The Movies (2005) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

The Movies

Behind every box office hit and Hollywood star is a movie mogul who makes it happen. In The Movies, that mogul is you. Create your own studio from the ground up. Direct your own movies and call the shots on…

87 8 November 2005

What The Movies is

The Movies is a simulator game developed by Lionhead Studios and released in 2005. It was published by 1C Company. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on RenderWare.

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.

Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are business and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

The Movies holds a critic score of 87 out of 100. That places it above 90% of the 2,882 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 20 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 82, across 128 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 33 hrs.

What it launched against

The Movies launched on 8 November 2005, within three weeks of Shadow of the Colossus, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Call of Duty 2 and Sid Meier's Civilization IV. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Shadow of the Colossus, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Call of Duty 2, Sid Meier's Civilization IV.

Cheats and codes

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