The Movies

The Sims meets Steven Spielberg?s Director?s Chair in Peter Molyneux?s Hollywood studio simulation.

If you?ve ever wanted to make movies or even just control the lives of those annoyingly spoiled Hollywood actor?types, then The Movies might be the game of choice for you. Developed by Peter Molyneux?s Lionhead Studios, The Movies focuses on three main situations: developing your studio, nurturing your relationship with your studio?s actors, and creating your own mini-movies.

Covering the time from 1900 to 2010, The Movies casts you as a director for a major Hollywood studio. You build your studio, hire actors, and decide how you want to handle said actors. As you progress through time, you research new advances, such as ?talkies? or color films, and control the types of films your company produces. When you make a film, you actually create a mini-movie that you can export and trade online, complete with your own soundtrack and subtitles. The Movies will enable you to choose how involved you want to be; you?ll be able to micromanage every little thing or let the game handle all the gritty stuff so you can concentrate on making art.

Molyneux pretty much helped create the sim genre, so that alone ought to raise confidence in The Movies. Budding PC filmmakers would do well to keep an eye on this one.

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