Activision Announces 'The Movies' Expansion Pack (PC)

[Zanzibar]

Lionhead Studios and Activision sent out a press release confirming the first 'The Movies' expansion pack, entitled 'The Movies: Stunts and Effects.'

This article from totalvideogames.com (http://www.totalvideogames.com/news/Activision_Confirms_Stunts_&_Effects_9522_5469_0.htm) has the blurb:

Upping the ante on movie production, the expansion pack adds a plethora of new features such as stuntmen and a range of outlandish stunts, a movie-making toolset, astounding visual effects, new sets and a number of brand new techniques and technologies which can be used when making movies.
I wanna make stuff blow up reeeeeeal good.

[Heretic Machine]

Not enough suck? Here, have some more.

[gzsfrk]

What's the latest word on whether or not this game will see life on a console? I seem to recall hearing conflicting reports regarding that.

[Grimmjow]

Not enough suck? Here, have some more.

didnt like the game eh :confused:

[Tricky Thumb]

I could have sworn this was already announced.

[Citizen Philip]

There really is plenty of stuff to make amateur shots and really good if your interested in the composition of a film.

That said.

The single player can eat my balls. I don't feel like micromanaging my movie stars, when a few options to put stuff on auto would have done the trick.

[Grimmjow]

I could have sworn this was already announced.

it was, i think like 1-2 weeks ago

[Thenetcase]

I thought this game was highly, highly over rated.

I haven't seen a film done by it yet that actually looked interesting.

[Grimmjow]

i saw a shyt load of movies, its up to your imagination, its pretty ill to watch friends make movies of you

[TKO]

Wow Perigon, way to get with the negative? Care to give any specifics of this suckage you speak of? (Me honestly curious, coz my friends and I were totally captivated by it ..admittedly never having played a Lionhead-flavour game before.)

Me, I'm quite keen to check it out. I would agree with whoever posted that it would be nice for some of the management aspects to be able to become automated after a time. ..I don't feel a game is particularly strategic when you're just rushing around trying not to forget everything. But fortunately there is much that doesn't *have* to be managed to keep on going. ..I'll be checking out this expansion, I think. I'm just wondering whether the game *needs* any more complexity to it. :)

And you never saw any impressive movies Thenetcase? Maybe it's more the -process- that is the fun of the game, eh? (I know I've made some that my friends found hillarious .. and vice versa. And I still find the random ones to be fun to watch.)