board games

What's with the interface? I've been playing Monopoly on consoles since the 8-bit Sega Master System, and this is by far the worst UI I've seen yet in a Monopoly game.

It's nigh impossible to peruse the game board in a normal way, the interface for displaying who owns what properties is absolutely ludicrous, and it seems like this game was put together by people who don't play Monopoly, but who viewed building the system as a series of problems that they developed disparate modules to overcome.

Once you get used to it, which takes an un-necessarily long time, it's Monopoly, a game you know and love, and it's playable. But come on, put some thought and effort into it and make it usable.

We've been trapped in a proposed trade screen with a computer AI opponent for over 15 minutes at times, trying to figure out how to back out of it, since there isn't a simple "cancel trade" button that you can hit without modifying the trade properly, and it just gets needlessly confusing.

Good try, but not quite there, which is sad since this has been done correctly SO many times in the past.

This is a fun game if you like to sit back and just push a button instead of having to actually roll the dice and move your token like on the real board game. You can play by your self with the computer or play with up to 4 players. There are 4 themes for the game board and tokens you can pick like the classic and sci- fi and prehistoric. It can go on for hours of fun or can get boring if no trading or building goes on.

Another reviewer had trouble with this game as well. This disc didn't work in my PS2. The back of the disc was a blue color and I had to return it, only to get another bad disc. Argh! Needless to say, you can only exchange this for the exact same thing (got mine at Game Stop) and I'm not going through this a million times. A note to software manufacturers: stop making cheap stuff!