Strip Poker 3

Strip Poker 3 continues the long-running tradition of taking a perfectly respectable card game and giving it an entirely different reason to attract attention. The core gameplay is still poker, with betting, bluffing and hand evaluation providing the actual challenge. The computer opponents add some variety, while the presentation focuses on the adult theme rather than elaborate storytelling or complex mechanics. As with many games in this series, the appeal depends heavily on the novelty, because the poker rules themselves are hardly revolutionary. Strip Poker 3 is nevertheless an interesting example of the adult-software market that developed alongside mainstream PC gaming. It has the unmistakable flavor of an era when a sound card and a handful of digitized images were enough to make a computer game seem scandalously sophisticated. The result is more historical curiosity than poker masterpiece, but it certainly has personality.