Hasbro Monopoly Here & Now Limited Edition

A few months ago the people of Monopoly held an online ‘competition’ to decide which cities got a place on the new Monopoly board. You could vote once a day for which ever city you wanted. If you weren’t from a city you could enter your place for the ‘wild card’ – i.e. the most voted for place that wasn’t a city! Anyway, a lot of students got involved and voted for where ever their University was. I’m studying at Keele and so obviously voted for Keele… anyway, after a month or so of voting the results were announced – Keele was the highest wild card entry and therefore got a place on the board (Colchester and Middlesbrough were the only other two wild card entries to ...  Read the complete review

I've got this game on my nokia 6230i its great, exactly the same as the board game. Its just like all other monopoly games, you have 2 dice and 2-4 players (or 2-8 on board game). The aim of the game is to 'survive the business world' so to speak. As the person who is bankrupt, (completly out of money loses, the person who survives at the end wins) The objects you can choose to play as include a motorola razr, laptop, airplane, car etc. The main properties are Airports (all london airports) (4)and phone companies (2). Properties include Picadilly, Euston, Marble Arch, the london eye, top ten on the leaderboard 1 - ...  Read the complete review

There’s nothing like a game of Monopoly to bring out the worst in people. When I was just a wee girl, I always won and my secret was to buy the cheapest and the most expensive properties and slap hotels on them all. Nobody dared land on my side of the board. I liked the cheap and cheerful Old Kent Road and the rich and expensive Mayfair and didn’t much care for the middle of the road places in between. The traditional game of Monopoly has been around for years, since the 1930s in fact when it was invented by Mr Darrow. In recent years the game has been given a variety of makeovers and you can get Monopoly in a make your own edition, in Simpsons or Manchester ...  Read the complete review

I was bought this for Christmas by my mum who knows what a huge Monopoly fan I am. When I first opened it I was surprised at just how different to traditional Monopoly it is. All the street names are named after the top 22 cities in the world with cities such as London, Paris and Rome. See bottom of review for full list of cities included on board. The houses and hotel are also completely different and are made to represent the different buildings around the world. They feature mud huts, pyramids and skyscrapers. The playing counters have also been specially designed to represent different continents with 4 being designed for ...  Read the complete review

Surely everyone has played Monopoly? I've loved playing it from a young age. I remember playing it with my family over Christmas and my sister throwing a tantrum as she never won. Also as a child I played it with my friends and played our own little versions and rules which made it more interesting. I even bought the American version when I was on holiday in the States over 10 years ago. Having a different version made things more interesting. **HISTORY OF THE GAME** In 1933 Charles Darrow decided to invent a board game to make some money after the Depression. He made it with an oilcloth for the board, the cards were hand-written and the tokens ...  Read the complete review