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Pros: This edition has a much faster pace than the old PC game. They make lame trades with each other that no normal person would accept. It gets very repetitive. When my family plays we like to have a rule that no one may buy property until they travel once across the board. The graphics in this game are very good. Trades are relatively easy.Cons: It may just be personal taste, but my family didn't care for the music in this game. This version is not like the 1995 Monopoly for PC by Westwood Studios. You can't change the music or shut off the monopoly man's comments.
There was no option to turn off Auctions. There are not enough options to change. If you loved the old PC game you may be disappointed, it simply does not have the character that the Westwood version had. Playing with 4 members of your family or friends can be fun, but playing with 2 CPU (computer) characters is hardly worth the time. A family of 4 can actually get through a game one night. This version does not have this option.
The Monopoly man narrating can give helpful tips at first but it becomes overly repetitive, and quite frankly, annoying. Computer characters are in cahoots with each other. In this version not all payments go to Free Parking, only the taxes, which we do not like. If you have never played the old game and have nothing to compare it to, then I suppose it's a pretty good game.
Selecting buttons is also buggy.* You can not turn off the voice tips which get annoying after hearing repeatedly. Good: The graphics are okay and and the first few rounds of game play can be fun. * The dice don't seem random enough. There are different boards to choose which adds to the game-play.Bad:* The menu system is poorly designed. There is little distinction between selected buttons and non-selected. I rolled three consecutive doubles (which sends you to jail) about 4 times the first two games I played. * You have to sit through every action the AI makes.* This game takes longer to play than the real monopoly.
If you want to play a 1-player game, you can cancel CPU players 3 and 4 and just play with one CPU opponent.As far as fun, i give this game 3 stars. I almost bought 2 more controllers because i wanted 4 people to be able to play. These are answers that i would have liked before i bought the game.First of all, you CAN play up to 4 people with just one controller. Sure, it's random, but least it's you who threw the dice.
You simply pass the one controller to the next players. I've read several reviews with mistaken details about the game. I find that the game rolling the dice for you takes a lot of fun out of the game. BUT, it's too soon to tell. I'm glad i waited.Also, another reviewer wrote he was annoyed that if you played a one-player game, you had to play against 3 CPU opponents.
In the board game, you control your roll. I will try it out on them and check out their reaction.Graphics are good and the game boards are pretty cool. You have that option in the menu. In this game, you hit X. In other words, each game had to have 4 players, whether they were CPU or a real person.
That's not true either. As i was playing, i was imagining that my friends would rather play the board game. It's just not the "party" game i thought it would be.
There is no option to only play against one other computer player, and there is no way to speed up the progress. I love playing Monopoly, but am honestly not very good at it, so I bought this game to get some practice. It's usually several minutes before it would come back around to my turn, and while that may be ok when playing with people, it really makes it boring when you're alone. The graphics are very nice and the variety of games is pretty cool, although they're not why I bought the game. That being said, playing the game itself is terribly dull. Also, I'm sure it's completely random, but I reset the game 5 times in a row, and each time, I was the last player and once it was my turn, the computer players had bought up half of the board. I just really don't like that I have to play against three players and that it moves so slowly, without a fair ability to buy up properties before they're all gone.
Pretty Good. We've enjoyed playing it. It's nice because it's something parents and kids can do together, and there's no worry about there being anything inappropriate like so many of the video games. Better than the board game because there's no clean up.
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