OFFICIAL
79.0
pretty good |
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Content
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| Quality : |
17.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
13.0 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
13.0 / 15 |
| Updates : |
7.5 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
5.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
2.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
58.0 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
8.0 / 10 |
| Features : |
2.0 / 05 |
| Design : |
3.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
13.5 / 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. Clean desgn.
2. Exclusive content.
3. Sharp photos.
1. Needs more browse options.
2. Needs more video options.
"Pony up the dough & join the platinum to get the most out of this quality site." |
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Captive Culture is a quality fetish site featuring glamour bondage, gorgeous women being restrained, slave training, and female domination. Wearing corsets, heels, latex, or sexy lingerie, these women do the kinkiest things to each other. Rope bondage, in particular, seems to be a favorite theme of theirs and someone really knows what they're doing. These restraints look impossible to get out. And what good is having a beautiful model tied up if you can't do things to her? Light whipping, spanking, training are a few of the hot possibilities.
There are three different types of membership, each with its own price and level of access. First you have the Classic package which costs $25 a month and give users 5,660 photos and 637 movie clips which includes their "Best Of" archives and single movies. Next up is Gold which costs $45 for three months and buys you access to 19,035 pictures and 637 movie clips, adding on their complete image archives. Finally there is Platinum, costing $60 for three months and giving you access to 19,260 pictures and 1,360 movie clips. Platinum adds full length movies and behind the scenes/making of galleries and videos to everything the Gold offers. The package that is right for you depends on what you want to get from the site. If you're a photo fan then get the Gold membership. It'll cost you an average of $15 a month for an excellent amount of content. Video lovers should certainly join Platinum, spending a mere $20 a month for access to a large archive of movies.
The site is updated every 7 days or so with two new galleries or movies. Everything is arranged chronologically on this clean website but I think it's almost a bit too basic in its design. Categories would definitely help the navigation on this quickly growing site. Also, the model index which is useful in finding out the stats of these beauties would be so much more helpful if they also linked to each girl's content from her bio page. They've got a good start but I think a few browse features would make the site much more surfer friendly.
Content quality is one area they certainly have under control. The pictures are large at 700x933 and clear and look professionally shot. The camera man seems to know what he's doing and plays with interesting angles and subject focus. The movies also look great. They play in Real Media at 234k and can be enlarged to full screen with minimal pixelation. Unfortunently, the lack of site features extends to the video collection. The movies are download only and can only be viewed as short 3 minute long clips. I think a full-scene option along with multiple format and quality choices would be appreciated by members.
I enjoyed Captive Culture and its unique take on glamour bondage. The quality is quite good and I think the multiple join options are a good thing for users. The site could use a little upgrading in terms of viewing and browsing options, but at least it's still a clean and easy design. Hardcore bdsmers might be turned off by the softer nature of the content (no real red cheeks or cuts like some spanking sites) and I really didn't spot much in the way of sex, but for those who like a lighter touch to their fetish I think the quality content at Captive Culture is worth a look.
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 12-05-06 |
At first glance, I didn't think much had changed on Captive Culture since our last review a year and a half ago. The design is still clean, if a little sparse on the browse features, and they still have the multi-level membership options. The site has grown, as you'd expect, and now includes over 30,000 photos and 52 videos (split into 1,800 clips) in the premium section. I didn't really think there was anything new until I read the note in the news section that new higher resolution versions of some favorite galleries and videos had been added. The pictures are offered at 1936x1296 pixels and the videos at 800k and they really look sharp. These sets are only available to gold and platinum members and there are only seven galleries and eleven videos online. Because of the cost of hosting these large photos and videos, they'll be rotated in and out. I'm not a fan of rotation systems but at least these are essentially bonus galleries and videos and not the main content of the site (although if I had it my way, all of the content would be offered at these great sizes). I'm still a big fan of all the quality, original content Captive Culture has to offer. I would love to see more user features but at least they got the sexy material right.
Score increased from 76.7 to 79.0.
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