammate Location Portraits.

X button Throw Ghost Trap

A button (over Interact Circle) Interact/Revive Ghostbuster/Pick Up Ghost Trap

> button Pause/Options Menu

< button Field Guide Shortcut

Firehouse (Ghostbusters hQ)

The Firehouse serves as the tutorial area and is revisited between

certain levels.

save a Game

Your progress is automatically saved at checkpoints while you play.

When you start the game, your last checkpoint is loaded. Make sure

that you have at least 4 MB of free space before starting the game.

replayinG levels

You can access completed levels from the Career menu.

pause menu

Pausing the game brings up the PKE HUD interface. From here you can

view Objectives, the Tobin’s Spirit Guide, Equipment, Artifacts, Train-

ing, Statistics, & Options.

Objectives: Display the current objective.

Tobin’s Spirit Guide: View a list of all scanned ghosts, as well as the

number of creatures that you have captured and destroyed.

Equipment: View a list of all available equipment upgrades.

Artifacts: View a list of all collected Cursed Artifacts.

Training: Review the controls for specific tasks.

Statistics: Displays Career Overview, Financial, Medical and Combat

information.

options menu

Reload Checkpoint: Reload last saved checkpoint.

Settings: Configure Gameplay, Controls and Audio/Video settings.

Quit to Main Menu: Return to the Main Menu.

Y Equip PKE Meter/

Paraoggles

X Throw Ghost Trap

B Jump/Evade/Sprint

A Interact/Revive

Buster/Pick Up

Ghost Trap

Capture

Stream

Move

Turn/Look/

Aim

] Secondary Fire/Slam x Primary Fire

Equip

Items

(see chart

below)

Field

Guide

Shortcut

Pause/Options

` Vent Pack

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Xbox Guide

Game Controls

XboX 360 Controller

heads up display (hud)

1. health bar

The horizontal, green health bar health bar is located on your Proton

Pack and shows your current health. As your health is reduced, the

health bar drains. When it empties you are incapacitated. The fringes

of the screen also begins to go red and blur to indicate critical health.

2. eQuipment status meter

The vertical, red bar on your Proton Pack indicates the status of your cur-

rent equipment. If you fire your equipment for too long, it will overheat

and become unusable for a short period of time. If overheating occurs,

you can manually vent the pack by pressing z.

3. teammate portraits

When a fellow Ghostbuster is incapacitated, his portrait appears along

with a directional indicator that points toward his location. If you want to

know where your teammates are at any given moment, you can also man-

ually bring up the portraits of all Ghostbusters in the current mission.

4. Creature status

Shows the health of ghosts.

5. damaGe Claim

This HUD element shows the dollar value of all “accidents” and inciden-

tal damage caused while on the job. You can find cumulative damage

totals in the Financial Records section of your Ghostbusters Field Guide.

6. Creature reward

This shows the dollar value of killed entities or captured ghosts. When

a creature is captured or destroyed, its reward value is displayed on

screen for a short amount of time.

7. pKe meter

The rods on the sides of the PKE meter raise and begin to glow and

pulse when you are pointing it at something interesting. Ecto-Goggles

are automatically equipped when using the PKE Meter. When you have

the Ecto-Goggles on, you will find the trails that ghosts leave behind.

Your PKE METER will flash different colors at times.

• Red Signal – Hidden ghosts & entities.

• Green Signal – Environmental Phenomena

• Blue Signal – Cursed Artifacts (scanning these opens bonus

content as well as adding additional money for upgrades).

8. button/aCtion prompt

The bar on the bottom-right will display a prompt, such as “Equip PKE

Meter” or “Interact” when action should be taken.

9. slam meter

This gauge indicates when you have built up enough energy to slam

a ghost.

10. eQuipment wheel

This circle of items appears on the right side when you press the D-

pad to change equipment.

eQuipment

blast stream (primary Fire)

Using the Proton Pack’s particle accelera-

tor, the Neutrona Wand releases a concen-

trated stream of protons that fluctuates as

it reaches its target. The fluctuations of

the Proton beam tend to cause extensive

property damage.

boson darts (seCondary Fire)

Boson Darts are super de-polarized bursts

of extremely volatile, but very effective,

boson particles. Boson particles quickly

overheat the Proton Pack, so sparse usage

is recommended. Accidental Neutrona

Wand blockage could vaporize the

surrounding three square miles. Requires:

Proton Accelerator.

shoCK blast (primary Fire)

The Shock Blast expels a conical pattern of

stripped dark matter particles that diffuse

quickly in the atmosphere. It is very pow-

erful at close range but less accurate and

less potent the farther you are from your

target. It works well on inbound ghosts and

vapor swarms or near-proximity entities.

stasis stream (seCondary Fire)

The Stasis Stream emits a high-capacity

stream of order-reversed particles

that hypo bond to ectoplasmic matter,

effectively immobilizing ghosts. The Stasis

Stream has nothing to do with cold, but the

effect is similar.

slime blower marK 2 (primary Fire)

Black slime is only vulnerable to the Plas-

ma Distribution System. Use the Slime

Blower to vaporize and eliminate black

slime. Only the Slime Blower can exorcise

possessed humans or objects.

slime tether (seCondary Fire)

Once your Neutrona Wand is equipped

for Traction-Levitation, the Slime Tether

allows for the discharge of plasmic slime

strands between two points. The plasmic

strands contract and pull on whatever is on

the two ends. The Slime Tether works great

for moving heavy objects, and you can use

it for capturing ghosts.

meson Collider (primary Fire)

The Meson Collider releases a hyper-

collided, long-range stream of particles

that vaporizes any ectoplasmic material

in its trajectory. The spread is limited but

intensely focused, making it great for long

and medium distance creatures. It also

marks a spot that the Overload Pulse will

track to automatically for several seconds.

overload pulse (seCondary Fire)

An alternate release mode of the Neutrona

Wand, the Overload Pulse Pulse is a series of

low damage, rapid-fire particles that automati-

cally track to a marker set by the Meson Col-

lider.

Ghost trap

Deploy a Containment Trap when a ghost is

wrangled. Lower the ghost into the trap for

holding until it can be deposited in the Con-

tainment Grid at the Firehouse.

pKe meter

The PKE Meter measures electromagnetic fluc-

tuations like a divining rod: point it at psychoki-

netic energy, and it heats up. Point it away and it

goes cold. Just follow the signal to your target.

Using the PKE Meter for tracking is helpful but

you can also use it to perform a full target scan

on a variety of paranormally-tainted entities and objects. At the center of

the PKE Meter screen are three nested circles. Ghosts scanned in the outer

ring receive a 25% scan, a 50% scan in the second ring, and a 100% scan

in the center ring. Information on each creature is progressively unlocked

based on it’s current scan level. Creatures can be scanned multiple time

until a 100% scan has been reached.Scanned creatures are listed in Tobin’s

Spirit Guide located in the Pause Menu.

para-GoGGles

The Goggles are enabled whenever you use

your PKE Meter. They’ll allow you to view oth-

erwise invisible ectoplasmic activity.

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wranGlinG and CapturinG

Press m to equip the Blast Stream. Keep

the crosshair over the ghost and press

^ to fire the Proton Stream and weaken

him.

Ghosts that are sufficiently wounded

will be automatically wrangled by the

Blast Stream. You can wrangle some

large objects using the Blast Stream by

pressing _.

The slam gauge will appear and begin

to fill when a ghost is being wrangled.

When enough slam has accumulated,

press w to slam the ghost.

Press X to toss a trap. Maneuver the

ghost into the trap using the left stick.

Ghosts will try to escape an open ghost

trap! Use the right stick to keep them in

the middle of the trap’s capture cone.

Congratulations on a successful cap-

ture!

upGrades

You earn money for equipment upgrades by capturing Ghosts, Scanning

Cursed Artifacts, and other activities. To upgrade, press the START but-

ton to bring up the PKE HUD (Pause Menu) and view the “Equipment”

heading. Scroll through the available options and choose your upgrade.

Common upgrades include:

PKE Meter:

• Scan Improvement – Increases Scan Target Size

• Recharge Booster – Decreases Scan Recharge Time

Trap:

• Fast Trap – Increases Ghost Trap Draw Down Rate.

• Slam Dunk Trap – Enables Slam Dunking Ghosts into the trap.

Blast Stream:

• Focusing – Reduces Stream Wandering

• Recoil Decrease – Removes Movement Restrictions

Unlock new equipment and earn money to discover other upgrades.

XboX live

Play anyone and everyone, anytime, anywhere on Xbox LIVE

. Build your

profile (your gamer card). Chat with your friends. Download content (TV

shows, trailers, HD movies, game demos, exclusive game content, and

Arcade games) at Xbox LIVE Marketplace. Send and receive voice and

video messages. Use LIVE with both Xbox 360

and Windows

. Play, chat,

and download on both your PC and your Xbox 360. LIVE gives you ulti-

mate access to the things you want and the people you know, on both your

PC and your TV. Get connected and join the revolution!

ConneCtinG

Before you can use Xbox LIVE, connect your Xbox 360 console to a high-

speed Internet connection and sign up to become an Xbox LIVE member.

For more information about connecting, and to determine whether Xbox

LIVE is available in your region, go to www.xbox.com/live/countries.

Family settinGs

These easy and flexible tools enable parents and caregivers to decide

which games young game players can access based on the content rat-

ing. Parents can restrict access to mature-rated content. Approve who and

how your family interacts with others online with the Xbox LIVE service.

And set time limits on how long they can play. For more information, go to

www.xbox.com/familysettings.

ranKed or unranKed play modes

Select Xbox LIVE at the Main Menu to join up to three other players in mis-

sions and competitions.

Instant Action – Play a single Job on a map

Campaign - Play through a series of jobs on one theme. You upgrade

weapons based on your weapon specialization and cash earned.

diFFiCulty

Difficulty scales automatically in Ranked games based on the number of

players and the average rank and skill of players. For Unranked games,

you can set the difficulty to Easy, Medium, or Hard.

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Note: Both Instant Action and Campaign modes offer random selection of

map/job type. You can join any Unranked game in progress. Matchmaking

is based on player Rank or Difficulty.

CharaCter and eQuipment seleCtion

You can play as any of the Ghostbusters game characters: Venkman, Egon,

Ray, Winston, or the Rookie. You choose a weapon specialization, which up-

grades that weapon for you in Instant Action and allows upgrades to it in

Campaign mode. There are different upgrade levels for each weapon. It also

gives a limited amount of ammo for the chosen weapon if applicable.

Job types

Choose from six job types:

Survival – Waves of stronger ghosts at-

tack the players until they are all knocked

out at once. Survive ten waves to win!

Containment – Find, capture and destroy

as many ghosts as you can within a time limit.

Destruction – Psychokinetic energy has been trapped in a variety of evil

“Relics,” and you must release it by destroying the objects, as well as any

ghosts spawned by the Relic’s presence. Destroy as many objects as pos-

sible within the time limit.

Protection – You must protect three “PKE Disruptors” over time as they are

built. Only one Disruptor can be in-progress at any given time; as each Dis-

ruptor is completed you can move onto the next one. Ghosts that attack the

object reverse the building process forcing you to defend it longer.

Thief – Your team is pitted against some greedy ghosts trying to steal magi-

cal “Artifacts” from the level. Waves of attacking ghosts break off, grab spe-

cial objects, and try to leave the level with these objects through “escape

portals.” If all objects are stolen within the time limit, the Ghostbusters fail.

Slime Dunk – Portals have opened between the Ghost World and the Real

World, and waves of slimer ghosts are coming through. Each time a ghost is

“dunked” into a Big Trap, the player who dunked the slimer ghost receives

cash. This is a competitive job!

Many maps feature special events…

sCorinG

You are given a cash score for each match and ranked from the first rank to

the fourth. This score is applied to your gamer profile. A screen after each

match shows the results.

power-ups

Ghost Stunner – Destroys or stuns all ghosts in range.

Pink Slime - Turns ghosts friendly and pink. While pink they at-

tack other ghosts!

Ghost Shrinker – Shrinks ghosts down so they are puny.

Proton Accelerator – Supercharges to the Blast Stream and en-

ables the Boson Dart.

Ethereal Shield – Creates a damage-resistant shield for a limited

time.

Ammo – Players do not have unlimited ammo as in single-player.

Players pick up ammo canisters for each weapon type. The Ammo

level is shown on the pack and the HUD.

uniQue XboX live Features

Aggro Ghost Behaviors – These special

versions of floater ghosts appear on hard-

er waves and difficulty settings. Ghosts

with an Orange glow may perform tricky

behaviors, like copying themselves, sab-

otaging Ghostbuster traps, or leaving be-

hind dangerous pools of black slime.

Most Wanted Ghosts – These special ghosts appear mid game based on the

experience of the current players. Try to collect all of the most-wanted ghosts!

• Hints are shown on the Most Wanted Ghost screen with portraits of all

ghosts.

• Once caught or destroyed the ghost’s portrait is checked off.

Ranking – Rank is based on total earned Xbox LIVE Ranked match cash. Your

uniform color is determined by your rank.

Player Statistics – View a variety of player information.

Leaderboards – Check out the top Ghostbusters and see how you and your

friends compare.

Note: Look for unique Xbox LIVE Achievements related to power ups,

Most Wanted Ghosts, and playing all Job Types!