What is it?
First, this game is not to be confused with the Italian Video Strip Poker 2. Apart from the fact that they both employ video, the two games have very little in common.
Older strip poker games with video have usually tried to simulate a real poker game as close as possible. In Poker Party, you see your opponents across a table. Only when they get up to take off a piece of clothing that would otherwise be hidden by the table does the video change to fullscreen. In RealGirls Strip Poker, the game takes place on the floor, thus eliminating any need of camera movement.
Video Strip Poker takes a completely different approach. Yes, there is a poker game going on, but you are definitely watching a movie here. In the beginning your opponent comes in and sits down. The camera is not fixed, it moves around a lot. The absolute silence of your opponents is a bit confusing, but understandable: Video Strip Poker is a European game, intended for audiences speaking a wide variety of languages. You can choose six or seven languages for the interface. That many voice files would have driven production costs and download size beyond limits. Still it is odd that your opponents don't talk, nearly every game since Strip Poker Three has featured speech.
Apart from this silence there is an air of perfection around Video Strip Poker. Video quality is high. The interface is skinnable, as I am writing this, there five different skins available from the official website (unfortunately it seems not possible to create your own skin). I wouldn't be astonished if the models' bios were accurate. If so, they come from all walks of life: students, a flight attendant, an interpreter from an embassy, a nurse, a hair dresser.
Video Strip Poker is not cheap. You pay a bit more than $30 for the game itself, including the first five opponents. Additional opponents are $5 each. Since there are twenty of them as I am writing this, you can easily spend $100 on this game. But you will get the most perfect strip poker game currently available.
Update: In July 2006, Torquemada released a sequel, Video Strip Poker Supreme, with enhanced video quality, speech, and new interactivity features. With the release of the full version, Video Strip Poker was renamed to Video Strip Poker Classic. The price for the game was cut 47%, for many opponents 10%. Mind however that prices are fixed in Zloty.
Video Strip Poker Homepage
Cheat Code
The following cheat will allow you to view your opponent's cards at any time by pressing the 'Q' button on your keyboard after typing the appropriate 3-letter code.
The cheat code was designed to change from one day to the next. To obtain the proper code for today's date…
- Using Notepad or Wordpad, open the .bot file of the desired opponent (such as "devi.bot") located in VSP's "data" folder. Remember DO NOT SAVE THE BOT FILE OR ALTER IT IN ANY WAY before closing it!!! Otherwise you will have to reinstall the entire game and all opponents again!
- Scroll to the bottom of the text in the .bot file. Near the end of the file, you will find a set of 31 letters set between the {} brackets. -> example of Olivia's .bot file: {zxikaghjirkolenkdkioepwlaqmncvi}
- The first thing you have to know is that the cheat code you enter when playing an opponent consists of three letters (such as ZXK). The first two of those letters (Z & X in this example) represent the month and the third letter (K in this example) represents the day of the month. The year is not used. This means that the cheat code needed for any opponent will be different and will change every day. It will also vary from opponent to opponent depending on the string of letters located in that particular opponent's .bot file. To get the proper cheat code for the current month and day using any opponent, follow the following instructions…
- The first two letters of the string always represent the month of January (in Olivia's case Z & X). To get February, use the second and third letters (X & I in this case), March would be the third and fourth letters (I & K), April would be KA, May is AG, etc…
- The third letter of the cheat code represents the day of the month. To get the third letter, use your current date such as the 10th. From the last letter in the string, start counting back until you reach the letter the tenth from the end. In this case, it is the letter P.
- So in this example, Olivia's cheat code for January 10th is ZXP. Her cheat code for October 12th would be RKO. June 26th would be GHG, etc.
Alternately, if you have a hex editor such as UltraEdit32, you can open all of your opponent's bot files and change all of the letters in between the brackets to 'A'. Now the cheat code for any day and with any opponent is AAA. But remember, this only works with a hex editor! Using Notepad or Wordpad will corrupt your game.
Cracked by Theta Sigma
3-30-05
(rev. 11-10-06)
