EA reinvents Monopoly News

Trying to reinvent a classic game = definite failure. Add EA and it's a catastrophy.
What people want is a classic XBLA/PSN Monopoly, not some shitty full-game. Remember Tetris Evolution?

Strange they aren't planning a PS3 version, although I'm sure no PS3 owner is actually that bothered. But why would you do a version for every console except the PS3?

peew, have you played it yet then?

I find it amusing the EA are publishing "Monopoly".

but what about all the cheating and haggling over properties?

I love Monopoly, but I won't play this.

You need to be able to cheat in Monopoly, and argue with family members. Without this meta-game, there's much less fun to be had.

Conversely, I'll never play Scrabble online as everyone cheats.

@ swisstony: I know that question, I've used it before myself... The point is, reinventing a great classic just doesn't work, it's been proven (Tetris Evolution and Bomberman Zero come to mind) so the sensible thing is to release the clasic game as it should be, with added online elements.

Hey, kwijibo is a word!

But yeah, if you can't cheat (or, as is most folks prefer to rationalise it: set "house rules"), then there's no point playing Monopoly. The entire game is based about being a backstabbing bastard.

I have to agree with swisstony on this one. Cynical as this initially makes me feel, the suggestion that you can't reinvent a classic game successfully is just nonsense. A game is a game, and if its fun its fun. Its heritage and influences don't really matter.

Perhaps you could say "its not as good as proper Monopoly", but if its not identical to Monopoly then people will differ in their opinions, as they do with all games.

"Halo isn't as good as Gears of War" says someone else somewhere (they are of course quite wrong ;) ). Its all the same.

Agreed with the custom rules.

My personal favourite is paying all the taxes and fines etc into the centre and then anybody who lands on Free Parking gets it (and then we give them the cash, ho ho ho).

Why? Why? Why?

No one needs that distorted version of Monopoly. It is one thing to pad the basic, authentic game with variations. It is quite another to flog a bastard version as the new 'real' thing. They did this to SimCity, thanks to which we are currently without a decent city building sim based on current technology.

I hope to God they retain the option to play the authentic version.

And what's with the Wii screenshot? It is a sickly, radiation green. All these comnpanies, in the process of presenting Monopoly have never done away with the less than welcome (to me) coloring of the main board. And the properties are named after their colour. How dumb can you get? Whats wrong with plain old Trafalgar Square?

All I ask EA is to infuse the game with graphics. I should see a mini airport with actual runway and flying planes at the airports - likewise on the train stations. Jail should be an actual Shawshank like fortress.

But no! All they can come up with is wussy 'cyan' and 'magenta' labels, that portly auctioneer rendered in 20 trillion triangles, and insipid red houses.


My advice? Get the current PC version of Monopoly off the internet from GameHouse- it's a small, cheap download and it is all the Monopoly you'd ever want. Or, get the Glu Mobile cellphone version, and play it anywhere either on the phone or via tv-out.

reinvent, like monopoly party?

infogrames already did that source

For some reason, which I aslo don't know which, ppl seem to enjoy this kinda games, in consoles or even in XBLA, I guess. Look at UNO, you have dozens of UNO's for free in the PC world, yet XBLA scored + 1 million sales. I bet if we were commenting its anouncement, we would say "why? oh why?". But then it scored almost 10 million dolars. Go figure...

MonopoLOL

Can't they just put normal Monopoly on XBLA for 400 points? Or is that too hard and not enough of a cash cow for bloody EA?

I'd totally buy an XBLA version, but this is actually a full priced game?

They could do both surely?

People seem to be missing that creating this new title does not in any way mean you can't just go out and buy monopoly in one of the its many existing forms. its just something new, and if its fun at the end then its all good imo. And if I fancy playing normal monopoly I still can. So its not something to get all flustered about.

People who treat the horrid mess of a game that is Monopoly as a sacred bovine, not to be improved by trying to morph it into something playable ought to go to http://www.boardgamegeek.com and seek wisdom.

Sounds like Mario Party meets Monopoly...

/is not convinced

So not actually monopoly at all then.