Not that it's even vaguely approaching prudish. Notice no real mention of sex yet, because, while there in huge quantities, it's not really what the game's about. Your main income is created by releasing issues of Playboy, which gain money depending on the quality of the content and how that content matches the world demographic. Alternatively, you can use the spoils to purchase objects for the house that either help satisfy visitor's desires (such as a mini-bar to keep them entertained) or improve their skill levels (like an exercise machine to increase their fitness). In the campaign mode, you gain access to more of your mansion through completing objectives - normally of the "befriend X person" sort of thing - gaining money along the way, which can be spent to pay your ever expanding array of girlfriends and staff. Interacting with guests satisfies their needs in these areas, makes them happier and more likely to either do what you want or - in the case of a paid employees - do what you want well. Relationships are defined across Romance, Business and Friendship scales. To do this you mainly have to influence those that surround you, with mechanisms pretty much "borrowed" from the Sims. You have to run your mansion and expand the Playboy Empire. You are Hugh Hefner, either in a modern day or classic setting (or a sandbox mode without real objectives). There's more to becoming one of the most famous Editors in the world than an endless line of identikit Californian blondes on your arm. In fact, if you wanted to tie an overarching theory to the game, you could argue that it's a cartoon-style documentary exposé about what it actually means to be Hugh Hefner. It didn't end up like that, because - ultimately - Playboy isn't like that. Logically, games based upon the world's most famous soft-porn brand must be based upon per cubic centimetre of emissions produced. Strategy games should be rated by how much they make you think. Action games should be rated on how excited they make you.
Can't approach the work cleanly, which says something about humans but a lot more about the game.Īnyway, the plan was simple: I was going to rate the game purely on whether it got me off or not.
With something like Playboy: The Mansion, this Sims-esque Hugh-Hefner-'em-up, you walk into the review buried alive in the things. You walk into every review with expectations.
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