Desperate Housewives To Become Ill-Advised PC Game

Desperate Housewives is the TV show that everyone is talking about - and by ‘everyone’ we means ‘about three people who work for magazines and make their living telling everyone what to think.’

But soon, Desperate Housewives won’t be the TV show that everyone is talking about - Desperate Housewives will be the PC game that everyone is talking about. Because some bright spark has decided that the world can’t live without a Desperate Housewives computer game. Weird - we didn’t think that the sort of people that watched Desperate Housewives would be the same sort of people who played computer games all the time.

You can tell the measure of something’s success these days by the
amount of branded crap that gets invented so that other people can
cash-in on the craze. Witness all the rubbish you can buy with Homer
Simpson’s face on it, or all the Star Wars merchandise, or the soon to
be released hecklerspray range of ironing board covers. Desperate
Housewives (DVDs) is a successful TV show, so it goes without saying that a
wave of spurious Desperate Housewives merchandise was always inevitable.

You can already buy Desperate Housewives ringtones, Desperate
Housewives clothing and Desperate Housewives cookbooks - and now comes
the Desperate Housewives PC game. As if a Da Vinci Code game wasn’t bad enough. BBC News reports:

The game will give players control over their in-game
persona and early reports suggest the title will resemble the hugely
popular Sims series of games.
As another desperate housewife, players will be able to expose or
engage in the domestic scandals that are the show’s signature.

Aaah, it’s a Sims rip-off.
That’s good - for a while we were worried that a Desperate Housewives
Soul Calibur rip-off was on the cards.

However, we can’t help
thinking that Buena Vista Games, which will distribute the Desperate
Housewives PC game at the end of the year, is missing a trick. Why
bother making a game about all the dull stuff that happens during
Desperate Housewives when you could make a game about the real life
Desperate Housewives stars?

Imagine the possibilities - there could be
subgames about who has the loveliest hair, or who could get engaged to the most ridiculous 1980’s singer or who could say the dumbest thing about their boyfriends in magazine interviews. Or, for male players, who could waggle their penis at the most cast and crew. Allegedly.

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Desperate Housewives play games - BBC 

[story by Stuart Heritage]