Desperate Housewives: The Computer Game

Television is no stranger to the world of licensed computer games (Simpsons, American Idol, Alias, X-Files, CSI), and ABC riding on the dismal failure of the Alias video game has decided to make a Sims clone featuring the neighborhood of the
Desperate Housewives television show.

"As fans of the show would expect, the game is loaded with gossip, betrayal, murder and sex - you know, all the things women like," says Mary Schuyler, the producer of the title at Buena Vista Games.
Housewives, a dialogue-heavy mystery with an emphasis on social interaction and character customization, is geared toward female players. "There aren't a lot of games for women today, but this is one where women will really have a good time," Schuyler says.

Games with PR statements like that always makes me cringe, because there are plenty of games that have a female following, and while it is true that social interaction is an important feature for games this game doesn't have social interaction -- all interactions are between the player and the program. From what I can gleam from the press release, it's more like interactive story that takes place in the neighborhood of Desperate Housewives. You don't play any of the characters on the show, but rather a wife in the neighborhood with amnesia.
Buena Vista Games hasn't had a good track record with games that aren't Disney based children games, and a big part of that is a problem within the games industry that living people are hard to do. Part of it is due to the graphics hardware, but I think the motion capture is weird, and the 3d imaging data when reduced down for texture maps gives either a freaky look to the recognizable characters (play any EA sports title and you'll see what I mean) or a generic look to all the characters.