Newest Game from Peter Molyneux -The Movies

No doubt about it, you must have heard of this game sometime and trust me, everything they say about it is true. It was designed by Peter Molyneux himself and, what a great concept. You make movies.

If you have any love for the movie business, whether it is watching them or making them, then this game is for you. True, at first, when it was $60.00, it was a bit overpriced but now it has gone down to $40.00 and some can even find it on ebay for $30.00.

At first, it seems like the best thing ever and it really is. You start off with a blank studio and you hire janitors, builders, crew members, actors, directors, scientists, and more at your will. The whole beauty of it is how it starts in the early 20's and watching the technology evolve as the time progresses is impressive. You go from no sound and color, to color, then sound, the special effects, to CGI, and so on! The main meat of the game is the story in where you compete against other studios for awards and every five years, an awards ceremony is held where you can win awards which unlock things such as paying your actors half their salary without them noticing.

There is a management part to the game as well as a moviemaking part. You could spend the entire game just managing the lot and vice versa. It is true that as you get bigger and employ more actors/directors, the management part gets overly tedious and the game slows down tremendously due to the amount of things going on in the game all at once. Graphically, it is not very impressive but definitely not sub par. Imagine the Sims 1.5, not 1 or 2, but somewhere in between for the graphics. I got the special limited edition which gives you a hint book, is a DVD, has extra music, trailers, and what not, a star creator, and a little more. Frankly, you might as well get the regular version since the hint book is common sense, the music tracks and nothing you will die missing, and the star creator can be downloaded from any good site. It is fun to create yourself though and then making your own script.