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The Movies Review
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Manufacturer: Activision
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ESRB Rating: Teen
Platform(s): Windows XP
Release Date: November 8, 2005
Average Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars
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Date: 2008-11-17
BECAUSE WHAT EVERYBODY REALLY WANTS TO DO IS DIRECT
During these months of boycotting most new PC games releases (for harboring vicious DRM schemes and Limited installations), I found the time to replay a number of older games that truly are much better in many ways. Most importantly, innovation.
THE MOVIES is a cross-genre hybrid, beautifully combining a SIMS game with a business-RTS one and a highly creative movie suit. Not only do you get to step into the shoes of a Hollywood mogul, but you get a shot in "realizing" that film you always had in you.
The game starts with the design and building of your Studio (using up the allocated funds), complete with Script stables, Sound stages, Production offices and (ahemm...) casting-couches? (no...strangely THAT part of Hollywood was not included). Casting is prety straight forward, plucking some lucky characters from the waiting line and turning them into stars. Or script writers. Or directors. Or janitors. Yes, life is a bitch.
What I liked about this game was its historic accuracy, simplified efficiency and clear-cut design. Not only are most stages in making a movie readily available and the means to achieve this evolve as time progresses, but everything has a familiar feel and self-evident practicality as well.
Stars throwing tantrums and directors relaxing too much with the sauce; aging stars in need for nip/tacks - and always keeping an eye out for whoever has the bigger trailer!
What I loved about this game was the opportunity to plan out the script in a detailed story-board and then shoot my own movies. The bad news is that if your visions are long and complicated your studio will be... bankrupt in no time, as it will release fewer and more expensive movies. But that is besides the point, is it not? What is a bankrupt studio in the wake of a iconoclastic new director towards his vision?
In the end, although very entertaining in many ways, the strong suit of this game is not its Movie-Business Management Simulation but rather its Movie Creating editor. Simply, there is no other game like it.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Date: 2008-08-31
Very repetitive
Well, it's fun for the first day or two, but it gets very repetitive and irritating after awhile...
Date: 2008-08-31
The movies
The game is an fun game you can play in two modes, sandbox and regular, i have tried both the first day i got it i played it non stop for a bout a week, a little while later i got bored of it but i just started to play it again and it really is fun. I don't know any game that you wont get bored of eventually, so i think this game is worth buying at amazon.com at least. I'm 14 years old and i liked the game, i think anyone any age wold like it too. :-) :)
Date: 2008-07-14
the movies
I am a huge fan of sandbox games like rollercoaster tycoon etc... This game is very very fun in the begining of play, but as your park gets bigger and bigger it seems like a cluster of things that don't really work well together and it starts feeling like you see the same movie over and over again(unless you make them all yourself, which is hard and annoying in some ways). But overall this is a very good idea for a game but not very well polished, I was expecting alot more, and was let down.
Date: 2008-03-21
Great Fun
Despite what I've read in many other reviews for this item, I think The Movies is a great game. I don't really have any bugs or problems that really ruin the game, but yes there are a few very very minor things.
The game mode is awesome, and I'm not frusturated or having any trouble doing anything. If you're a frequent gamer, it's not hard to figure out the tools and even if you're not there are instructions with it. Yes, you have to unlock certain things, but that's the fun of the game. I'm not having any financial problems and I'm the number one studio and have the numebr one ranked star (this stuff changes pretty often though). It just takes some thinking and strategy.
Creating your own movies does take a while and is kind of annoying, so I don't really do that, and if you get the stunts expansion back everything is twenty times better (the moviemaking and the regular gameplay). If you like building games such as Sim Theme Park, SimCity, Roller Coaster Tycoon, you know, building games like that, you'll love The Movies. It's a really fun, entertaining game that keeps you busy for a while.
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