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Want To Be A Digital Hugh Hefner?

Posted by simoniker on from the pipe-and-smoking-jacket-mandatory dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing out that Gamespot has a hands-on preview and IGN.com has another preview of the forthcoming PC and console title Playboy:The Mansion. Somewhat reminiscent of The Sims, but with more blondes, you construct the Playboy mansion itself, then simply relax as Hef, hanging out with your Playmate friends and other celebrities, and keeping them happy. There's even a photo-shoot mode for creating Playboy magazine covers. Weirdness abounds.

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  1. wow...that is the coolest thing ever by skogs · · Score: 3, Funny

    how many adolescent boys will need new keyboards because of "mom, the keys in my keyboard are sticky, they don't work anymore...can I get a new wireless unit?".

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  2. Please... by funkhauser · · Score: 4, Funny

    For the sake of the Slashdot community, will someone please, PLEASE post a link to some screenshots??? :)

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    1. Re:Please... by skogs · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I doubt that they exist yet. All of the news postings seem to simply say that they are announcing it. And that they are announcing all the little things and features that they will be placing into the game. Right now, I think the game consists of a bunch of programmers, and a bunch of drawings penciled by a playboy toting game jockey. Game won't be out until 2004...thats at least 7 months from now right?

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  3. All joking aside... by psyco484 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Could this be the next big thing for computer gaming? It may sound stupid, and yeah there's plenty of horribly made porn games already, but playboy is at least fairly "mainstream" or popular. If this brings light to a "new genre" of games, how many more will we see? Is this a viable way to market porn? Probably not, strange melde of "having a plot in video games is like having a plot in porno" -Carmack in his early years. The sims didn't really have a plot or anything, but it kind of had a point to it. I can't quite see this catching on and being marketed in your local {insert chain store here}, but it would certainly be different.

    Caution, humor ahead:

    Now what would really be interesting is if this were involved.....imagine the possibilities!

  4. Re:ign seems to have one thing backwards... by Bastian · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Considering that Playboy's current target market is frat boys, I think that for Playboy it's currently a choice between being classy and being financially buoyant.

  5. One has to wonder... by sammy+baby · · Score: 5, Funny

    You have to wonder about the what kind of "disasters" will befall the residence of the Sim Playboy Mansion. In the Sims, all you really had to worry about was starting a cooking fire, but I can see all kinds of possibilites for this game:

    • Look out! Nadia showed up to a photo shoot utterly wasted on blow!
    • Uh oh! Buffy and Zora both need to use the bathroom to get ready, but Patricia is hogging it with one of her bulimic epi - I mean, fixing her hair!
    • Francesca's boob implants had a catastrophic blowout, and now the conversation pit is ruined!

    The possibilities boggle the mind.