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you get what you pay for

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 16 / 20
Date: November 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The 3-D effects and music quickly become annoying. The overall layout doesn't work very well either. With the older version from Westwood, all the players and their property titles are easy to see and assess, and any trades allow you plenty of time to decide on whether you want to approve it or counter offer. When a trade is proposed by a computer player, there's barely enough time to gauge what's going on before the program moves on.
If you enjoy Monopoly for the strategic aspects and don't need all the special effects, get one of the older versions. Even the AI players aren't much different in the way they play, and if you're not going online to play, you need AI players that are less predictable and more creative.

Awful Remake of The Original Monopoly

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: June 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game has several design flaws. For one, the computer constantly plays out of turn. This can be annoying when trying to make buying decisions. Secondly, the "voices" in the game quickly become old. You have the option of turning both this and the music off, which you may as well do, because both are of low quality. The music is that of redundant piano music; in other words, annoying. Additionally, the difficulty options that allow for easy to hard playing do not differ; I found no difference in difficulty when I chose easy or hard.

Also, please be aware that this game was not written by the true "Atari". Infogrames have changed their name to Atari to sound better, but it is still the same old French company that make bad games like this.

Cheating Ruins the Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 15
Date: May 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

All in all, there is actually very little to praise in Monopoly 3. The music is dull and after a few minutes begins to grate. The voices are annoying from the very start. The game, as noted in other reviews, cheats incessantly; making it a game not worth having.

The only reason to actually own this game is to play online with others. If you won't be doing that, and will only be playing against the computer, don't bother. The game cheats to the point of absolute frustration.

Poor Remake of the Original

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 14
Date: June 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game does not even attempt to bring back the atmosphere of the original Monopoly game. It has several design flaws; the computer plays out of turn, the animations are not synchronized, and, worst of all, the "voices" in the game quickly become annoying.

Another quirk is that the game fails to offer any method of changing the level of difficulty (e.g., there is no difference in "easy" or "hard").

Also, please note that this game was not written by the true Atari company; instead, Infogrames have changed their name in order to establish a different reputation... I think, however, that they are ruining Atari's reputation!

this game cheats

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 15 / 16
Date: June 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

While this game is top of the line fun when playing other people, I'd have to recommend not playing against the computer. While playing the AI, my friends and I have noticed that the game cheats incessantly. The game allows the AI to build on your turn, but you cannot build on theirs, It almost never lands on my property, but I land on it's almost every go-around. the game allows the CPU to buy land (both for sale and on auction) even though it has NO cash and it offers outrageous trades. For example: I offered to trade the computer property for property giving us both monopolies. It countered by asking for ALL of my properties, save the one monopoly I was trying to get, like 8 in all and over $750 for the one property I wanted. It does this throughout the entire game making trading impossible and the game rendered impossible to beat if it allows no one to aquire a monopoly. The voices on the game get very annoying after a few minutes and the camera angles could use help. But in a multiplayer game it is much more fun, utilizing fully customizable gameplay options and different boards to play on... it's worth it if you have someone to play with. If not... look elsewhere

Who Wants To Play A Game That Cheats?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 19 / 21
Date: December 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

All of the other people that have reviewed this game are correct. Some of the points are pretty picky, especially when this game has far greater flaws than annoying voices.

It is true that this game does allow the computer players to make deals and build on properties out of turn. Even more frustrating is when the computer interrupts you during a deal your trying to make with another player, to do a deal of it's own, and thereby cancelling your deal.

However, the most upsetting thing about the game that no one has mentioned is that the game simply cheats (it is very clear and obvious). I have played several games (winning only once) and every game has gone the same way. As you aquire properties, the roll of the dice time and time again will hardly ever roll in your favor. I have owned entire sides of the board or corners of the board, and for about 6 times around the board the other players will not land on your properties, but you will land on all of theirs. In one instance I had another player go to jail 5 times in a row around the board avoiding my properties.

Anyone who plays this game will take notice of my point. The roll of the dice seems to be calculated by the game according to the situation. This is wrong. The dice should roll by chance, and that has nothing to do with a "difficulty" setting. Although that is also true. There is no difference in the difficulty settings.

Also, this game is a drop from Monopoly 2. This version does not offer a board editor as Monopoly 2 did, and there are a few picky graphic flaws in this newer version.

Overall, the graphics are good and the gameplay is ok. Fix the cheating, the playing out of turn frustrations and it would be a lot better.

Ok game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is filler when there's no reason to go outside. The only pro vs. playing the real game is the ability to save for thoes long games you'd like to come back to later. Also the computer keeping tabs on player's money is nice but nothing a calculator and piece of paper can't handle.

Why no saving of the settings

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: January 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

My biggest grips with this game is not the cheating by playing out-of-turn - it is the fact that you cannot save the settings for another time.

Each time you start it up - even if you have a game saved - you need to go through the tedium of manually switching off the voices for the narrator, the voice for the playing pieces - and any other settings you want changed.

I like to be able to open a game / application and have it ready for me to use - Monopoly3 does NOT let you do that, you have to make all the changes to your preferences each and every time - while the narrator offers you his cordial greetings - once again.

Graphics are good, cheating is bad, no save option for settings is a right pain in the behind.

A Great Game For Those Who Loved The Original

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: December 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

What board game could be more American classic than monopoly? And MONOPOLY 3 brings it to your pc! No more playing alone as 3 different players for days and days (yes...I did this as a child, before the age of technology). There are cute graphics and animations, nice sound effects and voices (albeit a bit repetitious after hours of play), options galore that allow you to play with all sorts of different rules and with the Monopoly city versions of 10 cities (where the street names are names of places in that city etc). Basically if you loved Monopoly you will find this a good replacement to whining on your friends to play with you. But it does only seem to appeal to lovers of the game. Not to mention that there are issues with the game "cheating", and doesn't allow for different levels of difficulty. I believe the patch sorts some of these issues out, and they are eliminated completely when you play over the net. That's the real fun - playing with other Monopoly fanatics ;).
Despite a lot of bad reviews on Amazon, I find myself enjoying Monopoly immensely from time to time when I get that sudden board game urge. But if you have never thought once in the past year "oh I'd like to play monopoly", I wouldn't recommend purchasing it.

Nice

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Monopoly is always a good game to play. But I wish the software was faster during the game. The waiting time between actions can be boring

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