Product Description

Imagine you could make any movie you wanted to. Imagine you could pluck someone from obscurity and turn them into a superstar. Imagine you had control of an entire movie studio, competing with other studios to create box office hits and predicting what audiences want—from epic action films to campy B-movies. With The Movies, you can make it big in Hollywood by building the ultimate movie studio and shooting the ultimate picture. Choose a script and turn it into a major release. Pick or create actors and locations. Control budgets, build sets, hire and fire at will, settle into the director’s chair and film a hit. Customize unique movies within the game, then watch and review them, adding your very own voiceover or sound effects and saving them to your hard drive. E-mail your masterpieces to friends, upload them to the web or post them on The Movies’ official site for the world to see and vote on in online awards ceremonies. Just as you can create or modify unique films, you can create or modify actors, customizing their look and renaming them to resemble anyone you wish. You can even replicate every movie star currently in Hollywood and remake all your favorite films with them. Anything you’ve ever read about Hollywood—from starlet scandals to broken box office records—is right here in The Movies.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1118 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: ACTIVISION
• Model: 47875325876
• Released on: 2005-11-08
• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Platform: Windows XP
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds

Features

• 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
• 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.
• More than 30 hours of continuous gameplay, thousands of exciting movie characters, and limitless options allow you to vary just about everything
• Show the world your talents - Post your movies to the web for all to see.

Amazon.com Product Description

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.

Customer Reviews

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.

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.

I tried....really.
You will WANT to like this game but I don't know about any of the rest of you I found a number of things very frustrating

1. The tutorial is a waste of time and you have to find out a lot stuff on your own and I don't have the patience. For instance you are given the ability to add sound to your movies and then no instruction on how to make them appropriate for the context of the film. You are given the ability to slice scenes together and given no test audience to find out how a particular combo will work. A lot of this is trial and error that is all I am going to say.

2. Lots of detail but details about the wrong things that I feel are unimportant. Do I really need to have my grade constantly bought down because the paths connecting my building don't all link up? Do I really need to know that my actor or actress is "off to squeeze one out?" I can always take comfort in the fact that my studio may produce crappy movies..but it has really clean restrooms.

3. I don't care that you're feeling bad and had to stop at the bar on your way to the set make the movie for god's sake!! This happens constantly even when you think your doing a good job of keeping your stars happy.

Overall-I'm not saying its necessarily a bad game because its not the radio dj's are hilarious and there is a lot of detail but its not something you can play casually and just have fun there are to many details that hold you back. If you REALLY want an in-depth game you can try this and maybe you can make some sense out of it. I'm just giving you my impression.