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Content
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| Quality : |
17.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
13.5 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
13.5 / 15 |
| Updates : |
9.0 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
5.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
5.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
63.0 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
8.5 / 10 |
| Features : |
3.0 / 05 |
| Design : |
2.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
13.5 / 20 |
| Other |
| Originality : |
4.5 / 05 |
| Hard Facts : |
3.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
8.0 / 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. Cute girls w/exclusive content.
2. Nice, large photos.
1. Videos need to be larger, and clearer.
2. Navigation and design need an update.
"A great site to find exclusive, hot teens who do hardcore to boot. Now if only they would glam the site up..." |
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Well there's no surprises here hopefully, with a name like SoCalCoeds you pretty much know what you're gonna get. They offer up hot college gals from S. California, get them to strip, masturbate, and fuck on camera, and present it to you for your pleasure. They've been around for a few years now, and shoot all of their own content. Most of the models they shoot offer up both softcore and hardcore sets, so that should satisfy most everyone.
Their website is pretty simple, a little too much for my liking. I think they would benefit from a few graphics around and an easier to navigate menu system. As it is now, they offer up the latest updates (by day, by latest photosets, by latest videos, and by latest hardcore), the three most popular models, browse by categories, and a text list of all the models. While I usually enjoy lots of options, this is just not setup very well for browsing. I have no real idea where to start, especially since the model's names don't have thumbs with them. Ah wait, there is an option to view a preview of the models, it's just pretty hard to find. I'd make that my main browsing option.
Anyhow, pick a girl at random, and good luck! You're taken to the models page where they list off her videos and photosets with a short (three word) description. Again no previews to know what you're gonna see. You might recognize a girl or two from other sites, but the content here is all exclusive from what I know. Videos make up a decent amount of the site which is nice, but there are plenty of photos to go around too.
Photosets are broken up by whether they are hard or softcore. Most all of them offer at least one photo size as well as zip files, while some also offer a second photo size. The smaller of these is usually around 720x480, while the larger comes in around 1500x1000! Man, those are some large photos. The zip file gives you the smaller version of the files, in case you were wondering. The photo quality is a blend of pro-amateur, but generally looks pretty nice. The style is definitely that of some other amateur sites, but the photos are pretty clear overall. The large photos are just huge, and look nice despite their size. I'd put the photography on par with Matt's Models, or Abby Winters.
I was hoping the videos were where the real fun began, but was a little disappointed. The video clips are all in Windows Media format, and have a low- and high-quality version of each. The low quality is 320x240, but looks just awful. They sacrificed both image quality and fps here. The high-quality is also 320x240, but encoded somewhere between 225-300kbps depending on the clip. This isn't great, but looks MUCH better. They look fine at normal size, but once you try to enlarge it the fun ends. It looks a bit pixelated very quickly, and just isn't worth it. The video is smooth however, which helps a little. I was hoping with the nice looking, large images that we'd see something similar in the video section. I wouldn't be surprised if they up it soon to keep up with the times - I'd love to see some larger, clearer stuff come out soon as I'm sure they can do it.
Updates come each weekday, which is good enough. There were a couple ads in the member's area for things like one-on-one chat, penil pills, etc which got in the way slightly. Also, it's a little confusing browsing around as you don't really know what you have or haven't seen with all the options. Plus as I said before, a design update is due sometime soon in my opinion. Some of the galleries (quite a few actually) have the Title 18 warning posted twice at the bottom, which makes the site seem a little slapped together.
One thing to note is that the trial memebership only gets access to some models, and no hardcore. Once you get a full membership you get to see the real member's area. At $25 a month, I think it's a decent site for what they offer. It's not quite a like the reality sites out there, as except for the interviews you don't get much interaction. Once a redesign comes, plus an upgrade of the videos, I think I'll enjoy it more. For now it's fine, mostly because of the regular updates and pretty good looking models. Check it out I'd say if you've never been before, maybe you'll like what you see.
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 07-08-04 |
Hey, hey! What have we got here? The member's area got a redesign. I think that was one of my biggest requests last time, so I'm glad to see it come to fruition. While it looks a little better, it still looks pretty amateur in nature. They got rid of all the confusion, and now just offer up the latest (and upcoming) updates, as well as a model's index with name and preview. Did they follow my last review word for word?
Apparently not, since the videos look much the same. I think I trashed them a little too hard last time, as the high-quality ones look decent (though still not great or anything). Overall, the site is much more simple to get around with the clutter gone (until you get to the bottom of the main member's page - whoops). They more prominently feature the bonus sites now, too, but I think this is the best of the sites in the network by far.
I still say check it out for the exclusive, hot teen pics here. The fact that so many offer hardcore is a huge plus as well.
Score increased from 83.8 to 85.0.
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