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Domestic Heroine

Written by Mick Brown | Thursday, 27 November 2008 10:00

The women in videogames are magnificent specimens. They are the object of fantasies for videogame playing guys everywhere. Sitting in front of our videogame consoles we give the no-hand salute to the spectacled and overweight videogame character animators every time we bounce Lara Croft from cliff face to cliff face or direct Gordon Freeman's first-person point of view directly at Alyx Vance's hoodie-covered Christmas baubles. But what would it be like if you actually settled down with one of these polygon vixens? How would they go as domesticated housewives or girlfriends? From Ms Pacman to Chun Li, we take a look at why you can't domesticate a videogame femme fatale.