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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $36.59
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 251
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: board_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Edition: Worldwide
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 19054
Model: 19054
UPC: 014633190540
EAN: 0014633190540
ASIN: B0019QEY8I
Release Date: October 20, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| | Play against the iPod or pass ?n play with up to 4 players | | | Authentic classic board and pieces, animated player tokens, and property cards | | | Intuitive controls make it easy to roll dice, buy, sell and trade properties | | | Gorgeous effects and animations, rich music and sounds bring the game to life | | | Customize the game rules to suite your style of play |
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Product Description
Get ready to play MONOPOLY with an exciting party twist. Host the ultimate MONOPOLY night with family and friends.
Adjustable play levels - Easy, Medium, Hard - make MONOPOLY great for the whole family
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 Good Family Game November 29, 2008
HR Bookworm (New York)
We enjoyed playing this game as a family. Its best if you have all 4 controllers. The board could use some improvment, the names are hard to see unless you land directly on them. Overall I would recommend if you have family members whom like to play board games.
LOVE THIS GAME November 17, 2008
mizzle jizzle (richmond, va)
i loved monopoly as a kid and this is even better because you dont have all the set up and take down involved. i love the choice of boards and mini games.
 Not as good as I'd hoped. November 16, 2008
E. Herrera (Millbrook, NY)
I was so disappointed in this game. I expected a lot more. I found it very hard to keep track of who owned what. The colored tabs were confusing. I thought the graphics would be better. I found the repetitive narration from Mr Moneybags totally annoying. The company should look on at the online game site POGO.com , which offers their version of Monopoly, for suggestions to improve game play.
 Some Major Flaws November 15, 2008
R. David Paine III (Pinellas Park, FL.)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Okay so let me give you background. I bought the Wii for my wife so she can use the Wiifit. I am a 43 year old weekend Dad with a 14 year old daughter. I decided it might be cool to bring the family together to play video games since we all love them but there is not much interaction on a PC (especially when we are playing different games). I saw an advertisement for this game and thought, hey I loved it as a kid maybe the new wii version will be cool for the family. My wife and I tried the game out last night. We played one whole game all the way through. As a two player selection you end up with two computer players and I left the "easy" default on. The game basically is intact and plays like the real rules of the board game. There are some special features like different ways to play Monopoly and I will speak to those in a moment. So we started off playing and the first thing I notice after 2 rolls of the dice that there isn't a way to stop the music. I tried the usual suspects and nothing. The only option this game has is to turn on captions. The music is bad, real bad, annoying and repetitive. You can't even turn it down because you kind of have to hear the dialog of the game. Why? Well that leads me to my second complaint and it's a doozy! Even with my 42" HDDLP TV the playing surface is really small. They have a cheesy zoom feature but the game mechanics for it are not aligned correctly it just zooms to the corners. This game could have rocked. It could have been and should have been a killer recreation with neat graphics of a timeless board game. The ONLY redeeming quality which did catch a glimmer of interest was in the "Richest Edition" section of the game. We played some sort of "Future version" of Monopoly where you don't roll at all. I didn't really figure out the rules but it was entertaining with it's graphics and sounds for the tokens. All in all I would unfortunately have to say that this game is a waste of money. I mean I am stuck with it so I will try to play it with my kid next week but I doubt it will hold her interest for very long.
Perhaps it was the minigames that got me but I dig it! November 7, 2008
Tashiana Jackson (Southfield, Michigan)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Maybe I'm into mini-games too much (and I have Mario Party 8 to blame) but I like this game.
I am a fan of Monopoly. I like Here and Now and recently played the world edition online. I was hooked. This game is different from any other monopoly that I've played and here's why.
It does have minigames that are fun to play.
There's Monopoly "Richer", which is a blast too play and is quite challenging.
I love the different boards (Sweet board, Ice board, Future board etc) and yes the property names change with each board as well as the backgrounds, tokens, and noises.
There's a passport system which is the only way to unlock new boards.
Yes, sometimes when playing, the board becomes so small that you must get closer.
Yes, in the beginning, the trade screen is impossible to manage.
But the Pros outweight the Cons.
A nice stocking-stuffer for christmas and definately a nice addition to the collection, if and only if you like monopoly!
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