Monopoly City

+ Interesting new take on Monopoly with different rules.You can build hazards to take away from competitors' property values, or assets such as schools and parks to protect or even increase the value of your own property. It's quite interesting, the money is a little different and there's a "rent dodge" card. You actually build the properties- i.e. there are different -shaped blocks for various properties.

- The rules take a while to get used to. We've played 3 times so far and we are still getting our brains around the differences between this and ordinary Monopoly. Some changes are not so good - such as having to press the "build" button and only being able to build what the buzzer says you can on your turn.This takes away somewhat from strategic plans players might have had, but as we play more we are finding new and different ways to have play strategies- the rules are not altogether clear at first and it's also quite hard to work out which "district" your properties/other people's are on sometimes. Don't really like the buzzer system- doesn't always seem to work all that well for "build" and easy to press wrong button- might just need to get used to it. Not got as far as building towers etc as we abandoned all 3 games - taking ages! but that's nothing new for Monoploy. It's really a completely different game from Monopoly, and if you think of it that way, it is entertaining for a family game.

+ Good fun, educational for younger children. Overall very good family fun game

- A little complicated for younger children.

+ A very good alternative to the long living (old) version of a well loved game - Won't throw the old one away.

- May be a little intimidating to the more senior players