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In article <1175003347.524161.183690@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>, 
Daedelus1138 <magnulus@bellsouth.net> writes
>  It's frustrating that there is so little talk about this game...
>ever.  I know it's an old game but there are about zero strategy
>guides on the net.
>
>  I got this game a long while back, right after it came out... and I
>played the tycoon game for a while and made a few movies.  I got the
>Stunts expansion pack a few weeks ago, and I messed around with that a
>littel, but it doesn't seem to really add much depth at all to the
>game, unlike some of the Sims expansion packs (which is a very tired
>series I'm bored with).
>
I tried hard to like it, I've gone back to it a few times, the last time 
was when the Stunts expansion was released, it doesn't take long for the 
frustrations to set back in.

The main problems I had with it, are the constant staff shortages, it's 
the movie industry for fucks sake, surely there would be a never ending 
supply of would-be employees looking to break in to the business? The 
other problem I had was the size of the studio lot, it's fine when you 
first start off, but once you progress in the game and the sets get 
bigger and bigger, you pretty much have to wreck the whole lot to the 
newer sets.

That's without going into the PITA micro-management trying to keep your 
stars/directors happy. There's never enough staff to give anyone a 
decent entourage and given and I found it a nightmare to keep track of 
who had which trailer, so when they wanted to upgrade, I was taking 
forever to either locate an empty one or find out which model trailer 
they had so I could move them on to the next one.

IMO, it's a typical Peter Molyneux game, it has an instant, superficial 
"wow" factor that grabs you and keeps you playing for a few days, (long 
enough to get really good review scores) and then after a few days, 
you're burned out on it and never want to return to it. I had exactly 
the same problem with Theme Park, B&W etc...
-- 
Sean Black