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After playing through a very detailed tutorial series of missions, you'll proceed to the main game: a series of locked scenarios, the next of which you unlock by succeeding at the previous one. There are three difficulty levels, and you can choose to play as any of the familiar playing pieces, each with its own personality, advantages, and disadvantages. The top hat is a stage magician, the dog is an old-money socialite, the wheelbarrow is a steady worker, and the racecar is a stuntman with a curling mustache. Respectively, the computer plays these opponents as cunning, shrewd, tenacious, and bold.
The game itself plays on a 3-D map. You can zoom in to see the wandering people and their cars, or zoom out to view the map top down like a board game. The layout isn't like the board game, however; it's more like a city, but Monopoly conventions hold true. Each block consists of two or three colored properties with familiar names. You can't buy these properties. You can build on any of them, owning various retail or residential buildings of varying size and height, and pay rent to the property owner, or you can engage in an auction to lease the property (for 25 years). If you lease all the properties of a color you gain a monopoly and can build lucrative hotels and even commandeer buildings away from rivals. You are all competing over convenience-oriented and fickle citizens, so property values, selection, and types of goods and services offered is what attracts them. A grocery store on St. James Place isn't going to command the same clientele or profit as one on Pennsylvania Avenue, and, of course, control of Boardwalk and Park Place is essential.
Chance cards exist as single-day random events, and you can even control the Railroads and Utilities and get money from your rivals that way (you get their services for free). The action begins in the '30s and moves all the way to the new millennium. The styles and cars all evolve to show the progression of time, a nice touch.
All told, Monopoly Tycoon is a must-buy for fans of the Sim or Tycoon lines of games. It's deep, fun, has a great multiplayer option, and has just enough Monopoly in it to be utterly charming to anyone familiar with the classic board game. Infogrames didn't invent the city-building game here, but they did reinvent Monopoly for the 21st century. --Bob Andrews
Pros:
- Attractive graphics
- Deep, charming, and satisfying gameplay
- The interface is a bit cumbersome
| PLATFORM: | Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me |
| CATEGORY: | Software |
| MANUFACTURER: | Atari |
| ESRB RATING: | Everyone |
| TYPE: | Computer Games, Board, Strategy (Strategic), Simulations, World Building (Builders) |
| MEDIA: | CD-ROM |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| ACCESSORIES: | |
| UPC: | 742725231092 |
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Customer Reviews of Monopoly Tycoon
Decent game for sim enthusiasts... This isn't a bad game. I tend to use the full range of stars for reviews, so truly fantastic items get fives. Threes don't mean the game isn't worth your time, it just might not be your taste.
Positives: A well thought out spin on the classic monopoly game. All the elements are there. Railroads, properties, color groups, hotels, and of course, monopolies.
Looking for a competitive game that won't drain your whole afternoon? Want to know exactly how long the game will last? This game can be played with definite limits. A plus for those who have time windows to play in.
Differences: The game isn't so much about controlling the whole gameboard (in this case a city) or driving others to bankruptcy. Instead, you play against others in a race to complete the goals of the scenario. This might be overall sales, empire value, or election to mayor. Some scenarios do pick off players one at a time (in a Weakest Link style fashion), but this doesn't mean that player went bankrupt, just that they were in last place in some fashion when voting was conducted in the town by its "citizens".
Negatives: Marketing fluff - This isn't really a sim, but a complex game. To call this the world's first competitive sim isn't anywhere near the mark. Rollercoaster Tycoon is more of a traditional sim, and Simcity more so. This is definitely a souped up boardgame that is complex enough to require a computer to model it. Second complaint, this game has nothing to do with Rollercoaster Tycoon (Chris Sawyer). The folks at Deep Red have made a great game, but the association by the publisher ("brought to you by the folks who brought you") is plain irresponsible. That's like saying Activision "makes" Quake.
Depth: The game seems to have a lot of different strategy. I have gone down several paths to win scenarios. In other words, I don't feel like I've played the game out, yet. The Computer AI is challenging, but doesn't seem to practice the same depth of strategy I do. You get the feeling you can manipulate it. Online play may be a key here (haven't played online as of this writing).
Overall, I find this game fun and challenging, with enough variation to allow for subtle strategy changes mid game. Some people ARE reporting lockups and freezes on the community boards, but its unclear whether something is really wrong with the code itself, or these are jsut isolated issues. I myself am not dropping a warning on this for game stability.
Didn't like it at all.
I enjoy Sim games so much that I got this game for my kids last Christmas thinking they would really like it since they love Monopoly.I was wrong. This game needs a doctor because something is definitely lacking. It wasn't what I thought it would be at all.I think the fact that the challenge is a short amount of time is what was the worst aspect of it.
Fantatsic Game!
As with all games you can not please everyone. I have thoroughly enjoyed playing this game. It is hours of fun. There are so many things you can do. It is similar to the Monopoly game we all played as kids, but it has lots of twists to it. I am glad that this game was there to entertain those of us that enjoy a challenge. Thanks to J&R Music and Computer World for having it also.
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