The Xbox Live Vision Camera has been under-used and no mistake. To rectify that, Microsoft are attempting to open up a new sub-genre of their own, with You’re In The Movies. The only man that can rival my moustache’s awesomeness – Burt Reynolds – has been hired to help promote it, so it just cannot be bad, can it?
The basic concept of You’re In The Movies is that using your Xbox Live camera and the processing power of the Xbox 360, your actions can be recorded and cut into a movie trailer with a relative level of believability, dependant on your actions. In short, this means that you’ll be playing ridiculously simple mini-games, pulling faces and carrying out specific tasks such as “walking cockily” for several rounds, before the game splices you into the final trailer for your blockbuster hit.
The idea is a decent one, but even that description makes it sound a little lightweight in terms of replayability. The problem is that not a great deal has been done to combat that, and whilst the technology (generally) works well after a few attempts to get your camera set up correctly, there isn’t really a great deal to do. If you get four players in to play and provide a couple of units of alcohol, then the game is a great deal of fun. Once. The introduction to the game is genuinely hilarious and some of the actions will get the lewd comments going (especially the jackhammer drilling mini-game…use your imagination) but once you’ve played through once, there is absolutely no reason to go back and complete the other trailers that are on offer.
This is a short review, and with good reason. There’s very little to say about You’re In The Movies that you couldn’t work out for yourself. If you pick it up with a camera for £40, then you get a decent camera and a game that you probably won’t play more than once. I appreciate the effort from the development team, but I couldn’t possibly recommend a purchase, here.
its like movie.. how nice..