I couldn’t help but write the review early so I could share my thoughts on it. Gets a thumbs up from me

As usual, you can find the article on the pages.

Now that I have your attention, may I direct your attention to the promotional material for EA’s latest Need for Speed title. And afterwards, you can take a look at why EA chose to pull the ad.

As a hot blooded virile heterosexual male, I do appreciate a good helping of tittehs. I think the models are quite hot in a blonde, empty, "this is the only face I’m capable of pulling" way - I certainly wouldn’t push them out. Sure, we have all of these social constraints and taboos in place so we don’t strut around in public letting the wind caress our various appendages. But hell, everyone sees breasts at least once in their life. I don’t see the big deal with flopping out the milk balloons every once in a while, since we’re seeing male models prancing around in underwear on Rio TV ads.

But is it right in this particular context? EA has made a gross stereotype - if you have fast cars, you need hot scantily-clothed chicks to accompany them (bonus points if they’re buck nekkid). And where else can you get better chicks than from a gentlemen’s magazine?

This was a cheap ploy to boost interest for all the wrong reasons. Sex sells and EA used tabloid softcore representatives to showcase their product. Now when I buy the game, I’m expecting to see mammaries pressed against my driver’s side window every time I win a race, followed by a lesbian oil rub. Instincts and censorship laws tell me that there is a slim chance of this happening.

Now that EA have backpedalled they’ve got a whole mob of testosterone fueled pubescents saying, "ZOMG EA SI EPIC FLAIL LOLOLOLOLOLLOOOL YUO ARE PUSSIES BRING BACK TEH BEWBS", because EA didn’t go with an ad that was essentially an excuse for softcore porn. It doesn’t matter that most gamers nowadays are above the age of 21. It was not socially acceptable. It had little to no relevance to the game itself. It was just a cheap fucking ploy to try and generate buzz for some shitty remake of a remake. The promo material should have stayed next to the Kleenex box, where it belongs.

If people think otherwise, then I’m sure it won’t affect them too much since they’ve got a big list of thumbnail galleries to go through online. Don’t forget to take plenty of zinc supplements for the faps.

(And yes, I know old news is old.)