These centerfolds are featured as collectibles in the game, and as such, they function in a subtly different way than most collectibles do in games. Nevertheless, the game makes it abundantly clear that these nudes are here to be viewed. Many of them feature women merely in sheer clothing or often feature a bare bottom rather than bare breasts and are generally less raunchy than contemporary pornography. None of these images feature full frontal nudity (as no Playboy pictorial did prior to the 1970s).
In that regard, the nudes featured here are certainly more buttoned up than what one might expect to encounter when performing a Google image search with SafeSearch disabled in 2010. The authenticity of these nudes is probably derived more from their more demure quality (something that most players would associate with pornography of a period perceived to be more prudish than the current one) than an adherence to real historicity. While the Playmates presence in the game are actually anachronistic if the game were set in a historical United States (since the game’s main action takes place in 19, years prior to the release of Hefner’s magazine in actual history), assumedly the fictional city of Empire Bay resides in an equally fictional alternate timeline of United States history, in which Playboy emerged on the American scene about a decade early. The inclusion of 1950s Playmates apparently is intended to add an air of authenticity to the period in which the game takes place and to the seaminess of the mob lifestyle of the game’s protagonist.
There is also one nude in the in game sequences themselves. I know this because the game features 50 collectible Playboy centerfolds that can be viewed (after collection in game) in the main menu.
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