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The Movies: Premiere Edition (DVD) Review
User Submitted The Movies: Premiere Edition (DVD) Reviews
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: 2007-07-12
Okay but I got bored with it quick
It's like The Sims, yet not. It didn't hold my attention like The Sims games do. Not knowing how to do certain things, not knowing which people have which skills (and from a distance, it's hard to tell who's who), not knowing who should go where and when, and them needing stuff while I'm trying to build something without knowing all the necessities for that type of building... well, it just left me want an update and more info and help.
Date: 2007-01-08
Stay Away from this Pathetic Game
I bought this game just after Christmas. It stinks. This is not a good simulation game at all. Firstly, most computers won't be able to run this game. It installs poorly, has frequent crashes when trying to launch the game, and the customer service is non-existent.
The pathetic help menu is of no help at all, and the game offers you an opportunity, after crashing, to read the ReadMe File. Thanks...big help. Try the BiteMe File, instead.
Once the game is finally installed, you'll find it's a time-consuming bore. Micromanaging everything down to the characters' bathroom breaks is not at all fun, and you'll soon be very sorry you wasted your time, money, and enthusiasm on such a pathetic piece of software.
Keep looking for a fun, simulation business game. It's not here.
Date: 2006-12-15
This Game Does Have Potential, But It Isn't The Best
The game fun after the two weeks though you find out how limited you are. When you buy this game you want to make movies but you don't make the scenes the game does. It it hard to make a decent movie. The fun part is running the studio.
Date: 2006-12-15
A good simulation game, quite addictive and humorous.
Hands down, the best and most innovative aspect of this game are the various radio stations that play throughout the game as the years go by. The simulation aspect isn't anything exceptional. It's fun and addictive, and not at the low-level as one of those random "tycoon" games that are spewed out, but it's not at the level of the top-of-the-line Sim games, either.
The best part of Movies is creating your own movie script and then adding dialogue. My friends and I spent more time on that feature than actually building up a movie theater. Often, movies we felt were of higher quality cinematic ally would flop in the game because we had many more scenes that were reasonable and thus the cost would increase greatly and our movie studio would be in the red. Thus, it was often better to use Sandbox mode to experiment creatively.
Overall this is a good game, but my dream game is a "Sim Theater" game where you run a theater and its operations. Sadly nothing has come to this level yet.
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