Seriously, it’s one of my least favorite games, ever. I only played it as a kid if my brother swore to play Careers afterward, because I hate Monopoly, suck at it, usually lose, and think it’s a boring game that takes too long to finish. Careers? I was great at it, loved it, and usually won. (Don’t even talk to me about chess. I learned how to concede solely because then I could sling the board across the room after declaring that my brother had won. Sore loser? Me? Yeah, I was. I mostly grew out of it.)
So I really don’t are that it’s been updated. Except to say that it’s probably just as long and boring, and now it has crappy music and other special effects to make me really hate the game.
First, the world is round. As your imaginary real-estate mogul learns the ups and downs of capitalism, you’ll romp around a ring-shaped board. Hasbro ditched the four-corners look for a pizza-like circle. The stops on this journey are the same, but each location now comes as a radial wedge. Houses and hotels basically match older versions, but the game replaced its pewter character pieces with plastic tokens. Farewell, little doggy, shoe, and top hat.
Yeah, don’t really care.
I think you would actually enjoy chess are my house. We have three versions now.
Regular chess, the basic traditional game.
Extreme chess, it’s a three to four player game. Two play a game of lighting chess (quote from Nate “Just move the pieces Rebecca, don’t think about it”) and the other player(s) pelt(s) the board with various small/soft objects. Play ends when the king gets knocked over. The key strategy is to move your pieces as quickly as possible to protected areas on the board. If a piece is moved, but not knocked over it counts as a move.
Sniper chess, traditional chess layout but the pieces are moved by firing upon them with nerf guns. Again, as in extreme chess, when the king is knocked over the game is over.