![]() ![]() ![]() No differences in gameplay, just the assumption that you are not flat on a table top. The "Play Now" mode is the same as the table top mode, except that the prompts are always oriented the same way, facing the bottom of the device. Personally, I don't need to see the race car drive to Boardwalk, but it is nice that it can if I want it to. Yes, by the way, you can turn the animated pieces off. Even when playing, the animated moving of the pieces were smooth and jitter free. All very clean and crisp, looking like the graphics were well inside of what the device is capable of. Similar to Jenga where its developers, Natural Motion Games, put the game in a rendered living room with couches and paintings on the wall, so did EA put Monopoly on a virtual table next to a virtual sofa in a living room. Equally impressive was the overall look of the board and virtual setting the board was in. The board stays where it is, but the screen prompts and buttons are rotated around to the orientations of the players that you setup before the game, so that no one has to read upside down. Tabletop mode is designed to put your tablet down between the players flat on the table. Three play mode buttons are listed, but the one that jumped out to me was "Tabletop Mode". When I first ran the tablet version after the typical screen paying homage to the developer, you get a very bright white screen clad in all things Monopoly, but in an elegant, not tacky way. Let's see how the Android version measures up. Also reaching the masses has been many, many software versions of this game, ranging from NES, Genesis, N64, Playstation,PC, Gamecube, and other video games systems, including a protoype made for the Atari 2600. Love it or hate it, Monopoly is a rather mainstream game in most non-gamer closets. Other house rules also have the same effect of putting cash into the game where the object is to take cash out. Putting money on Free Parking usually allows hurting players back in the game with an unexpected windfall. Many of the other complaints about the game come from the game draging on forever, usually as a result of people not playing by the rules, or developing their own house rules. Parker Brothers, Monopoly's publisher now part of Hasbro, originally rejected Monopoly because it had a large list of flaws. Other spaces include two spaces to levy taxes against the players, Jail, and a space to send you there, and Free Parking, which is just a safe place to land on, but has no purpose. Besides the properties, the board also has some other assorted spaces: Community Chest and Chance spaces give cards with random events to the player who draws them, Go, which represents your regular salary, giving $200 every time around the board. If you manage to collect all of the properties in the same color group, rents are doubled on those properties, and you have the ability to erect houses and hotels in order to charge more. You do this by rolling dice to travel around the board buying property in order to charge the other players rent. ![]() Monopoly is a property buying and trading game that started life as an example of an economic theory, as The Landlord's Game, and has over the years evolved into a cultural icon.The object: Bankrupt the other players and be the last one left at the end. ![]()
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