Customer Reviews

Monopoly Party

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This game combines the best aspects of party games like Sonic Shuffle and South Park: Chef's Luv Shack with the most appealing features of quickie tie-in games like You Don't Know Jack and Who Wants to be a Millionaire. What's more, it's very true to the source material.
Players can choose between the hat, boot, Scottie dog and the rest of their favorite Monopoly pieces. Monopoly Party makes for a great family game night, although Grandma couldn't find the Z button on the Gamecube controller. My son William, however, got to see his father bankrupted and sent to jail. He really got a kick out of it, and, as it turns out, we proved my ex-wife was right.

I'm a big monopoly fan. This is a great game!

This game is well worth the money. Its easy to learn how to play. The Monopoly board games usually last hours because you have to hand out money and spend time doing transactions and moves, but when you buy this game transactions are automatically done and the games usually last under an hour. There are also many kinds of monopoly board themes to choose from for those who like themed sets and different properties.

There isn't a thing I wish that could be better.

I'm really happy with the money I spent... This is a great game!

I got so addicted to this game while I went on vacation. My relatives had to work and playing this game is what I did all day until they got home. It is so much fun. I am going to buy it as soon as I can. I liked how you could choose different themes. I just wish there was more.

Very Fun. And the GC version does not freezeup dont listen to that moron.

Awesome game! Completely addictive! Seems like it might be boring but the way it's set up you can usually get through a game in about 30 minutes or less.

When you play the regular board game , it takes forever.

This game, depending on how you play moves WAY quicker. Easy to maneuver and you play on various boards, pieces and rules.

The trading screen may be a little difficult for some but once you get the hang of it, its smooth sailing. Would definitely recommend this game

I'm having a blast playing endless Monopoly against computer players. I haven't bothered with any of the game variants, but visually they look really cool and entertaining. My interest is the classic Monopoly game, and this game is neat because it is closer to the original game rules than practically all the humans I know are familiar with. (Variants like Free Parking money destroy the game's balance and need for strategy by pouring an endless supply of money into the game and thus making it stretch out forever instead of being resolved in 60 or so minutes... [My record so far is winning in 32 minutes, according to the records kept by the GameCube game.] For those who want that sort of thing, though, this game does provide a full array of such options.)

However, I do have some complaints:
1. For those who are into ultra-fast play, like one could find in a tournament of good players, the computer sometimes feels slow. Part of this stems from "bells and whistles" that can be minimized but not totally eliminated. They don't really take up that much extra time, but entail "coaxing" the computer players along with the A button. There should be a "speed play" option that truly minimizes the time spent by computer players, for those advanced human players who know the game well and don't need much time to grasp the plays being made.
2. The trading feature is really cumbersome to manipulate. Ill-explained in the manual, it took some study to adjust to, and again there are instructional screens that pop up every time and apparently can't be turned off - one just has to keep clicking past them with the A button. The big problem with the trading feature is that it isn't designed to facilitate the process. A click on Z is needed to verify that the unlabeled property one has selected for trade is indeed the one that was intended. There are dozens of ways to mess up the process, and the computer is "dumb" in not setting default options so that they make sense for the human player. Everything must be repeatedly double-checked. For example, after two properties have been set up for trade between players, when you go to the add cash screen, the computer doesn't automatically default to a setting between the two players already identified as trading properties, so the cash could easily go the wrong way or to a third player that wasn't even meant to be involved. It becomes very easy to accidentally pay the wrong player to give a property to someone else!! Very cumbersome. Also, computer-controlled players get stuck in patterns where every other turn they may make repeatedly insulting offers for the same property, even after you've declined the offers in the past. Example: The computer player might offer $400 in cash for a Green property that will complete the first and only set on the board. If the computer player only has $225 a couple turns later, then the offer will go down to that! It's also common for computer players to make trades between each other - some of which are trades that no intelligent human players should either offer or accept, so on one player versus two or more computer players, the strategy of buying one property from every set (if possible) must be used, because otherwise there will probably be some dufus trade in which one computer player sells a light blue to another computer player for a measly $200 or $300, to complete a set.
3. The computer AI players aren't that great. I'm a decent player, I hope, but certainly no tournament expert. I quickly found that I had to play against at least 2 computer players on their hardest (not so hard) setting, to enjoy a decent challenge. Even so, I tend to win at least 2 out of 3 games. Computer players seem uninclined to mortgage in order to purchase properties, so a lot of properties go up for auction that probably shouldn't. Some of the auction bids are inexplicable and unpredictable (in a bad way), while others involve giving the player "a steal." Computer players also seem to value the list price (on the board) a great deal, so it seems easy to purchase a railroad off of a computer player that already owns three of them, for a mere $400 or so! Get a bit of cash, and one can usually convert the cash with fair predictability from one of the computer opponents, so long as there's still a moderate amount of property left. Many of the computer's trade offers are simply insulting and not even worth any consideration. Fortunately, counteroffers can be made (with difficulty, as described above) and reasonable accommodations can be made - especially after one player gets a set and thus motivates the remaining players to "deal or die."
4. Not every official rule is actually followed by the game. The computer doesn't realize, for example, that doubles used to get out of jail ARE NOT supposed to provide the player with a follow-up roll. Although seemingly a minor deviation, this violation actually allows jailed players to benefit unduly from their luck at the beginning of the game, being slightly more likely to complete a set on the 2nd and 3rd sides of the board due to the additional turns that their get-out-of-jail doubles are getting them.

Nevertheless, I have adjusted to these problems and have been having a great time with this game ever since it arrived (more than a week ago) for a measly 5 bucks through the special offer available here on Amazon. My "used" copy of the game was very nice, practically like new - full instructions (just a little wrinkled), practically untarnished case with original packaging, and the disc itself in seemingly new condition. Very nice deal!!

I enjoy the original Monopoly version on this game, but the Party version is pretty boring. I would recommend this game to those that really enjoy the original Momopoly, because you don't have to play the Party game.

This is a great game. My kids loved it. It was so familyjetical. It was our new gamenight tool.

I bought it the same day it came out. In fact I went to the store all the time and got upset when it was not in. I bought the one for 64 and that was the best game ever. That is why I thought; this one must be awsome but I was wrong. I should have just second thought about maybe it is not in for a reason and not buy it. I am still trying to sell it; 6 months later. If I could I give it -million stars.