I have mixed feelings about this game. On one hand it's an easy, relatively powerful movie-making tool and allows players to make films of many genres, like action, western, war, horror, sci-fi. But it becomes repetitive: once you have made a couple of movies for genre, which is admittedly fun, you'll find yourself using the same scenes over and over again.
How does the movie-making tool work? First you pick a set among those available, then choose a possible scene, for example one with characters shooting at each other. Then you make secondary choices about the sequence (for example, which props and costumes are used). Finally, you assign actors to the roles. Assemble enough scenes together and you get a movie, which you can even dub.
Making your first films is entertaining. The limit inherent in this system is its lack of flexibility: once you have used, say, all possible ways in which a monster kills a character (let's say five-six scenes, each one with three-four variations), your horror movies will all start to look identical; when you have tried all possible duels, your westerns will become repetitive, and so on. Sure, you can have rain or fog, different hats and guns, but the scene will be more or less the same, no matter how much you play with editing.
Still, The Movies and its expansion Stunts & Effects - which introduces new sets, scenes and the Free Cam (to choose camera movements) - are fairly enjoyable for a while.
How does the movie-making tool work? First you pick a set among those available, then choose a possible scene, for example one with characters shooting at each other. Then you make secondary choices about the sequence (for example, which props and costumes are used). Finally, you assign actors to the roles. Assemble enough scenes together and you get a movie, which you can even dub.
Making your first films is entertaining. The limit inherent in this system is its lack of flexibility: once you have used, say, all possible ways in which a monster kills a character (let's say five-six scenes, each one with three-four variations), your horror movies will all start to look identical; when you have tried all possible duels, your westerns will become repetitive, and so on. Sure, you can have rain or fog, different hats and guns, but the scene will be more or less the same, no matter how much you play with editing.
Still, The Movies and its expansion Stunts & Effects - which introduces new sets, scenes and the Free Cam (to choose camera movements) - are fairly enjoyable for a while.