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Product Description

It's the World's Most Popular Board game Brought to Life! Play the classic Property Trading Game from Parker Brothers like never before! Follow all the action as animated Monopoly tokens respond to dice rolls and energetically move around the board.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7510 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Atari
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Xbox

Features

• Play super fast with same-time turn mode. No more waiting! Everyone rolls together and then moves together, so games are faster than ever before.
• Explore colorful and unpredictable 3D environments in the center of the Monopoly board.
• Engage your opponents, from 1-4 human and computer players.
• Control all-new tokens and properties.

Amazon.com Product Description
Monopoly Party is an intense buying, trading, building, and deal-making frenzy, in which every player moves simultaneously. Here's how it works: everyone rolls a set of dice at the same time. As soon as everyone rolls, everyone moves. Then you can buy property, pass Go, draw cards from Community Chest, and do all the other Monopoly actions you know and love. There are all-new 3-D environments, complete with animated theme tokens and even new properties. Choose from fantasy, sci-fi, prehistoric, ancient monuments, and classic game boards.

Customer Reviews

We love this game!
I'm so glad my daughter asked for this game a couple yrs. ago. We absolutely love playing it together. :) It's a lot more fun than the board game. It's so neat having the interactive themes like dinosaurs, space, etc. And after choosing a theme, it's fun to see what your game & house/hotel choices will look like. Also, the spaces you land on all get new names w/each theme.

We usually play the Classic version where you all have different controllers but take turns playing. But if you want a very fast-paced game, you can pick the PARTY option in the game and everyone is throwing the dice & moving at the same time.

You can also change the rules of the games w/the choices they give you, or use default. Ex. You can have players win double the $$ if they LAND on GO.

I do wish the trade properties part was easier, but my kids understood it right away. So, that's key. :)

My kids & I would love if they made the game LIFE like this.

Hope you have as much fun w/this game as we have. Enjoy!

Another Monopoly Rendition
There so many renditions of the board game Monopoly in the console market that it may be difficult to figure out which is the best one. The new spin behind Monopoly Party is the fact that all the players can roll the dice and move their player pieces at the same time. Up to for players can be in the game; each player with their piece shown in their own mini-screen. Since everyone can roll and move at once, the gameplay is more fast pace and avoids the boredom of having to wait for other players (which is classic Monopoly). Another change they made in Monopoly Party; you can pick from five different game boards and players pieces with a theme like: sci-fi, fantasy and a few others. This adds nice asthetics, to the look of the game but does not really affect gameplay- so overall its just a weak gimmick. The gameplay still contains the same basic rules, where you buy, property, get chance cards or land in jail. If the game's creator really wanted to make this a better game, they should have included enhanced animations, user created rules and a bunch a mini-games to make it into a true party game. This is a fun rental because of its fast paced gameplay, but overall it is not worth a purchase.

So far the biggest complaints from most Monopoly players on the console is that the games are just fun for a short time and quickly become boring. Monopoly Party, is no exception it feels fun at first but then gets old fast. The whole problem with having board games translated onto a console game is the fact that you don't get to interact with your friends in the same way you would than if were to play the actual board games with all its physical pieces and cards. The exchange of jokes and engaging in conversations adds that social aspect which cannot be duplicated when playing a console game where all you do is stare at the television screen and press the controller's button. That's just my two cents.

Pros:
+easy to play
+four players at a time
+fast paced gameplay
+good graphics
+contains basic rules
+gameboard themes are cool
+best monopoly currently
available for consoles.

Cons:
-gets old fast
-needs enhanced animations
-needs mini-games to be
a true party game
-minimal sound effects

Another arcade translation
I've always been a big fan of board games on video consoles. Monopoly Party was next on the list, and while it was fun the first few times playing it, it does get old fairly quick. The NPCs if you choose to play with them are very predictable and annoying at times. I also found myself getting bored and clicking buttons to quicken the pace at times, primarily because the animations can take a while.

Some members of my household enjoy competing with each other for high scores, but the computer goes no higher than $99,999. Heck, I can get that in well under an hour of playing, and by that time I am too bored to care. I'll probably throw this game on once in a blue moon to kill some time, but that'll be about it for me.