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Monopoly 2008 [Old Version]

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Monopoly 2008 [Old Version]

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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.I. -3 Opponent Difficulty Levels: First Time Buyer, Entrepreneur and Tycoon -Limitless Replayability -Fun and Addictive Action for Everyone!

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Product Details

Product Weight:	0.56 pounds
Package Length:	7.4 inches
Package Width:	5.3 inches
Package Height:	1.0 inches
Package Weight:	0.1 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 41 reviews

System Requirements

Platform:	Windows Vista / Windows XP / Windows
Media:	CD-ROM
Item Quantity:	1

Features

Bright 3D Graphics
3 Opponent Difficulty Levels: First Time Buyer, Entrepreneur and Tycoon
"Cheat Proof" Banking
Limitless Replayability
Fast-Moving Property Trades and Automatic Auctions

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review: 4.0

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56 of 57 found the following review helpful:

Lovely for Laptops Dec 25, 2007 By Dan Amrich
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!

42 of 43 found the following review helpful:

Illogical computer players Oct 13, 2008 By M. Roberts
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.

12 of 12 found the following review helpful:

Original CD is REQUIRED to run this under Vista Mar 18, 2009 By Gary Shuster
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.

6 of 6 found the following review helpful:

NO online MULTI PLAYER = FAIL Mar 11, 2011 By Blackout "Michael Biggins aka Blackout"
I have NO clue how no one has touched on this yet but this game does NOT allow you to play online against friends. We ALL know that the true FUN of Monopoly is the human interaction and negotiating, and all that magic is killed when playing against AI programing that is ludicrous and will NEVER be great. It's hilarious - but they can program an EXPERT Chess computer program that can beat the BEST human player in the world, but Monopoly is so odd that NO company has ever produced very good AI players. Computers just don't know how to haggle! So having an updated version of Monopoly WITHOUT online multiplayer in this day and age is ridiculous. The only way to do it on the PC is the old Westwood version and it's a pain because there are no servers working anymore.

If you have an XBOX 360, there is Monopoly Streets. but it has some FATAL flaws as well that need patching.

In great sadness and dismay, there is still NOT a goo FULL way to play Monopoly online in 2011. How can this be so?
Don't even tell me pogo... because the version on pogo is awful.

6 of 6 found the following review helpful:

A Monopoly Vet Speaks Feb 09, 2010 By B. McLain
I've been playing Monopoly since grade school, starting with the classic board game and its many editions. (The classic is still my favorite.) Then computerized editions of course came along. Including a hand held LCD Monopoly game (which I think was produced by Tiger Electronics). This worked out great for me as I always had problems getting enough players together. As any one who has played the slew of these computerized versions knows that they haven't always been good. As a matter of fact some of them are pretty bad. But I always enjoyed them until the new version came along. This one however has some issues that I find very ridiculous and I'll cover them in a minute. (Believe it or not there are some really good things too which I want to cover first.)

If it weren't for these I would have rated it one star...
- Pros -
- You can see the whole board at one time. I know this sounds simple but this is a very nice touch.
- Graphics are clean, property cards are easy to read.
- You don't have to sit through the insufferable AI player animations if you don't want to.
- Easy modification of rules to something that will probably resemble your house rules.
- The user interface is clean and doesn't really feel cluttered.
- You can easily find out information about properties by simply letting your mouse rest on them. Nice.
- Works with newer operating systems. Sweet!

- Cons -
- The AI cheats! After about a dozen or so games under my belt it's the only conclusion that I can come up with. These include but are certainly not limited to AI players always landing on unpurchased properties for the first several rounds. AI players who almost always receive positive Chance and Community Chest Cards. (On the other hand you will almost certainly NOT receive a positive card of any substantial amount.) AI players who will consistently land on your properties UNTIL you build houses or hotels. If a property is mortgaged then they will certainly land on it, that is until it's out of mortgage. (I know these are sounding like Murphys' Laws of Combat, but this is really the way the game plays.) Example I had one game where I had Free Parking to pay out $500, and double the Pass Go amount if you landed on Go. (This is very similar to the way I play with a board game. I had these options on almost always.) Wouldn't you know that I had one AI player hit each one of those every single turn, almost without fail. (Do you think I ever landed there? That's right I didn't... during my 12+ games I landed on the Free Parking space once, and landed on go about five times.) Mid-game this AI player had amassed over $5,000 wile I who own a little over a third of the board and owned one of the two only Monopolies in the game had only $300 average. I would like to point out that the other AI player who owned the other Monopoly had garnered a little over $3,000 in this same time period. Before you ask it wasn't Boardwalk and Park Place. I could go on but I think you can understand where I'm coming from here.
- The higher the difficulty setting the more the AI cheats.
- You can't save your custom rules, so expect on reimplementing them each time you play.
- No bartering. This has been present in a few past titles and it was missed here as a result.

Outside of the AI problems this is a really pleasant rendition of one of my favorite board games. I would not recommend it to someone who is new to the game but a familiar player who can overlook blatant cheating would find it fun.

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