The Movies: Stunts & Effects
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| Developer(s) | Lionhead Studios, Robosoft Technologies (Mac) |
| Publisher(s) | Activision, Feral Interactive (Mac) |
| Designer(s) | Peter Molyneux |
| Engine | Renderware |
| Platform(s) | Windows, Mac OS X |
| Release date | June 6, 2006 (US) |
| Genre(s) | Business simulation game |
| Mode(s) | Single player, Multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | ESRB: T OFLC: M |
| Media | CD (1), DVD (1) |
| System requirements | PC: Windows 98SE or later 800MHz CPU 256MB RAM DirectX 9.0c compatible sound and video card. |
The Movies: Stunts and Effects is an expansion pack for the PC business simulation game The Movies. The expansion pack is developed by Lionhead Studios. It was released on June 6, 2006 in North America and was released on June 16, 2006 in the UK.
The Mac version of The Movies: Stunts and Effects was developed by Robosoft Technologies and published by Feral Interactive. It was released during Macworld 2008.
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[edit] New features
The expansion pack adds stunts, stunt men, new props, effects, sets and costumes to the game. New features allow players to add stunt doubles to replace their actors to prevent injuries. Helicopters and other fast moving land and airborne objects are available. The new expansion pack introduces the 'Free-Cam' feature that allows players to move and position the camera as they like in any scenes. The player is able to buy sets like Wild West Bedroom. There were changes to The Movies Online with the release of the game. Some of the new sets include: Blue and Green Screens and Miniature Cities for giant creatures of your choosing.
[edit] Extra features on the Mac version
The Movies: Stunts and Effects for Mac, developed by Robosoft has 3 Mac specific features
- Using iTune Music library for the Sound Track
Support for iTunes is seamlessly integrated into The Movies for Mac. This means that when you're editing the soundtrack in Post-Production, you can use any of the files from your iTunes Music Library to create a professional sounding score.
- Using GarageBand and iMovieFX sample
The list of sound effects and samples you can use in The Movies Post-Production is hugely increased by the built-in support for GarageBand and iMovie
- Simple Sharing with Flip4Mac WMV Studio
To share the creations with other fans of The Movies around the world, one needs to upload movies to The Movies Online website in Windows Media format, not QuickTime. To allow Mac users to do this, Feral has bundled Telestream's Flip4Mac Studio for free with the game.
[edit] Sets
- SFX: Scrolling Background (a set that has a background with 3 scrolling background layers)
- SFX: Miniature City (a set for monster or aerial fight movies)
- SFX: Devastated Miniature City (a set which has a futuristic post-armageddon after a monster or alien has attacked)
- Wild West: Traveling Automobile (Wild West Carriage) (an expansion for the automobile moving backdrop set)
- SFX: Blue Screen (a rural set to have an actor fall to his/her death or to film a movie as if it took place in different locations)
- SFX: Green Screen (a perfect set to show a spaceship battle or something else)
- Sci-Fi: Bridge 4 (a wider, much bigger bridge that is more futuristic)
- Sci-Fi: Corridor 4 (the corridor to Bridge 4)
- Sci-Fi: Corridor 5 (another corridor to Bridge 4)
- Urban: Municipal Reception
- Suburban: Bathroom 2 (a second bathroom)
- Wild West: Saloon Bedroom (an expansion to the Saloon set)
- War: Barracks
- Tropical: Jungle (a perfect tropical adventure environment)
- Urban: Commercial City Street (a street that has an advertisement for the first game and the city hall)
Note: Not all of the sets are unlocked at the time of installation (you need to unlock them in story mode first)
[edit] Reception
Though the expansion was very well received by the vast majority of the online community, when the novelty had died down, many players began requesting additional sets, scenes and props. Many players say that the problem that beset the original game continues with the Expansion, being that certain film genres are neglected in favour of others. Western has several sets dedicated to it, while horror only has a few.[citation needed]
Science Fiction is another genre players feel has been neglected, with only two new sets being added and following the classic "Corridor, Bridge" formula, with no sets to provide additional areas of a spaceship. Many feel that the addition of actual spaceship models in the game was a vast improvement, but the vehicles for this genre are not as numerous or as varied as those in other genres. Vans and helicopters were introduced but no planes, tanks or other modes of transport.
Many mods are in place to combat these issues, but as of August 2006, no official plans from Lionhead have been made to create additional sets, scenes and props either in a new expansion or via electronic download.
A lot of criticism was also launched against the fact that many of the new sets had to be unlocked by playing through the story mode on the game. This led some players to create a program which unlocked these sets at the start of the game.[citation needed]
Another criticism was that Stunts and Effects only was released in English and German.[citation needed]
