Monopoly Tycoon
The All-American board game is now an in-depth and addictive strategy game in Infogrames' Monopoly Tycoon! Get down to street level and manipulate a living city by building businesses, attracting customers, & outwitting your opponents block by block! Unleash marketing & advertising campaigns with devastating effect Multiplayer LAN and competitive play offer fun and addictive action with limitless replayability Witness the passage of time move from the 30's to present day Open 24 hours - Check up on your businesses day or night Cut the cost of your operations - buy the electriTycoon and water utilities Build each building and business from the ground up to your exact specifications Zoom in or out as you keep an eye on new opportunities or to view your sprawling empire
Monopoly Tycoon is, put simply, a marriage between the classic board game and the city-building aspects of Sim City. It's an idea that shouldn't work as well as it does. Licensed games usually don't take risks, and that's what makes this one quite brilliant. Instead of churning out a quick Monopoly-related cash-in, Deep Red has dared to take Monopoly concepts and use them to make a fun, unique game, a game of city building, but also of property management and brutal economics, all encased in one gorgeous graphics engine. It looks as good as it plays. After playing through a very detailed tutorial series of missions, you'll proceed to the main game: a series of locked scenarios, the next of which you unlock by succeeding at the previous one. There are three difficulty levels, and you can choose to play as any of the familiar playing pieces, each with its own personality, advantages, and disadvantages. The top hat is a stage magician, the dog is an old-money socialite, the wheelbarrow is a steady worker, and the racecar is a stuntman with a curling mustache. Respectively, the computer plays these opponents as cunning, shrewd, tenacious, and bold. The game itself plays on a 3-D map. You can zoom in to see the wandering people and their cars, or zoom out to view the map top down like a board game. The layout isn't like the board game, however; it's more like a city, but Monopoly conventions hold true. Each block consists of two or three colored properties with familiar names. You can't buy these properties. You can build on any of them, owning various retail or residential buildings of varying size and height, and pay rent to the property owner, or you can engage in an auction to lease the property (for 25 years). If you lease all the properties of a color you gain a monopoly and can build lucrative hotels and even commandeer buildings away from rivals. You are all competing over convenience-oriented and fickle citizens, so property values, selection, and types of goods and services offered is what attracts them. A grocery store on St. James Place isn't going to command the same clientele or profit as one on Pennsylvania Avenue, and, of course, control of Boardwalk and Park Place is essential. Chance cards exist as single-day random events, and you can even control the Railroads and Utilities and get money from your rivals that way (you get their services for free). The action begins in the '30s and moves all the way to the new millennium. The styles and cars all evolve to show the progression of time, a nice touch. All told, Monopoly Tycoon is a must-buy for fans of the Sim or Tycoon lines of games. It's deep, fun, has a great multiplayer option, and has just enough Monopoly in it to be utterly charming to anyone familiar with the classic board game. Infogrames didn't invent the city-building game here, but they did reinvent Monopoly for the 21st century. --Bob Andrews Pros: - Attractive graphics
- Deep, charming, and satisfying gameplay
Cons:- The interface is a bit cumbersome
Most of us have played the Monopoly board game. Have you ever wondered who lives in Marvin Gardens? According to Monopoly Tycoon, the answer is voters. All of the elements of the family-favorite board game have been turned into a 3-D city-building simulation. You start off, of course, as a real-estate developer who buys land and must decide what purpose each property must serve to bring about the greatest public good: commercial, residential, or industrial. As your wealth and power grow, you'll throw your hat into the race for mayor. Considering how the original board game made cutthroat competition fun, it should come as little surprise that Monopoly Tycoon allows up to four players to campaign against each other for the mayor's office over the Internet or a local area network.
Monopoly Tycoon Accessories
 Restaurant Empire
Capitalism 2
Capitalism 2 (Jewel Case)
Donald Trump's Real Estate Tycoon
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition
Capitalism Plus
Monopoly Tycoon Reviews
I would recommend you find a free download and play it and save your money.
An hour in game time takes just 30 seconds.
You lose all of the property you bought and developed on the previous level.
On each level, you have to start over from scratch.
The time clock on the game is too fast.
The best thing I can say about it is that I didn't pay too much money for it.
A day is over in less than five minutes.
Monopoly Tycoon is a continuation of the other Tycoon games.
However, the levels are too easy to beat.
However, a drawback to it is that it does not allow you to play a regular gameyou can only play the scenarios. It is really a business/economic simulator, because you have to take charge of aspects such as cash flow, sales, supply and demand, etc. But it is an excellent game, especially if you want to practice business/economics. I never thought that Monopoly could be applied to a game like this.
It wasn't what I thought it would be at all.I think the fact that the challenge is a short amount of time is what was the worst aspect of it. This game needs a doctor because something is definitely lacking. I enjoy Sim games so much that I got this game for my kids last Christmas thinking they would really like it since they love Monopoly.I was wrong.
It is hours of fun. There are so many things you can do. I am glad that this game was there to entertain those of us that enjoy a challenge. Thanks to J&R Music and Computer World for having it also. I have thoroughly enjoyed playing this game. As with all games you can not please everyone. It is similar to the Monopoly game we all played as kids, but it has lots of twists to it.
The game should be cumulative - the board game certainly is. Other tycoon games are a better bet, and I would recommend Railroad Tycoon, Roller Coaster Tycoon, or possibly Maximum Capacity: Hotel Giant, for something truly challenging and engrossing.
make x amount of dollars by the end of three years) and you build up your ability level. You do not get to keep the properties you build up, though you do get to pick the colors, style, and quality of the buildings - which is a little pointless given that you lose the buildings at the end of the level.
The game does have good graphics, but I find that they only mask an uncomplicated and boring game. Sort of.
So my critique is: It is not really a tycoon / simulation game at all. It is more of a mission-driven game than a classic tycoon game, which is why I think the title is misleading.
It is really unimaginitive, and doesn't inspire creativity at all. The game works like this: You are given ever increasingly difficult goals (eg.
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