Customer Reviews

Monopoly Here & Now

5 star:		(20)
4 star:		(11)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

The gameplay is very close to Monopoly 2008; but with the updated properties, tokens, chance & community chest cards, and higher dollar amounts. I hook my laptop to the 52" HDTV and the whole family loves to play.

The only drawback...and worth taking two stars away...is that you have to have the CD-ROM in your computer's drive at all times while playing the game. Monopoly 2008 can be played without the CD-ROM in the drive. Much better for my laptop since I don't want to have to carry the Here & Now CD everywhere I go when I want to play.

This game will keep you ocupied for hours.Had a little problem at first,in getting the game to come up,but after changing my resolutions it worked fine on my Vista PC. The price was great also..............

I love this game. I play it at least three time a week. If your going to have a MONOPOLY game to play then this is the one.

I love Monopoly but hadn't played it in years. Always something else going on or no one to play with!

With this game, I can play against other people or if no one is around, I can play against the computer. And I can choose just how good of a computer player I want to play against. Sometimes I don't want to think too much, just have fun playing!

Time to do something else and you're not done with the game? No problem, you can save your game and continue it later.

The money is now BIG TIME money. And you're purchasing places like the major airports in the states (LAX, ORD, etc) instead of railroads. Once someone has some houses or a hotel on their property, be prepared to pay millions in rent. Of course, you get 2 million for Passing Go, so it all works out.

It's funny going to jail, because an animated police van comes and takes you in. When I play as the Puppy, his tail sticks out a bit from the back of the van until they shut the door. Cute! Oh! And the puppy barks when it's his turn to play. Ha!

Wish I didn't have to have the CD to play it, but other than that, very fun game!

I like to play monopoly. Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of similar minded friends, so, I purchased this software. The CD disk must be in your computer drive in order to play. The visual implementation is excellent. It has 3 levels. I haven't played against the lowest level. The second level can be defeated regularly by a competent player. More recently I've been playing against the highest level. At this level, you must have have a high frustration level, because it seems your competitor (the computer/game designer) has most of the luck--especially at the beginning of the game. Still, it is fun to play, especially if you win when the odds are stacked against you.

For the price, this software is hard to beat.

UPDATE: I've stopped playing this software game--it just got too frustrating to see your computer opponent generating 20-40 times as much money as you when you have the best properties & monopolies (not acquired via trades). Of course, the computer has 3, even 4, "Railroads" and, while the computer opponent rarely lands on your properties w/ houses, you repeated land on his "railroads" and "utilities." It's really a joke to see how unfair the game is to the human player. What the implementation needs is a fair and visible display of the dice roll--you can't even see the computer's roll. You only know it's roll, if you can call it a roll, when it moves to its new location! Boring. I've reduced my rating to 2 stars (it probably should be 1 star,) because, for the 7 bucks it costs, you will probably get your money's worth before giving up on the game.

My kids can't put this down. The graphics are tamed down from prior versions and focus on 2-D. On our widescreen monitor it shows everything needed to play a complete game. The computer AI is as expected and can be used to win a game if you're so inclined. There is NO CD required to play this game on both Windows XP and Windows 7 64-bit. The install took less than five minutes. Hurry and buy this game, you'll be glad you did!

First of all, haven't tried any other PC version of Monopoly and was never a Monopoly expert. But as mentioned in other reviews, the cd has to be in the computer to play this. Hence lots more wear and tear on drives. Tried cloning disc and using Nero virtual drive to avoid this to no avail. When installing this game on your computer Sony's Securom DRM program is stealthily installed on your computer. And it prevents playing without the original cd. When I play this it's on an old Amd 1300 computer and the game moves in slow motion. So a faster computer is needed. But playing against a computer doesn't seem right with this game because, "who's rolling the dice"?

The game arrived and instantly I began playing it. The board was filled with places that are current which made it interesting. The token pieces were cute and the dog wagging its' tail is hilarious. The different levels were good to work through. Thank you for a great product.

This a straight, no frills rendition of the popular board game. It has three different opponent levels - beginner, intermediate, and advanced. The basic difference between them is the first two will make trades easier than the advanced character will. In fact, playing with a mix of levels (as I sometimes do) can be annoying, because the beginner character will always give away property for only a small profit.

To top that, by default the game is set to play all of the graphic 'bells and whistles' for every move - the dog wags its tail, the police actually come out of the jail to take characters away. You can change these things, but even then some of these unnecessary frills can't be removed.

However, the game itself is well done, and the graphics are top notch. They've really done nothing to "enhance" the game itself - which is just the way I like it.

I think I would have better odds in Las Vegas. While the game itself is excellent on many levels, the prime one is to win. It seems that the advantage goes to the Computer 70% of the time. When I have an entire row of hotels, the computer dice rolls in favor of passing the line - 5 TIMES A GAME - 6 GAMES IN A ROW. A curious and suspicious situation. I call FOUL!! When I get thrown in Jail 3 times in a row and the computer lands on Chance and Community Chest collecting nothing but $$$, I have to ask - is this a fair game??? So I play again, because I WANT TO BE FAIR in opinion. And two games later, it happens again.
The frequency of "not fair" rounds and "computer advantage" rolls has most certainly put a bad taste in my mouth about this game and I would NOT recommend it to any advanced Monopoly players. for beginners who don't know they are getting cheated, have fun, after all it's Monopoly.