Attack of the Movies 3D

released on May 18, 2010

Attack of the Movies 3D is a rail shooter for the Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii video game consoles The Wii version of the game is the first 3D shooter designed for the console. The game transport gamers into six movie-themed worlds will they will battle large alien space cruisers, shoots underwater monsters and more, only to discover the reason why these movies come to life.


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i honestly only bought this for the 3d glasses, it was 2 bucks

Attack of the Movies is a very simple, generic light gun rail shooter for the Wii. The premise at first seems interesting enough. Each stage is represented as a movie, hence the title. You play through six films, fighting huge bosses at the end of each stage. Sadly, not much is done to make this interesting. You enter a generic movie, whether you're fighting space aliens, trekking through an ancient tomb, or creeping through a haunted house. At the start of each stage an announcer gives you a quick sentence that summarizes what you're doing. They use different wording for each movie, but all it amounts to is "Fight through the stage and fight the boss" every single time, so don't go into this expecting more interesting premises, sadly.

Going through each stage, you're going to constantly be shooting at enemies while trying to hit items like score multipliers, health pickups, and alternate weapons. The alternate weapons have limited ammo, but each stage is littered with them so it's hard to encounter scenarios where you're starving for a power up. There's only two alternate weapons to find at the start, with a third one that can be activated with a code. The two weapons are serviceable enough and feel powerful, especially since without them you're using a pistol that has no rapid fire. Annoyingly, to reload your gun you need to motion your Wii remote towards the bottom of the screen, which can cause you to lose your aim and then take a lot of enemy fire.

Speaking of enemies, there's a good variety of foes here. Surprisingly, enemies are not reused often at all. There was one instance in the tomb stage where an enemy returns from the first stage for a small section, but that's it. There are enemies that will run up to the screen and melee attack you, some that shoot shots that can be deflected if shot at, and some that just shoot shots you can't deflect that you need to defeat before they tear through your health bar. Surprisingly, the enemies that gave me the most trouble in this game were the ones on stage 1. There are these giant blue ants that shoot a projectile that does a good chunk of damage that can be deflected. Despite my best attempts to hit the shots, though, they almost always went through and hit me. I'm not sure if my aim was off or if these shots were given too much resistance to player fire, but they proved to be the most difficult part of the playthrough.

I played through the game on the Easy skill level, as I'm not the best at rail shooters and the first level was proving to be very tough on Normal. Funnily enough, after dying a few times on stage 1 and eventually beating it, the next 5 levels were way easier! I didn't die once in any of them, clearing each one in under 10 minutes, which means that if you're good at these games or keep to lower skill levels, it won't take you much longer than an hour to see everything this game has to offer.

I wish I could say this is a great game that everyone should play, but there are so many better light gun games out there for the Wii that going to this one feels like a waste of time. Don't bother with this one.

Boring Piece of crap game that is essentialy a on rails arcade shooter ported to wii that happens to have a cliche movie theme around it. It's a pile of crap don't play it.

Also for some weird ass reason, the developers decided that in order to extend the game's length, they made the game ridiculously hard to where you'll probably never complete it because of how hard it is unless you play on easy. Even then I barely remember if the game was a difficulty screen, in terms of being able to select different difficulties. But all I know is that it was hard as hell as a kid, maybe if I come back to it if I dare God ever play this game again, maybe I can play and beat completely, but I honestly God have so many negative experiences with this game I probably will never touch it again in my life.