Monopoly Tycoon (PC)

After playing through a very detailed tutorial series of missions you'll proceed to the main game: a series of locked scenarios you unlock by successfully completing the previous one. There are three difficulty levels and you can choose to play as any of the familiar playing pieces, each with their own personality, advantages and disadvantages.

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 coloured 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 colour you gain a monopoly and can build lucrative hotels and even commandeer buildings away from rivals.

The action begins in the 30s and moves all the way to the new Millennia. You'll see styles and cars all change to show this as time moves forward, which is a nice touch.

All told, Monopoly Tycoon is a must for fans of the Sim or Tycoon lines of games. It's deep, fun, has a great multiplayer option, and it has just enough Monopoly in it to be utterly charming to anyone familiar with the classic board game. Infogames didn't invent the city-building game here, but they did reinvent Monopoly for the 21st century. --Bob Andrews

The game keeps the essence of Monopoly by keeping the colours and names of the original streets, and even allows you to build hotels once you've got all of the sites in a colour group.

A fast paced game - well worth playing.


The feel that you are in the game   November 21, 2001
15 out of 17 found this review helpful

At first I thought just another souped up monopoly game. But I was proven wrong, the game is fantastic you have a real 3d feel and a full 380 degrees rotation with zoom.
It's fantastic you can actually view the people entering buildings etc.
the graphics are extreemly smoth and the music is not too bad.
When you try and lease property it is my opinion that it nearly feels like a real auction, nail bitting stuff. And what greater pleasure but to financially ruin others .... Great.

Definatley a good buy, don't waste waiting for it to get cheaper.


Third time lucky   February 1, 2001
12 out of 63 found this review helpful

Monopoly Tycoon is the best game that has come out from the monopoly range of games.If you like tycoon games buy it and amazon do it at a good price.


Monopoly Tycoon ? - A LOAD OF TRASH   November 17, 2001
10 out of 33 found this review helpful

I could not wait to play Monopoly Tycon when it first came out but it is absouloutey rubbish . You go around a poorly thought out square town building shops or theatres , restaurants etc . Then every so often you check and see how much money you have , sthat is all there is to this game . If you do decide to be it you are either crazy or mad . I am warning you it is awfull . Do Not Buy this game even though the box looks brilliant .