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The Movies Stunts & Effects Expansion Pack
This series is good fun.
Why? Whilst you can do a lot, it’s relatively simple in it’s focus and
there is nothing to confuse or distract players from the core gameplay
itself. The premise behind the game is simple enough, it allows players
to manage their stunt teams and effects wizards in the gameworld to make
even better movies.
Once again the ease of play is fantastic and once
installed (you need The Movies) to play is a simple matter of choosing
to just jump into a game. The level of management involved in keeping
your staff and actors happy if by micromanaging them to an insane degree
in order to make sure they all keep doing exactly as you want them to.
It’s a fun process but can get a bit tedious for those who just want to
get in and sort of let the game run itself to an extent.
One of the things that I was hoping for in this game
was a menu or something that would allow you to check quickly on the
status of an individual character, but no. You still have to hover over
them to bring up images to see what all your little people wanted. It
does eventually drive you crazy as even the most minute things have to
be managed.
There are many good improvements to the actual core
gameplay that involve enhancements to the way that you can get scenes
ready for filming and keeping the set consistent with the props that you
place in it. This was a good move and greatly enhances the way that you
will play the game as in previous versions, however good, you still
wondered why bother making a good set when you lose it the first time
you close down the game.
Of course this review would not make sense if I was
not to mention the stunts that you can do with this game. There is a
really neat control system that will allow all your big budget dreams to
come true, filming from multiple angles and making sure that everything
is just perfect. I found that I spent hours just tweaking jumps and
angles that things happened on, like cars hurling through the air,
explosions and the like. It’s a ton of fun and I can’t wait to see what
they have planned next.
Innovative and fun gameplay is here folks, enjoy! Who
knows, maybe next time sense will prevail and some of these hi strung
Hollywood types will actually get some managers to look after them!
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