Hustler Review
Date: January 17th, 2007
Score: Full 5/5
Niche: Classic magazine
Main Draw: Hustler's big name obviously will catch most people's interest right off the bat. Add that to a great jump to the digital format with their magazine, along with tons of exclusive content to show off the lovely ladies of Hustler, and you have the makings of an enjoyable site.
Design: The design is flashy, but effective. It has a nice balance of glossy magazine touches with high functionality.
Navigation: There are lots of choices for you to get around the site. Centerfold Central lets you browse through centerfolds by magazine publishing date. This includes their bios and interviews. For photo gallery navigation, you can jump to specific pictures or choose a slideshow at your specified speed. Enlarged pictures open up in a lightbox format (where it comes up over the website). The main navigation takes place through the top and side menus.
Pictures: All of the picture sets are incredibly high quality, with some very crazy, creative, and memorable sets. Each set has a great introduction (with some very perverse and hilarious humor included). Hustler Pictorials is a section that has every picture feature from the magazine. You get extensive search options such as name, category, and issue. If you'd rather see the best of the best, check out the featured pictorials.
Movies: The movie section features a ton of Hustler movies. You have plenty of search options to pin down exactly what you'd like, along with a ton of variety in actually viewing the clip. You can stream it in WMV, Quicktime, or Real Media (or download it in those formats). You have a choice of low medium or high quality. If you want, you can get smaller clips or just watch the full thing. Lots and lots of choices for very high quality movies. The movie archive goes back to 2003.
Magazine: Their archives go back to 2000, with both pictorials and articles in full force. Whether you like the humor, the letters, or you actually read the articles, you can check it out here. New issues are also provided in their entirety online.
Speed Everything loads quickly.
Originality While you might have seen some of the Hustler content floating around (especially the movie content) there are lots of unreleased and exclusive content from the magazine and for the site
Overall Ease of Use You might be a bit overwhelmed at first by all the options, but that's not always a bad thing. Lots of choice gives you lots of flexibility in surfing Hustler.
Updates The site is updated daily.
Extras: You have Hustler live chats which is just a standard and pretty generic live chat. Hustler World leads you to all the hottest Hustler news and information.
Annoyances The lightbox style of enlarged photos, while trendy with the web 2.0 crowd, really makes it difficult to download pictures you like or enjoy a really seamless pic browsing experience. Consistency in information with the movie scenes would be nice as well – some have a ton of info while others have none at all.
Is It Worth it? Absolutely – the Hustler name is well represented here, and you get the full magazine experience and personality that comes with it.
Price: 3.86/3 day trial | 34.62/month
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