One meeellion dollars. Yeah, prices have risen.
As board game purists, we're obligated to say that the Monopoly Here & Now edition messes too much with our beloved, classic game. The player tokens are new, the cities have been replaced with world locations, utilities and railroads are modernized, and a dreaded credit card replaces the funny money. Even after all of those changes, reeking of desperation to make the game cool, the iPhone edition is actually fun. The on-pitch translation matches most of the capabilities of the device, and the underlying Monopoly mechanics are just the same as we remember.
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You can play with up to three computer or human opponents in this capitalist game. Game piece animations, and even the 3D room in which you play are sharp. But the basic Monopoly rules act as a strong foundation. House-style ways to customize the rules, such as tax money going to the Free Parking square, and a range of trading options give just as much depth as the board game. But in the end, it's more fun trouncing friends than computer-controlled players, and you'll have to be on the same device or Wi-Fi network; Internet matches aren't offered.
Underneath an artificial, to-the-max, Here & Now skin, Monopoly still brings old-school fun.
Basic, Monopoly fun survives. Well-crafted controls navigate many options. Local Wi-Fi or single-device multiplayer.
Can't play multiplayer online. Can't play with the original game board. At the end of each game, it hard-sells other EA products.
duke_seb
December 26, 2008 at 3:29pm
I bought this a couple weeks ago and I love it.... probably one of the better more well thought out games
It does have some little quirks though...... like if you roll the dice and win a bunch of properties you have to kind of trade with your computer opponent or the game will start rolling in favour of them.....i had 3 set of properties with hotels and i kept ending up in jail and he kept landing on go ..... missing my hotels until i ran out of money
its one on the only games that i bought that i think ill play for a while.....
