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(but it's funner when you're a kid) highly recommended to anyone with an imagination. bit boring in the beginning but once you get into it, you get to make exactly the movie you want. graphics are great and starmaker lets you make your own character with attitude and everything.
I olove creating and filming scripts and competing with the other studios. The only reason it didn't get the entire 5 stars is that it didn't really help my game. It just didn't wow me with new info and it wasn't that fun to read because the magic and imagination of the game was missing from it. It isn't any fun.I must admit that I only read game manuals or help books if my computer is down or I can't play the game itself, like if I am waiting for the game to show up in the mail.
So, the new technologies and sets I was researching were useless to me unless I wanted to delete earlier things. The book about it is good enough. Okay, let me start out by saying that I found thids guide very helpful. That being said, I bought it to learn cheat codes for the game or see how to make a bigger studio lot. I didn't pick up any vital new information that I needed for the game. Yes, that's what this book lack.
It is a great game. I learn how to play games on my own or with the help of an in-game tutorial. I don't like things with large learning curves. I LOVE making the movies: hiring the players, crew, stuntmen, and writers. The writer also seems to forget that this is a book about a game. Let me learn on my own or forget it.I also want to make it clear that The Movies along with its STUNTS exapsion, are my most played games. The guide does not provide ANY cheats for the game, and I did not learn any way to make the lot larger, which is a drag because by the final third of the game, my studio lot is always too full to add anything else.
If I can't figure out the game, I don't play it. It does not seem to be written by someone who actually enjoys playing the game itself for fun. This book is heavy on stats and figures, which can be quite helpful. How writing is so serious.
If this guide will acknowledge you with everything you need to know about it and provide walkthroughs, I'm guessing the guide should be awesome. I haven't actually read it, but I own The Movies and I think it's a great game.
A very colorful and helpful book. Also, it tells you about the different research packs you can get. Did you know that you can only use each of the cars three times before that item reaches its overuse limit and future copies of that item only generate about 40% effectiveness rating. It is very, very colorful and detailed in the game's style.
Still, it is not all that big a help for me, because I played the game for 10 hours already before reading this book. It gives more instruction on how to play the game. There is also a guide to winning the Platinum Lifetime Achievement award. However, it still gave me insight on many of the "behind the scenes" rules and ratings calculations. This guide did help me a bit, and explained many of the calculations of the game's ratings system. It gives many of the numbers behind the game.
The back section tells you how to create your own movies for people to watch online, and gives tips for making a good movie. This knowledge let me improve my rankings on the charts. This book gives this and many other figures behind the game. It also explains what all the buildings do and what effect they can have on your stars.
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