New Information on the Possible Monopoly Game [UPDATE]

Over two months ago XBLArcade.com posted about the EA's Monopoly and Scrabble press releases that fueled rumors of an Xbox Live Arcade game in the works for both of those titles. Gamasutra has today unveiled new information about this Monopoly release; however, mum is still the word on if this will be a retail title or not. Interesting details to note about this title is that the game will be based Hasbro's Monopoly Here & Now: The World Edition board game (credit cards, skyscrapers, cell phones as game pieces, etc.). EA has plans to deviate slightly from the current "Here & Now" edition of the game by adding a "party twist" to the game. The twist will feature four player simultaneous play, new game boards and mini-games.

[UPDATE] This unfortunately is going to be a $40 Retail disc and not coming to XBLA. I wish I was making this up folks, but it's true.

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Monopoleeeeee!

Monopoly would be a great game. The only problem I can think of is the massive amount of time it can take to finish a bout. The shortest game I ever played was 1 1/2 hours. The longest took weeks to finish with an hour every 2-3 days or so. But, my little sister and I weren't the fastest players at 5 and 7 yrs. old (respectively).

Anyway, Scrabble games potentially can take a long time. You could rush it, though. I don't know how you rush Monopoly without setting a few guidelines.

Official Dictionary or nothin'

If they bring Scrabble, they had better fully support the official Scrabble dictionary, as well as bluffing (challenges are 1/2 the fun sometimes).

The alternates of Super Scrabble (bigger board) and Scrabble Junior (for kids) might also be good as DLC or whatever.

$40 game of Monopoly? Are

$40 game of Monopoly?

Are they serious?

Tomacco you suck for being

Tomacco you suck for being the bringer of bad news to this blog =D

I have a scrabble Onyx

I have a Scrabble Onyx Edition which was about $50 and a Deluxe Scrabble which is about $35, but $40 is rather pricey for a game disc such as this. Especially considering all the GBA releases of these games retail at $30 a cart with 3 games each.

"EA's

"EA's Monopoly"

Anybody see the irony?

$40 for Monopoly = Me No

$40 for Monopoly = Me No Buy

That's pretty much it. Well, that and this news makes me sad.

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