7 Sins is a Virtual Life\Adventure game developed by Monte Cristo. What this little thing here tries to do is to mix the addictive gameplay of The Sims and the adult humor of the Leisure Suit Larry games. Is it good at it? In one word no, in two HELL NO!!! For more words read below…
STORY: You are a stereotypical male “pig”, a man at his 20-30s, cynical, 100% cretin and care only about your own loving self. What do you want for yourself? Money, sex, POWER! How? By using the 7 sins available to achieve everything you need in order to gain more money, more sex and of course more power… So far so good but is there an actual story besides all these. Nope, there isn't, the whole game is full of mini games and the characters involved are just people you interact with in order to start this games or trigger a specific event. No dialogue, no character development, no nothing! Of course a game like this doesn't actually depend on its plot so instead of a simple zero I gave this section one point of mercy…
1/10
GRAPHICS: Probably the only thing worth mentioning about this game is that it actually has good graphics. All character models have good design and there is a nice variety of them, their animation thought is a bit stiff, moves that are supposed to be full of emotion like sexuality and anger and up being bad acting from robots. The scenery is also quite good, levels range from shops and gyms to grand restaurants and S&M clubs. All areas are well lit and have some good effects like reflections on the floor. The only problem is the simplicity. Simple textures, simple objects and rooms that are decorated with some tables and chairs, some paintings, some lights and that's it.
7/10
SOUND: The sound section of 7 Sins can be divided between 2 parts ambient sound and voice acting. The ambient sounds are nothing special and just get the job done, for example when in a shop you hear some low tempo music, people talking, etc. when in a disco you hear music and so on… Voice acting is a lame attempt of avoiding actual dialogue since it uses the same technique like in the Sims, which means that characters mumble a fictional language that is more annoying than funny or at least good for showing emotion. Your main character talks only in cutscenes and once again instead of humor you get annoyance.
4/10
GAMEPLAY: Now, on to the main dish. Your mission is to rise up socially by using all you can when interacting with the characters you meet. You'll have to make people give you money, help you to gain something or just get laid. When interacting with people in this game you select an action from a list when having a conversation with them. Your choices affect your relationship level with each character and a higher level means that people are more eager to help you, (give you money, let you grab their… assets, etc).
Most things you make affect your lust, anxiety and anger meters, for example if you see a lad shaking her sexy body your lust meter goes up and when your boss behaves badly to you your anger meter goes up. If these meters are full you go crazy and run like hell out of the current level destroying your relationship with the people. In order to lower these meters you can do various stuff, for example in order to lower your anxiety you nap while at work, or punch some mannequins in order to feel less angry. The main attraction though is the 7 sins.
In your HUD there are 7 slots that mark how many bad deeds connected to the 7 sins have you done. Grab some booty, one bad deed from lust, grab some money, one bad deed from greed and so on… if you fill up all slots you once again loose all so in order to remain away from the fiery pits of hell you have to do some good deeds, hear complains, lend money and generally be good, something that of course affects the 3 meters mentioned before.
Finally the game is full of mini games. For example in order to lower your lust you gaze upon some nice cleavage in a game where you have to keep your cursor in the center of your love interest's funbags while she moves or press the directional buttons in the right order when trying to go to the bathroom before throwing up the things you've drunk.
All these may seem fun but they are not and if you somehow manage to like it you'll soon get bored of it after the 1000th time. If you steal money you gain a bad deed, you loose the bad deed with doing something good, but then you get angry, so you have to beat up somebody but then you gain another bad deed and so on and so on… The game goes in BIG circles and gets so boring you'll want to kill yourself…
0/10
Positives: -Nice graphics
Negatives: -Boring as hell and repetitive gameplay -Bad and annoying voice acting
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