Monopoly Tycoon (Jewel Case)

List Price: $49.95 Discount Price: $0.01

Features:

• Build an empire by building businesses, attracting customers, & outwitting your opponents Block by block
• Outbid competitors at property auctions to assemble a business & real-estate juggernaut
• Unleash marketing & advertising campaigns with devastating effect
• Manage each business and attract customers to generate cash
• Buy the electric and water utilities, and keep an eye out for new opportunities

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

This could have been a great game - with the right attitude. [Posted on 2006-04-14]
It's an OK game. Not a great game, but OK. If you find it dirt cheap, it's worth the buy. $4.97 sounds about right (marked down from $49.95! What a bargain! lol).

This *could* have been a great game, but it appears to have been written by people who weren't happy writing it, and thought little of their customers during the process.

What paultry efforts they did put forth were primarily for their financial benefit. It seems as though they thought surfing the "Monopoly" wave would reap oceans of money automatically. I guess they found out that sometimes you crash. *wink*

From a customer POV:
If one does not have the proper graphics settings upon install, the game hangs on this big, black and white, SHOUTING IN ALL CAPS splash page about "YOU BETTER READ THOSE TERMS TO WHICH YOU AGREED WHILE YOU WAIT HERE NOT YET REALIZING YOU'RE HUNG DUE TO CONFIGURATION ISSUES" (paraphrased, of course). Even when you fix it, you still have to look at that page every time you start the game - It's a load-screen. *shakes head* What a slap in the face to a customer offering their hard-earned $49.95 MSRP.

On Playability: You'll learn to beat the AI in 20 plays or less. I'm being generous.

On ideals: Monopoly is a "multiplayer" game. That's why they give you so many little game pieces in the box. Frankly, the board game is better in myriad ways.

If all of the humans on MT aren't in the same local network - each with their own copy of the game - and want to play on the net, they have to pay even MORE money to **subscribe** to GameSpy. Sorry, but it's just not good enough to fork over the credit card number or buy multiple copies at $49.95. For 5 bucks I might buy another one, but it's definitely not worth a Gamespy subscription. Too bad. They could have done so much better.

This game would have done far better if they had just included 2 cds in the case so customers could play multiplayer across a lan with a family member. But like I said, they weren't about "customers".

All in all:
If you're expecting Monopoly, a great Tycoon game, or to reasonably play multiplayer, you'll be greatly disappointed at any price.

If you have a few minutes to an hour to kill, and would like to play an easy Monopoly-type game in stand alone, and can buy this game dirt cheap, then you'll like it.

If you can buy it dirt cheap, have a LAN at your home/office/dorm, and purchase multiple copies then maybe you'll like it even better.*

*I haven't actually bought a 2nd copy and tried tried a LAN. If you do, please post here on how it went. I've only checked out the Gamespy option, and declined.

A nice twist to Monopoly [Posted on 2006-10-31]
Great game...im a fanatic of the tycoon computer games...i find them to be very entertaining and they are a great way to pass the time....and real fast!!!....

Monopoly Tycoon is a good game...you can go for bronze, silver, and gold trophies for each scenario...

It has a very good tutorial within the game...it takes you through all of the features and you're ready to go once you go through the whole tutorial...

The first couple of scenarios are very short, but they serve to take you through the first steps so that you can get the hang of it...

Later on you play against up to 4 players, and it becomes harder but more exciting...the year doesnt end either...i had to go up to the year 2085 to win one time...so its great...the music is good too...

You get to create the store you want, set it at the price you want, build apartments, hotels, etc. Every couple of years more stores become unlocked and available for you to build...

An overall good game!

Rucker the Millionaire [Posted on 2006-11-01]
This game was fun and exciting, it gave me the change to apply some of the things I was learning in ECON to real life, it also had an competitive aspect were you compete with the computer and its actaully a challenge!!! Played this game for hours while listening to Personal development, great game.

-Rucker the Millionaire
Man of God

monopyl tycon [Posted on 2006-11-10]
i thought the service getting the product was excellent, just did not like the game, it was not what i was expecting it to be.

OK not much fun [Posted on 2007-01-04]
It took the fun out of monopoly for me. It plays well but goodness why complicate the game so much!

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