Still, Brenda Strong does a splendid job with the cutscene voice work.Īnd fans will be interested to know that Scott Sanford Tobis, writer of the TV episode "Could I Leave You?" that aired in March, wrote the script for Desperate Housewives: The Game. Hardcore fans of the TV series may find themselves disappointed not to hear their favorite (or most hated) character sound, well, not quite right. For that matter, I am not a regular viewer of the show. But I am neither desperate nor a housewife. Nonetheless, the voice performances are plausibly representative. The voices, however, do not: with the exception of Brenda Strong, who is the voice of Mary Alice Young in both the show and the game, none of the actresses provide their voice talent.
On the whole, Desperate Housewives is a satisfying graphical experience.Īudio is essentially as satisfying as the graphics all of the musical score for the game comes from the TV show soundtrack. The game is 3D, with a 360-degree in-game camera occasionally when the camera passes awkwardly through a tree (like they do) you can see the somewhat poorly rendered leaves, but this minor shortcoming doesn't draw anything away from the game's sense of space. The five leading characters all resemble quite well the women of the TV show - so much so, in fact, that I have to assume publisher Buena Vista Games had to pay handsomely for the right to use the actresses' images. Wisteria Lane is fairly fully realized, with white picket fences, houses of different design with lots of curb appeal, and fairly well-detailed characters. Desperate Housewives illustrates that video games are not just for white, affectless, teenaged boys anymore - our world, it is a-changin'. This is of course none too surprising, since the show is marketed to that same demographic. Desperate Housewives takes product placement not only to an all new high in video games, but to some place totally different this game is marketed specifically to females between the ages of 25 through 40. The in-game placements are even more reckless: Slimfast on the player character's kitchen counter, Chrysler Pacifica in the player character's driveway, and Caress and Suave in the bathroom. but Bertolli Frozen Foods? And that's just out-of-game. I've seen inserts for Alienware and NVidia. I found the most unusual things inside the jewel case for Desperate Housewives: The Game: inserts for Bertolli Frozen Foods, Chrysler Crossfire Roadster, and Sears Virtual Kitchen.
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