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They make lame trades with each other that no normal person would accept. A family of 4 can actually get through a game one night. If you have never played the old game and have nothing to compare it to, then I suppose it's a pretty good game. Computer characters are in cahoots with each other. Trades are relatively easy.Cons: It may just be personal taste, but my family didn't care for the music in this game. There are not enough options to change. In this version not all payments go to Free Parking, only the taxes, which we do not like.
This version does not have this option. There was no option to turn off Auctions. The Monopoly man narrating can give helpful tips at first but it becomes overly repetitive, and quite frankly, annoying. Pros: This edition has a much faster pace than the old PC game. The graphics in this game are very good. Playing with 4 members of your family or friends can be fun, but playing with 2 CPU (computer) characters is hardly worth the time.
You can't change the music or shut off the monopoly man's comments. If you loved the old PC game you may be disappointed, it simply does not have the character that the Westwood version had. This version is not like the 1995 Monopoly for PC by Westwood Studios. 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.
* You have to sit through every action the AI makes.* This game takes longer to play than the real monopoly. Selecting buttons is also buggy.* You can not turn off the voice tips which get annoying after hearing repeatedly. 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. Good: The graphics are okay and and the first few rounds of game play can be fun. There are different boards to choose which adds to the game-play.Bad:* The menu system is poorly designed. * The dice don't seem random enough.
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. It's just not the "party" game i thought it would be. That's not true either. In this game, you hit X.
I find that the game rolling the dice for you takes a lot of fun out of the game. As i was playing, i was imagining that my friends would rather play the board game. You have that option in the menu. 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. 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.
You simply pass the one controller to the next players. In other words, each game had to have 4 players, whether they were CPU or a real person. 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. I've read several reviews with mistaken details about the game. I almost bought 2 more controllers because i wanted 4 people to be able to play.
Sure, it's random, but least it's you who threw the dice.
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. There is no option to only play against one other computer player, and there is no way to speed up the progress. 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 love playing Monopoly, but am honestly not very good at it, so I bought this game to get some practice. The graphics are very nice and the variety of games is pretty cool, although they're not why I bought the game. 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.
We've enjoyed playing it. Better than the board game because there's no clean up. Pretty Good. 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.
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