Alyssa Milano joins Ghostbusters game @ Gaming Target

Written by John Scalzo on March 23, 2009

News: The Who's the Boss beauty joins the Ghostbusters on their next adventure.

With Sigourney Weaver bowing out of reprising her Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II role of Dana Barrett for the Ghostbusters game (which she later regretted), Atari has announced that a new female character will take her place next to the four returning Ghostbusters.

Alyssa Milano will play Dr. Ilyssa Selwyn, an expert on Gozer mythology and the love interest of one Dr. Peter Venkman (Bill Murray). Dr. Selwyn (and Milano) will apparently play a huge role in the game's plot:

In the game, Milano's character, Ilyssa Selwyn, is an expert in Sumerian and pre-Sumerian cultures and is visiting New York City as guest curator for the highly anticipated СWorld of Gozer' exhibition opening in 1991 at the Natural History Museum. In the story line, Gozerian mythology has attracted a wide popular following since the still-unexplained events and attacks that occurred in the city in 1984. Ilyssa is working late at the museum the night before the opening when a cataclysmic force is unleashed and summons an ancient enemy back to New York City. Strange events continue to erupt around her: what secret does she know? It's up to the Ghostbusters to help Ilyssa find the key and stop the forces of evil that threaten the balance of the universe. That's if they can keep Peter Venkman from hitting on her every three minutes.

Ghostbusters: The Game will be released on the DS, PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360 on June 16. I can't wait.