Product Description

With The Movies: Stunts & Effects Expansion Pack, you can maximize your inner mogul with a fantastic array of new cinematic choices. Turn your motion picture projects from The Movies into empire-building epics. Add spectacular stunts, eye-popping effects and dramatic new sets. Become the ultimate Hollywood player, with greater power to build and run your own motion picture studio.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6187 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: ACTIVISION
• Released on: 2006-06-06
• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Platform: Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds

Features

• Add Death-Defying Stunts: Add new action-shots to your movies with a new actor-class: Stuntmen. But risk their health in the process and patch them up in a new facility, the Emergency Room.
• Create New Special Effects: New editor allows you to add special effects like smoke, fire, and explosions.
• Use Dramatic New Sets: Create the impression of large scale buildings and sweeping shots with new miniature sets.

Customer Reviews

An expansion that added to a game that REALLY needed it.
The Movies:Stunts and Effects does add alot to the game. Now there is alot more options with certain types of action,sci fi and horror flicks, as well as romantic and comedy with a bit of creativity. It was over all a good expansion that allows the player to create movies in their own way. However, one of my annoyances with it is the fact that the lot does not get any bigger, it's annoying! However, I found a way around it after weeks of playing: don't buy all the lots at once, if there is a need for lets say, a jungle and its as big as the bombed city, break the bombed city and place the jungle there and vice versa. Do this during sandbox mode though.

Not Just Stunts
As many have said, you should get this expansion if you are getting the movies. After you've played with the expansion once you will wonder how you ever played The Movies without it. But the stunts are only the title feature. Plenty of other things are new too:

MAKING CUSTOM MOVIES-
-Freecam. Allowing you to move the camera yourself allows you to get exactly what you want out of a shot.
-"Environment". The former weather button, now the environment button, lets you control the level of rain in outdoor sets, and gives you the new wind option, where you can choose what strength the wind is blowing and what it is blowing. You can also add overlays over the shots, to make it look like your video is on TV, a spaceship computer, or simply making the camera wet.
-Makeover Screen. You can now control how much you zoom in
with the scroll button on your mouse. You can also view a menu with all options for a certain part of their costume instead of just scrolling through forever.
-There's plenty more costumes, including... a Santa Suit!
-Copy scenes. Right clicking a scene in the timeline will copy it.
-View all your scenes together. Watch all your scenes strung together as a preview of what your movie will look like. An easy way to see any problems with your movie.
-More Sets. Not only are there the new blue screen, green screen, miniature, and scrolling sets for effects, you've got a couple more normal sets added too.
-New scenes, stunts or otherwise.
-New Props

SIMULATION-
-Stuntmen. Ah, more people to train.
-New facilities for the stuntmen. The hospital, some training facilities and a stunt school have been added to your facilities list in order to care for your stuntmen.
-Stunt Awards. Stunt awards have been added to the Lionhead Motion Picture Awards, as well as a new series of achievements for stunts, each one rewarding you with a new set.

This expansion is great. Lets hope Lionhead makes another.
Maybe they should add more events in the future?

Stunts and Effects is a must
The tycoon element of The Movies is entertaining for gamers who enjoy that style of game. I certainly didn't mind it but the element that adds tremendous replay value is the ability to make your own movies. The expansion, Stunts and Effects, plays right into this. While it does enhance the "game" aspect, S & E really shows it's value in the "advanced movie maker" mode where you make your own films.
One of the main enhancements is the free-cam which gives the film maker the ability to move the camera and set up his/her custom shots. Without this function, one is limited only to the shots and angles offered by the game's developers. There are also advanced environment controls and the ability to use overlays. I would say, however, the free-cam mode alone makes it worth every penny.