A great up to date version of monopoly. (Hasbro Monopoly Here & Now Limited Edition)

Member Name: Rockmaiden

Product:	Hasbro Monopoly Here & Now Limited Edition
Date:	08/01/09 (68 review reads)
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Advantages: The new credit cards and electronic bank.

Disadvantages: None

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 each continent. The game pieces you recieve are picked at random but you will recieve one game piece from each continent. See bottom of review for full list of playing pieces available.

The very best feature of this game by far is that there is no money at all!! Instead you have 6 credit cards in different colours and each player has a a card each loaded with 15 million to start.

Each time you pass go you put your card into the plus side of the electronic bank and it adds 2 million to your balance. When completing a transaction with another player you both put your cards in the electronic bank, one in the plus side and one in the minus, enter the amount to be transfered and watch it as it goes from one card to the next.

It does take a bit of getting used to when you paying millions to buy a property and thousands in rent but once you do it's a great game. It's been brought up to date on so many levels especially with the addition of the credit cards.

With the old monopoly game clear up used to take a while with all the money lying around, which is very easy to tear or lose, but with the credit cards this problem is gone.

I would recomend this game to any monopoly fan.

The full list of cities included on the board (in order from brown to navy) is:

Gdynia
Taipei
Tokyo
Barcelona
Athens
Istanbul
Kyiv
Toronto
Rome
Shanhai
Vancouver
Sydney
New York
London
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
Paris
Belgrade
Cape Town
Riga
Montreal

The full list of playing pieces available is:

North America- Canadian Mountie, Cowboy Hat, Baseball Glove and Nascar.

South America- Inca Mask, Inca Statue, Easter Island Moai and Football.

Europe- London Cab, Pretzel, Matador and Windmill.

Africa- Safari Hat, Egyptian Head Mask, African Mask and Camel.

Asia- Chinese Dragon, Tuk-Tuk, Russian Dolls and Sumo Wrestler.

Australia- Kangaroo, Koala, Surfer and Boomerang.

Well there you go hope you have as much fun with this game as I have.

Summary: A briliant game with so many changes to make it more modern