You’re In The Movies
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With Christmas fast approaching we are seeing a rush by video games publishers to get so called family fun games in stores. One such title, You’re In The Movies, does exactly what it says on the box - put’s you in the movies.
With the use of a camera, which comes included with the You’re In The Movies game, this title aims to turn you into a star - not quite literally - but instead in a series of novel onscreen flicks and they will allegedly entertain you and your family for hours. Though the idea is a respectable one, the execution of it in the case of You’re In The Movies does not cash in on the potential the idea undoubtedly has. Instead of entertaining you and the family for hours it will probably bore you within one hour, perhaps two at a push, but you will get bored - that much is safe to say.
The basic elements of the game are a camera which sits on top of your TV or somewhere else suitable, and you, off your ass and moving around which is one of the few plus points of You’re In The Movies, it will get you moving and that applies to gamers of all ages. Even the ‘elderly’ will find the concept so intriguing that they will want to have a go and see themselves on the screen.
Once your camera is setup and you are ready to go, you are tasked with being part of a number of occasionally humorous mini games which involve you performing a number of actions, all of which are being captured by your camera for use a little later on in a movie which more often than not is totally unrelated to the mini games you have taken part in.
All in all there are 30 different movie sequences that you can participate in spanning a range of genres that movie lovers will be familiar with including horror, sci-fi, disaster and action films. Each category features films movie lovers will be familiar with too, though not officially. Instead you will come across a number of movie sequences which are blatant rip offs, and poor ones at that, of real blockbuster films released in the past both recent and distant.
Once you have completed the mini games you will often be requested, by a film director, to position yourself within a on screen outline so a pickup shot can be captured - of course you are not just standing there though, you will be doing something along the lines of pretending to be a bird or some other random act.
Some of the final movie sequences are actually quite good, at least to start with, as the technology this game boasts and the way you and your actions are captured then seemlessly dumped on screen within a range of colorful, lively and sometimes glorious environments is actually quite impressive. However there are too many minor snags to give the game any real sense of lasting quality, and there is no replayability factor to it at all.
If you have more money than sense and want to entertain a few of your siblings at a family get together this festive season, then look no further than You’re In The Movies, but this title is good for nothing more than that and cannot realistically be considered a game by rights, but more a box of short cheap (but expensive) laughs.
When you take the short mini games into account with everything else that you do before the movie sequences are actually cut together, you soon realise that there is very little to You’re In The Movies. Whilst performing the actions is fun and pretty funny to begin with, the enjoyment does not last anywhere near enough to justify splashing out the full retail price. To be quite blunt it is ridiculously expensive for what you are actually getting.
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