Lights. Camera. Unlimited Action!

The Movies™ Stunts & Effects expansion pack helps you maximize your inner mogul with a fantastic array of new cinematic choices. Spectacular stunts, eye-popping effects and dramatic new sets transform your motion picture projects from The Movies™ into empire-building epics. It’s a comprehensive collection of new features to give you, the ultimate Hollywood player, greater power to build and run your own motion picture studio.

Key features:

• Manage Stuntmen and Stars through death-defying stunts, write stunt scripts and assign stunt doubles. You control the jumps, falls, rescues and battles that can make movie magic or take you on a trip to the E.R.

• Include incredible special effects in your films. From car crashes and changing weather to explosions, shattering glass and smoke, transform an ordinary action sequence into a cinematic showstopper.

• Dramatically expand your studio lot with brand-new movie sets and technologies. A lush jungle landscape, a bustling city street and a military-grade barracks are a just a few of the surroundings you can select.

• Dress your sets and scenes down to the last detail with an impressive variety of new backdrops, costumes, props, aircraft and vehicles. You can even alter your actors’ apparent age and weight with the updated costume section menu.

Egos. Money. Blockbusters. Welcome to Hollywood.

Imagine you could make any movie you wanted to. Imagine you could pluck someone from obscurity and turn them into a superstar. Imagine you had control of an entire movie studio, competing with other studios to create box office hits and predicting what audiences want -- from epic action films to campy B-movies.

With The Movies™, you can make it big in Hollywood by building the ultimate movie studio and shooting the ultimate picture. Choose a script and turn it into a major release. Pick or create actors and locations. Control budgets, build sets, hire and fire at will, settle into the director's chair and film a hit.

Customize unique movies within the game, then watch and review them, adding your very own voiceover or sound effects and saving them to your hard drive. Upload your masterpieces to the web or post them on The Movies' official site for the world to see and vote on in online awards ceremonies.

Just as you can create or modify unique films, you can create or modify actors, customizing their look and renaming them to resemble anyone you wish. Anything you've ever read about Hollywood -- from starlet scandals to broken box office records -- is right here in The Movies.

* From nobody to mogul - Become a mega-rich studio honcho, calling all the shots and hiring and firing at will. Will you ignore the stars' tantrums? Will you give in to their monstrous egos and allow them to fall in and out of love, gain weight or get plastic surgery? Or will you show them who's boss by ruining careers, crushing dreams and putting yourself first?

* From pitch to premiere - Handpick the scripts you want to greenlight, watch them being shot or direct the movies yourself.
* Make the films you love to watch or create brand new masterpieces. Innovate with new technological advancements or let other studios make the investment and ride their coattails.

* From flops to runaway hits - Make comedies, action films, war movies, romances, sci-fi flicks, horror films or anything you choose. Different genres at different times attract different audiences, so are you after a box office smash or is pleasing the critics and winning awards more your scene?
* Anything is possible with The Movies - Ultimately, you'll be judged by the movies you make. Will you be brave enough to put your movies on the web or share them with friends? Will your movies pick up a nomination and win you a real award? Will this game launch you into an actual movie career? Studio power broker, talent spotter or film director - you can be one or all three. That's the magic of The Movies.

* Two sides of Hollywood, two modes of gameplay - In Sandbox Mode, you can focus exclusively on making movies. In Story Mode, your objective is to build your own studio from the ground up by starting with an empty lot. Now it's your chance to find out if you have what it takes to make it in Hollywood.

The War that Divided a Nation!

Immerse yourself in the intensity, carnage, and chaos of the war that divided a nation! Play as a Confederate or Union soldier in America's most legendary battles including Gettysburg, Bull Run and Antietam. Use authentic firearms, fight in intense hand-to-hand combat, place explosives, sabotage enemy artillery, destroy buildings, and more!

Features Include:
• America's Most Historic Battles – Twelve of the most famous battles in the Nation's history including Gettysburg, Bull Run and Antietam.

• Awesome Cinematic War Experience – Battles come to life amidst exploding artillery, whistling bullets, falling comrades and much more!

• Wide Variety of Battlefield Combat – Enlist realistic battle strategies including line fighting, artillery barrages, urban assaults, sniping, stealth and sabotage.

• Authentic Weaponry – Authentic Civil War weapons transport you to the battlefields armed with repeating rifles, multiple types of grenades, exploding artillery, Gatling guns, revolvers, bayonets, muskets, and more!

• Intense Hand-to-Hand Fighting – Experience the intense chaos of the Civil War including close quarters and melee fighting using bayonets, sabers, the butt of your gun and even your fists in the midst of raging battles.

• Incredible realism and historical accuracy - Battlefield recreations are based on topographical maps and photographs from the actual battlegrounds.

• Each level begins with a documentary video describing the historic moments in each battle, movements of armies, local fights, historical photos and battle statistics.

Relive History's Most Unforgiving Battlefields!

The History Channel takes you to the Battle for the Pacific, where you can experience history brought to life in one of the defining campaigns of World War II. Relive epic land battles fought on some of the most brutal and unforgiving battlefields in recorded history. Play through the eyes of an American GI as you experience intense, no holds barred action against an opponent for which surrender isn't an option!

Gameplay Features:


The War in the Pacific's Most Historic Battles - Fight from Guadalcanal through the Philippines to Iwo Jima as you retake captured territories.

Intense Combat - Experience savage battles where fighting is often hand-to-hand and your objective is simple - defeat the enemy at all costs.

Cinematic War Experience - Battles come to life amidstexploding artillery, whistling bullets, unrelenting enemies and much more.

Authentic Missions - Based on actual battles including recapturing a strategic airfield, defending against an enemy assault, going on a search and destroy mission, fighting through fortified caves, and scaling Mount Suribachi to plant the American flag.

Play online as an American or Japanese soldier (Xbox 360, PS3 and PC only) - Play your favorite individual and team-based modes including elimination, team elimination, death match, team death match and capture the flag on battlefields painstakingly recreated from topographical maps and historical records.

Authentic WWII Weapons - Fire authentic Allied and Axis weaponry including submachine guns, sniper rifles, anti-aircraft guns, pistols and grenades.

Relive History - Each level begins with a documentary video featuring actual battle footage, key facts and statistics, and the importance that the battle ultimately played in the allied victory