Category: PS & PC Games → Playboy: The Mansion (PC).

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.

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The idea is that as a young, vital Hugh Hefner, you take the magazine from the first issue and build it up from there. However, in the game's mission mode, you'll get a good head start by having already acquired the famous Playboy Mansion. The game breaks down into three easy pieces. Of course, your primary concern is publishing your magazine, which demands that you acquire a set number of pieces of content: one cover shot, one centerfold, one article, one interview, one essay, and one pictorial. You'll need to hire a small staff of journalists and photographers to produce most of the content, as well as a new Playmate each month, but for the cover shots, essays, and interviews, you'll need celebrities.


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Playboy: The Mansion Tech Info
Publisher: Arush Entertainment
Developer: Cyberlore Studios
Genre: Business Strategy
Release Date: Jan 25, 2005 (more)
ESRB: MATURE
ESRB Descriptors: Nudity, Strong Sexual Content, Use of Alcohol

Minimum System Requirements
System: Pentium(r) III 800 or 100% compatible or equivalent
RAM: 256 MB
Video Memory: 32 MB
Hard Drive Space: 700 MB
Other: Windows Media 9 Player or later

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