Anyway, after watching the girlie model models bounce around in the demo movie, I started thinking about other sexy women in video gaming. Say, there's a phrase that's sure to pump up my Google search rating! Here's my highly personal list of sexy stuff I have witnessed in video games. And I am limiting this to just my collection, as much as I'd like to include DOA Extreme Beach Volleyball and Final Fantasy X-2.

It's really easy to just toss out screengrabs of Lara Croft, the Fear Effect girls, hell... even some of the Trainer sprites from the latest Pokemon games are pretty hot. So that's what I'm going to do. But I'll temper that raging ploy for pageviews with a VH1-esque series of quirky explanatory quips. (Add your own Mo Rocca and Leif Garrett.)

Sexy From Behind
Claire Redfield of Resident Evil: Code Veronica X (PS2)
Although everybody does this nowadays, RE:CVX was the first game where I really noticed the heroine's high-quality ass texture map. In third-person games like this, we spend a lot of time staring at asses. It's nice to have that ass painted in low-riding jeans.

Sexy Strategist
Nell of Advance Wars (GBA)
Nell is in charge and you'd better get used to it. Happily, she stays safely at central command while you're out positioning army units against General Sturm. You wouldn't want her to get hurt, would you? She's adorable!

Sexy In Motion
Chrissy of Aggressive Inline (GC)
Chrissy seems pretty panderingly sexy when she's standing still: blonde, pigtails, schoolgirl outfit. But it's when she's blading that she's really panderingly sexy. You see, Chrissy-in-motion showcases a bouncy bra-less jiggle effect that probably clinched sales of Aggressive Inline the world over.

Sexy And Sporty
Any Team from Beach Spikers (GC)
Okay, yeah, an international cast of girls in bikinis playing volleyball. Fine. But where Beach Spikers goes the extra mile is whenever the girls score a point: then they hug. And, unlike other volleyball games, this one offers a genuine fun game too.

Sexy And Paid For It
Cowgirl Stripper of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (PS2)
No, she doesn't strip. She just sort of runs through random low-fi motion capture sequences. But I paid her quite a bit of money to do so... because you eventually unlock something if you sit there long enough. Insert "unlocking something" joke here.

Sexy Scary
Alexandra Roivas of Eternal Darkness (GC)
Although the rest of the cast of Eternal Darkness fills up more of the game, Alex is the star. She's haunted, she's frightened, and she kicks Lovecraftian ass. And look at those eyes. Those aren't just vapid pixels; there's determination behind those eyes.

Sexy Button Mashers
Talim, Taki and Xianghua of Soul Calibur 2 (GC)
Soul Calibur 2 has plenty of beautiful women in it, but these three are my favorites. Firstly, I love playing Talim... fast and nimble. Taki's skin-tight bodysuit ensures that certain victory pose angles are worth winning for. And Xianghua is just about the happiest prize fighter around.

Sexy Double Vision
Mio and Mayu of Fatal Frame 2 (PS2)
Like Alex Roivas, the truly sexy have more to their story than an entrancing jiggle. Mio and Mayu double their waifish innocence with a horrific backstory, making them sexy and complicated. Now that I think about it, Miku from FF1 was probably a little sexier, but the twin factor beats her out.

Sexy Motorhead
Reiko Nagase of Ridge Racer Type 4 (PS1)
Unquestionably my sexiest moment in gaming. In the opening movie, Reiko is hitchhiking while you're speeding down streets in your crazy retro-Namco race car. When you pull over, she leans in your window, looks your car over, and does this super-great lip-biting thing because she can't stand how awesome your car is with Pac-Man painted on it. Hot.