The Movies: Stunts and Effects is a simulator developed by Lionhead Studios, released 6 June 2006 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Movies: Stunts and Effects is
The Movies: Stunts and Effects is a simulator game developed by Lionhead Studios and released in 2006. It was published by Activision. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Movies is a business simulation game created by Lionhead Studios for Microsoft Windows and ported to Mac OS X by Feral Interactive. Players run a Hollywood film studio, creating films that can be exported from the game. The Movies was released in November 2005 to positive reviews and several awards, but sold poorly. An expansion, The Movies: Stunts & Effects, was released in 2006.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
The Movies: Stunts and Effects holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 85% of the 2,882 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 20 points above the year average.
What it launched against
The Movies: Stunts and Effects launched on 6 June 2006, within three weeks of Half-Life 2: Episode One, Hitman: Blood Money, Heroes of Might and Magic V and LocoRoco. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Half-Life 2: Episode One, Hitman: Blood Money, Heroes of Might and Magic V, LocoRoco.
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