A major part of the game's promotional campaign was based on using the sex appeal of its female characters. In October 2004, a picture of Tala "wearing only a feather in her hair" was featured in a spread of the first special edition of "Playboy" that spotlighted provocative video game characters, also accompanying the article "Gaming Grows Up". Several more naked pictures of her and Cassidy appeared in "Playboy"s "Girls of Gaming" series in October 2005 and again in December 2007. A few censored topless sketches of Tala were posted alongside a fake interview in an exclusive online gallery by IGN and a pinup picture was featured in IGN's "Hotlist" magazine in June 2006. She was also featured in exclusive pictures on the cover and the pinup poster of "Play" issue #44 in 2005 and in the 2007 calendar "The Art of Heavy Metal".