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faulty Monoply game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: October 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The product is faulty and I have contacted Beach Audio and they told me to contact Hasbro which I did and they have done nothing about it either. I am very upset.

Monopoly, the computerized board game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

User liked this game because "everything was there." I give it 4 out of 5 stars (instead of 5 stars) because it seemed not to be my age level (user is 16). The computer players are very good, I could only win at the most basic level. The graphics were a very good simulation of the board game.

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.

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.

Loaded Dice?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I'm not sure what's wrong with the dice generator on this game or how the odds are stacked. However, I bought this game to have a little fun with a computer opponent(one). Everyone knows that if you play again one opponent the game will go faster. So I like to just spend a short time(an hour or less playing). However I find that when I play against one computer opponent I will usually lose. For example the computer will usually get first roll and will usually get all properties of one color first. If you don't mind losing time and time again (you're a little masochistic) then this is fun. I have looked for updates or patches to this program but have never seen any that will balance the lopsided 'luck' that the computer usually has. I must say then that the computer has 'loaded dice.' Has anyone else had the same experience? Is this problem corrected in newer versions? I'll give it two stars for the ability to play online against a human opponent but the computer opponent's 'luck' knocks off 4 stars

Wonderful rendition of the original board game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The Monopoly software really enhances the game. It is full of creative animations and also allows you to play on many different boards based on different cities (I like this feature), and also allows you to design your own board and play on it. However, Mr. Monopoly's commentary becomes annoying after a while, especially his usually stupid comments about what number you rolled. (You can turn this off though.) Also, the board on the screen spontaneously rotates in full 3D. This gets me dizzy much of the time. So if you like Monopoly the board game and don't have motion sickness, you should play this.

Like the game, but..

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: February 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I happen to like playing Monopoly. But when you play this game against the computer opponents, you are in for a strange ride. The computer opponents will mortgage all their properties to fund a monopoly they may have just gotten. Then it would take forever for the computer player to buy houses and hotels.
The computer players hardly ever trade among themselves. After playing the game a few times, I got to where I knew how the computer would react.
I also found that I enjoyed playing the game a lot more when I turned off the token voices and Mr Monopoly's commentary.
Still, this game is a good way to knock off a couple of hours. The rules are pretty basic, and straightforward.
Overall, I would recommend getting this game, as long as you're not expecting too much.

Very fun but could be better

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: January 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I love this game. My only suggestion is that the houses and hotels should look like houses and hotels instead just like the game board tokens. The properties run the spectrum from landfill to high end real estate so it'd be more fun to see a realistic building(s)that corresponds to the property. Even better would be several building styles from which to choose.

A TRUSTY OLD STANDBY

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: November 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I will say up front that I only play this game on our old computer (that still runs on Windows 95). So, I have no idea whether the guy below is right about this being unsupported on Windows 2000.

I will say this:

This computer game (like the board version) has great replay value. There is nothing like whipping five computer players and setting new personal records for money won (what more could the fallen, self-centered part of our humanity desire?).

This computer game also has some glitches. There are whole games where it seems impossible to land on any property that you can buy (once the computer owns it though--landing on it is a different matter; then the floodgates of impending poverty break forth).

The game's music is fine for a game this old. Having the different songs available adds nice variety--and in one case--some salsapoly flavor.

The host though--MAN!--his stuff, which starts out all funny, gets old mighty darn fast. You're gonna need him for auctions though, so just shutting him off can be problematic.

Overall, I have written this review to praise a game that has become an old standby. It has some flaws, most of which are somewhat entertaining. So...if you can still get this game and find a system to play it on, I give it my full recommendation.

ONE GAME YOU CAN WIN FAKE MONEY BUT STILL BE RICH

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: July 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

IN MONOPOLY YOU CAN LEARN WHAT THE REAL WORLD IS LIKE. I ESPECIALLY ENJOY THE SOUND EFFECTS AND THE ANIMATED CHARACTERS.

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