If this 'tycoon' style game won't keep you up at all hours of the night, nothing will.

User Rating: 10 | The Movies PC
By SgtFlaman | Review Date:
It has been a long time since I have played a tycoon game that made me lose track of time. My first night playing easily kept me up well past sunrise, but the replay value on The Movies is just so high and there are so many ways to look at the game. Do you want to play the game as a 'Tycoon' and work through the career mode, or do you want to take to the sandbox an dbecome a movie director?

The Movies gives you the option to post created movies online on Lionhead Studios central directory and have fellow players vote on them. Movies with high ratings get awards and virtual points which can be used in an online shop to buy new sets, costumes and backgrounds to be used in future movies, which can them be placed online, voted on, etc...

Through the decades, the music changes via a radio station with a DJ that suits the era you are playing in. And there are several background songs that can be played in your movies to give it that extra 'edge'.

You can also plug in a microphone and record voice-overs in your movies giving it that personal feel. Not only is that a neat idea, but really adds to a movie if done right.

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