This is a really weird entry. The computer is the main reason why. You gotta watch the AI set up each deal slowly each time they offer one, and they offer some pretty insane ones. The AI can be very unforgiving one moment and then offer to let you buy entire monopolies the next. Sometimes I feel like the developers stumbled across this tortured computer ghost in the machine type demon thing and decided that Monopoly Party was only created as a holding device. When the AI offers you the same deal four turns in a row (which happens) and forces you to watch it slowly work out that deal each time (which happens) it's that evil spirit trying to lash out in the only way still avalible to it. That's my theory. Also, sometimes the AI gets to pick it's piece before you and that feels needlessly egalitarian. This is freaky monopoly man.

Picking your piece isn't enough for this game. You also get to pick what kind of houses and hotels you want in addition to getting choose between different themes for the board. I dunno if that's enough to really justify this over the million other Monopoly ports.

It's a serviceable way to play Monopoly for what that's worth. If you really want to go back to this it has to be because of the weirdness, not despite it.

Reviewed on Apr 16, 2024


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