A short while back the most famous person on the planet who appears to have no use, Kim Kardashian, released a mobile game about getting famous in Hollywood. We made our intern review it and laughed and laughed at his attempt to enjoy it. You can check out his review here. Well we all stopped laughing when we heard that the game was going to rake in around $200 million in the first year.
With those sort of returns it was pretty obvious that even more celebrities would jump on the bandwagon and release mobile games featuring themselves.
The first, or the first one I saw is coming from an actress who seemed to have limitless potential as a child but rather end up pretty much destroying her career, Lindsay Lohan. However what is truly surprising is that Lindsay’s game is a very tongue in cheek look at the world of being famous and unlike Kim’s game this one makes it pretty much impossible to not become famous.
You start off by having no fans and needing to swipe up on the phone to gain fans at 1 fan per swipe. Then when you have enough fans you can invest in flyers that will get you 0.48 fans per second that the app is open. You then invest in important things like coconut water and go on a raw food diet which gives your swiping ability a multiplier so that you can earn 50 fans every time you swipe.
You can also invest some of your earned fans into buying a party bus which will earn you even more fans while the app is closed, but in reality all you need to do is level up your Publicity Investment Level (the one that earns fans automatically) and you’ll be really famous in no time at all.
How famous? Well I started playing the game yesterday and have basically just left it open on my desk while I’ve been working and then upgrading the publicity when I can.
It has taken less than 24 hours to clock the following investments:
- Hand out flyers
- Start Twitter feud
- Dance on treadmills
- Hire publicist
- Funky haircut
- Leak nude selfie (twice)
- Fake your death
- Sleep with poet laureate
- Release sex tape
- Reality whow (8 times)
- Fake romance (6 times)
- Fake breakup (16 times) – What I can’t commit
- Elevator fight (11 times)
- Self benefit concert (5 times)
And as of right this second I have 2 323 154 867 789 fans and am earning new fans at 1.47 billion a second. Now it doesn’t take a genius to realise that’s a few more people than everyone who has ever lived and will possibly ever live before the planet implodes, so the game isn’t exactly based in reality.
However there are still a few more publicity events I need to clock including
- Ghostwritten rap album
- Phony rap beef
- Wardrobe malfunction
- Sell photos of your baby
- Fake illness
- Create fake charity
- Fake total recovery
It’s the last one what shows that Lindsay knows how to make fun of herself with that being the hardest achievement to get and will cost me 3.75 Billion Billion fans to unlock.
However I think the weirdest thing about this game is how it doesn’t try and force you to spend money to play. The game itself is free and every 5 minutes or so an advert pops up that you need to close to continue earning fans. You can pay to remove that but that really is the only reason I can see why you would pay for anything.
There are options to pay for new fans
- Double fans balance – $0.99
- Double earning rate – $0.99
- 15.8KB fans – $1.99
- 5 Legal Blitzs – $0.99 : A legal blitz is a spinning wheel that randomly selects a scandal such as sleeping with your friends husband or some other garbage, I didn’t pay attention
- 25 Legal Blitzs – $1.99
But wait, that’s not all. The game also allows you to spend your in-game money on changing your outfits and making your celeb look super duper awesome like my sexy lady below. You can then take a selfie while posing with both hands by your side and surrounded by lighting… which is yet another poke at the celebrity culture.
So should you download it and spend a little bit of in-game currency? Absolutely, if like me you are a fan of the original Lindsay we can all get together and give her some cash so hopefully we can transform her from this:
Back into this starlet:
Last Updated: December 18, 2014
Lindsay Lohan: Price of Fame | |
And that's it...it isn't a game, it isn't really fun but is it art? It's more an interactive commentary on society's fascination with beautiful people. Lindsay get's 5.6/10 because she is at least better than Kim Kardashian... right?
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Admiral Chief Octacore
December 18, 2014 at 12:35
Bwaaaaaaahahahahaha I TOLD YOU!
YOU ARE GETTING LOHAN!
Corrie
December 18, 2014 at 12:46
Get lohan when the whistle blows
Du dun da dun dah dun dah da dun
Spaffy
December 18, 2014 at 12:48
Darnit.
Corrie
December 18, 2014 at 12:54
Your getting a lohan, your getting a lohan , your getting a LOHAN
EVERYBODY”S GETTING A LOHAN
Admiral Chief Octacore
December 18, 2014 at 12:59
Bwahahahahaha
Corrie
December 18, 2014 at 13:02
HEY!!!! why you laughing? your getting one too :p
It’s the sacrifice’s we do to make sure those less fortunate can have their private’s snapped for little boys to get off on
Spaffy
December 18, 2014 at 13:01
Hahaha
http://media.tumblr.com/c1503808599c30fa1e26d88762074acd/tumblr_inline_mie6s0VDb11qz4rgp.png
Corrie
December 18, 2014 at 13:05
No fortunately that train has left thanks to South Park
MIDDDDDDGGGGGEEEEE!!!!!!!
Admiral Chief Octacore
December 18, 2014 at 12:36
Also, this game is a blatant rip off
Corrie
December 18, 2014 at 12:47
On a another rip of
Rip offception
Admiral Chief Octacore
December 18, 2014 at 12:47
English?
Corrie
December 18, 2014 at 12:53
Ohhhhhh me no know engrish
Me gusta espanol senor
How you say Kim Ardashian se mobile
Eh microtransactions
Admiral Chief Octacore
December 18, 2014 at 12:37
Drugs are bad mmmkay
Hammersteyn
December 18, 2014 at 12:37
Indeed, that’s why we never saw an Amy Winehouse game
ToshZA
December 18, 2014 at 12:39
Oddly, since she died, her fame has decreased. That’s contra to every other celebrity ever. That died. And is only now famous after they died. Weird.
Hammersteyn
December 18, 2014 at 12:40
The system works! She didn’t have anything in Kurt Cobain or Freddy Mercury
Quo Vadis?
December 18, 2014 at 12:52
The least famous of the 27 club! The club’s name lives on!
Nereus77
January 3, 2015 at 10:42
Or on Kurt Corbain or Freddy Mercury…. Ahem.
Hammersteyn
January 5, 2015 at 07:48
lol
Captain JJ the engaged
December 18, 2014 at 12:46
And bich is Latin for generosity!
Hammersteyn
December 18, 2014 at 12:37
Still waiting for a Charlie Sheen mobile game. TIGER BLOOD!
Admiral Chief Octacore
December 18, 2014 at 12:40
Winning!
Nereus77
January 3, 2015 at 10:43
Would play this….
Alien Emperor Trevor
December 18, 2014 at 12:42
Earn double points by doing lines directly on the screen*.
*Coke sold separately.
Admiral Chief Octacore
December 18, 2014 at 12:42
O_O
Hammersteyn
December 18, 2014 at 12:52
lol
Captain JJ the engaged
December 18, 2014 at 12:53
Fishing for comment of the week there I see…
What the hell, I can’t beat you, so I might as well support you. ^
hairyknees
December 18, 2014 at 12:45
Holy balls I would totally play that xD
CAE9872
December 18, 2014 at 13:06
Chuck Norris mobile game!
Hammersteyn
December 18, 2014 at 13:26
Will only work on Nokia 3310
ToshZA
December 18, 2014 at 12:38
That “on a iOS” text really bugs me still. Can’t you guys change that? 🙁 My OCD is going insane.
Gavin Mannion
December 18, 2014 at 12:40
it’s automated… I need to put another check in
Admiral Chief Octacore
December 18, 2014 at 12:42
Bad code is bad 😛
Gavin Mannion
December 18, 2014 at 13:17
Code works fine.. bad grammar is not codes fault
Admiral Chief Octacore
December 18, 2014 at 13:28
Pfffff
😛
ToshZA
December 18, 2014 at 12:53
Eh. It’s holiday time. I’ll wait XD
Jvdl
January 5, 2015 at 15:10
You don’t need the “a”. It’ll be just fine as “Played by Gavin on PC, on Xbox360, on PS4, on iOS”.
Corrie
December 18, 2014 at 12:45
Dafuq did you guys just show us.
So rockstar is now gonna sue saying she’s infringing on Trevor
Generic ZA
December 18, 2014 at 12:47
No Comment!
Captain JJ the engaged
December 18, 2014 at 12:47
Then don’t dammit! ;P
Spaffy
December 18, 2014 at 12:54
So what did Gavin do to deserve this honor?
CAE9872
December 18, 2014 at 13:06
So what exactly is Lohan famous for? I am not big movie watcher so have no idea.
Corrie
December 18, 2014 at 13:09
She was a child star and yeah you know the story
Drugs,Parents and money
The Parent Trap
CAE9872
December 18, 2014 at 13:10
Parent Trap? Never watched that…and that’s it? Famous cos of one movie?
At least Barrymore did better – had the slump but came out of it to fight another Hollywood movie.
Corrie
December 18, 2014 at 13:13
I dunno, what else it starred in, some porno staring her and a buggy among other things then something something did something on a friday and she was mean to someone, think Tina Fey since she keeps telling her off and yeah… some kiddy movie called canyon run something for disney
I dunno much myself
CAE9872
December 18, 2014 at 13:14
LOL “it”
Corrie
December 18, 2014 at 13:16
Well clearly it doesn’t know themself so yeah it came from nowhere diseased riddled, out of money and desperate to keep that coke addiction from going cold turkey
The it is:
Lindsey Lohan
Not in any cinema’s near you thanks to that other Korea
Gavin Mannion
December 18, 2014 at 13:17
Herbie….
Corrie
December 18, 2014 at 13:18
No man it wasn’t that it was Herpie’s or Hepatitis C
Gavin Mannion
December 18, 2014 at 13:25
that was the sequel…
Corrie
December 18, 2014 at 13:51
You sure? coz the things she did to that car made it seem like it she did the sequel the threequel the forth one and the reboot all in one take
Hammersteyn
December 18, 2014 at 13:31
She’s the only person that can snort more coke than Charlie Sheen
Dutch Matrix
December 18, 2014 at 14:08
She was also the first celebrity I heard of that did a photoshoot for Playboy magazine, but apparently her first shoot was so meh, it got no raise from Big Chief Hugh Hefner. He sent her back to try again…
http://3rt31c13ulku8973721qen58.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/lindsay-lohan-playboy-cover-lead.jpg
CAE9872
December 18, 2014 at 13:11
To think that some people believe we are at the summit of human intelligence; makes you cry when you consider how dumb people are though.
Kyle Farmer
December 18, 2014 at 17:47
Dude, $200m, I weep for the human race.
Craig "Crios" Boonzaier
December 18, 2014 at 13:31
Oh my, another autoclicker game thingie.
Raptor Rants A Lot
December 18, 2014 at 13:51
Wait wait wait…. So she goes after Rockstar and things like that because someone in game “looks” like her and then she goes and rips off Cookie Clicker??? Seriously????
theseasonswither
December 18, 2014 at 14:20
The old Lindsay used to be smoking hot…
Haig Tait
December 18, 2014 at 14:32
GOTY RIGHT HERE
Lord Chaos
December 18, 2014 at 14:43
At least it did better than the Crew…
Brady miaau
December 19, 2014 at 01:21
So cookie clicker with a different front end? Although I never got past the first paragragh
Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)
December 19, 2014 at 19:19
Screw you guys! THIS is the GAME OF THE DECADE!
Francois Knoetze
December 22, 2014 at 11:27
my eyes!! my eyes are burning!! why am I reading this crap!? Why am I always working this time of year and what is the meaning behind a pretzels design!? take me home to my ps4 and my xbone!!