Addicted to movies, addicted to games, so; addicted to "The Movies" game...
The game has two main parts; both having good and bad features. Once you select "Game" in main menu, u click on "New game" an intro is displayed: "Welcome to the dawn of movie industry…" You start at January 1920, with support of very useful Tutorial. (Bubbles helps a lot with basic commands) From 1920 to 2005; with Lionhead Motion Picture Awards every 5 year ("The Movies" Oscar's ceremony, except you cant reach the scene for saying "Thanks to my family, husband, productor, director etc., hehe) and nine achievement awards. You start with an empty lot and 150 k of dollars, stars behave, their wants are neverending, they want higher salaries, better trailers, more people around them, they get stressed in movie shots, they got bored away while theyrent in movie shots. Micromanagement is the main focus on this "Tycoon" or "Story" part of the game.
"Sandbox" part is for comfortably writing your own scenarios, you can start with a studio full of buildings, 100.000.000 dollars, buildings dont decay, starts dont behave options. Free to create some absurd horror – romantic – comedy movies, on sci- fi scenes with action prop's.
Graphics, character animations, colors all are nice. Music is great, from 1920's old school jazz to 1980's funk, 1950's rock & roll… Playability, controls; i give 99 by 100, not flawless completely, because i had difficulty to open some minimalized star cards while i had eight stars. Shortcuts to important offices (production, casting, scenario) is very good idea, to salary – finance screen as well.
"Tycoon" or "Story" part for pc tycoon gamers, "Sandbox" for amateur "machinima" creators; and The Movies addiction is quite possible if you belong to both side like me…