The Movies (Prima Official Game Guide) (Paperback)

by Greg Kramer (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Take Your Studio, Movies, and Stars to the Top of the Charts!

· Details on every employee, facility, set, ornament, and technology
· Complete step-by-step walkthrough for winning the elusive Platinum Lifetime Honor
· How to turn a three-star script into a five-star blockbuster
· Tactics for managing your Stars, their relationships, and their careers
· How to make your own movies with the Advanced Movie Maker and Post Production facility
· Filmmaking 101 from Lionhead designers

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Prima Games; illustrated edition edition (November 15, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761544453
• ISBN-13: 978-0761544456
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #414,532 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good colorful, helpful (for the numbers behind the ratings), January 23, 2006

By	Michael Plasmeier "ThePlaz.com" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

A very colorful and helpful book. It gives many of the numbers behind the game. 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? This book gives this and many other figures behind the game. It is very, very colorful and detailed in the game's style. It also explains what all the buildings do and what effect they can have on your stars. Also, it tells you about the different research packs you can get. It gives more instruction on how to play 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. There is also a guide to winning the Platinum Lifetime Achievement award.

This guide did help me a bit, and explained many of the calculations of the game's ratings system. Still, it is not all that big a help for me, because I played the game for 10 hours already before reading this book. However, it still gave me insight on many of the "behind the scenes" rules and ratings calculations. This knowledge let me improve my rankings on the charts.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Informative, but it's a game...., August 3, 2006

By	Kit Disney Ballantyne (El Paso, Tx United States) - See all my reviews

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. 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. So, the new technologies and sets I was researching were useless to me unless I wanted to delete earlier things.

This book is heavy on stats and figures, which can be quite helpful. The only reason it didn't get the entire 5 stars is that it didn't really help my game. I didn't pick up any vital new information that I needed for the game.

The writer also seems to forget that this is a book about a game. How writing is so serious. It does not seem to be written by someone who actually enjoys playing the game itself for fun. Yes, that's what this book lack. 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. I learn how to play games on my own or with the help of an in-game tutorial. If I can't figure out the game, I don't play it. I don't like things with large learning curves. 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. I LOVE making the movies: hiring the players, crew, stuntmen, and writers. I olove creating and filming scripts and competing with the other studios. It is a great game.

The book about it is good enough. 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.

2 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Movies, June 25, 2006

A Kid's Review

I haven't actually read it, but I own The Movies and I think it's a great game. 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.