With the release of these digital versions of popular boards games, my faith in humanity
drops just a little bit more every day.
Apparently we have become too connected with our social mediums, our Facebook and twitters
that we are incapable of playing a board game with, you know, a board and dice.
So you have this, Monopoly for the PS1.
And, well it is what it is.
It’s Monopoly, the same Monopoly that you play with the crazy when you have to do your
community service at the old folks home.
But seriously, it’s just Monopoly.
You roll the dice, land on properties, and try to become like the new Donald Trump of
the Monopoly world.
The game is fun if you like playing Monopoly.
You move the pointer and click the actions you want to do.
After you have tried all you can to trade for the 4th railroad or whatever, you roll
the dice.
You then see an animation of your piece move across the board.
Then when you stop you get a short animation about the property you landed on.
The purple are the cheapest so obviously they run down dumps that make crack homes in Jersey
look like multimillion-dollar places.
While when you get to Boardwalk or Park Place, you can tell that some fancy digital people
stay there.
At the first you will give a short chuckle when you see the videos but eventually you
will jump want to skip then so you can continue on with the game.
I wish the game wouldn’t have taken itself so serious.
This would have been the perfect opportunity to further expand upon the mythos of the Monopoly
guy.
You could have played as him, slowly coming from humble beginnings to eventually controlling
Monopoly land with an iron fist.
The crazy party at St. Janes Place that made him have to escape out the bathroom window
while the police wrangle up everyone else.
And while they are in prison, the Monopoly guy buys up their properties so that they
can pay their bail.
This it an extreme case but what I’m saying is, there was opportunity for more.
Also, probably the worst thing about playing Monopoly on a video game system is that fact
that the game makes you play by the real rules of Monopoly.
I can’t remember ever playing a game of Monopoly and playing by the real rules the
entire time.
One time, during an epic Monopoly battle that occured during a game day with my friends,
my friend asked me what it would take for him to get the last railroad off me.
I told him that the only way he would get it would be by breaking up with girlfriend
to get it.
He called his girlfriend and told her he was breaking up with her for a couple hours so
that he could get the last Railroad.
The game ended with two friends forming a corporation against me and drove me out of
business.
Yeah, we take our Monopoly really serious.
In the end, it’s Monopoly.
If you can’t get enough Monopoly then buy all means you should own this game.
Or if you dreamed about one day playing Monopoly and never had anyone willing to invest the
time to play an entire game with you then sure go buy this and play against the computer.
Just know, the graphics are bad, the game moves even slower than in real life, and nothing
compares to a game day with your 3 best friends.