Monopoly 2008
- Sold Individually
Product Description
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 with up to 4 Friends OR Play against up to 3 Computer Opponents with an advanced A…. More >>
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You don’t need the CD in the drive to play — that makes it perfect for my intended usage, killing time on a laptop during business flights. I can go one better than simply conserving power by not accessing the CD — I can replace the CD drive altogether and swap in a second battery on long flights. I didn’t expect that perk when I put this on my wish list, but that alone makes it a great choice for travelers.
The interface is much improved — you can see who owns what with tabs on the inside edge of the board, and they’re colored if the property is mortgaged. Unlike the old Westwood versions, the animations aren’t overly long and don’t slow down play much at all. (You can turn off viewing computer players’ turns altogether to make it even faster.) And the house rules options are plentiful and easy to adjust — great if you like playing Monopoly “your way.”
I didn’t even notice this edition has no online play, but as an airplane player, that totally didn’t matter to me. I was looking for a great single-player game of Monopoly and I found it!
Rating: 5 / 5
Everything is great about this game until you start ‘trading’ with your computer opponents. That’s when you start making offers to buy or swap properties. There are three computer skill levels, but none of them make the slightest bit of sense. Sometimes you offer a tiny amount of cash for a key property, and amazingly the computer accepts, although most of the time it is the impossibility of getting them to accept your offers that frustrates. By way of experiment, I have offered every one of my properties and all my money to computers opponents in exchange for their Get out of Jail free card, and they still refuse to accept my offer! Clever property trading is the whole key to being a skilful Monopoly player, otherwise its almost all pure luck, and the total lack of logic to the way the computer players trade ruins what would otherwise be a brilliant game.
Rating: 2 / 5
I have a laptop without a CD drive, so when I read the reviews on this product that said the original CD was not required to run the program, I ordered it. I dragged my USB DVD drive out of the closet, hooked it up to my laptop, and installed. Apparently, the publisher has updated the copy protection, since this program won’t run without the original CD in the drive.
I’m not about to drag an external DVD drive around with me just so I can play a game, so I pretty much just wasted my money on this software. Be warned: The current version of the software shipping for this item is heavily copy protected to the point that legitimate purchasers without a built-in CD drive are unable to use the program.
UPDATE: The protection used in my copy is SecuROM (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecuROM). Be warned that even after uninstalling the game, the SecuROM software is NOT uninstalled. Before installing this game, it is probably a good idea to do a Google search for “securom uninstall”. Securom is supposed to allow the software to be used without the original disk in the drive, but I was unable to make it happen.
Rating: 1 / 5
This game is as good as the board game monopoly. Can’t find anyone to play the board game with you? If not, then this is the game for you. It has three levels of difficulty, so it can challenge any level of skill. Great for kids and adults! This is a great buy!
Rating: 4 / 5
I paid $9 for this and am pleased with my investment. Playing on the computer allows you to save a game in progress, play computer opponents as well as humans, and you don’t have to worry about kids, dogs, cats, or wind messing things up.
If you’re looking to play Monopoly “as is” on your computer, you will enjoy this game. Visually you’ll see everything you would if you were playing on a board (except the cash). You can read the properties and cards, and the board is authentic. The presentation is very good.
The only real headache this gives me is setting dollar amounts for trades or auctions. You have to increase or decrease the amount with up/down arrows rather than being able to type the amount. This is tedious when starting from $0 and wanting to go to $425. Also I’d have preferred online capabilities. I mean this is Monopoly 2008 not 1998.
Rating: 4 / 5