You can control an entire movie studio and make your own films in the strategy game The Movies. You can play as a movie mogul from the early days of movies through the present day, investing in research and development to keep customers returning to the box office..
There are two distinct experiences offered in The Movies, the latest game from Peter Molyneux’s Lionhead Studios. The bulk of The Movies centers around a familiar business-management “tycoon” experience, where you play master and commander of your very own Hollywood movie studio, hiring and firing staff, building facilities, and, of course, producing and releasing movies. You can choose to either let your studio machine determine the content of your films, or you can go hands-on with the game’s built-in moviemaking tools, which peg a good balance between accessibility and flexibility. Both parts of The Movies can be engrossing and time-consuming, but they feel more like parallel products rather than an integrated whole.
- GameSpot
The Movies lets you choose whether you want to be a studio boss, a filmmaker, or both.
This is a game of high quality, and it shows in virtually every aspect of its execution. But all told, The Movies comes just shy of its lofty ambitions. Being a movie studio boss is completely absorbing, and there is really no other game, or, really, any piece of software that makes it as easy to build your own little movies. But the connection between these concepts is tenuous at best. Thankfully, its best qualities shine through more than enough to make The Movies a game well worth playing.
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