i haven't seen that many interactive sex dvds - mainly because they're clearly made for men. i saw virtual sex with jenna which did not impress me - there was very little footage - and the whole thing is shot against a black background.

i also saw my plaything: tera patrick which had a lot more options, more footage, different scenery. this review sums up the differences between my plaything tera patrick and the virtual sex version.

i've heard excellent things about chasing stacy but never saw it myself. we have a couple reviews of it.

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I'll work my up from the bottom.

CHASING STACY

Chasing Stacy was my least favorite of the bunch. The whole thing was shot in front of a green screen and you could choose the background... like all green screen productions, the background was not very well integrated into the scene... plus it was the same footage used over a different background; so you could see Stacy being boned in a mall or in her room -- the boning was the same, only the background different. Big whoop... and there was only one cumshot... and it was timed horribly.

When one jumps to the cumshot, it seems like you're cutting in mid-spurt. I'd rather have a second or two of Stacy waiting for it, asking for it, whatever, and then the big moment. Instead it's just like HELLO! and its done.

My other gripe about the cumshot is it ends too quickly. This is DVD -- we have the time. Let the scene run a little bit. If I'm supposed to be in control -- you're not giving me much to control.

As far as the rest of the disc goes... I'm not buying it. I cannot believe even for a second that I am on a date with Stacy. The problem with any of these types of movies is that there is never enough time or effort put into actually producing the things, and there is just no way for it to be "interactive" enough to create the illusion. As it stands, Eliza running on my old VIC-20 is infinitely more interactive (abd has more interesting things to say to me, to boot!) than Stacy is on our "date"

The gonzo-ish stalking of Stacy as she goes thru her day is produced well enough. there's little things like clocks on walls that don't seem to change time fast enough, but that's OK. The supplemental material (easily scanned thru via chapter search) was solid if unremarkable.

THE VIRTUAL SEX SERIES

Digital Playground's Virtual Sex series has pretty much been the series to beat. Pixis' Diva series may have been around longer, but DP really got the right combination of stars to make it all work.

A few general gripes --

1. Why is it a big deal that there is Dolby 5.1 Surround on these things? What if anything, could possibly be coming out of my back speakers? If there was anything more mono than the human voice, I have yet to find it.

2. The early volumes allowed you to skip around the chapter stops, the new ones don't. major bummer. I liked having the ability to skip around looking for things hidden in the chapters -- learning how the DVD was assembled, etc. but no more...

3. The early volumes had CGI cumshots that were an embarassment to CGI artists everywhere. They now have some sort of prosthetic fakery going on that while the volume is still superhuman (even Peter North is jealous) it at least looks better.

4. Each of the segments is at best 2 minutes long. This is too short. Boredom should make me want to change positions, not because the chapter just looped. This is especially the case with the cumshots; these chapters are usually very short -- a minute or so. Why not make these the longest? Some post cum head perhaps; drawing patterns in the Ivory Snow, I mean, cum, that covers the torso, etc? Ending the scene is just as important as beginnging.. but instead after a minute, the cumshot just starts all ovr again. I'M UNSTOPPABLE! I CAN COME ALL NIGHT! or at least until the DVD player breaks.

Digital Playground's navigation system doesn't work very well with my standalone RCA player (actually, my cheapy RCA system tends to have issues with the second angle in general; but the navigation is not much better), but works fine with the second generation PC-DVD Encore I got in the PC, so I tended to watch most of them at the computer rather than at the home entertainment level.

Some more specific feelings:

VIRTUAL SEX WITH JULIA ANN

I was really hoping for more out of this disc. Julia Ann has always been a fave of mine, even tho she goes against most of what I like -- she's got the ultra-blonde hair, the big fake tits, the tattoos... so call me an engima, a bundle of conflicts and contradictions if you will.

I believe this was the first of the discs that did not allow me to user Chapter Search -- this frustrated me greatly.

On the plus side, the CGI cumshots are gone and replaced with a better faking. As near as I could tell, only the facial pops are real -- all others are simulated.

As is the case with almost all of the discs, the girls can't seem to project enough character to keep me interested in their little stories while they strip and it ticks me off I can't chapter skip thru them right into the sex.

In keeping with Julia's no backdoor entry sign, there ws no anal in this volume.

I am not sure I found her "naughty" persona all that convincing.

VIRTUAL SEX WITH JENNA JAMESON

I don't get the public's fascination with Jenna, but I'll live with it. Don't these people realize she makes a living fucking TT Boy and getting cum on her face? How can they embrace her so? If she showed up on E! with a big load of spooge on her face would she be as popular?

But she is, and this is a mighty transgression from what is supposed to be a review... so.

The good thing about the disc is is let me skip around with the chapter stops; so I didn't need to use the FantaVR controls, I could pop back and forth using the menu.

Some things were decent about it. She had a decent naughty persona. The two angles were not solely devoted to gyno closeups like some of the other volumes.

On the minus side, most of the cumshots were faked with the worst looking CGI ever -- it looked like someone scratched the tape with a needle...

The whole thing, tho, seemed very short.

VIRTUAL SEX WITH TERA PATRICK

I used this disc as my introduction to the lovely Ms. Patrick. I had certainly seen the stills and the rants and raves over this volume, but had not seen any of her work.

This one was OK. Again, faked, but not CGI cumshots were the rule here, and I'm glad for it. The Jenna one was totally ruined for me by the CGI cumshots.

Anyway, we have the usual opening where she talks about her fireman gangbang, getting laidat 13, etc. all the while dancing in front of the green screen while they project fire (Fire! Fire! Shut up Beavis) behind her. I don't know ... maybe I'm getting old, but who the hell cares? Get to the fucking and sucking.

And we do. the nice thing about Tera is her tits are the REAL DEAL and they move and shake so nice.

This also had the Ivory Snow pop shots... and the facial... well, they could have used 3 cameras since she camera was above and on the left and the cumshot happened more to the right as memory serves.

VIRTUAL SEX WITH NIKKI TYLER

My hands down favorite. Nikki has this smoky voice -- too many cigarettes, probably (so not being able to smell the fantasy might be a plus in this case) that I find attractive in this disc. In other outings I have found her to be annoying, but in this one, I found her to be believeable.

this has the benefit of also having her first anal -- tho there is a strange edit right before the pop shot that I can't quite figure out.

Anyway, her nasty persona and her nice persona are both very different... but she is committed to both of them. She really does a good job at selling the idea that she is looking at the person thru the lens, rather than looking at the lens itself. (There's a subtle distinction there)

Everything about her performance was enjoyable, and this was the only disc I was sad I had to return.

CONCLUSION

So, am I fan of the genre?

Well, it's a big leap of faith to actually think that you're really having sex -- maybe if you had the weight of the TV resting on your legs or something it might be easier... but it's a novel idea which certainly dispenses of all pretense -- it's all girl all the time. No distracting scenery (well, the VCA entry does...) nothing but you and the chick going thru her motions... and it all comes down to (a) how much you like the subject of the disc (A virtual sex disc will probably notmake you a fan of a particular performer, but if you ware already a fan, it's a worthwhile addition to your collection) and (b) how much she is able to project herself beyond fucking for money and into fucking for pleasure.

Jeff

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