OFFICIAL
79.5
pretty good |
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Content
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| Quality : |
17.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
11.5 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
13.0 / 15 |
| Updates : |
7.5 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
4.5 / 05 |
| Download : |
2.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
56.0 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
8.5 / 10 |
| Features : |
2.5 / 05 |
| Design : |
4.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
15.0 / 20 |
| Other |
| Originality : |
4.0 / 05 |
| Hard Facts : |
3.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
7.5 / 10 |
Scoring Criteria New
New Update!
As of Aug 15th, 07, price of a site is no longer factored into the overall score/rank. |
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1. Better quality content than most reality sites.`
2. Nicely designed.
3. Lots of pics (as well as video).
4. Updates come regularly.
1. May be switching away from the bikini theme.
2. Lost their video options from before.
"Some fun episodes here, I just hope they bring back the themed videos." |
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Bikini Hookups is a new site, from the same people that brought you Lesbo101 and the likes. Great, another reality site, right? ;-) The premise here is that they find a guy (which is never really explained), and take him to some beach in South Florida where they pick out a chick, and hook him up with her. They usually make up some crappy story about him being a producer looking for talent, or something similar, and the girl caught his eye. Once they get her back to their place, they ask her to model a few outfits for some test photos - but there's no changing room! She's naked, the guy's horny, and it's only natural that they start getting it on right away. No way this stuff is fake!
Each scene has both pictures and videos, as per the reality site rules already set forth by others. Further, the divide up the photo gallery by what's going on. There's usually the "hook up" pics first, then some oral, and then fucking. I guess that's good so you don't get too distracted by the stuff you don't want to see. The pictures appear to be actual photos taken, although they do follow the video scenes exactly, in case you're not into that. The pic quality is good, while the pics are just average-sized. They run right at 800x531 exactly, but are exceptionally bright and clear, especially considering this is a reality site here. The other plus here is that there's a LOT of pics for each scene, much more than is standard on other sites. So I guess if you're not into videos, but are into the reality thing, this may be a good choice for you.
The videos look decent as well. While not perfect, I think they're a step above other reality videos you see out there. Each scene is broken into clips (that follow along with what's going on: the hookup, oral, and fucking for the most part), and then further divided into low-, medium-, and high-quality versions. The low-quality is 180x120 encoded at 100kbps, and seems to mostly suffer from a poor frame rate, as well as reduced picture quality obviously. The medium look much better, at 360x240 and 225kbps. The high-quality are the same size, but the encoding is upped to 700kbps, which makes the biggest difference if you zoom in on the video to full-screen or something. Notice the dimensions are more of a wide-screen look than the standard mostly-square stuff, but it's nothing too crazy. While not perfect, the video looks pretty darn good, and is definitely a step above the other reality sites out there.
The usual extras are around. There's three bonus sites you get access to with your membership: Web Young, All Teens, and Real Hardcore. They also have the same plugins that Lesbo101 had, which is the BrunoB, Yvon's Training, Peter North, etc. In addition, they have some (supposedly) exclusive photo galleries, which are hosted on their own servers, so it's not the typical third-party stuff. Lastly, they have the obligatory feeds and plugins, some games, and ezines.
Overall, the biggest thing that hurts them is their high price, with a lack of exclusive scenes. There's only 16+ scenes right now of the actual Bikini Hookup content, which is just not very much. Otherwise, I think they're doing everything right here. The quality is better than most, while still offering the extras they need to. It's nice to see a step up in the reality sites, since it had been getting stale in my opinion. Still, $30 is a lot to spend right now. You do get the bonus sites, which might have more stuff to check out (our login didn't work to those sites) in between updates here. If you're looking for a new reality site, I'd definitely recommend Bikini Hookups, even with the lack of content right now.
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 11-12-05 |
Man, things look a little different around here than last time. First, there's a lot more to see (the site was pretty small the first time we came). Unfortunately with that came a change of scene (literally) away from the bikini-themed videos and switched to just normal sex scenes for the latest updates. I'm not sure the point of a theme site that no longer has a theme, but whatever. Also gone are the multiple video options, as well as the actual digital photos it seems. It's still not a bad site, but I hope they get back to their beachy ways which is what set this site apart in the first place. For now, it's a decent join but nothing spectacular either way.
Score decreased from 83.2 to 79.5.
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