[Chefelf]

The Guy Game
Booze, boobs, and, uh, trivia? You betcha.

January 21, 2004 - Videogames are predominately played by males, and as surging sales of Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto franchise have shown, there's a huge market for the male demographic. The newly formed Topheavy Studios (run by Jeff Spangenberg, former head of Retro Studios, which was responsible for the GameCube hit Metroid Prime) set out just over a year ago to create a videogame for this demographic. Appropriately named The Guy Game, Topheavy's unique new home console title is the very epitome of that goal.

The Facts

    * Features topless, M-rated nudity
    * Integrates drinking game A**hole, allowing for custom rules
    * 20 episodes, each with multiple girls
    * Custom FMVs were filmed on the beach
    * Diversified by the 3D BallzOut challenges
    * Color commentary mocks you as you play along
    * 1-4 players

The Guy Game, which is still looking for a publisher, is aimed squarely at testosterone-laden college students, spring breakers, and, well, any red-blooded American guy. Forming a sinful trinity, it combines boozing, nudity, and revelry. There's no question that it's a party game. It sets itself apart from other party games in that you don't have to pretend that it's a drinking game or fathom special party rules to make it work. Admit it: you've tried to turn everything from Super Monkey Ball to Eye Toy into alcohol-driven party games. The Guy Game doesn't pretend to be anything else; it's style is a blend of Girls Gone Wild, the long-standing drinking game A**hole, and, well...You Don't Know Jack.

http://xbox.ign.com/...4/474315p1.html

[Slade]

I am desperatly hoping that that is a hoax. The Mteroid Prime guys going to that crap? If I want nudity, I look on the Internet, not in my video games. Let's get serious here, guys and gals. It's bad enough that if we say one thing about women who clean obsessively we get castrated, but they can go around claiming that every male is just a penis with legs, a mouth, and eyes, so we can watch foot ball and drink lots of beer. Yargh I say!

[looktothesky]

They have to make a female version now!!!!!



(Avoids obvious debate concerning gender issues )

[Slade]

Ok, that will make it fair.

[Heccubus]

That is by far the most *foul expletive* ridiculous thing I have ever heard. If that sees store shelves, I will sell my game console and abandon all hope for the gaming industry.

[Ninja Duck]

Imported hentai games weren't good enough for these guys, eh? That's absolutely terrible.

[Chefelf]

Imported hentai games weren't good enough for these guys, eh? That's absolutely terrible.

Well there aren't many four player hentai games.

Sadly.

[sinister grinner]

there isn't

[looktothesky]

Ganguro girl isn't bad. I used to have the full version...

I'd always skip the "ending movie" of course.

[Gleffnork]

This is yet another blow for decency everywhere!

[Chyld]

If I need a drinking game, I find a deck of cards.
If I need some nudity, I turn to either Kaaza, or a woman (usually the former)
If I need to play computer games, I boot up the Sims, or Commander Keen.

Not an awful lot of room for crossover, methinx.

[Mist]

It has to be a hoax....

People aren't that stupid and/or simple-minded...are they?

I'm in total agreement with Chyld and Hecc.

How the hell would you even play a drinking game on a console? The screen goes blurry, and your options are limited? Sounds really dumb.

This post has been edited by Mist: 07 June 2004 - 02:44 PM

[Helena]

Admittedly I'm not a man, but I fail to see the point of a game like this. Why pay £20 or so for a computer game that lets you play drinking games and look at porn? You can find a million drinking games on the Internet for free, and presumably vast amounts of porn as well.

[SimeSublime]

I remember playing Time Splitters 2 whilst drinking. It didn't work very well. Somebody said something funny whilst I was drinking and I ended up spitting beer all over my controller. My wavebirds never been the same since