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Scene It? Box Office Smash

Platform(s): Xbox 360
Genre: Puzzle
Publisher: Microsoft
Developer: Krome Studios
Release Date: Oct. 28, 2008

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'Scene It? Box Office Smash' (X360) to Get Award Winners Add-on Pack

by Rainier on Feb. 4, 2009 @ 9:07 a.m. PST

Scene It? Box Office Smash will ignite your game night this holiday season with totally new questions, movie puzzles and more high-definition (HD) content from real movies including some of Hollywood's latest blockbusters. Trivia night goes global as players challenge each other online over Xbox Live, customize their own characters, and access extra questions and localized content from films around the world.

One of several new social party games coming to Xbox 360 this year, "Scene It? Box Office Smash!" is a great way to entertain guests at your next social gathering letting up to four players or teams match their wits in a trivia game featuring the movies they love. Complete with more HD content, all new questions and engaging puzzle types, “Scene It? Box Office Smash” provides hours of laughter as you challenge your friends and family to see whose movie knowledge reigns supreme. “Scene It? Box Office Smash” also is Xbox 360’s first game to debut with the New Xbox Experience’s player Avatars. Players can literally put themselves into the game through personalized characters that respond to your play and interact with each other throughout the course of the game!

Awards season brings out the most passion in movie fans, as suddenly everyone’s an expert and no silver screen performance goes unnoticed. And there’s no better time than during award season for movie trivia games like Xbox 360’s “Scene It? Box Office Smash.” It’s a great way to spend an evening with friends and family members this time of year and the perfect ice breaker for those hosting awards parties.

As fans eagerly predict if their favorite actors and film makers take home top honors, Xbox invites everyone to take part in the excitement with the debut of a new awards themed Game add on pack, that will provide hours of entertainment as you test your knowledge of award winning films as well as the actresses and actors who’ve been recognized for their performances.

This game add on pack features more than 300 new questions about award winning films ranging from masterpieces such as Peter Ustinov’s Oscar-winning performance in 1960 classic “Spartacus,” to Forrest Whitakers amazing performance in 2007 BAFTA-winner for Best British Film “The Last King of Scotland” and thrillers such as 1992 Best Picture winner at the Oscars “Silence of the Lambs.” With nearly 2 dozen award-winning films spanning a variety movie genres, friends and family will have a blast reliving some of their favorite and most memorable moments from the silver screen. Additionally, this pack includes a brand new bonus-round puzzle type dubbed “Pop Quiz,” offering more than 600 new true or false style questions to keep the action going all night long.

The “Award Winners” game add on pack for “Scene It? Box Office Smash,” will be available for download from Xbox LIVE on Feb. 13 for 560 MS Points.

The game features more than 250 of Hollywood's most recent blockbusters, family favorites and cult classics including:

  1. ¡Three Amigos!
  2. 27 Dresses
  3. 8 Mile
  4. A Mighty Heart
  5. A Very Brady Sequel
  6. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
  7. About a Boy
  8. Airplane!
  9. Aliens
  10. All About Eve
  11. All That Jazz
  12. Along Came Polly
  13. Alvin and the Chipmunks
  14. Amazon Women on the Moon
  15. American Beauty
  16. American Gangster
  17. American Pie 2
  18. American Wedding
  19. An American Werewolf in London
  20. An Officer and a Gentleman
  21. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
  22. Aquamarine
  23. Babe
  24. Babe: Pig in the City
  25. Baby Mama
  26. Back to the Future Part III
  27. Backdraft
  28. Bad Boys
  29. Bad News Bears
  30. Bandits
  31. Batman
  32. Beauty Shop
  33. Bedazzled
  34. Bee Movie
  35. Being John Malkovich
  36. Bend It Like Beckham
  37. Beverly Hills Cop
  38. Big
  39. Big Momma's House
  40. Big Top Pee-wee
  41. Blades of Glory
  42. Blue Hawaii
  43. Born on the Fourth of July
  44. Bride of Chucky
  45. Bride of Frankenstein
  46. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
  47. Bruce Almighty
  48. Cape Fear
  49. Casino
  50. Catch Me If You Can
  51. Charade
  52. Charlie Bartlett
  53. Charlie Wilson's War
  54. Charlotte's Web
  55. Cheaper by the Dozen
  56. Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke
  57. Chicken Run
  58. Children of Men
  59. Child's Play
  60. Cleopatra
  61. Cloverfield
  62. Clue
  63. Clueless
  64. Cocoon
  65. Creature from the Black Lagoon
  66. Cry Baby
  67. Curious George
  68. Dawn of the Dead
  69. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
  70. Deck the Halls
  71. Definitely, Maybe
  72. Die Hard
  73. Disturbia
  74. Do the Right Thing
  75. Doom
  76. Dracula
  77. Dragnet
  78. Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
  79. Dreamgirls
  80. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
  81. Eastern Promises
  82. Edward Scissorhands
  83. El Dorado
  84. Election
  85. Elizabeth
  86. Elizabeth: The Golden Age
  87. Elizabethtown
  88. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  89. Evan Almighty
  90. Ever After
  91. Failure to Launch
  92. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  93. Fever Pitch
  94. Field of Dreams
  95. Fight Club
  96. Firestarter
  97. Fletch
  98. Flicka
  99. Flushed Away
  100. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
  101. Forrest Gump
  102. Frankenstein
  103. Friday Night Lights
  104. Galaxy Quest
  105. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
  106. Georgia Rule
  107. Get Shorty
  108. Ghost
  109. Grease
  110. Hannibal
  111. Harry and the Hendersons
  112. Hatari!
  113. Head of State
  114. Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
  115. High Anxiety
  116. High Noon
  117. History of the World Part I
  118. Home Alone
  119. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
  120. Hot Rod
  121. How Stella Got Her Groove Back
  122. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
  123. I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
  124. I Think I Love My Wife
  125. I, Robot
  126. In Her Shoes
  127. In the Heat of the Night
  128. Independence Day
  129. Inside Man
  130. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
  131. Jarhead
  132. Jaws
  133. Johnny English
  134. Juno
  135. Jurassic Park
  136. Jurassic Park III
  137. King Kong
  138. King Kong (1976)
  139. Knocked Up
  140. Kung Fu Panda
  141. Lars and the Real Girl
  142. Leatherheads
  143. Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
  144. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
  145. Lions For Lambs
  146. Little Miss Sunshine
  147. Love Actually
  148. Major League
  149. Mamma Mia!
  150. Man of the Year
  151. Margot at the Wedding
  152. Mean Girls
  153. Miracle on 34th Street
  154. Mission: Impossible III
  155. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  156. Monty Python's Life of Brian
  157. Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
  158. Mr. and Mrs. Smith
  159. Mystery Men
  160. Nanny McPhee
  161. Napoleon Dynamite
  162. Night at the Museum
  163. Norbit
  164. Old School
  165. On Golden Pond
  166. Over the Hedge
  167. Overboard
  168. Paper Moon
  169. Parenthood
  170. Planes, Trains and Automobiles
  171. Predator Pretty in Pink
  172. Pride & Prejudice
  173. Prime
  174. Raising Arizona
  175. Revenge of the Nerds
  176. Rio Grande
  177. Rocky Balboa
  178. Roman Holiday
  179. Rosemary's Baby
  180. Save the Last Dance
  181. Say Anything...
  182. Schindler's List
  183. Serenity
  184. Shallow Hal
  185. Shane
  186. Showgirls
  187. Shrek
  188. Shrek 2
  189. Shrek the Third
  190. Sixteen Candles
  191. Slap Shot
  192. Slaughterhouse-Five
  193. Soul Plane
  194. Soul Plane
  195. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
  196. Spartacus
  197. Stardust
  198. Staying Alive
  199. Street Fighter
  200. Stuck on You
  201. Sunset Boulevard
  202. Superstar
  203. Surviving Christmas
  204. Swimfan
  205. The 40 Year-Old Virgin
  206. The Addams Family
  207. The Amityville Horror
  208. The Bourne Ultimatum
  209. The Brady Bunch Movie
  210. The Breakfast Club
  211. The Brothers Grimm
  212. The Cat in the Hat
  213. The Chronicles of Riddick
  214. The Comebacks
  215. The Day After Tomorrow
  216. The Devil Wears Prada
  217. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
  218. The Flamingo Kid
  219. The Frighteners
  220. The Good Shepherd
  221. The Heartbreak Kid
  222. The Holiday
  223. The Invisible Man
  224. The Jerk
  225. The Ladies Man
  226. The Last King of Scotland
  227. The Last Starfighter
  228. The Longest Yard
  229. The Lost World: Jurassic Park
  230. The Mummy
  231. The Naked Gun
  232. The Nutty Professor
  233. The Pink Panther
  234. The Princess Bride
  235. The Producers
  236. The Quiet Man
  237. The Ring
  238. The Scorpion King
  239. The Skeleton Key
  240. The Spiderwick Chronicles
  241. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
  242. The Stepford Wives
  243. The Sting
  244. The Terminator
  245. The Truman Show
  246. The Untouchables
  247. There's Something About Mary
  248. To Catch a Thief
  249. Tommy Boy
  250. Top Secret!
  251. Trading Places
  252. Transformers
  253. Tremors
  254. Valley of the Dolls
  255. Van Helsing
  256. Waitress
  257. Walk the Line
  258. Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
  259. Wanted
  260. Weird Science
  261. Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
  262. White Christmas
  263. Wimbledon
  264. Xanadu
  265. Year of the Dog
  266. You, Me and Dupree
  267. Young Frankenstein

In addition, movie lovers in Europe will enjoy testing their knowledge against several hit films from local filmmakers including:

  • La cena per farli conoscere and Ole' (Italy);
  • La discrete, Total western, Une liaison pornographique, Métisse, Les destinées sentimentales, On connaît la chanson, Smoking/No Smoking, Un petit jeu sans consequence, Belle maman, J'ai pas sommeil, La Discrète, La Saveur de la pastèque, Pola X and Bienvenue en Suisse (France);
  • Astronautas, El Amor perjudica seriamente la salud, Elsa y Fred, Intacto, Los Amantes del Círculo Polar, Mataharis, Nadie conoce a nadie, Roma and Tesis (Spain);
  • Der Fischer und seine Frau, Die Bluthochzeit, Die Wilden Hühner, Erbsen auf halb 6, Hui Buh, Kammerflimmern, 666 - Traue keinem, mit dem Du schläfst!, Die Nacht der lebenden Loser, Nirgendwo in Afrika, Der Untergang, Elementarteilchen and Merry Christmas (Germany).

Features:

  • New movies, new questions and new puzzle challenges. It's not just trivia; it's trivia about movies you love, with hundreds of all-new questions, audio clips, photo stills and HD movie clips never seen before in any Scene It? game. Scene It? Box Office Smash also features brand-new types of puzzle challenges that are sure to keep gamers guessing all night long, including these:
    • "Pixel Flix," where players try to name the film after watching an old-school, 8-bit-style animation of a famous scene.
    • "Celebrity Ties," a six degrees of separation-type challenge in which players must link together a series of clues to guess the answer.
    • "Which Is Which," where players test their power of observation as they try to determine which of two similar movie stills match a particular movie. In addition, all 22 puzzle types have been designed to provide the ultimate multiplayer experience on Xbox 360.
  • Movie trivia the world will love. Movie fans in France, Italy, German, Spain and the U.K. have even more to love, with content from some of their favorite local films included in versions of the game sold in their countries.
  • New online multiplayer capabilities. Airplane flights are expensive, and your friends are everywhere. Solution? A Scene It? match over Xbox LIVE. Better than a phone call, playing over Xbox LIVE builds new memories with old friends and the opportunity to test your knowledge against friends or movie buffs around the world with several new online multiplayer modes.
  • Picture yourself at the movies. With the new Xbox LIVE experience, players can literally put themselves into the game through custom characters that respond to your play and react to one another throughout the course of the game.
  • More questions on Xbox LIVE. With downloadable content available via Xbox LIVE Marketplace and a content tracking system that minimizes question repeats, players always have a fresh play experience.
  • Everyone gets in the game with the Big Button Pad. Chips are better with guacamole. Games are better with friends and family. So gather your friends and family for a race to the buzzer, and see whose movie knowledge reigns. With the intuitive wireless Big Button Pad, even the most console-phobic person will play, and maybe even win. Available with four wireless Big Button Pads, or without for aficionados who already own them from the previous Xbox 360 release Scene It? Lights, Camera, Action.

A great value for the retail price of $59.99, “Scene It? Box Office Smash” comes bundled with four easy to use, game show style wireless Big Button Pad controllers that will transform your living room into a proper game show set. For those who already own a set of Big Button Pads, the game is also available without the controllers for $39.99.

Scene It? Box Office Smash hits North American retailers on October 28, 2008.


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