Great game, but sorely missing online multiplayer

Look, the reason youd probably be playing this game is because you want to play Monopoly and have no one else in your immediate vicinity to play with. After all, a physical Monopoly set goes for about the same price as this game, and if you have a bunch if people wanting to play Monopoly, youll have way more fun playing on a real game board than huddling around a computer. So it baffles me that there is no online multiplayer in this version--there really should be online "friend" matches and matchmaking with random players. Playing against the computer is fine, but theyre sometimes kind of dumb even on the hardest difficulties and they lack the fun of playing against a real person.

Overall though, other than having no online multiplayer, the experience is solid. Its very colorful and captures the look and feel of the newer Monopoly boards very faithfully. The game moves along at a good pace, and the animations are fun without making moves take forever. I do wish there were a few more keyboard shortcuts for some of the buttons though.

Overall, its definitely a great video game version of Monopoly--probably the best there has ever been, but the lack of online play is a huge oversight.

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