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EA brings the NEW edition of MONOPOLY: HERE & NOW to mobile with a bang!

The classic game with a modern twist features new locations from today’s world. Play with eight stunningly animated tokens including fries, labradoodle, a hybrid car and even a mobile phone! Use your millions and business skills to buy, trade and auction your way to success. Take on friends in four player pass and play multiplayer to see who can end up taking over the town and going home with the cash!

Game Features

Features may vary by handset.

• New player tokens with fun animations: Windmill, Soccer Ball, Nesting Dolls, Easter Island Statue, Sumo Wrestler, Taxi Cab, Baseball Glove and Penguin
• New Properties from around the World, determined by online vote!
• New “Did You Know?” fun facts about exotic destinations
• New, fun music and sound
• Play solo against the computer or pass ‘n play with friends
• Adjustable difficulty levels makes the game suitable for all skill levels
• One-thumb, D-Pad control scheme appeals to casual players
• Combination board view allows you to see the whole board and individual properties.
• Intuitive Manage Properties tool uses top-down view of game board

Tips & Hints

• Houses have better ROI or “Return On Investment” than Hotels – you’ll get more bang for your buck if you max out on Houses, but don’t build any Hotels. If the “Limited Houses” setting is on in the House Rules, you’ll also cause a “housing shortage” for the other players that will prevent them from building up their properties.

• Make sure you keep enough money on hand at all times to pay rent and avoid bankruptcy.

Reviews

The board games has been a popular games for many decade already. It is very good activity for family members and friends to spent their free times. But the disadvantage of board games is required more then one person to play. However, the MONOPOLY: HERE & NOW for mobile let you to play alone at anytime and anywhere.

The Monopoly game was and still is a great success and actually came in the UK top 10 downloaded games for 2006. Now the Monopoly has an update to give game more fun.

If you playing solo, you can set the game difficulties to Easy, Medium or Hard skill level when against the mobile opponents. But if you want play with your friends, just simply pass the handset to your friends and enjoy the fun of the game. It’s very unlikely that many people play Monopoly strictly by the rules but everyone has their own house rules. You can also tweak the House Rules any way you want, altering how much money you start with, what you get for passing Go, whether you start with any properties and more.

The controls are simple: you move up, down, left and right when prompted, while ‘5′ selects options. Handy too is the option to press the ‘*’ key for a free-roaming look around the board, to see who owns what.

Overall, the Monopoly Here and Now is much better then the previous version. However, i personally think that the game is still better play in real board. But in other hand, it’s a lot more compact than the real board version. So it would be a good mobile boredom killer, when you are free and lonely.