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Best of the Hasbro Monopoly games for the PC

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Hasbro has come out with several versions
of Monopoly for the PC. This version created
by Westwood Studios is the best. It is a true
Windows applications (instead of DOS/Active-X)
with Menu bar, buttons, and dialog boxes. It
works great on a "non-state of the art" PC.
This version holds closely to the original
monopoly game while including multimedia graphics
and sound. While you have to be a little
technically saivy, I have played over the
Internet with other people many times.

An Old Favorite Updated In a Huge Way!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This IS a five star game! They should rename it :"Monopoly: the WOW Version". I haven't played a boardgame this fun in ages! Play with your family, the computer characters, or heck, play online with your neighbors across the street! Of course, you can always log onto Monopoly's very own website, where others are waiting for you to host or join their games!! Could this possibly have more endless fun? I haven't even talked about the gameboard yet! You can play "classic" style, pick a favorite city, or *make your own using a digital camera*! That's right..if you want the dog's bed to be your Boardwalk it can. Or, how bout' using your real life neighborhood? You can go take pics. of YOUR town or neighborhood and use them! You'll have to excuse my excessive use of exclamation points, but I simply can't stop raving about how original, fun, and overwhelming technology has mde this favorite pastime. My favorite features would have to be:
1. You can customize the rules
-and-
2. you can have your computer opponents be either "new- buyers", "entrepreneurs" or "tycoons", allowing you to set the difficulty levels of your imaginary players.
Spend the money on this one and you'll never regret it for a minute. Oh? did I mention the whole board is 3-dimensional too?!!!

disappointed

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: June 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is the third Monopoly for computer game I've purchased and it's just not what I hoped for. I still can't find a version that gives you a full screen for play. When you click "max" on this the gameboard stays small, you just get a big white background. What's the point? Also the game seems just as buggy as the other two I've bought. I'm a serious Monopoly fan so as of now I don't plan to return it. But you'd best believe I will continue my search for a better one.

Network Play is ok but you can't save your games.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: September 02, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Its typical monopoly. Graphics are good. Takes time (20 to 30 seconds) to load even on a fast pent 3, 450, 44x cdrom. The interface is moronic, even for kids. This is NOT MONOPOLY 2. There is no such thing.. just plain Monopoly. I think this software was written by some beginner programmer, because they do not tell you how to connect online and its confusing until you figure it out, but if you like monopoly this is what you're stuck with until they actually DO come out with a better version that has a more logical interface. Id say if you like monopoly is worth the 20 bucks.

Pretty good for an old product

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I've had a lot of fun playing Monopoly on my brand new PC with this product, which I purchased from an online auction service since it's an old product no longer manufactured.

I have few complaints. I'm running it on Windows XP (Media Center Edition), and, as old as it is, it works without a hitch. Some have complained it won't run on Windows 2000 and that's no surprise -- a lot of programs that ran on earlier editions of Windows won't run on Windows 2000, which is one reason Windows 2000 wasn't out there all that long before XP premiered.

Another complaint, that when you set up the game with all the rules and features you want, you have to do it every time you play the game isn't correct. There's very definitely a menu choice to save the features set-up as you've chosen, so that each time you fire up the game, it will play the way you've chosen.

As to the computer cheating, well, there are two set-up menu choices, one to allow the computer to cheat, and one to allow players to cheat. I didn't choose either of those options and the computer doesn't cheat, and it won't let me cheat. So I can't understand those who complain about the computer's cheating ways -- if you don't want it to cheat, don't pick that option.

Here are my only complaints. The game board display takes up less than 1/4 of my screen in the upper left hand corner, leaving a huge amount of blank space. I'd like the game board to fill most of my screen so it's easier to see. The displays to the left that show which properties are owned by whom, and how much money each player has, should also be larger. With the game board's small size, it's hard to see where the individual tokens are sometimes.

My other complaint is the amount of time it takes for all the various .wav files and animation to play each time a token lands on a space. I've turned many of those off because it slows the game down to a crawl. With some experimentation, I've found that some are essential because they convey the status of each piece of property and show who's getting money when rent is due. But other animations are simply a waste of time and try my patience. And some of the .wav files are just annoying to hear again and again.

Speaking of .wav files, there's a short, concise sound associated with each token. It's useful to hear the sound played when it's time for a particular token to roll the dice, and the same sound is played when a token is awarded money -- by passing go, by collecting rent when another token lands on property the first token owns, by drawing a Community Chest or Chance card that awards money, etc. But some of the sounds are really irritating when you've heard them a hundred times during the game. The cannon, for example, has a gunpowder explosion sound. The battleship has the loud, deep honking sound of a ship's klaxon. I don't use those two tokens anymore when playing against the computer.

The iron has a steam hissing sound (not too bad) and the thimble has the single "kling" of a small bell. The shoe has a skipping, scampering sound. Those aren't bad. The scottie dog's "arf, arf," however gets old fast.

One of the fun things is being able to pick optional game rules that are popular among Monopoly players, but not official according to Parker Brothers. For example, I've chosen the option where you get double the $200 salary if you land on "Go" instead of just passing it. I've also chosen the option where fines and assessments paid go into a fund whose current balance gets paid out to any token landing on "Free Parking." I've also turned off the option that any unowned property not purchased by the token who lands on it gets put up for auction. The auction process is actually quite annoying to me -- it takes too much time.

There are some things that are useful when you get used to them. If you land on an unowned railroad, you'll hear the train bell clanging with the train sitting in the station. If owned, the train moves away from the station while blowing its horn a couple of times. If mortgaged, there is no train and the station is in deteriorating condition.

For "street" properties, the animations are amusing. The cheapest properties show up as the city dump and the most expensive are like fancy estates, with various depictions in between as values increase. Each has a fence and a gate. If unowned, the gate's open and there's a "for sale" sign posted." If owned, the gate is closed. If mortgaged, there's a chain and a padlock on the gate.

Another option worth choosing is to "gray out" mortgaged properties as well as unowned properties. You can tell the difference immediately because mortgaged properties have a small "deed" icon on them with the black-and-white side up. But having them grayed out tells you the status and you can see at a glance which ones are still up for sale, which are owned, and which are mortgage.

You can also look at the status table to the left of the board and see who owns what. It takes a bit of getting used to, but there is a system where you can tell who owns any piece of property quite readily once you've learned it -- it's not hard.

In the end, it's exactly like playing Monopoly with the original American game board, according to the rules you like, and it's quite a bit of fun.

One tip: buy every piece of property you can, and the moment you get control of an entire color group, get hotels on it as fast as you can afford to buy them. The one who gets control of a couple of color groups and gets them built up will win the game, and if you do that, you can actually beat the computer a lot of the time. The computer is programmed to do just that, so it might beat you, too.

All in all, it's a great game simulation, but they should have provided a "zoom" option to enlarge the display, and they should have come up with some less annoying sounds to represent certain of the tokens.

Good game except

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: August 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If your playing the computer by yourself it tends to beat you so as long as you play with others its a good game.

OK at this price - not excellent

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is OK at this price but it could have been made much better with a little more work. When computer proposes a trade, you can't see the details of the title deed cards involved in the trade - so keep guessing. Graphics is good but not excellent. At this price, it may be OK but I expected a much better work comparing to the other games of these days. Why doesn't somebody make a real good classic Monopoly game with attention to all details for many Monopoly fans out there!!!

A nice version of Monopoly

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Finally I can play Monopoly whenever I want, becouse i don't need to look for friends to play. I can play with other players that are created by this program.

In spite of being an old program, (it was created to runs with 3.1 and 95 versions of Windows) it works quite well with the lastest versions of Windows. It gives the player all the possibilities that has the real game. You can play with players created by the game, with many players in the same computer, in other computers by a LAN or by Internet.

I only found two problems: the program don't keep the settings. When you close the program, it returns to the predeterminated settings; and when you loose a game, the other players created by the program continue playing, and there is not a way to stop the game.

REALLY GREAT

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I agree with all the other review, I would have liked to seen the orginal PC version, to see the actual propertys.

My bug was that the opening sequence seemed to run in ultra slow motion; I called Hasbro on this and they gave me a bunch of gobbledy-gook, too. If this happens to you, hit the spacebar or escape key until you get to the main menu. Then you'll be OK and enjoy.

About the game play, it is really good translation from the original. For the modern PC/Cd rom; a great improvement from the DOS version I had for my IBM P/S2 Model 25 AT/XT (720 kb)

Monopoly

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Earlier version better as it included board editor where you could create your own street names. Otherwise, still a very enjoyable game.

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