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My 2 girls can play together on their own after instructions and a few games with us. They can understand everything. It's just a perfect fit for us. They are having such a great time playing and it is so fun since we are really into real life horses too. I highly recommend this enjoyable game for young children.

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This game is good for learning how to: count, keep bowling score. It pretty fun, younger children will like this more than older ones. It will get old pretty quick for older children.

My kids love to bowl, so when I saw this in a store, I knew they'd love it. It's fun, it's easy to play, and games go pretty fast. My 5 year old and 8 year old play it quite often, I play too because they don't understand the scoring yet. Good fun!

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We had fun as this game will never end.... Good even for 4 people..... cant be played in a larger scale though...

Monopoly is somewhat educational as far as the business world goes--but ultimately it's a a piggy, greedy Republican game. Don't play it a lot. You'll raise unpleasant kids. [And no, I'm not a Democrat.] Can't American toy makers come up with something more creative than the 1000th version of Monopoly?

I recently got back into Monopoly and am really loving these new sets. Very nice and a real bargain for all the hours of enjoyment you'll get from it. It's also a great educational lesson for both kids and adults, teaching about investments, passive income, saving, and more. Lots of fun, especially when you have a group of about four players. There are a lot of versions of this game and this one is the best in my opinion. So classic that it's hard to improve on. :)

My nephew really enjoys this game and is learning the value of money. Its a good educational game for thr whole family

This Monopoly set was cheaply produced in China, as you might guess given its price. For a family looking for a first set, it seems satisfactory. But anyone who has played Monopoly for years should be on notice that this set, redesigned in 2008, includes several minor annoyances. First, the most practical annoyance. The board folds up into quarters, which allows the manufacturer to fit the set into a smaller box, presumably to reduce production costs. But because the box is somewhat smaller (about 16 inches long), there is no room for the sort of convenient tray for Monopoly money that was once standard in the old boxes (which were about 20 inches long). This is annoying for both gameplay and storage. Second, the producers have unnecessarily and inexplicably made small changes to the rules of the game -- rules that have stood for more than half a century. Landing on the Luxury Tax space used to cost you $75; now it costs $100. The new rules also change the numbers of each kind of bill to be apportioned to players at the start of the game -- and in fact, the game comes with a smaller supply of some bills. Mention of this set's Monopoly money brings us to the third annoyance: the manufacturers made numerous gratuitous changes to the look of the game. The palette of colors used for Monopoly bills in the United States since the 1940s has been changed: The $10 bill used to be yellow; now it's blue. The $50 bill used to be blue; now it's purple. (These changes make it hard to reuse money from older Monopoly sets.) Among the other unnecessary changes to the look of the game: The formerly purple properties on the board (Mediterranean Avenue and Baltic Avenue) have been recolored brown. The Community Chest and Chance cards are now printed on white cardstock instead of the familiar orange and yellow, and the classic drawings on those cards have been replaced with computer-generated 3D cartoons. Even the "Go" space has been redesigned: now the word "Go" is written in black instead of the familiar red. (Stodgy purists might also be put off by the various alterations to font, logo, and other design elements.) To be sure, these changes do not alter the fundamentals of the game itself. But they are annoying enough that anyone with nostalgic memories of the game from childhood should consider a different set.

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I bought this game after watching the commercial and reading some reviews on Amazon when the game was still in its introductory phase. This game is hands-down one of the best inventions out there. It is a solution for those who want a hint of Monopoly without all the extra tedious hours. The rules may seem a little lengthy and confusing but the answers will unfold throughout the gameplay. I've played this game with my friends and several of them have purchased it afterward without my pushing the product! This game is excellent for quick, addicting fun! I recommend it to everyone!

I had never heard of this game until I was playing it with friends a few months ago. After that, I wanted a set for myself. The game is easy to learn, relatively quick to play compared to Monopoly the board game, and the important rules come on a double-sided card of which there are enough for four players. Monopoly Deal is currently my favorite strategy card game and good for any small group of people(2-5).

Purchased this game to play with family in the evenings. We ususally play a card game or something together about 5 to 6 times a week and wanted something new. When we first received the card set and read the directions...well, let's just say a look of total confusion formed on all of our faces. But right there in the directions it tells you, as though they could read our minds, just play, it will all make sense! Boy, was Mattel right! My youngest son, 22 years old, a friend of his 25 and me the oldster at 52 LOVE playing this together. My husband's not really into it as he doesn't care for Monopoly, but I keep telling him, me either!! Monopoly takes forever and after a while, who cares whose got all the hotels. This game is fast paced and we even tweaked the rules ourselves to lenghthen the playing time. But the great thing is, once you've played a game, it's still time to play another, and another, and another!! We now receive 7 cards initially, can keep up to 9 in our hands and must have 4 completed properties to win. Hey, just play, it will all make sense. Gotta run, must order another pack of cards. These have held up really well with DAILY play and even marathons between my son and his friends, but want to have a spare pack on hand.

Great card game, I believe that those who like monopoly will enjoy this game. But also those who don't like monopoly should enjoy this one as well, since the games run much faster (15 min each play). Very entertaining.

My title says it, "This game is for all of the Monopoly-haters out there." Many people I know have played the original Monopoly board game. When the option ever comes up to play a family game and Monopoly is mentioned, for sure someone will say something like this, "But it takes so long!" Well this incarnation of Monopoly actually solves that problem, with an average game taking 10-20 minutes, depending on skill level and distractions. But not only is this game much faster than the board game, it is very, very fun and enjoyable. As a matter of fact, I just recently played this game with my neighbors, and their barely 6-year-old son playeed right along with us, so the required skill level and the learning curve is not so high that it is difficult to get into the game. After playing this game a few times, one may even find this to be somewhat addictive. Great game. If you don't have a copy, buy one and try it out. If you do have a copy, then play a game today!

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I'm a big Monopoly fan and I was really excited to get this game for the Wii. It's hard to get people to play with me, and games take so much longer when passing paper money around that having an electronic version of the game with computer AI makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately, there are some problems with the game that are serious enough that I can only give it three stars. Don't get me wrong, the core of the game is pretty good. It is classic Monopoly with all right rules, and options that let you play by "house rules" if you want (such as free parking having money on it). The animations aren't bad, and the computer players are actually pretty good. I've played the game several times now and found them enjoyable. However, there are some glaring issues that are really affecting my enjoyment of the game and my desire to replay it. 1. The save feature (which I call the "Not-Save" feature). This is the single worst problem in the game for me. Seriously EA, how hard would it be to allow a player to save the game when they want to quit? Despite the simplicity of saving progress in a game like Monopoly, there is no such feature. What the game actually has is a VERY poorly designed autosave feature, which means that if you quit, you lose all progress that has happened since the last autosave (and the game even tells you that). Now, that might not be so terrible if the autosave saved after every each round (a round being each time all the players have taken another single turn), but it doesn't. It seems completely unpredictable, and you can play for huge amounts of time without the game autosaving. The other night I quit a game in which all the properties were bought and I had almost won the game (and anyone familiar with Monopoly knows that takes quite a while), and when I turned the game on today to resume, I found that the last autosave had occurred about three turns into the game, and only four properties had been bought. In other words, I lost almost all the progress in the entire game. I've seen this several times and it is incredibly frustrating. Unless you have time to play the whole game (or can leave the game on forever without worrying that someone else in the house will want to play something else), then don't even both starting. You'll lose all your progress. And again, there is no way to save manually. 2. Unlocking new boards. The hoops you have to jump through to get a new board unlocked are ridiculous. Unlocking boards is based on a "passport system". The game claims you get a passport stamp for each property you own (not true), so for example if you own Park Place in a classic game, you get the park place stamp, and if you buy the monorail on the future board, you get the monorail stamp. Sort of like Monopoly at McDonald's where you try to get all the stamps, and when you get a certain number of passport stamps of new board will unlock. That wouldn't be so bad if the game actually did give you a passport for every property you owned. Then, if you won by bankrupting all the players, you would own all the properties, get passports for them all, and the board would be complete. Unfortunately, despite what EA says, you don't get passport stamps for owning properties. The game actually only gives you passport stamps for properties you LAND ON AND BUY. Buy a property in an auction? No stamp. Trade for a property and own it that way? No stamp. Bankrupt a player and become the owner of all his/her properties? No stamp. Want to play a four player AI game? Well, since you don't tend to land on and get many properties in a four player game, good luck every getting enough to unlock most of the later boards. Some boards, like the deco board, require you land on a buy every property in eight of the other boards. Since the whole landing on part is just random luck, unless I had months to keep trying, I suspect I'll never see any of the later boards in the game. Maybe if I do a "two player human vs human" game in which I am both players it will count towards my total, but how much fun is that? And I haven't tested that so I don't really know if that works anyway. 3. Incorrect space costs. Does anyone remember that traditionally in Monopoly, the Income Tax space has always said "$200 or 10%", and the Luxury tax space always said "$75"? Well, in the very most recent version of the Monopoly board game, Hasbro changed those spaces to "$200" and "$100", presumably to make them easier for people who can't do math. Of course, with a board game you can always draw on the correct values and play by the original tournament rules, but in this game you are out of luck. And that's a shame too, because since the game handles the math for you, it should be a no-brainer to stick to the official tournament rules. 4. Lack of settings to change. This is a minor gripe, but the music on some of the boards is very repetitive and there is no way to turn it off without turning off your speakers. And then you miss some of the verbal instructions or other voice effects, which you often do want to hear. Lastly, the top down view of the board isn't the greatest thing. It would be nice to be able to zoom in however you want, although the camera does a pretty good job of zooming in and following your peice as it moves. However, if these were the only flaws in the game, I'd probably give it five stars. These are just nice to haves and don't detract from the fun of the game like the first three items do. So anyway, my rating of this product is three stars. All the basics for a great game are there, but minor things like the save system, the board unlocking system, and the lack of proper tax space prices have really hurt what was otherwise a well done game.

My family loves Monoply, so this was a lot of fun for us. It moves along Quickly and you don't have to spend the time setting up and picking up after. We play this a lot more than ever did the board game. Plus ther are different boards you can play on.

Monopoly is 1 of my favorit game.... but i think the gameboard is more fun in real than the monopoly wii i dont like the wii monopoly sum people will enjoy but i didn't.

Lots of different boards of monopoly to play and a lot easier than getting out the board game with all the pieces.

The PC version is much better, the Wii version is ok, but it's a pain to play on it. The PC version has a keyboard and is much nicer. If I was going to buy this product again, I would really think twice. At $1-$5 its worth it, but not at the price I paid!

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I've been playing Monopoly since grade school, starting with the classic board game and its many editions. (The classic is still my favorite.) Then computerized editions of course came along. Including a hand held LCD Monopoly game (which I think was produced by Tiger Electronics). This worked out great for me as I always had problems getting enough players together. As any one who has played the slew of these computerized versions knows that they haven't always been good. As a matter of fact some of them are pretty bad. But I always enjoyed them until the new version came along. This one however has some issues that I find very ridiculous and I'll cover them in a minute. (Believe it or not there are some really good things too which I want to cover first.) If it weren't for these I would have rated it one star... - Pros - - You can see the whole board at one time. I know this sounds simple but this is a very nice touch. - Graphics are clean, property cards are easy to read. - You don't have to sit through the insufferable AI player animations if you don't want to. - Easy modification of rules to something that will probably resemble your house rules. - The user interface is clean and doesn't really feel cluttered. - You can easily find out information about properties by simply letting your mouse rest on them. Nice. - Works with newer operating systems. Sweet! - Cons - - The AI cheats! After about a dozen or so games under my belt it's the only conclusion that I can come up with. These include but are certainly not limited to AI players always landing on unpurchased properties for the first several rounds. AI players who almost always receive positive Chance and Community Chest Cards. (On the other hand you will almost certainly NOT receive a positive card of any substantial amount.) AI players who will consistently land on your properties UNTIL you build houses or hotels. If a property is mortgaged then they will certainly land on it, that is until it's out of mortgage. (I know these are sounding like Murphys' Laws of Combat, but this is really the way the game plays.) Example I had one game where I had Free Parking to pay out $500, and double the Pass Go amount if you landed on Go. (This is very similar to the way I play with a board game. I had these options on almost always.) Wouldn't you know that I had one AI player hit each one of those every single turn, almost without fail. (Do you think I ever landed there? That's right I didn't... during my 12+ games I landed on the Free Parking space once, and landed on go about five times.) Mid-game this AI player had amassed over $5,000 wile I who own a little over a third of the board and owned one of the two only Monopolies in the game had only $300 average. I would like to point out that the other AI player who owned the other Monopoly had garnered a little over $3,000 in this same time period. Before you ask it wasn't Boardwalk and Park Place. I could go on but I think you can understand where I'm coming from here. - The higher the difficulty setting the more the AI cheats. - You can't save your custom rules, so expect on reimplementing them each time you play. - No bartering. This has been present in a few past titles and it was missed here as a result. Outside of the AI problems this is a really pleasant rendition of one of my favorite board games. I would not recommend it to someone who is new to the game but a familiar player who can overlook blatant cheating would find it fun.

I think this is a fun game that hold true to the board game. You can play against one to three opponents. Those opponents can be "human" or computer player(s), or a combination of both. The computer player(s) can be set to one of three different skill levels. I have enjoyed the game the most when I have played against one other person or computer opponent. The game moves much more quickly than the board game and you can select from different options that make the game go by even faster, including dealing out part or all of the properties at the beginning. It allows you to set house rules for each game, such as receiving $500 for landing on Free Parking. One drawback is that you have to set the house rules over again after each game; the game doesn't allow you to save your favorite settings. Trades do seem to work a little strangely. The computer seems to look only at the face value of the properties, and not whether or not the property will give you a Monopoly. Overall I think the good parts of the game outweigh the bad, and I would recommend this as a great game for the whole family.

The item came quickly and in great condition. I'm extremely satisfied with my purchase and would recomment buying from this seller.

Although the game plays fairly well, with little or no freeze ups, getting support from the software company sucks big time. Don't waste your time trying. A simple question like "Can saved games be deleleted?, will get you a page and a half reply of why they can't answer YES or NO. By the way, you can delete saved games, however, it is a bit involved and you can't from the game software.

It allows only four players. It is not as challenging as previous Monopoly games.

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This version is not like the 1995 Monopoly for PC by Westwood Studios. Pros: This edition has a much faster pace than the old PC game. A family of 4 can actually get through a game one night. The graphics in this game are very good. Trades are relatively easy. Cons: It may just be personal taste, but my family didn't care for the music in this game. It gets very repetitive. The Monopoly man narrating can give helpful tips at first but it becomes overly repetitive, and quite frankly, annoying. Playing with 4 members of your family or friends can be fun, but playing with 2 CPU (computer) characters is hardly worth the time. Computer characters are in cahoots with each other. They make lame trades with each other that no normal person would accept. There are not enough options to change. You can't change the music or shut off the monopoly man's comments. When my family plays we like to have a rule that no one may buy property until they travel once across the board. This version does not have this option. In this version not all payments go to Free Parking, only the taxes, which we do not like. There was no option to turn off Auctions. If you loved the old PC game you may be disappointed, it simply does not have the character that the Westwood version had. If you have never played the old game and have nothing to compare it to, then I suppose it's a pretty good game.

Good: The graphics are okay and and the first few rounds of game play can be fun. There are different boards to choose which adds to the game-play. Bad: * The menu system is poorly designed. There is little distinction between selected buttons and non-selected. Selecting buttons is also buggy. * You can not turn off the voice tips which get annoying after hearing repeatedly. * The dice don't seem random enough. I rolled three consecutive doubles (which sends you to jail) about 4 times the first two games I played. * You have to sit through every action the AI makes. * This game takes longer to play than the real monopoly.

I've read several reviews with mistaken details about the game. These are answers that i would have liked before i bought the game. First of all, you CAN play up to 4 people with just one controller. You have that option in the menu. You simply pass the one controller to the next players. I almost bought 2 more controllers because i wanted 4 people to be able to play. I'm glad i waited. Also, another reviewer wrote he was annoyed that if you played a one-player game, you had to play against 3 CPU opponents. In other words, each game had to have 4 players, whether they were CPU or a real person. That's not true either. If you want to play a 1-player game, you can cancel CPU players 3 and 4 and just play with one CPU opponent. As far as fun, i give this game 3 stars. I find that the game rolling the dice for you takes a lot of fun out of the game. In the board game, you control your roll. Sure, it's random, but least it's you who threw the dice. In this game, you hit X. As i was playing, i was imagining that my friends would rather play the board game. BUT, it's too soon to tell. I will try it out on them and check out their reaction. Graphics are good and the game boards are pretty cool. It's just not the "party" game i thought it would be.

I love playing Monopoly, but am honestly not very good at it, so I bought this game to get some practice. The graphics are very nice and the variety of games is pretty cool, although they're not why I bought the game. That being said, playing the game itself is terribly dull. There is no option to only play against one other computer player, and there is no way to speed up the progress. It's usually several minutes before it would come back around to my turn, and while that may be ok when playing with people, it really makes it boring when you're alone. Also, I'm sure it's completely random, but I reset the game 5 times in a row, and each time, I was the last player and once it was my turn, the computer players had bought up half of the board. I just really don't like that I have to play against three players and that it moves so slowly, without a fair ability to buy up properties before they're all gone.

Pretty Good. We've enjoyed playing it. It's nice because it's something parents and kids can do together, and there's no worry about there being anything inappropriate like so many of the video games. Better than the board game because there's no clean up!

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I love this game! You can play against the computer (at different levels), add more than one computer player and add other players as well. It's a great game to pass the time...Monopoly Here & Now

I enjoy this version of Monopoly but there are things that could be improved upon. For instance, how do you delete the games that you have finished? You can just keep loading them even if you or the computer won. I have the older version and the graphics are 100% better, but I can live with that. There seems to be less options in "Monopoly Here & Now." The ultimate issue that I have with both versions is that you have to have the disc inserted in order to play. This is wrong. When I buy a game or program, I expect to be able to load it onto my computer. Example: Paint Shop Pro.

I like how it doesn't take up much space on my laptop. Some game to play when I'm really really really super bored when I have to visit relatives house for a few days or something for holidays. I love monopoly anyway. It's not really a fancy 3-D dynamic pictures like some other computer-based monopoly version, this one's rather 2-D looking flatboard and dice rolling etc. Very simple. Once you install it, you don't need to have CD with you (at least in my case, I didn't need CD after I installed it), which is a plus for some game to play at leisure. The music gets a little boring after playing for awhile though.

We have the actual Here & Now version of Monopoly, and this is a faithful computer rendition of it. Very fun to play. The computer AI opponents aren't terribly smart (even at the smartest level), but they do good enough of a job to make it fun to play solitaire if you want to. They are like a human player in the sense that they have their quirks about what/when they will trade and what/when they won't, and you have to learn that by playing them. Once you know their weaknesses, you can use those to beat them. I guess that's about all you can ask for. The interface for doing trades if very good. When playing more than one human, it takes the drudge work out of dealing with paper money, which speeds the game along nicely. We made sure my daughter had played the real game and successfully been the banker a few times before getting this. I am running this on an XP box and do not have to leave the CD in.

This version of the Monopoly game is really fun. You can choose some of the rules to play by, you can even make some of your own rules. The game is very fun. The only thing I was dissapointed about was that the description said the CD came in a "Jewel" case. It actually came in the Monopoly box pictured, and the CD came in an envelope. Which is not a very safe way to store the disk.

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Always have a variety of games to play with my boyfriend. You don't need the CD inserted in order to play the games. :-)

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I purchased this item for my grandson. His dad and the neighborhood children have played this game non-stop the first day they received it. The game of Monopoly is a classic but this version gave it a new meaning with the TV's popular show.It appears to be however a "guy" fun thing.

We've got several versions of Monopoly around our house, some of which now reside more-or-less permanently in the garage. So when my 13-year son included a Family Guys Monopoly game as part of his holiday list, I viewed it with disfavor. "You can use one of the others," I insisted. But he wouldn't be dissuaded; he really wanted *this* version. To be fair, he hasn't chosen any of the other Monopoly sets we have (regular, junior, National Parks, Disney edition), something the rest of us have had an opportunity to do. So I gave in and got it for him for Christmas. We've been playing it a lot since then. He and his 21-year old sister, both of whom are very familiar with Family Guy, LOVE this version. They laugh and talk and reminisce over bits and pieces from different shows as they progress around the board. I freely admit that I am lost, but I really don't mind being so. My kids are having a wonderful time with this version of Monopoly and that's what it's important. I remember sitting around with my family and playing Monopoly when I was their age. It's an enduring tradition, whether or not one lands on Peter's Fishing Boat or Reading Railroad. I'm glad my kids will remember good times with this quintessentially American board game, too.

Hopefully this will be a fun game. Bought it for an Xmas present so I cannot give a full review until then. But it looks great!

very happy with this product. Brand new and sent exactly the way it was described. Very pleased and will use this seller in the future.

Very fun. I am a huge family guy fan and they did a great job in making the references comical and random. It made an awesome gift.

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I love this game! I am a huge Wizard of Oz fan and I have always loved the game of Life, so this combination of both is awesome! My kids loved playing the game with me, as they too have inherited my love of Wiz. I think it teaches kids that decisions have consequences, some good and some bad (you have to choose whether to be a good witch or bad witch throughout the game). We loved it!!

This game is recommended for ages 9+. Kids have to be fairly good readers to participate or have adults playing along to help. Some of the rules are hard to understand at first, but after several games they become clearer. I would recommend children playing with an adult unless they are older or more advanced. It is somewhat complex in its strategies like Monopoly. We did create a few new rules in order to play with some younger children. Still fun, as the game recreates the entire story of the Wizard of Oz. The markers shaped as Dorothy's shoes were disappointing. We thought they should have been sparkly or glittered like the real ones. Just a small detail, but one that disappointed the smaller kids.

I bought this game because I am a big Wizard of Oz fan (I'm an adult). The Wizard of Oz aspects are all very cool, but the game itself is boring. It is not nearly as good as the Twist and Turns life game. No challenge. I played it twice and got rid of it.

This version is FABULOUS! Rather lengthy to set up (only a one-time deal), but so much fun. Even our 5yr old enjoyed playing!! He played the entire 2hrs!. I'm sure that once you have all the facets memorized, the game will take a shorter time. We plan to purchase this for Christmas presents for friends and family. We had such a good time!

If you love the Wizard of Oz, I think you will love this game. It is very different from the Game of Life, however. Instead of choosing to go to college or start your career, you choose to follow Glinda and become a good witch or follow the Wicked Witch and become wicked. You move around in different colored slippers and collect munchkins instead of children. There are several spots where you can choose a path to follow, such as to follow the flying monkeys or follow Glinda's bubble, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. You can also choose to make an Over the Rainbow Investment in a certain number on the spinner. I love this game!