OFFICIAL
77.5
pretty good |
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Content
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| Quality : |
16.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
12.5 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
13.5 / 15 |
| Updates : |
6.0 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
5.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
3.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
56.0 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
8.0 / 10 |
| Features : |
2.5 / 05 |
| Design : |
3.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
13.5 / 20 |
| Other |
| Originality : |
3.5 / 05 |
| Hard Facts : |
3.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
7.0 / 10 |
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As of Aug 15th, 07, price of a site is no longer factored into the overall score/rank. |
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1. Mostly video, all hardcore.
2. Great network of sites with membership.
3. Good downloading options.
1. Quality could be improved a bit.
2. Expensive.
3. Updates aren't quite weekly as stated.
"A pretty standard hardcore video site here that is fine, but wasn't spectacular." |
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I'm surprised we haven't looked at more of these sites by now. The Meat Member's network did pretty well from what I remember when we reviewed it, so I'm glad we're taking a look at some of the individual sites that make up the network starting today. The first one is called Midnight Prowl. The basic premise here is that they pick up random girls, pay them some "chump change" to fuck on camera. That's quite a novel idea if you ask me!
To get to the site, you first login to the main network homepage, and have to then find the link, and enter your login information a second time to get to the actual site's member's area. It's a bit of a pain if you ask me, but it does let you know right off the bat that you get access to all the other sites as well which is good.
Once you're in, the site is pretty easy to get around. They list their scenes right on the main page, although there's only five of them listed on each page. That means you better be ready for a lot of clicking around, and there's no real way to tell how many pages they have even to know if you're getting close to the end. The only thing that gives you an indication is what scene number they're on now, which happens to be 50 as of today. The pages towards the end don't quite look as nice as what they've got up now, but they get the job done. You can get links to everything you need from this main page.
Unfortunately, when you hit the photos section, you'll find out that they only offer screen caps. Not only that, but they're lower-quality pictures even by screen cap standards for some reason. They come in at 640x480, which is fine, but even in relatively still scenes, the pictures show some jagged edges which just doesn't seem right. The only good news is that there's a TON of them available for each scene. The bottom line, though, is that they're just screen caps anyway.
I'm hoping the video section can make up for the disappointment. They are offered in both Windows Media and MPG, with two quality settings each, in clips only. The MPG ones have a lot more clips for each scene, and are supposed to be higher-quality than the WMV versions. The WMV clips come in at 320x240 and 530kbps, but the quality just wasn't quite what I was expecting. It ended up looking good, but nowhere near great. The MPG's are a lot larger, and this is made worse by the incredibly slow download speeds of 65-70KB/sec (which means even a small clip takes almost 10 minutes to download. Not only was speed an issue, but the server would end connections sometimes very early (after 20% of the clip had downloaded for instance), which made things even worse. The MPG looked a bit better, but still not up to the 1000kbps quality I was expecting with the numbers. I'd still put it on par with most reality site's video though, to give you something to compare to.
For extras, you have some behind the scenes material for Midnight Prowl; even more important, though, are all the other sites you get access to with your membership. Meat Members is one of the larger networks out there, but it's also one of the more expensive ones. The site costs $34 a month, although if you join for three months at a time you can get that down to just under $27 a month. The site was a little plain, and the quality wasn't too impressive, but the one thing they do well here is the content of their content. The action is hardcore and entertaining, and some of the other sites in the network cover some niches that are pretty hardcore (great for you fans of the nasty stuff). Overall, it's not a bad site, but I think I like the network as a whole better.
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 03-10-06 |
Midnight Prowl has grown some, though not quite as much as you'd expect. They're up to 87 episodes now which is better, but it only adds up to a new video every other week or so by my guess. For good news, the site costs a bit less now at $30 a month, and there's more to see in their network than before. Otherwise, this site specifically looks pretty similar to what I remember. Quality could still be bumped up a notch (especially compared to today's crazy new sites), but overall it's a decent site with some hardcore video fun. To really stand out, I'd like to see some improvements all around still.
Score decreased from 80.4 to 77.5.
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