HOME | POLITICS | SPORTS | LIFE | SCI/TECH | OPEDS | HELPFUL TIPS
|
Feb. 5, 2005 When you think of Playboy, what do you think of? Beautiful women? The Grotto? Hugh M. Hefner? When I think of Playboy, I think of glitches. Playboy: The Mansion is a joke of a game. I have noticed that video game companies are regurgitating games that have a high content of sexuality and some nudity, while I don’t mind this, I really wish that video game companies would face reality and realize that if you’re going to produce a video game with adult content why not make it for the adult rating? I played Leisure Suit Larry 8 for PS2 and it was a decent game, not sure if it was decent enough to fork over $50, but still a decent game. I purchased the Playboy game, and I can honestly say that this game is the reason why I will no longer purchase $50 games, because video game companies like Arush and Playboy games are not giving the consumer its money’s worth. Just to let people know why I’m so disappointed with this game will make me look more like a pervert than a well-rounded person, but I personally don’t care. Playboy: The Mansion only shows breasts. Which is fine, but the problem with the game is, it’s Playboy, and while you can have sex, you can only have sex with your shorts on and the woman’s shorts on. It reminds me of the law where you can show the “top” but you can’t show the “bottom.” I actually asked a representative of Arush, the company that made the game, why they couldn’t show the bottom and actual sex in the game? They responded with “because if we did we had to label it as Adult, and therefore, it cannot be distributed through mass-marketed stores like Wal-Mart, Target, etc.” Ironically, I have YET to see Playboy: The Mansion in ANY Wal-Mart, including the Wal-Mart website and they have a Mature rating rather than Adult. I think you got screwed there, Playboy. I do not see why Playboy just didn’t make the game as “extreme” as possible when it comes to the sexual content, but unfortunately Playboy’s philosophy on sexual freedom apparently doesn’t include the videogame, Playboy: The Mansion. The game itself is a ripoff of the Sims game, what is the difference? Lack of freedom, lack of choices, lack of character development, lack of material, lack of fun, and just a tease of sexuality. If that wasn’t enough to anger the consumer with lacking freedom of choice to build the mansion how you want to, despite the game claiming you can, the BIGGEST problem with the game is the fact that it has the biggest number of glitches EVER in a videogame. Obviously Arush and Playboy are the worse companies regarding the making of videogames. Shall I make a list of glitches I’ve encountered? 1) The room will spin on it’s own without touching any controls 2) Constant freezing. 3) Colors flash within a female’s dresses, shoes, etc. 4) Chairs keep moving by themselves as if a ghost was going to scoot it back and sit in it. 5) A playmate had a glitch where if she wore a certain outfit it appeared that her skin was hanging down from it. 6) Bonus Mission 1 provides you to invite Billie Cross, yet she is NO WHERE in the game. Did Arush forget to put her in the game? Boycott Arush, they suck. Of course in the game there is celebrities, or lack thereof. Carmen Electra, Dita Von Teese, Tom Arnold, Melissa Joan Hart, and Jesus Christ. Okay the last one I made up, but still, these are pretty much it when it comes to the so called “celebrities” that this game provides. You will NOT find, at least I didn’t, of celebrity playmates as Jenny McCarthy, Pam Anderson, or Anna Nicole Smith. Which is also a backlash to the game that has the infamous bunny that spreads everywhere worse than Germany and Swastikas. In the end, the game downright sucks, of course it’s not the WORST game, but it ranks up there as a complete failure. If they decide to make a sequel, for Gods sake, take a chance and put the extreme of the extreme in the game; however, if not, then I hope the video game industry will let it die and we can bury it with Hugh when he dies one day. Playboy the mansion = 3 out of 10 stars. ------------ About the author Eric Schomburg: Useless-Knowledge Columnist of the year 2004. An Apocalyptic Dream is now out for purchase. Check out both books at http://www.geocities.com/schomburg2002. Email: schomburg2002@yahoo.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
||||||
|
|
|||||||
|
