Hasbro Monopoly City Board Game

Monopoly is my all-time favourite board game but even I'll admit after probably playing hundreds of games now it can get a bit 'samey'. I got this not long after it was released and have played it numerous times now. It's best summed up by saying it's similar to Monopoly but different too. The board is arranged in a similar way and the aim of the game is again to move around the board, collect rent and buy properties and the richest player wins. However, the difference is the way you go about winning (or losing!) Instead of houses and hotels there are various buildings that can be built, any time on your turn, on any of your properties. You don't have to have all of the colours in a group to build and your buildings now go in the middle of the board (you build a city) and collect increasing values of rent as in Monopoly. Community Chest cards have gone, new Chance cards are in and there is an interesting "rent dodge" card under Free Parking. Stations have been replaced with build a hazard/attraction spaces which stop another player collecting rent/block another player stopping you collecting rent. Electricity Company and Water Works have also gone. I promise you these aren't missed, after the initial "oh, where have they gone?", because of all of the new features. The money has also been revamped, it's not pounds sterling anymore but Monopoly money. It doesn't really make much difference, just more zeros on the end of the notes! However, the biggest difference for me is that the game forces you to auction properties if you don't buy them on your turn (or you can't afford to buy a property you land on). There are also a few 'auction' spaces on the board. I know Monopoly, if played according to the house rules, made you auction but few people I know did in fact auction. It's good because it speeds the game up and you only have 50 seconds to auction a property off (there's a timer that beeps!) and makes it more exciting. There are skyscrapers that double your rent if you own all properties in a colour group and the Monopoly Tower doubles the rent of all of your properties! Overall, a brilliant game that has kept the core features in that made the original Monopoly great but altered a few things to make the game arguably more fun and exciting than the original. If you loved the original Monopoly but want a different twist to the game; buy this.

We have only played this once so far but the whole family agrees that it has great potential. There are some nice differences from standard monopoly. These include - Free Parking, you pick up a card and if you land on an opponents property, you can present the card and avoid paying the opponent. however, if somone else lands on free parking before you used it, you have to hand it over. Building property is similar but there are some nice twists to it. There is an electronic buzzer that is multi purpose, it tells you when an hour is up, it has a countdown for use during auctions, (every property has to be bought or auctioned when landed on) and there is a kind of roulette wheel with 4 spots. A light stops on one at random and decides how many properties you can build or you can even build a subway that allows you to bypass whole sections of the board. Community Chest has gone - just chance now - but 6 chance places (I was never really sure why there were 2 verieties in the original) The airports are now gone and they now allow you to build either a good or bad building e.g. a school is good, a sewage works is bad. If you build a sewage works on an opponents land, they cant charge people the high bills for the property that they built. If you build a school (on your own property) it stops opponents building sewage works on it. This game uses cash where our last version had a credit card system. I think I prefer cash because over christmas, the credit card system was hard to do (maybe red wine related) I paid twentyfive quid and had free amazon prime delivery. I think it was great value for money.

I bought this for my grandson's 13th birthday. He is a Monopoly fanatic and has various sets of different sorts. He had already played this with a friend and enjoyed it. Three of us played one evening, but I set a time limit at which point we would add up everyone's assets to decide who was the winner, based on the values given in the instructions for ending a game this way. This is useful to prevent games dragging on endlessly. It has advantages over the original game such as you can build on properties even where you only own one of a set, and auctions are forced when a player lands on a square that is available, so the game moves with some speed initially. However it IS more complicated, and I had to refer to the rules quite frequently, Having said that, who doesn't with a new game? Familiarity with the original Monopoly board game does not mean you can just sit down and play this assuming all the same rules apply. They don't. It pays to study the rules initially as you can gain advantages if you understand what pieces count. One thing I did not like was that the skyscrapers sticking up all over the board make it very difficult to throw the dice, and children often do so energetically, demolishing and displacing buildings in the process. This is owing to the board layout where properties almost entirely cover the centre of board, which remains largely clear in the original game save for the two sets of cards. With all the paraphernalia of money and deeds surrounding the board on all sides, it is very difficult to be able to throw the dice in a clear area! A major disadvantage. On the whole an intriguing take on the original game, and probably more attractive to Monopoly enthusiasts who want to try something a little different. As with all board games, you probably need to play it several times before you really know what you are doing and can play it with ease.

I bought this game for my son in law who is a star wars enthusiast he loved it . I prefer the original game.

I'm a lover of the original monopoly and was tossing up whether to get the old classic or try this one out. The household is very very happy with this version! As previous reviewers have mentioned it is a great remake of a classic game. The board and buildings makes playing fun and looks great! We have played with 2 to 6 players and have found that it is great fun with all number, but you need to change your tactics depending on the number of people playing, which makes it more interesting. And it is much faster as well, since there is no need to collect all the colours before building, it brings up the pace of the game. All around I think that this is a great game and would recommend it to anyone who is looking for an upgrade to the normal monopoly.

Absolutely fantastic. Bought this variant of Regular monopoly to play with my little brother, and i have to say, this is a much better game than the original. Its more dynamic, has more strategy involved, more planning required and, whether you like it or not, a single game tends to take longer. This version of monopoly changes a lot of things. Community chest is gone, but the chance cards are now much more powerful. The houses and hotels are gone, replaced with a wonderful new set of buildings. Rent is payed depending on how many "blocks" of buildings you have on that property, and these buildings come in two types. Coupled with the new train stations, and the bonus and hazard buildings, and then skyscrapers and the legendary monopoly tower and your in for a ton of fun :)

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For me its a good version (diferent) of monopoly. With diferent strategy and new ways to obtain "all of it". The trade facility helps on auction and it gives the game flexibility when it come the time to build blocks on the districts because its aleatory (1,2 or 3). The game as some features like hazards and bonus buildings that raise new strategies. The railroad that its aleatory too (1/4 chance to hit) helps you avoid certain areas of the game and gives it an extra strategy to the game. So, overall I believe its a good game and it came in perfect conditions from the store