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.
