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Earlier this month, Hasbro Interactive announced the release of Monopoly Tycoon, a city-building simulation game that can be played simultaneously with up to three other players in real time on a local-area network or via the Internet.
Players can buy properties from the Monopoly board game, decide how to develop them and then, if successful, keep their 3D city running smoothly and its residents happy. Players also campaign against other would-be tycoons for the honor of becoming mayor.
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Monopoly Tycoon (available for Windows 95 or later) begins in the 1930s, when the original Monopoly game was introduced, and progresses through the decades up to the year 2000. As the game advances, the architecture of the buildings and the needs and professions of the people change according to the decade. Players get to see their city in the daylight and wee hours of the late night, and every hour in between. There's lots of work to do and decisions to hash through, as players compete both to become mayor of the city and to be the first to earn $1 million, or be the wealthiest player by the year 2000.
Players interact with the city's residents to find out what the people need and want. Listening to the residents of their fair city helps players formulate strategies to determine what properties to buy and how to develop them. Successful cities integrate residential, commercial and industrial buildings to keep the population happy and offer the best deals around.
"We're excited about the opportunity to take Monopoly's gameplay to a dramatically deeper level," said Clive Robert, director of Deep Red Games, the game's U.K.-based developer. "Monopoly Tycoon will have all the fun detail of a great sim game, along with the nostalgia-evoking Monopoly themes that we all grew up with."
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