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PostPosted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 2:07 pm 
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Have you guys seen this game??? This looks like a blast to me.. but it may be my strangeness taking over again.

http://www.lionhead.com/themovies/

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Imagine you could make any movie you wanted to. Imagine you could pluck someone from obscurity and make him or her the hottest star in Tinseltown. Imagine that you had control of an entire movie studio, competing with others to create a string of box office smashes. Imagine being able to use your judgement alone, deciding whether success lies with epic action pictures or lots of low budget, hammy 'B' movies.

Will the stars you've so lovingly groomed develop monstrous egos - refusing to accept that they are now too old to play the romantic leads that made them famous? You can help, but there are only so many times you can send them to fat farms and plastic surgeons.

Will you watch your movies being shot or do you want to direct the action yourself? Will you decide to innovate and introduce the talkies, color or digital sound before any of your rivals? Or will you let the other studios make the investments, leaving you to jump on the bandwagon if the new technology becomes popular?

Many of the things you've ever read or heard about Hollywood are right here in The Movies - from stars having affairs and hitting the bottle to teams of genius filmmakers creating the box office hit of the year.

Movie mogul, talent spotter or film director. You can be one or you can be all three. That's the magic of The Movies.


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*Become a Movie Mogul of Legend - Design your own studio and run it from the early days of cinema through present day and beyond in Story Mode by managing studio resources, investing in RD and maximizing box office success by staying one step ahead of the competition.

*Make your own movies - Make movies that appeal to the masses in Story Mode or in Sandbox Mode you can jump into any era and create your dream movie.

*Control the destiny of your cast and crew - Fire and hire them, turn unknowns into movie stars, and take full creative control over script selection and the content of the movies you'll create.

*Play it again and again - Over 30 hours of continuous gameplay, thousands of exciting movie characters, and limitless options allow you to vary just about everything, including the violence, romance, and realism - all mixed with world events that affect audience tastes and expectations.

*Show the world your talents - Post your movies to the web for all to see.


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http://avian-gamers.net/forums/viewtopi ... ght=movies

Looks pretty cool actually..think im gonna read up on it a bit...

those of you that have it...whats the good/bad/ugly?

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Yeah we had a post of this game elsewhere (too lazy to find link).

A buddy has it and says its a blast but just like others here said, tends to get quite micro-manag. He is still having fun playing it tho.

And there is a gamespy.com review of it whereby the reviewer inadvertently made his first moves gay stories. The first was a gay-Western, but I can't remember the other. Damn funny read as he was quite taken aback at his creations.

Disclaimer - I have no problem with gayness (or lesbianism for that matter). The article was just funny as it kinda sounds ike he was a little distrought.

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The first was a gay-Western, but I can't remember the other. Damn funny read as he was quite taken aback at his creations.


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I played it for a week very heavily and since the movies you create don't have much, if any, impact on the macro view of the game, it got very repititious.

I guess I don't get my kicks out of re-playing the entire game to correct the mistake of releasing a gay western in 1955 versus 2005.

Having said all of that, the creative aspects of creating your own scripts and movies - the complexities and how fairly easy the interface is - I think is a crowning achievement and could be used in and of itself.

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I played it through once. It was fun but replayability was kinda low

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The real game rests in creating a movie. The tycoon crap can be, for the most part, ignored. Some guys in my dorm and I used the game to make some pretty ridiculous shit, ranging from a film about a guy playing with a gun in the bathroom to a Chuck Norris film in which Mr. Norris kills Adolf Hitler and then Hitler's daughter. The movie creation part is just great, despite some of its limitations.


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See, that's what I think will be most attractive about this game, is that it appeals to various styles of game play. I enjoy the Tycoon type games, so I'll probably like that side of it more than Faylval did.

What I'm hearing though, is the term playability may not be there.

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