Monopoly is a classic property trading board game about chance, money and strategy. Since it has been put into production in 1935, there has been great fun for all people worldwide by wheeling and dealing with others. Published by Electronic Arts, Monopoly Millionaires is a redesign of the popular board game as well as the first social game of the Monopoly series on Facebook.
In Monopoly Millionaires, players can not only find out the old elements, but also experience the addictive social features on Facebook. For example, players start with the turn by rolling the dice and moving forward in a clockwise direction around the board. Also, money can be collected when others land on the properties. However, Monopoly Millionaires changes the typical game mode with new rules, such as city-building, decoration, and interaction.
First of all, Monopoly Millionaires offers brand new solo gameplay instead of the basic rules. This is undoubtedly the most significant change because Monopoly always focuses on a real-time, turn-based gameplay of multiplayer in order. In Monopoly Millionaires, players has their own game board where allows others to play on it. If players want to participate in the game, they need to roll the dice on the friends’ boards.
When rolling the dice, the fun in Monopoly Millionaires is almost the same as the board game. Collect property cards randomly, pay tax on the Luxury Tax and Income Tax space, select four Chance and Community Chest cards, as well as get a large amount of money bonus on the Free Parking plot. When players roll doubles, an extra turn will be added. When players are unlucky to be sent into jail, they have to roll doubles to get out of or wait for three minutes. When players land on the Railroad space, a travel fee will be charged after the compulsory influences on the direction.
The basic car mover in Monopoly Millionaires won’t have any bonus when players move around the game board. In spite of the car, there are additional mover including dog, boot, helicopter and more which can be purchased from the in-game store. Different movers actually mean different appearances along with different bonus effects. For instance, the dog mover always finds a property card while the helicopter mover flies over any railroads and traps that affect movement. Although the movers are expensive, they are worthy of the payment with the strategic purpose.
There is no need for players to buy the properties anymore. Similar to some city-building titles, house can be built on the vacant place in order to produce rents automatically or collect from friends. Once others land on the properties, they must pay the owner an amount of money according to the current house rent. Therefore, Monopoly money will keep growing from houses.
Moreover, players are able to choose other types of houses that produce different base payout per minute. By building the same color set of the houses, a hotel will be awarded as color bonus. Of course, the construction work will be finished only with the friends’ investment on it. If players upgrade the houses with the property cards collected on others’ game boards, they will receive more rent from the properties. In addition, the rents can be collected only when players purchase the power package to turn on the power in the city. The shorter the power, the more the profit. So what package to choose depends on the online time schedule.
Monopoly Millionaires also has adopted the elements of popular social game features on Facebook like decoration. On the separated areas, players can purchase either the decorative items to beautify the game board or the tactical traps to play tricks on friends. There are four available traps in the current stage: Speed Trap, Time Share, Maintenance Costs and Finance Storm. Each time friends land on the trap space, they will achieve the unexpected results on them.
In summary, Monopoly Millionaires has still remained the classic but indispensible features like chance, properties, and jail, but it pays more attention on city-building features as well as the interaction with each other. All these make the game more funny and playable.
