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Monopoly Tycoon is the kind of game you might have imagined as a kid while you played the real board game. The game includes all the familiar Monopoly elements, such as buying and selling properties and utilities, collecting rent, and managing your money, but it expands on the idea by letting you build a variety of retail and residential buildings and then manage your businesses by setting stock amounts, prices, and rent. If you've ever wanted to see what an expensive Boardwalk hotel would look like up close, this is your chance. While Monopoly purists may be wary of the numerous changes and additions that have been made to the classic game, the end result is a pleasing and challenging blend of city building and economic management, all created in the familiar,
lighthearted style of Monopoly.
You begin the game with a set amount of money in 1930, at which point the game's virtual city is only sparsely built. You can proceed to invest in property, utilities, and railroads, as well as build businesses. The game's easy-to-use research and analysis functions help you choose where to build different types of structures--for instance, a poll conducted on a specific city block may reveal that the various inhabitants want more bread and meat, indicating that a butcher shop or bakery would do well at that location. It's important to do some research before building, since there are more than 40 types of potential businesses, and some will be more profitable than others. The game also provides statistics on what types of people live in or commute to the city, which helps you figure out what kind of residential structures to build.
The property-management portion of Monopoly Tycoon comes into play when you want to lease an entire city block. You compete against up to five other business owners during the game, and at any point, one of you can flag a city block for auction, and all the others then have a chance to bid for that property. Once you've leased a block, you become the landlord and collect the rent from the businesses on that block for a period of time. If you lease all of the blocks in a color group (which represents a district or neighborhood, as in the board game), you gain the right to build hotels, along with other advantages such as lower buyout costs. As the years pass in the virtual city, new businesses become available, such as ice cream parlors, bowling alleys, and nightclubs, and eventually supermarkets, video stores, and computer stores.
Monopoly Tycoon has a wide variety of single-player scenarios with goals that range from building the largest empire by a certain year, to gaining the most popular votes to become mayor of the city. There's even a Survivor-style last-man-standing scenario, where the city inhabitants vote players out of the game one by one. The game runs in real time through day/night cycles, each of which represents five years of game time, and time can also be accelerated to speed through the occasional slow period. Most scenarios last between 30 minutes and an hour or so as the game progresses from the 1930s up through the 1990s. The game includes three difficulty levels, which adjust the strength of the opponents' artificial intelligence as well as your starting funds, and even the easiest level should provide plenty of challenge and entertainment for most players.
Regardless of difficulty level, you'll have to tackle the single-player scenarios in order--after completing one successfully, the next scenario in the list is unlocked. The game also supports multiplayer games for up to six players over a LAN or Internet connection, and you should be readily able to find live online opponents using the provided GameSpy Arcade software. You can even opt to play multiplayer against only computer-controlled opponents and set up your own scenarios rather than having to unlock them. Six different customizable multiplayer modes of play are available, which roughly correspond to the single-player scenarios. In addition, the game has a helpful series of interactive tutorials that introduce new players to most of the game's features.Perhaps the most striking part of the game is its simple but powerful 3D engine. The game's three main views--the city view from overhead, the 3D block view, and the 3D business view--are easily accessible through either onscreen navigation or hotkeys, and in any of the 3D views it is simple to rotate and tilt the camera to get the desired perspective. The 3D engine is clean and fast; switching from one view to another is smooth and visually pleasing. The virtual city built in the game is colorful and lively, with automobiles, pedestrians, and even boat traffic. As the game progresses, it's fun to see how the city grows and changes as buildings are built, remodeled, and demolished. The game's 3D computer-controlled opponents are also entertaining--it's a shame that the only time you'll see them in action is during property auctions. The opponents--each inspired by a Monopoly game piece such as the shoe, the top hat, or the iron--each have distinct personalities that are apparent both in their animations and in their style of play.
The game's music works well with the lighthearted theme of the game. As the game progresses through the decades, the music actually adjusts to different soundtracks appropriate to that period in time, and it's amusing to see how the simple instrumentals convey the general sense of that period's music. The sound effects used in the game add a little bit of flavor and humor--the sound of coins lets you know when people make purchases at your businesses, and the ambient sounds of the city, such as cars, wind, and pedestrians, give an aural indication of what time of day it is and how active people are.In Monopoly Tycoon, the player operates a business by owning businesses, apartments, and being landlord to blocks. The player earns income from selling products and services, housing people in apartments and hotels. Income is also generated from rent for any blocks that the player is landlord of, plus utilities and railroads.
Monopoly Tycoon has the same set of blocks as the board game with an additional three. When a player is landlord of all blocks of the same color, they are able to build hotels. In addition, being landlord of any property allows the player to build park space.
As in the board game, there are railroads and utilities blocks that players can become landlord of and receive income from. To become landlord, there is an auction amongst the players with the property going to the highest bidder.
At the end of the day, the player is offered a mystery card similar to those from the board game. Some of the cards are a simple deposit or withdrawal of money from the player's account. Other cards allow the player to aid his businesses or harm the opponent, say by restocking one of his stores or giving an opponent block bad publicity.
lighthearted style of Monopoly.
You begin the game with a set amount of money in 1930, at which point the game's virtual city is only sparsely built. You can proceed to invest in property, utilities, and railroads, as well as build businesses. The game's easy-to-use research and analysis functions help you choose where to build different types of structures--for instance, a poll conducted on a specific city block may reveal that the various inhabitants want more bread and meat, indicating that a butcher shop or bakery would do well at that location. It's important to do some research before building, since there are more than 40 types of potential businesses, and some will be more profitable than others. The game also provides statistics on what types of people live in or commute to the city, which helps you figure out what kind of residential structures to build.
The property-management portion of Monopoly Tycoon comes into play when you want to lease an entire city block. You compete against up to five other business owners during the game, and at any point, one of you can flag a city block for auction, and all the others then have a chance to bid for that property. Once you've leased a block, you become the landlord and collect the rent from the businesses on that block for a period of time. If you lease all of the blocks in a color group (which represents a district or neighborhood, as in the board game), you gain the right to build hotels, along with other advantages such as lower buyout costs. As the years pass in the virtual city, new businesses become available, such as ice cream parlors, bowling alleys, and nightclubs, and eventually supermarkets, video stores, and computer stores.
Monopoly Tycoon has a wide variety of single-player scenarios with goals that range from building the largest empire by a certain year, to gaining the most popular votes to become mayor of the city. There's even a Survivor-style last-man-standing scenario, where the city inhabitants vote players out of the game one by one. The game runs in real time through day/night cycles, each of which represents five years of game time, and time can also be accelerated to speed through the occasional slow period. Most scenarios last between 30 minutes and an hour or so as the game progresses from the 1930s up through the 1990s. The game includes three difficulty levels, which adjust the strength of the opponents' artificial intelligence as well as your starting funds, and even the easiest level should provide plenty of challenge and entertainment for most players.
Regardless of difficulty level, you'll have to tackle the single-player scenarios in order--after completing one successfully, the next scenario in the list is unlocked. The game also supports multiplayer games for up to six players over a LAN or Internet connection, and you should be readily able to find live online opponents using the provided GameSpy Arcade software. You can even opt to play multiplayer against only computer-controlled opponents and set up your own scenarios rather than having to unlock them. Six different customizable multiplayer modes of play are available, which roughly correspond to the single-player scenarios. In addition, the game has a helpful series of interactive tutorials that introduce new players to most of the game's features.Perhaps the most striking part of the game is its simple but powerful 3D engine. The game's three main views--the city view from overhead, the 3D block view, and the 3D business view--are easily accessible through either onscreen navigation or hotkeys, and in any of the 3D views it is simple to rotate and tilt the camera to get the desired perspective. The 3D engine is clean and fast; switching from one view to another is smooth and visually pleasing. The virtual city built in the game is colorful and lively, with automobiles, pedestrians, and even boat traffic. As the game progresses, it's fun to see how the city grows and changes as buildings are built, remodeled, and demolished. The game's 3D computer-controlled opponents are also entertaining--it's a shame that the only time you'll see them in action is during property auctions. The opponents--each inspired by a Monopoly game piece such as the shoe, the top hat, or the iron--each have distinct personalities that are apparent both in their animations and in their style of play.
The game's music works well with the lighthearted theme of the game. As the game progresses through the decades, the music actually adjusts to different soundtracks appropriate to that period in time, and it's amusing to see how the simple instrumentals convey the general sense of that period's music. The sound effects used in the game add a little bit of flavor and humor--the sound of coins lets you know when people make purchases at your businesses, and the ambient sounds of the city, such as cars, wind, and pedestrians, give an aural indication of what time of day it is and how active people are.In Monopoly Tycoon, the player operates a business by owning businesses, apartments, and being landlord to blocks. The player earns income from selling products and services, housing people in apartments and hotels. Income is also generated from rent for any blocks that the player is landlord of, plus utilities and railroads.
Monopoly Tycoon has the same set of blocks as the board game with an additional three. When a player is landlord of all blocks of the same color, they are able to build hotels. In addition, being landlord of any property allows the player to build park space.
As in the board game, there are railroads and utilities blocks that players can become landlord of and receive income from. To become landlord, there is an auction amongst the players with the property going to the highest bidder.
At the end of the day, the player is offered a mystery card similar to those from the board game. Some of the cards are a simple deposit or withdrawal of money from the player's account. Other cards allow the player to aid his businesses or harm the opponent, say by restocking one of his stores or giving an opponent block bad publicity.
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