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Riana Rouge
(Black Dragon Productions, 1997)
How many game designers would be so dedicated to
promoting their product, that they'd pose nude to do it?
When considering that question, you get very thankful
that John Carmack doesn't have to! However, that's exactly what
Gillian Bonner did, to help put Riana Rouge on
the map; a game she both produced and starred in (FYI : she was
Playboy's Playmate of the Month for April, 1996).
Unfortunately, the game would not see store shelves until 1997,
long after her pictorial sales pitch had lost a good portion
of its strength. Making matters worse was a game engine not unlike
Myst, at around the time
that many gamers were getting sick and tired of that type of
game (so many Myst clones were released in prior
years, and only one or two of them were any good!). While the
nudity in the game was not a bad game element at
all --let's just say that this game had as much sex as most games
have violence, and leave it at that-- this 3-CD game was
over in one night of gameplay. To be honest, Riana Rouge was far from the worst game I ever played; it's
not even the worst game I played in 1997 (that honor goes to
Lords of Tantrazz and
Meat Puppet). However,
for all the effort put into it, you'd expect something more...
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