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The Movies
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Release Date:
November 2005

Genre:
Simulation

Localisation:
complete
Take up the reins and become the ultimate studio manager in "The Movies".

Hire builders, build up your studio, decide who is going to be the next megastar or just sack them. Enjoy every single thing that Hollywood has to offer. It is up to you whether you want to surround yourself with lots of stars, provoke endless scandals or produce the next blockbuster. You can determine the genre and even the very content of your coming masterpiece. Everything is under your control. You can be the director and fine-tune the various details of the scenes and even record and lip-synch individual dialogues.

As the game offers a huge variety of scenes, you have enormous creative freedom to create your own movies. But for the effective selection of scenes, hundreds of short descriptions were written as precisely as possible to aid the player in finding the desired scene. Moreover, every single scene is fitted with sliders that adjust the tone, the action and the camera angle. To convey this mass of information to German players as concisely and exactly as possible was a special challenge, because all hints had to be kept brief yet comprehensible.

In addition to these in-game texts many audio files were recorded that give the player useful hints and information about recent news. Furthermore, there are 11 different radio DJs to lighten the "daily grind" in the moviemaking industry. Depending on the in-game date, patriotic paroles, cool chat and esoteric soul comfort sound through the air. It is those details that make the atmosphere in the game feel very real and complete.
 
Soundfiles:
picture x DJ Wally:
"... An den Idioten, der letzte Nacht einen Kratzer in mein Auto gemacht hat ..."
 
picture x Nachrichtengirl Kate:
"Hi, ich bin Kate Sewell mit Radio Tech ..."
 
picture x DJ Hugh:
"... mein Kumpel Jack ist da und der hat für euch einen wunderbaren Song vorbereitet. Und den wird er euch spielen ..."
 
picture x DJ Mad Dog:
"Hört ihr das Klopfen? Ja? Das ist ..."
 
picture x DJ Hugh:
"Nur zur Erinnerung. Hier ist Hugh, die Vertretung für Tante Kristen ..."
 
Press Notes about
The Movies
29.11.2005
www.gamion.de
"The sound is also very well done. The noises and music are fitting and create a real movie atmosphere. However, the actors are a particular highlight: A fictitious radio station whose presenter doesn't really think much of movie-making entertains the player with wisecracks and even satirical comments on daily news items and the development of the film industry."
17.11.2005
www.gamesmania.de
"Huge praise is due to the entire localisation"
14.11.2005
www.4players.de
"After the first hour, The Movies was a real platinum candidate in my eyes. The harmonious optics, the elaborate design and the finely animated characters make this game a pleasure to watch. The sound along with its atmospheric melodies and other acoustics, including the German voice output, saw to the rest (...) Voice-overs: very good"
 
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