Reviewed 2011-01-09 l Last update on 2020-09-27
Coming to you from the duo Steve Cruz and Bruno Bond, and including live shows, access to four other exclusive, quality sites, and bringing you the best in real men and real-man sex, Hard Friction is hard to beat. You're looking at an established site where the company behind it knows how to make quality movies, find quality guys and run a quality service. You've got no worries here, simply the chance to join one of the leading, hardcore, studly-male sites around.
You are going to enjoy this content. It's all about real guys, hard muscled, powerful (though not bodybuilders), your typical Marboro Man, your cowboys, constructions workers and fit gym guys. These are the kinds of models who appear in the exclusive and well made videos, in either action scenes or solos.
You've currently got 17 hardcore movies, dating back to October 09, which is about a year ago; 12 screen tests, which are mainly solos, dating back to around the same time; 43 hunks in the model index, and 14 erotica movies. These last ones are made with more artistic merit than the hardcore. I think that means they are softer in approach to the sex, as they are still top notch hardcore scenes. Add to that content count your 29 feed sites, the four bonus sites and your included access to the Live Men live shows, and you're looking at a decent amount of hardcore fun for your bucks.
It is a simple affair to view the content. You find index pages of four pieces per page, these come with descriptions, like a short introduction to the video, and a sample image. You are told the upload date and have a choice then to stream or download. Downloads are in WMV and you get only one choice of file size, resolution etc. It's a good one but the sometimes large files may not be that quick to arrive if you're on a slow connection. The stream though gives you more options. You have Flash and WMV versions and a choice of resolutions/bandwidths to suit your connection speed. The higher you can go the better of course. A mid range stream at 300k will go to full screen with very little loss of image quality.
Click on the sample pic, rather than going straight to the download or stream option, and you get to the movies own page. There's the same description here and sample pic, but now you've also got photos to go along with the movie. Numbers of pics per set varied slightly but the images were clear and a good size. As the movies are now presented in HD, when screen caps are taken they too are HD, so a good enough quality to act as a guide through the movie, and pics can be saved individually.
The action at Hard Friction is exactly what you would expect from a hardcore site. It's fast and furious when it gets going, and it doesn't take that long to get there, and it is also erotic in build up. There are no problems with the quality of the content here; from direction to sound recording, it's all there, up high on the quality scale and well put together. They guys are fit and handsome, hairy, smooth, shaved, younger and older, there is a great mix; and the movies come across as varied, though they do run through the usual progression of suck to fuck to cum (what else is there?).
So, Hard Friction contains a good and growing (slowly but surely) number of original, exclusive and hardcore movies, with some softer moments too and plenty of extra content.
The other nice thing about Hard Friction is that you can get involved, and there are lots of extras and neat function built in around the main content. Apart from having the nifty Flash player to view movies in, with its choice of bandwidths, you can also comment on movies and add them to your favourites area. You find that favourites area back on the home page, or Members as it's called in your top menu. Scrolling through that first page you find the latest updates, news in text form about what's been added and what's going on, there's a search engine, a members poll, what's coming soon, your favourites area access, what's happening at Men Live, news of what's new in the feed sites and links to the support centre. So a neat list of functions and features there.
The Live Shows area is included in your membership. Unlike many sites that make you think you can access live shows for free and then only provide you with a link to an up-sell site, Hard Friction lets you right in to Men Live and even gives you a countdown to the next show; and there are archives of previous recordings too.
Members will find a model index at Hard Friction, which doesn't give you a great deal of information about the guys, but which does link you across to their work. You've got that page of feeds too, and to get to your bonus sites, simply click the name in the top banner. It's all well designed here, well set out and is very easy to navigate and use.
If I had any concerns here it would be about the updates; but it's very minor and the bonus sites and Hard Friction are being added to; I'm seeing one hardcore video a month, screen tests occasionally, and one or two erotica videos a month. But the quality is great, the men are perfect, you get lots of extras and bonuses and the site is really well laid out. You've got nothing to fear from this site, you get good value and you get some totally load blowing scenes to keep.
