Brooktown High
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| Developer | Backbone Entertainment |
| Publisher | Konami |
| Platform | PlayStation Portable |
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| Genre | Dating sim[1] |
| Mode | Single-player |
Brooktown High (working title: Brooktown High: Senior Year) is a dating sim[1] video game for the PlayStation Portable. It was developed by Backbone Entertainment and published by Konami.
Gameplay
[edit | edit source]Being touted as "your chance to re-live your high school days," Brooktown High places the gamer in the shoes of either a male or female high school student. This character is customizable, to some extent - hair style and color, eye color, height and weight are editable. Questions at the beginning of the game categorize the player into one of the social cliques.
The player then gets to interact with the 20 other students at Brooktown, who have their own social circles and distinct personalities, in order to become part of the different cliques. There are four different cliques: Nerds, Jocks, Preps, and Rebels.
The main goal is to find a boyfriend or girlfriend, who can be taken on dates to various locations such the movies, the beach, and the mall. Players may be asked to perform favors in exchange for characters' phone numbers.
Various mini-games will be used to reach the goals mentioned above. Each game boosts some percentage of the player's clique points (for example, smarts points to get into the nerds clique and athletic points to get into the jocks clique).[2][3]
Reception
[edit | edit source]| Aggregator | Score |
|---|---|
| Metacritic | 51/100[4] |
| Publication | Score |
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| 1Up.com | D+[5] |
| Electronic Gaming Monthly | 4.83/10[6] |
| Game Informer | 6.75/10[7] |
| GameSpot | 5.6/10[2] |
| GameSpy | StarHalf starFile:Star empty.svgFile:Star empty.svgFile:Star empty.svg[8] |
| GameZone | 5.5/10[9] |
| Hardcore Gamer | 2.5/5[10] |
| IGN | 5.2/10[3] |
| Pocket Gamer | StarStarFile:Star empty.svgFile:Star empty.svgFile:Star empty.svg[11] |
| PlayStation: The Official Magazine | 8/10[12] |
| 411Mania | 2.5/10[13] |
The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.[4]
References
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External links
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- 2007 video games
- Backbone Entertainment games
- Dating sims
- High school-themed video games
- Konami games
- North America-exclusive video games
- PlayStation Portable games
- PlayStation Portable-only games
- Single-player video games
- Video games developed in Canada
- Video games with gender-selectable protagonists
- Konami stubs
