High Octane

This is what all gay adult sites should be like. There is a definite theme to the design which reflects the kind of content provided – but there is more to it than just the industrial, black and chrome look to the site. Check the members’ home page for everything you could wish for from a site and you’ll find it there. I have a checklist and a quick run though of it shows me that most features of a site are here: exclusive videos and galleries, a search engine, a model index, interactive elements such as comments boxes and a rating system, good update news, the promised live shows (that you don’t have to pay any extra to view), archived shows, bonus sites… in fact the only drawback is that these videos are DRM protected so you will have to either stay a member or go shopping in order to own them for ever.

But believe me, you will want to stay a member of High Octane even though it is relatively short on content. Well, there are 261 full length scenes (plus others available as samples from 36 DVDs that you can buy) and 235 galleries which isn't too bad, and then there are two live shows a week, the recordings of past shows, and those bonus sites all of which are from the same company and have the same high standards of production. It won’t be long before this site becomes part of your life. Particularly if you’re into hard bodied, muscled studs who crave hardcore ass banging sex.

With the cast list including hunks like the hung and sexy Steve Hunt and mean and moody Julian Veneziano you can’t really go wrong. When you have these guys getting it on in front of a camera you are guaranteed high power content and that’s exactly what you get. But there is a cast list of 152 guys, some appearing in videos, others only in galleries, to browse through and they range in age and looks with guys like cute ‘n’ hung Jack Black and older ‘n’ muscled Zoltan Sapka in the mix. The movies are varied in their settings to with indoor and outdoor shoots, fantasy scenes, some fetish content with medical and leather scenes making an appearance and each one is available to stream in two formats. Getting technical for a moment you have a streaming version available in Flash and WMV in bit rates from 36k to 768k. You can open your own Windows Media Player and stream a scene (after entering your membership details each time) to view a 729kbps version at 640 x 480 in size. You can also download said version and play it as long as you are online to get the license. Full screen viewing works just fine, the sound is natural and the performances are great. So, good quality content is also ticked on my checklist.

Go back to the home page and start again. Scroll down to find the extras and bonuses which give extra value for money and start to explore the other goodies on offer. Live shows, for example, are mentioned here (and on the top menu) and on that page you will see when the next show is due - they are on the same days, Wednesday and Sunday, and at the same times each week. Play the archives to see what you have missed and check the countdown on the home page to see how long you must wait for the next show. This countdown means you don’t have to work out your time zone against their time zone and all that malarkey, so you have no excuse for missing a performance.

Sift through the recent updates, the ‘what and who is coming soon’ features and the highest rated and most popular updates to find your bonus sites. These all work in the same way with easy navigation, the same live shows, but with different content, themes and guys in the model indexes. And you can expect the same high standards of production too.