Pros:
- Large archive of Mike's episodic content (pictures and videos)
- Bonus access to other great reality sites in the network
- Super simple navigation
Cons:
- Small pic size
- No interaction
Members Area Content as of November 18, 2004:
Pics: 159 photosets for a total of 12,000+ pics
Vids: 159 full videos (split into many clips)
Other Content: Access to all All Sites Access members areas, access to various video feeds and house cams, videos, erotic stories, and bonus pic galleries
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Kicking off our brand spanking new Reality Sites category is MikesApartment.com, one of the many websites (all reality-oriented) contained within an awesome network called All Sites Access (joining one of these sites gives you access to all of them, which is a great deal). I will be reviewing most of the sites in this network (as well as the network as a whole) for QAP over the coming weeks, so keep an eye out for those reviews. Anyhow, for now let's take a look at Mike's Apartment. As you probably already know if you've been surfing the reality niche for any length of time, all of these sites have some sort of "premise" or "gimmick" that makes them a so-called reality site. In the case of Mike's Apartment, the premise is the following: cute young amateur babes answer Mike's ad in the newspaper that offers a room for rent. Once there, the girls find out (via Mike's "smooth" talking) that if they will perform certain sexual favors for Mike, rent will be free. These range from a simple strip and masturbation to blowjobs to full-on fucking. Amazingly (hehe), the girls are down with this deal and Mike films the action for you to check out. Sound far-fetched? Naaaah. This kinda shit happens to me all the time.
The first thing you'll probably notice is that the members area here (as well as the other sites in the network) is quite a bit simpler than the free side and tour. This isn't necessarily a bad thing as the stipped-down design is straight-forward, well-organized, and allows you to get to the content itself very quickly. The basic setup is the following: there's a title graphic at the top of the page and below that are some quick links (divided into two columns: pics and vids) to the most recent updates to the site. These are rather cryptic as they basically just list the name of the girl involved and the title of the movie or picture set, which at times can be kind of odd and not very descriptive. Anyhow, below these links are all of the other updates to the site, arranged from most recent (at the top) to least recent (at the bottom). Each listing has a very small (55 x 55) thumbnail pic of the model involved in that particular update. So basically, pick a girl that you think looks hot and jump right in.
Each girl/episode/update (there are currently 159 episodes btw) here typically has one photoset and 3 video sections. In each of these sections, there are multiple video clips (usually around 10). For streaming, you get what look to be either mpg or wmv files in dial-up and broadband versions; for download, there's an mpg file. In addition, there's a link at the bottom of each page that allows you to download the whole movie (from that particular section) in asf format. I'm glad they offer this option because otherwise you'd have like 30 small mpg clips from each girl's full video. I do wish they would offer a link to just download the entire thing (i.e. every clip out of all 2-3 video sections combined) though. The dial-up and broadband streaming clips both play embedded in an html window. As a result, I'd probably recommend just downloading the videos instead of streaming them. Reason being, the dial-up clips are so pixelated and small, they're barely worth watching (although it's nice that the site offers this option for the connectionally-challenged) and the broadband clips don't look good enough to play at full-screen (and, because they're embedded, this is the only other size option you have besides the small size at which the clip automatically begins playing). As far as the downloadable mpg's go, they look pretty nice. The quality of the earlier clips is a little sketchy at times (I'd probably watch these at no more than double size) but the more recent stuff looks great and full-screen viewing is definitely a viable option.
Quality aside, let's talk subject matter. There are 159 models here and they all look young (18 to early 20's) and very hot. Obviously some are hotter than others (at least to me), but I highly doubt you will disappointed with the looks of the girls offered up here. There are a plethora of blonde and brunette white girls as well as a few ethnic cuties thrown in here and there. I also saw a pretty good mix of body types and overall style/look; no real plumpers here, but I did notice skinny girls and slightly more curvy girls, tiny titties and big natural ones. Also, I didn't see too many familiar faces so a lot of these babes are definitely amateurs. The other big thing I should mention here is that although Mike appears to be American (he's speaking English at least), most, if not all, of the girls here seem to be European. This isn't a bad thing as far as physical beauty goes, however it does sort of make the interview/conversational part of each scene a bit tedious since a lot of these girls speak such poor English, they literally need interpreters to give their responses. Anyhow, as I said in the introduction, the sexual action here varies a bit. Some of the girls simply strip and masturbate (with toys or fingers), others suck dick, and still others go all-out and get fucked. It's pretty much a mixed bag; I even noticed at least one girl-girl series in there when two chicks show up on Mike's doorstep at the same time.
From what I've seen, my guess is that MikesApartment.com is more of a video site than a picture site, however there are also photosets provided with each scene. Checking these out, I found them to not be too impressive. First off, the photos are all pretty small, weighing in at around 480 x 640. As you probably know by now if you've been reading my reviews, we here at QAP like to see photosizes of at least 600 x 800 (which is pretty much standard nowadays). The quality is pretty good and there are quite a few pics in each set, but I'd stick with the videos unless you're a die-hard pic fan (in which case you'd probably be better off joining a different site anyway, LOL). Incidentally, each photoset is also available for download as a zip file, which is cool. The pics basically parallel the videos as far as subject matter, starting at the beginning of the scene and running through to the finale.
As I alluded to earlier, membership to MikesApartment, gives you access to the members areas of all of the websites in the All Sites Access network. This encompasses quite a few members areas including such sites as Big Naturals, First Time Auditons, Captain Stabbin (already reviewed here at QAP), In The VIP, Cum Fiesta, Street Blowjobs, and more. Since I'm going to be doing full reviews of most of the sites included in AllSitesAccess, I'm going to refrain from commenting too heavily on the sites. However, I will say that they are all full members areas, are updated often, and include both pictures and videos for your viewing pleasure. As I said, keep an eye out for a plethora of reality site reviews here at QAP in the next few weeks; many of them are going to be coming from All Sites Access, so be sure to check them out. Additional bonus content at Mike's Apartment includes various video feeds and house cams (Voyeur Dorm, etc.), videos, erotic stories, and bonus pic galleries.
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As a stand-alone reality site, Mike's Apartment is pretty good. It's got a cute gimmick, a decent sized archive of content, the girls are hot, and the content looks nice, but there's nothing really unusual here (especially once the girls get naked). However, when you add in all of the sites you receive bonus access to when you join and figure in the very reasonable $24.95 pricetag, Mike's Apartment (and all of the All Sites Access websites) is tough to beat for fans of the reality genre.
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Although the pictures that we provide as samples are not sexually-explicit and are exempt from 18 U.S.C. Section 2257, you can find the compliance notice for this site here.
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