EA has partnered up with Hasbro to bring the Hasbro board and toy line to videogame consoles. One of the major deals from this partnership is seeing the ever popular Monopoly game come to the Wii, PS2, and Xbox 360 this October.
The classic Monopoly you all know and love will of course remain intact along with additional boards and themes to help spice things up. Brand new boards will include a futuristic board, cardboard board, jungle board, cheese board and more. All of the pieces will change to reflect the theme (such as origami movers on the cardboard board) and even Mr. Monopoly's clothes will reflect the current board theme.
Speaking of which, Mr. Monopoly will be on the board to help and guide the players giving helpful suggestions. This Monopoly is also using the long lost rule of Monopoly, where if a player doesn't purchase a property they land on, the property will then go up for auction and players will have to out bid each other if they want a particular property.
There will also be a speed mode broken up with mini-games, Mario Party style. Players will be given random property based on dice rolls and after each player receives their property, players will be taken to a mini-game that will help determine how successful they are in the next round.
What else is there to say? It's the Monopoly you all know and love except without all the annoying stuff like setting up, cleaning up, and worrying about people cheating. Monopoly will be $29.99 for the PS2 and $39.99 for the Xbox 360 and Wii.
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1:18 PM on 08.19.2008
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but after a doing a double take - I literally lauhed my ass off
when I read it's coming to the 360.
1) The game seems to never end.
2) The banker ALWAYS cheats
3) Kids hate the game
4) It causes more family arguements than all the others combined.
5) IT's boring
6) Two people always want to be the the racing car and argue forever about it (as if it makes a difference)
The only decent thing about this virtual version is the all the bits and pieces can't go missing (or have they included that too?).
C'mon what the fuck? With all the board games on the arcade you really think people are going to rush out and buy this? Goddammit EA.
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3) Kids hate the game
My sister once threw a temper tantrum because I wouldn't finish a game of Monopoly with her. Of course now she's older she'd probably laugh at the mere suggestion of the game.
That screenshot does not sell the game at all. Jessica (that cock-tease whore) has almost twice as much money as the other three players combined. WTF?
Royalty rates are cheaper on the PS2 than the Wii PS3 or 360.
I loved playing the SNES version of Monopoly back in the day, but this really should be a XBLA/WiiWare release priced around $10. $39.99 is way too much to charge for it.
Guess I played this game way too much in the past, eh?