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| Monopoly | 
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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $36.99
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New (21) Used (2) from $29.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 1172
Platform: Xbox 360
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Edition: Worldwide
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 19055
Model: 19055
UPC: 014633190557
EAN: 0014633190557
ASIN: B0019R4VFS
Release Date: October 20, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Play against the iPod or pass ?n play with up to 4 players | | • | Authentic classic board and pieces, animated player tokens, and property cards | | • | Intuitive controls make it easy to roll dice, buy, sell and trade properties | | • | Gorgeous effects and animations, rich music and sounds bring the game to life | | • | Customize the game rules to suite your style of play |
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Product Description
Get ready to play MONOPOLY with an exciting party twist. Host the ultimate MONOPOLY night with family and friends.
Adjustable play levels - Easy, Medium, Hard - make MONOPOLY great for the whole family
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 No Xbox LIVE play is EPIC FAIL! The rest of the game is an impressive update on a classic, though. November 28, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This release is quite the anomaly. First off, I didn't even know it was out - a friend of mine who works at Electronic Arts told me that it had come out. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't have known. Now that's not a fault of the game mind you, but for such a classic board game, you'd think it would be a little more promoted. That issue aside..
I was quite looking forward to playing it. I'm a Monopoly fan, and my wife is not, so I never get to play anymore. So I was looking forward to getting in some Monopoly. I sat down, fired it up, and played a few single player games. The game does a very good job at replicating the board game onscreen. There have been some Monopoly games on the PC in the past, and this one is quite good. The graphics look quite spectacular on my 46" HDTV. But the game play is right. So much so that there's a whole gaggle of custom rules you can put into play. Things such as "Land on Go, get double pay", "All tax goes into pile which is won by landing on Free Parking", Number of houses/hotels, mortgage rate, etc. The game play is pretty darned customizable, so that's a plus. There is a wide range of board themes. There's the obvious standard one, a future theme, a World Board, a Jungle Board, even food themes like chocolate and cheese. Each of these themes have appropriately named properties too (things like "Polar Bear Mountain" and "Blizzard Plains" for an ice themed board). There is a very strong variety of play here - without changing the basic game at all. And that is just in standard mode.
There is another mode called "Richest" Edition, where you play with some new rules. One of which is no money. Richest uses no money at all - when you owe someone money, you have to give or take properties. When I first played it, I thought it was going to stink - the formula is changed around a lot, but I have to say, I really ended up enjoying it. The lack of money gave the game a rather different, and very enjoyable feel to me. There are also mini games in between rounds in the "Richest" mode to play which are loosely based on certain aspects of Monopoly. The mini games are kind of hit or miss depending on which one you get (there's about a dozen different ones, including one bizarre one where you have to take X-Rays of the Pennybags character). But I do have to say I really took to the Richest Edition variant of game play. It's notably shorter than regular games of Monopoly, which is one thing to take into account.
So I was really quite enjoying this game, which brings me to the strongest negative to this title. THERE IS NO SORT OF MULTIPLAYER OVER XBOX LIVE! THIS IS A FAILURE OF EPIC PROPORTIONS! How a game like Monopoly could be created without any sort of online play in 2008 is beyond me. It's not like this a Gears of War game or a Halo 3 where you have to push massive amounts of bits up and down an Internet connection. It's Monopoly. I cannot fathom why there was no Xbox Live play here - it just boggles my mind that I cannot do this. This is such a major drawback, I can see it preventing a lot of people from buying the game. Yeah, there's multiplayer locally. You can play up to four people here on the same console. But to be honest, if I have four people in my living room, I'm going to play the real board game version. I might have been inclined to give this game five stars in my review, but the lack of Xbox Live play takes it down to three. It makes me think this omission is why the game ha a list price of $39 instead of the $59 most Xbox 360 games have.
Still, my feelings on lack of Xbox LIVE play aside, this is a very good representation of Monopoly. If you are big time into Monopoly, and always wanted to play but had nobody to do it with, this can work for you. It is a very good game of Monopoly, and the new modes bring a fresh flavor to a game that most of us know pretty darned well.
I wrote this review on the Xbox 360 version. It is also out on the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, as well as the Wii. I do not know the multiplayer situation on those, but if they can play online, and the 360 version cannot, I'll be even more irritated at that.
 The Only Thing Ok is the Price November 17, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is going to go down as another EA blunder. The only thing making this game OK is the fact that it is under 40 dollars. Not worth more than 25 dollars though.
There are so many annoyances and too many to list. Here are some.
1. First, when you play with four human players, all names default to P1, P2, etc. You enter your custom names so you know who everyone is. When you finish a game and go right into another one, you have to do it all over again.
2. The person who pressed start on their controller is the one who sets up the game. So, the order of P1, P2, etc. is not determined by the order of your controller connection to the console. You pretty much had to guess who was who when putting in the names.
3. Even though I played before, each game seems to act like it was the very first time I played and therefore we have to sit there waiting for Mr. Monopoly to explain features again and many you cannot skip.
4. The mini games are always the same.
5. If you have an AI player, they always dominate the first few turns and then magically lose. This is even on the easy setting. I do not like super dumb AI in my games.
Those are the big issues. They sound minor, but they do add up. The boards are very hard to see anything on them and many of the other graphics are subpar.
The best I would say is to rent this or wait until they drastically reduce the price. This game is an insult to all board gamers out there. It could have been done much better. Again, another EA disappointment.
 Major Disappointment November 5, 2008
4 out of 11 found this review helpful
I'm an avid fan of Monopoly. Whenever it is available for a console or for PC I buy it because it has never let me down in offering fun gameplay, great graphics and fun animations. Well, Monopoly has finally managed to let me down. This is the worse Monopoly I have ever played. Isn't the game supposed to get better and not worse?
Graphics: I hate them. The board is so small I can barely see what the spaces are. The tokens appear to be in one spot and then on a completely different spot once the dice are rolled and they start moving. And the fast little stride of Mr. Moneybags landing on the spaces is just strange.
Boards/token: I like the selection of boards...if only I could see the spaces.
No online play!! Tell me why they package this for Xbox and have the words "LIVE" written on the box art AND inside the instruction booklet... when you cannot play on live??? False and misleading advertising. Monopoly is meant to play with people. I can only play with my family so much.. I want to play with others. I mean why release "Here and Now WORLDWIDE edition" and NOT be able to play with others worldwide.
Options: The options in this game stink. Yes you can make custom rules but even that is lacking features.
Conclusion: Save your money and play on CLUB POGO (www.pogo.com) instead.
Sigh.
 Worth every cent! November 4, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Well firstoff some people i've seen complain that this has no online and on one hand i'd agree that blows due to the fact my brother and I live out of state and it'd be fun to play long distance. On the other hand it's like good riddance I can see trying to play this online and people bail after half an hour with no reason other than the online achievement wasn't going their way so they bail thus you lose cause you arn't able to play a full game. I've played monopoly over 20 years on console machines and always felt on default or semi hard the ai just plain flat cheated. Ie they'd get fixed rolls or strangly always give themselves good trades while never giving you a trade of decent sorts or on a fair basis. Ie they'd trade some useless thing always asking you to give them something in return that'd give them a monopoly like yeah i'm that dumb.... Speaking of achivements i've seen some complain that they may be too easy or you can get them with no problem overtime if you keep pushing for them. I say why are you buying this for achevements this is a game that's quite fun to play over and over with friends or against ai and is worth if regardless of them. Most people have 200 on uno but, alas continue to play it cause it's fun. Also, you can save one game so if playing with friends or wife or even the ai but, due to the fact classic monopoly can go awhile it's nice to be able to walk away and play later! Other than good ol' uncle money bags rants which at times get old it's rather good. And yes! you can customize most rules to how you play at home ie free parking gives you money. In the past most consoles versions wouldn't allow this or any other goofy rules that are popular in the home that people tend to play..... I haven't bothered to play the richest or mini games but, i'm guessing they're alright since most monopoly spin offs over the years have been alright yet, can never top the classic version so, you're probably buying this really for classic mode anyways. And so I leave this review with why are you reading this?!? You know you want this and it's good!!!
Great if you are in to party games! October 30, 2008
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
Board game lovers should buy this becuase it can be a great party if you have 4 people playing at once but other wise it is not the best. I would say rent it and then buy it from Amazon if you like it.
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