Board 8 > Platinum #221 Monopoly Madness

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Overall this is another strange attempt at making a classic game 'exciting'. You have these different style enclosed maps and 2-6 players run around bidding on properties by blowing money on them. Then you suck up resources of water and electricity then blow that on the properties to upgrade it. There isn't much monopoly identity here and all of it really comes from the Community Chest cards which are powerups that can give money, attack other players, steal from other players or even steal properties. Theres also events that are custom to each stage that can be traffic that runs you over, trains that run you over, flooding, and other obstacles to slow you down.

The story isn't needed for platinum but is an amusingly bad narrative about Mr Monopoly being tired and wanting to give you his uh...what does he own exactly? Its a weak Willy Wonka nod.

Pros and Cons
+ The game is actually fun with friends
+ The story is skippable
+ The achievements can be done with a second controller or a single AI bot
- The events are just time wasters that effect everyone equally
- Item useage has weird lag to it
- The mario party awards at the end are random and they are every trophy basically so enjoy doing the setup for them match after match
- Some descriptions are really vague for trophies