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Monopoly 2008 | 
 enlarge | From: Encore Software
Category: Software
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $6.79
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 119
Platforms: Windows, Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Genre: Board Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0 x 0.1
MPN: 14250
Model: 14250
UPC: 705381142508
EAN: 0705381142508
Release Date: September 11, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Brand new factory sealed retail box. We ship daily. COMPARE SHIPPING
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| Features:
| • | An Updated Classic Returns: MONOPOLY Purists Rejoice! It s the World s Most Popular Board Game brought to life! Acquire wealth by buying and developing the Monopoly properties you know and love. It's all about money - and making more of it than your opponents. Features Include: - Cleverly Animated Tokens, Bright 3D Graphics, New Music - Enhanced Faster Moving Gameplay - Multiplayer Mode |
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Product Description
An Updated Classic Returns: MONOPOLY Purists Rejoice! Its the Worlds Most Popular Board Game brought to life! Acquire wealth by buying and developing the Monopoly properties you know and love.
It's all about money - and making mo
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| Customer Reviews: Read 14 more reviews...
 Moronic AI spoils solitaire game. Pretty graphics January 3, 2009
Kevin Murphy (Los Angeles, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Either the folks who designed the game have no idea how to play Monopoly, or they just didn't do a good job with the AI. The thing is convinced, at any IQ setting, that it can defeat a player with hotels if it just collects enough normal rents.
In a 3 player game, when one player gets a monopoly and starts building houses, the other two players should trade ASAP to get their own, or else they will lose. But this stupid thing will NOT trade in that situation, unless IT is the only party getting a monopoly. And sometimes not even then. Even if the human player is the one that is up, the two computer players cannot figure out that they will lose if they don't trade.
Very boring/frustrating solitaire games result.
Three stars for the pretty graphics and the supposition that this can be used with all human players just fine. But don't buy it for solitaire mode.
This game cheats on it's players. But good for playing with friends. December 30, 2008
thanh nguyen (rochester, ny)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I like the visual design of this version because it's very clean and you can see the entire board at all time. All the texts and details are organized. None of that 3D stuff so it's not demanding for older computers. Another nice feature is you can choose to skip the animation of the computer player's moves, unfortunately it still retains some animation so it still feel a bit slow for me. If you click the mouse you can skip your own moves animation as well.
One big fault though is the game can't keep the details as you change the screen resolution. It only zoom the screen if you change resolution and not keep the sharpness of texts and details, the text becomes blurry.
The biggest problem I have with the game is the cheating AI. The game create an impression of increased difficulties by controlling the dice roll of the computer players so they will often land on the nice spots, either to always land on an unpurchased estate when the game start or skipping pass your estate that has buildings on it. While your dice roll tend to land on useless places like Chance and Community chest too often. For example, on normal difficulty setting, playing against 3 other computer players, after circling Go twice I have one estate bought, while the other computer players own almost every other estates on the board + hotel built, then I landed on income tax. This can get annoying fast. The only way for me to take advantage is abuse the Trade system by gathering up money and buy off the computer player's estates, but that is no fun in the end.
It's not fun to play against the computer in this game.
 Christmas Gift December 29, 2008
D. Isenburg (Illinois)
This item was purchased as a Christmas gift for my daughter-in-law.
I received quick service and was please with the item when it arrived.
Thanks
Easy to play and fun for one or more... December 17, 2008
Threedoglee (Rocky Mountains)
I bought Monopoly for the computer thinking it would be a little fun, but it turned out great fun, and fast playing if you want.
Easy to install on the computer, all the instructions are easy to understand. The first game I played, I won, because the game was set for beginners. After I reset the game, to make it harder for me to win, the game became more fun to play.
For the price it is a great deal, and just as much fun as back when I was a kid. Now because the game is played on the computer, I can play alone or with others and not worry about the rules as they are all set by the game and no one cheats like my sister use to. LOL
Actually, I have a question... December 3, 2008
PressFocus (Wilmington, Delaware USA)
Does this version of the game allow a player to make counter offers to proposed trades? I remember that an old Playstation version allowed counter-offers with computer players, and it made for a more realistic game. The version I currently have is pretty much a "take it or leave it" feature as to trades with computer players. Of course, you can always initiate another trade when it's your turn, but being able to barter back and forth is more realistic.
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