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Posted 26 March 2006 - 08:46 AM

From IGN:

IGN said:

"Buena Vista Games is proud to partner with ABC Entertainment and Touchstone Television to bring the popular 'Desperate Housewives' franchise to fans and gamers," said Buena Vista Games' Graham Hopper. "This game allows players to move to Wisteria Lane and live all the gossip, drama and intrigue of a true desperate housewife."

Out of all the game concepts out there, some truly revolutionary... This is the one Buena Vista selects. What's next, live life as a Manhattan whore in a Sex and the City game? (While taking out the actual sex, so Senator Hillary Clinton doesn't target the game to fool voters into thinking she cares about "values.")

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Posted 26 March 2006 - 09:02 AM

Maybe we should have a sex-based video game. It would need a special interface though.

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Posted 27 March 2006 - 12:34 AM

It's not that bad. I can imagine that all its gonna be is a desperate housewives version of those Law and Order/ CSI (do they have those?) games where they counterintuitively solve crimes using a terrible interface.

Like the old saying goes. There are bad licensed games, and then there are bad licensed games.

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Posted 27 March 2006 - 06:32 PM

This is, most likely, a stab at some $cha-ching! Most polls show that the vast majority of gamers are male; but there are more females in the world than males. So it would be a smart move to TARGET the female population for a video game, rather than aim to please both sides of the gender spectrum with a game that will probably fall, by the majorty, into the hands of men.

This post has been edited by -Oz-: 27 March 2006 - 06:34 PM

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