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Monopoly City Streets turns Google Maps into a game board
The building possibilities are also beefed up, with castles and skyscrapers. Chance cards have changed a bit, too: now they're used to build hazards on your competitors' property. To counteract hazards, you have to get a bulldozer card. With all of this building and demolishing, Monopoly City Streets sounds more like a hybrid of Monopoly and Sim City than a straight-up Monopoly game. Maybe, as the game's website claims, this will be epic fun. If nothing else, this is one time Google can be glad to hear its name in the same sentence as "monopoly."
The game opens today at 6 p.m. GMT / 1 p.m. EST, so you'd better be ready if you want to be one of the first players out of the gate and snap up your favorite property.
[via AppScout]
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Subscribe to commentsCalaganSep 9th 2009 11:38AM
Hmm... Apache 2 Test page... Even if the game hasn't started yet, that doesn't look too good.
richard.gaileySep 9th 2009 11:54AM
The server is overloaded. Not going to happen yet.
sidewinder12sSep 9th 2009 2:43PM
Ya, the severs getting slammed right now
sepiriothSep 9th 2009 2:42PM
don't think they were ready for such a response... oh well
Edward de LeauSep 9th 2009 5:22PM
YES! I have got the main property I wanted to own: the most important square in the city and I managed to buy my streets: http://edward.de.leau.net/monopoly-city-streets-i-bought-the-vrijthof-in-maastricht-andre-rieu-u-can-buy-it-20090909.html
BUT MY VIRUSSCANNER gives suddenly a warning about the Nutcracker Virus in one of the URLS is the site already hacked? See url above for screenshot of virus message.
GaelicAUSep 9th 2009 10:50PM
The site works, you need to add www to access.
Boo for Australian users. Took 5 minutes for the flash movie to load, only to be told that 'Monopoly City Streets' is not yet available in your country. FFS. Could you have not let me know that on the home screen?
EldiabloSep 10th 2009 8:21AM
Its working, but its as slow as hell...
annonymousSep 10th 2009 4:28PM
Monopoly City Streets is the worst online game experience ever. I have simply lost interest in this game. Whoever is trying to run this pile of garbage should bin it and get out. What a waste of time. I never expected this from a company like Google.
~GT~Sep 11th 2009 9:30AM
I tried Monopoly City Streets. When the servers weren't down it looked like it could be fun. I managed to snag a few streets near the capital in Madison, but it took forever.
There's another game where you claim territory on a Google Map that I'm ridiculously addicted to. It's called Parallel Kingdom. It's a little simpler, but it came out first. I've been playing it for a few months already. I'm pretty sure its still free in iTunes.
tdoSep 14th 2009 5:47AM
well it seems to of had some rather nasty growing pains but works very well now. It is hard to figure out the best strategy. Small houses, big houses?
Also glad to see they are planning a reset after all the kinks are worked out and the cheaters are busted.
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zammoSep 14th 2009 10:28AM
Really excited about this game - and totally addictied. Very happy about the reset and getting rid of the cheaters! We've even setup an unofficial forum so we can share ethical tactics at www.wincitystreets.com
zam the property man :)
MonopolyHQSep 23rd 2009 9:59AM
The game actually got a big rule change mid-game.
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