| | |  | Thinking & Problem Solving | Home » » » » Monopoly - Here and Now (Special 70th Anniversary Edition) | | | | | | | Description: | | What would Monopoly be like if it were invented today? Find out as this family favorite gets a modern makeover for today's would-be billionaires. Load your account with millions, roll the dice, and move all-new tokens around the board. Buy and sell all-new properties featuring popular destinations from across the United States. Challenge your friends and family to exciting Monopoly fun, or play against an advanced AI with multiple difficulty settings. Today's properties, today's tokens, today's millions, "Monopoly Here & Now Edition" is timeless fun for tomorrow's billionaires. | | | Product Details: | | | Product Weight:
| 0.1 pounds | | Package Length:
| 5.6 inches | | Package Width:
| 4.9 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.4 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.15 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 41 reviews |
| | | System Requirements: | | | Platform:
| Windows Vista / Windows 98 / Windows 2000 / Windows Me / Windows XP | | Media:
| CD-ROM | | Item Quantity:
| 1 |
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38 of 39 found the following review helpful:
 Fun update to the originalDec 18, 2008
By David Martin
The gameplay is very close to Monopoly 2008; but with the updated properties, tokens, chance & community chest cards, and higher dollar amounts. I hook my laptop to the 52" HDTV and the whole family loves to play.
The only drawback...and worth taking two stars away...is that you have to have the CD-ROM in your computer's drive at all times while playing the game. Monopoly 2008 can be played without the CD-ROM in the drive. Much better for my laptop since I don't want to have to carry the Here & Now CD everywhere I go when I want to play.
17 of 19 found the following review helpful:
 Great gameJun 28, 2008
By Gyrene
"leatherneck"
This game will keep you ocupied for hours.Had a little problem at first,in getting the game to come up,but after changing my resolutions it worked fine on my Vista PC. The price was great also..............
19 of 22 found the following review helpful:
Great gameJul 11, 2008
By R. J. Joplin
"rjayjop"
I love this game. I play it at least three time a week. If your going to have a MONOPOLY game to play then this is the one.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Great funJan 08, 2009
By *rose*
I love Monopoly but hadn't played it in years. Always something else going on or no one to play with!
With this game, I can play against other people or if no one is around, I can play against the computer. And I can choose just how good of a computer player I want to play against. Sometimes I don't want to think too much, just have fun playing!
Time to do something else and you're not done with the game? No problem, you can save your game and continue it later.
The money is now BIG TIME money. And you're purchasing places like the major airports in the states (LAX, ORD, etc) instead of railroads. Once someone has some houses or a hotel on their property, be prepared to pay millions in rent. Of course, you get 2 million for Passing Go, so it all works out.
It's funny going to jail, because an animated police van comes and takes you in. When I play as the Puppy, his tail sticks out a bit from the back of the van until they shut the door. Cute! Oh! And the puppy barks when it's his turn to play. Ha!
Wish I didn't have to have the CD to play it, but other than that, very fun game!
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 What a great way to kill timeSep 27, 2011
By Keith Wellman
I like to play monopoly. Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of similar minded friends, so, I purchased this software. The CD disk must be in your computer drive in order to play. The visual implementation is excellent. It has 3 levels. I haven't played against the lowest level. The second level can be defeated regularly by a competent player. More recently I've been playing against the highest level. At this level, you must have have a high frustration level, because it seems your competitor (the computer/game designer) has most of the luck--especially at the beginning of the game. Still, it is fun to play, especially if you win when the odds are stacked against you.
For the price, this software is hard to beat.
UPDATE: I've stopped playing this software game--it just got too frustrating to see your computer opponent generating 20-40 times as much money as you when you have the best properties & monopolies (not acquired via trades). Of course, the computer has 3, even 4, "Railroads" and, while the computer opponent rarely lands on your properties w/ houses, you repeated land on his "railroads" and "utilities." It's really a joke to see how unfair the game is to the human player. What the implementation needs is a fair and visible display of the dice roll--you can't even see the computer's roll. You only know it's roll, if you can call it a roll, when it moves to its new location! Boring. I've reduced my rating to 2 stars (it probably should be 1 star,) because, for the 7 bucks it costs, you will probably get your money's worth before giving up on the game.
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