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Playboy: The Mansion

Der Feinschliff der deutschen Version gefällt mir. Doch selbst passionierten PC-Playboys dürfte es nach ein paar Stunden langweilen, eine Pixel-Barbie nach der anderen gefügig zu machen. Doch was soll's? Da das lustige Spiel nicht schwer ist, eignet es sich perfekt, um abends auszuspannen. Wer genug hat, steigt wieder ins reale Leben ein, denn da hört der Spaß nicht zwangsläufig beim Höschen auf.

Bei Playboy: The Mansion schlüpfen Sie in die Haut des morgenbemantelten Ober-Playboys Hugh Hefner und stampfen im Endlosspiel oder der zwölf Missionen starken Kampagne das Playboy-Imperium aus dem Boden. Das Häschen-Spiel ähnelt der Lebenssimulation Die Sims 2 oder dem PC-Flirt Singles auf den ersten Blick frappierend. Neben der schicken 3D-Grafik fällt auf, dass auch die Playboy-Protagonisten Wert auf zwischenmenschliche Beziehungen und individuelle Bedürfnisse legen - wenn auch in stark abgespeckter Form.

Schade, Playboy : The Mansion hat wirklich die Chance verpasst, so etwas wie ein erotischer Sims-Ableger zu werden. Mit ein wenig mehr Feinschliff hätte man aus dieser Lizenz wirklich etwas rausholen können. So bleibt ein kurzfristig sehr unterhaltsamer Titel, dessen Motivationskurve allerdings von Stunde zu Stunde brutal abflacht. Trotzdem, sollte man sich für einen zweiten Teil entscheiden, man sollte ihn nicht von Anfang an verurteilen, denn aus diesem Spiel könnte eines Tages noch was werden!

Life, for Hugh, is good. Too bad it's just not very fun. For all that real Hugh has going for him, virtual Hugh can't seem to escape the pedestrian lifestyle of your average Sim. True, Playboy: The Mansion bombards you with wide array of digital boobies, but sex in-game holds the same appeal as clipping your toenails. You can expand your mansion and stuff it with big-screen TVs and a $24,000 DJ station, but it never captures the eclectic pizzazz of the real thing. Or even of a similar game, for that matter. Take the Urbz, for example, a flawed yet oddly charming title that did a pretty decent job of distilling the essence of the urbanite lifestyle.

It was only a matter of time before one of the world’s largest franchises spread into the videogames industry. Playboy, the company of famous rich old Hugh Hefner, went from magazines to film to TV to the Internet – and, with the advent of other recent “naughty” games like Eidos’s Singles, it only seems natural that Playboy: The Mansion has been released on consoles and PC. The game puts you in Hefner’s shoes at the beginning of his career, hiring staff, throwing parties, publishing magazines, and getting your name out there. Over the course of 12 missions, you’ll turn a small house into a mansion and a small name into a very, very big one.

Doch so nett die Belohnungen auch sind - die Missionsziele ähneln sich arg, und nach wenigen Stunden wird erst das Quatschen, dann das Knipsen langweilige Routine.

De titel van dit game is al een voldoende grote aantrekkingskracht voor mannelijke gamers. Jammer genoeg is daarmee alles gezegd. En net zoals Hugh Hefner stilaan een karikatuur aan het worden is, kan hetzelfde gezegd worden over Playboy: The Mansion. Dan zijn er andere games die ons meer weten te boeien…

Playboy: The Mansion is een teleurstellend spel geworden dat amper uitsteekt boven de trieste middenmoot.

The life of Hugh M. Hefner, the man whose lifestyle Playboy almost seems named after, is the stuff of dreams. Or, as it might seem in Cyberlore's Playboy: The Mansion, the stuff of good PR. You'll take control of a virtual Hef to try to build the Playboy empire while rubbing elbows with celebrities, frolicking with Playboy Bunnies and Playmates alike, and throwing a seemingly endless string of parties along the way. Oh, and you'll publish a magazine or two. Yet despite the bacchanalian context, this Sims-style strategy game comes off as cold and mechanical, capturing none of the devil-may-care attitude you'd expect and casting Hef's idyllic lifestyle as a hollow grind established purely for the sake of selling more magazines.

Smapdey: Yeah, well, if the game is so good, then why aren't you playing it more? 2Lions: Good question.... Damn! Crashed to desktop again! I get these random crashes that are really goddamn annoying. I mean, you'd expect the game to run fine on a high-end rig with all the latest drivers installed, but no, it keeps freaking crashing on me. It doesn't matter if I test it on a Pentium or an AMD-based rig. And besides, once the novelty factor of the Playboy license wears off and you're into your 10th issue, the mission-based gameplay becomes repetitive. I kind of lost much of my incentive to play on, and the topless chicks or the unlockable extra content aren't really helping me regain any of it. Smapdey: So overall, 'Mansion' is not a bad game, but it is very unstable and it becomes repetitive as you put more time into it. 2Lions: Yeah, well, it comes off that way, yes.

Playboy: The Mansion is an interesting title. It does a decent job of capturing the feeling of the Playboy style, but the shallow gameplay will become boring rather quickly. But even still, it's Playboy, and there are boobs in the game. And the novelty alone will sell copies of this game, I'm sure.

Das eigentliche Spiel lauert zwischen den gründen Beziehungsbalken und den grausigen Textmenüs. Monat für Monat führen Sie immer wieder dieselben langatmigen Gespräche, um an Interviews oder Essays heranzukommen. Glauben Sie mir, so öde ist das Zeitschriftengeschäft ja nicht mal bei uns. Schade, statt einer spritzigen Sims-Alternative, ist Ubisofts Wirtschaftssimulation so überflüssig wie ein angejahrter Playboy im roten Hausmäntelchen.

I'm struggling to figure out why there is an '18' certificate on the box of this game. Sure, Playboy magazine itself has boasted more than its fair share of adult content since its initial publication, way back in 1953, but this piece of software is pretty tame in comparison. I'd even go so far as to say that the game's adult rating is there to boost sales, not reflect content.

Let me put it this way: this is The Sims with nudity. Yes, you can take centerfold pictures and change the Playmate’s outfit. Yes, changing her outfit entails you toggling between full sets of underwear and the same sets without a bra. Yes, when a woman decides to spend some “quality time” with Hef, she changes into nothing but thong panties. Yes, the female models heave and jiggle a ridiculous amount. Yes, all of this is kind of funny for about ten minutes. No, it doesn’t stay funny. After the sheer novelty of all this flesh wears off, it won’t take long for you to go from being amused to just feeling voyeuristic and more than a little unclean.

Très loin d'être aussi riche qu'un Sims 2, Playboy : The Mansion s'avère vraiment limité. Certes, c'est marrant deux minutes de décorer son intérieur et de trouver du contenu pour le magazine, mais le problème c'est qu'on fait toujours la même chose. L'aspect répétitif du soft et le peu de possibilités proposées sont fatals au titre, si bien que le joueur aura vite fait de sombrer dans l'ennui. Il ne contentera même pas les voyeurs qui préféreront jouer à Singles qui lui, ne cache rien. Playboy : The Mansion est un petit jeu tout juste moyen, voilà tout.

A consequence-free game is not much of a game; it's more of a pastime, like curling or needlepoint. Since there is little rush to put out a magazine, your focus shifts to what else you can do in the mansion; and that's nada -- except go through the loop of party, socialize, and publish an issue yet again. For a while, it is rather enjoyable to cruise by and experience the closest thing you'll ever have to being anything like Hef, but you'll quickly long for deeper gameplay or a more real sense of progression. Use that $50 on 3 years' worth of Playboy subscriptions instead.

A idéia de "Playboy: The Mansion" tem algum potencial. Os vários fatos e curiosidades da revista coletados adicionam um certo valor ao produto, mas jogadores vão ficar decepcionados com o resultado final de qualquer forma.

Ahh, Playboy magazine. With its biting articles and broad coverage of topics, is it a magazine for the more sophisticated gentleman that just so happens to have pictures of naked women in, or is it one for the Dirty Macs brigade? The purists would argue that it is too arty to be porn (i.e. not graphic enough), and the more prudish chap would probably be put off by the aforementioned naked ladies interrupting the interviews with the stars and articles full of social commentary.

Playboy The Mansion ou comment faire une copie des Sims seulement axé sur le « cul ». En effet Playboy est un magazine érotique bien connu (surtout des hommes), et dans ce jeu vous jouez le rôle de Hugh Hefner, le créateur de l’empire Playboy.

Playboy The Mansion est comme le magazine qui l'a inspiré : racoleur en couverture, mais dénué d'intérêt dès qu'on a tourné les premières pages. Les joueurs possédant une libido surdéveloppée y trouveront peut-être quelques instants de plaisirs fugaces. Et encore, j'en doute.