Playboy the Mansion Patch description
Playboy: The Mansion blends state-of-the-art social simulation with traditional role-playing and empire-building gameplay.

Playboy: The Mansion is a truly unique gaming experience that seamlessly combines an intriguing social interaction simulation with empire building challenges. In the game the player assumes the persona of world-famous playboy Hugh Hefner, building Playboy Magazine and the Playboy Mansion into dynamic cultural icons and making the Playboy brand one of the world's most recognizable.

Gamers will also live the lifestyle, rubbing shoulders with stunning women and popular celebrities, and share the mystique of the mansion by hosting lavish parties. Crafty management of the social scene of your Mansion will be a requirement to keep the business end of things thriving. Scoring hot celebrity interviews and arranging sexy photo shoots will be just some of the things the player will encounter in growing the empire.

Here are some key features of "Playboy the Mansion Patch":

· A fully 3D environment with a dynamic camera. Zoom out and admire the majesty of each Mansion area or zoom in and view the excitement up close.
· Multiple Playboy estate areas, including the inside of the Mansion, Back Lawn, Pool and Grotto, Gym, Tennis Court, Zoo, Game House and Garage.
· Hundreds of "Celebrities," including actors, athletes, authors, business executives, comedians, fashion designers, models, musicians, politicians and racecar drivers.
· Campaign Mode - A dozen missions that chronicle Hugh Hefner and the Playboy Mansion's rise to international fame.
· Empire Mode - Select your own goals (fame, circulation, guests, etc) and then work over a series of months or years to achieve them.
· The Playboy Philosophy - You're rewarded for living the good life, having a positive sexual attitude and promoting tolerance and individual freedom.


What's New in This Release:

· User is unable to select characters when playing the game on video cards that do not support multi-texturing.
· Pressing F3 during a photo shoot, to go to the wardrobe editor, produces a crash on video cards that do not support hardware accelerated skinning.
· Going into the Mansion Menu when the user has set the video resolution higher than 1024x768, causes a crash.
· Users playing the North American version, with Windows OS region settings for a country other than the United States, have various strange bugs. These include squashed breasts on some characters, not being able to gain fame, and corrupted
· text on the Magazine Menu.
· Having more than 9 saves, causes the game to potentially overwrite older save
· games.


Requirements:

· Minimum
· Intel Pentium III 1GHz
· 256 MB RAM
· 3D-Graphic card with 32 MB RAM (compatible with GeForce2 or better)
· Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP
· DirectX9.0a or higher
· Recommended
· Intel Pentium 4 1,8 GHz
· 512 MB RAM
· 3D-Graphic card with 64 MB RAM (compatible with GeForce4 Ti or better)
· Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP
· DirectX 9.0a or higher