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Content
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| Quality : |
12.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
15.0 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
11.5 / 15 |
| Updates : |
7.0 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
2.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
2.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
50.0 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
8.0 / 10 |
| Features : |
2.5 / 05 |
| Design : |
3.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
14.0 / 20 |
| Other |
| Originality : |
2.5 / 05 |
| Hard Facts : |
2.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
5.0 / 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. Some entertaining "reality" videos.
2. 60+ sites in 1.
3. A mix of reality & fetish sites.
1. Some outdated content.
2. A lot of below average-average quality content.
3. Many banner ads, etc.
"Many sites with a mish-mash of weird shit as well as some newer reality-based entertainment." |
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Oh man, where to begin? The Raw XXX Network includes access to over 60+ hardcore sites including extreme niches and fetishes, etc. The sites are split into 2 main categories: reality sites (12+) and bonus sites (41+), with the majority falling into the latter. Here you'll find a decently organized main members area, offering a plethora of sites which contain a basic script with a mix of self-hosted and content plug-ins. The overall theme is hard-to-the-core and access to these 80+ sites will cost a monthly fee of $29.99 bucks, that's less then $.50 cents per site.
Like any large network of sites here, the emphasis is clearly going to be on quantity over quality, so for those of you who have a strong taste in great, well thought out, quality porn, you might want to move on and fast! New photos are promised to be added daily and "most" of their new video is updated monthly. You'll find feature galleries, videos, girls, erotic sex stories, jokes, and more. The plethora of sites here include niches & fetishes like teens, Latina, Super Twinks, trannies, Creamy Facials, Anal Sweeties, the Boobie Club, Hot Nude Granny, Foot Cravings, Street Strippers, Perfect Orgy and much, much more. You main menu is likely to always sit at the top offering the main member index for each site, access to the galleries and videos if there are any (mainly found in the reality sites). Be careful of the many misleading links, banners, etc., because there are simple a ton of them to be found on each site. The galleries for each site will be listed 16 to a page and some sites have as many as 30-100+ pages worth of galleries. Whether or not the same content is used on a number of different sites where niches might cross, is beyond me but I wouldn't put it past any large network of sites.
I do, however, like the fact that all sites are set up very much the same with their fetish theme in mind. Though most of the content here does focus on the more extreme fetishes, there's still plenty of softcore type content to be found as well. The Celeb Hotel site, for example, features some softcore solo sets of "hot nude and semi nude celebs and pornstars." Although I didn't notice any true celebs, they did have galleries with Silvia Saint, Briana Banks, and more. If you want to see some crazy shit, check out the site Farm Secrets! Okay, I lied, it's not all that crazy but you might think some of these girls are, posing naked with barn animals and house pets and such. To be honest here, even though The Raw XXX Network has done a fair job of organizing both their content and their sites, the quality of everything here is simply not up to par when it comes to porn these days. While not everything is outdated, a lot of it is, and the quality is usually no better than average, with very few galleries containing very high quality content. The largest image size I found was somewhere in the 500x750 pixel range, but a lot of times pictures are as small as 337x500 pixels.
Like I mentioned earlier, with the exception of a few of the bonus sites, most of the videos you'll find are from the reality sites, all of which contain videos. You'll find sites here like sugar mamas (BBW), Latina sex, Fresh Teens, Pimp 4 a Day, and more. If the site is not set up as a series of episodes it will be set up in much the same was as the bonus sites, with a link to the videos on the main menu at the top. All of the sites offer the videos in at least Windows Media and Quick Time formats, and some even off an image gallery to boot, though the images are merely screen caps taken from the videos. The videos stream at around 300k imbedded in your browser window. The quality is about average and they play either as full length features, about 15-30 minutes, or as a series of clips. The entertainment factor here is pretty high, I enjoyed watching quite a few of these videos, particularly from the sites: Suck Me Bitch, Pimp 4 a Day, Naughty Therapy, and Fresh Teens. Of course, there's a few gay/tranny sites too, but since those aren't specifically my cup-of-tea, I'm not one to judge. The action is mainly hardcore sex, blowjobs, facials, orgies, etc., with a reality-based twist on things.
Of course, no network would be complete without load and loads more of bonus content, specifically: games, jokes, (many, many) video feeds, stories, live feeds, chat, E-zines, etc. My overall impression here is a mixed one. While I mostly liked the way the sites were set up/browsed, I was slightly taken back by the quality of the content. While they've got a few nicer, more updated image sets going for them, I'd say the bulk of them are your odd/strange/typical outdated porn. The reality sites offer a bit of something extra, if you ask me, by providing entertaining video scenarios, it's just too bad that the quality of it is no better than average. Though, I'd be happy to take that over some of the lesser quality crap that comes along from a lot of these larger networks any day! When it comes down to it, there are simply a ton of individual sites out there charging upwards of $30 bucks a month, so why not that much for 60+ of them? I know I say this a lot, but this is truly a case in point where it simply comes down to quantity over quality. There is simply a ton of content here, most of it average, and some of it wildly entertaining. One of the best things about this site is that you don't even have to enter your username/password for each site--I like that! If you're into a one stop shop for hardcore and fetish porn, The Raw XX Network might not deliver exactly what it promises (not many sites do), but it does deliver!
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 02-20-06 |
Looks like the Raw XXX Network is still up and growing but I was surprised to find that even after so long, there are still many sites here that have yet to see any substantial growth. And just like the last time we were here, it's the reality sites that have been the main focus for the Network as a whole. I checked back with a few of the sites and although they still have a long ways to go when it comes to the quality, at least they mostly offer full-length video streams/downloads. Overall though, the experience at the Raw XXX Network is feeling even more dated than ever and even though they offer-up a ton of sites and a large amount of content in general, I can't help but be disappointed with the lack-luster design, quality and consistency on the whole.
Score decreased from 75.4 to 73.0.
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