Maybe if the music weren’t so generic and uninteresting than the game would seem like it had a little more personality. Armand Van Helden? Sorry, is this 1992? Garbage, all of it.Īside from the music, the sounds that the characters make is – yet again – extremely similar to the Sims gobbledygook speak. The music is a third-rate string of artists that no one even cares about. Wow, it just keeps getting better – doesn’t it? Ok, not really.
…and seriously, would it have been so hard NOT to completely copy the Sims? Hell, even the interface is way too similar. I’m sorry, I just can’t get excited about topless pixels running around the Playboy Mansion. completely shallow and empty games like Playboy really have no excuse. Unfortunately, while games like GTA have an excuse for being a little lax on the graphics due to the immense amount of content. The graphics are definitely a bit of a letdown by today’s standards. The graphics aren’t even a factor, really. You invite in some sports personalities, some politicians, movie stars, woo them, get them to contribute to the magazine, and it goes from there. and how does one do this? Parties, of course. You’ve got to get into their good graces so that they’ll appear in the magazine. The celebs seem to be one of the common themes in the game. Everything from signing up staff to work on the rag, to selecting the Playmate for each month and getting celebrities to flash their faces or names in columns, etc. You’re just presented with the primary objective of running the Playboy Empire as Hugh Hefner – which essentially means publishing the Playboy magazine via a bevy of asinine tasks that you’re given to accomplish throughout the course of the game. There isn’t really much of a story to be had in Playboy: the Mansion. Seriously, put them together for a video game and it’s like my worst nightmare.īut I’ll give it a fair shake for the sake of this review. It should be known that before playing the game I’m already automatically biased against it’s content. So, you take a strategy/simulation game engine, based loosely on the hugely popular Sims series, add in a “storyline” that allows users to take control of a younger version of ultra-sleazy Hugh Hefner and his Playboy Empire, and you’re left with a big pile of crap that just seems like one long-winded advertisement for Playboy and art of being a social miscreant.
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