Ghost Rider is a 2007 action game based off the 2007 Nic Cage film of the same name, and is in fact a sequel to the film.
After the movie's events, Mephisto sends his minion, Vengeance, to bring Ghost Rider to him. After an intense battle where Ghost Rider chases Mephisto down to the Gates of Hell, he then finds out Mephisto's army of demons is on the verge of escaping the underworld and could trigger The End of the World as We Know It.
Johnny initially refuses Mephisto's offers, but is later coerced into working with Mephisto after the demon threatens to use his Love Interest, Roxanne, as leverage.
Gameplay-wise, Ghost Rider is your standard Devil May Cry and God of War clone (made when these franchises were relatively new) but adapted with the movie's characters. Much like in the film, Johnny can kick ass with his fists or trusty motorcycle, in several levels where he battles demons and elementals left and right.
The game was developed by Climax Action for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable, and by Magic Pockets for the Game Boy Advance. 2K Games was the publisher for all three versions.
Ghost Rider (the game, not the movie) contains examples of the following tropes:
- Absurdly Spacious Sewer: One of the stages Johnny has to cross in order to find the Water Elemental is a sewer large enough for him to hold a motorcycle chase against hordes and hordes of demon mooks on their own cycles.
- Airborne Mooks: Flying, red batlike imps will appear to menace Johnny at several points.
- Amusement Park of Doom: The game's final stage where Johnny confronts Blackheart is an abandoned amusement park filled with demons.
- Auto-Scrolling Level: Levels where Johnny lives up to his name and kicks ass while riding his trusty Hellcycle have him speeding ahead, either attacking enemies he's pursuing or avoiding obstacles along the way. Crashing would require him to restart the stage.
- Blade Below the Shoulder: One of the demon mooks has blades grafted to its arms, which it can use to perform a Spin Attack to slice up Johnny.
- Chain Pain: Just like in the movie, Johnny can use his chain to grab enemies from afar and yank them towards him for additional damage.
- Chase Fight: Johnny, befitting his namesake, gets to fight motorcycle-riding demons while riding his own bike, where they'll pursue each other while attacking. There's also the bosses, Vengeance and Blackout, all of them on bikes of their own.
- Cool Bike: Johnny's Hellcycle, of course, just like in the movie. And its game incarnation is upgraded with the ability to fire flaming projectiles for good measure.
- Crossover: Blade appears halfway through as an Assist Character helping Johnny deal with Blackout.
- Crystal Landscape: There's a cavern filled with crystal stalactites and stalagmites, where Johnny faces the earth elemental boss.
- Elemental Embodiment: The game has monsters based on three of the four elements as bosses, which Johnny needs to defeat, in order - the Earth Elemental, Water Elemental and Air Elemental.
- Elemental Powers: Unlike his movie counterpart which specializes in Playing with Fire, Johnny Blaze in the game can collect souls of Lightning and Earth by defeating bosses, allowing him to use electrical attacks.
- Elevator Action Sequence: Johnny infiltrates an Abandoned Mine in one stage, and as he enters via a rising elevator platform, multiple enemies start swarming from all sides. He needs to defeat them all before the elevator reaches the bottom.
- MacGuffin Delivery Service: Subverted; Johnny travels to various locales to hunt down Blackheart's demons who threaten to open the gateway to Hell on Earth, only to find that the gate opens anyway, as the path the Rider took drew an evil symbol on the Earth in the flames left behind by the Rider's bike.
- Make My Monster Grow: Blackheart, the Final Boss, who turns himself into a building-sized monster that attacks Johnny. The whole fight has Johnny running along a rooftop while trying to fend off his attacks.
- One-Hit Kill: Just like in the movie, Johnny can perform an instantaneous execution on enemies by making them gaze into his eyes. The difference however is that the game allows him to do this to demons, which obliterates them on the spot.
- Percussive Maintenance: One cutscene has Johnny trying to activate a control panel to drop a set of ladders. When it doesn't work, Johnny simply deals a flaming punch that blows up the panel, and surprisingly that works - cue descending ladder.
- Rank Inflation: The game has rankings from D to A, then S with V at the top. Each rank has a suitable title (such as "Damned", "Brutal"), with the highest, unsurprisingly, being "Vengeance".
- Rock Monster: The Earth Elemental boss is a larger-than-average rock monster Johnny fights in a cavern. There are lesser rock beasts as Giant Mook enemies in the mineshaft stage.
- Shoryuken: One of Johnny's special moves absent in his cinematic counterpart, where his fist glows with a powerful aura before he does a jumping uppercut that deals severe damage.
- Sphere of Power: Lilith is floating in a sphere made of electricity during her boss fight.
- Suplex Finisher: One of Johnny's special moves allows him to grab enemies the same size as himself, lift them into mid-air, and suplex them over his head to the ground for additional damage.
- Traintop Battle: The battle between Johnny and Lilith is set atop a moving train, where Lilith will hover above the ground while sending mooks to fight Johnny.
