Play Monopoly City Streets online with Google Maps
By Dave Parrack
I expect most of you reading this have played Monopoly with family and friends at one time or another. Now, thanks to a collaboration between its publisher Hasbro and Google, the humble board game has been turned into a massively-multiplayer online game, which allows anyone in the world to buy (almost) any street in the world.
Monopoly is a board game created during The Great Depression of the 1930s. Since then, it has gone on to become the most commercially-successful board game in the history of the United States, with an estimated 750 million people having at one time played it. Although how many many of those actually completed a game isn’t recorded.
Now, in another time of great economic upheaval, that figure is likely to go through the roof, with a global online version named Monopoly City Streets being unveiled. The game is the brainchild of Hasbro’s U.K. agency, Tribal DDB, and uses Google Maps to turn a simple board game into a MMO strategy game which puts every street that is featured on the Google service up for sale.
Players worldwide are given a starting budget of $3 million Monopoly dollars and the mission to build the largest real estate empire in the world. Streets are available at a set price and rents are then paid out on any you own. You can construct a variety of buildings on your property with the ultimate goal to earn more money from your empire than anyone else does from theirs.
There are added twists with trading and selling possible between players, and chance cards which enable sabotage of neighboring properties.
Monopoly City Streets launched today (Sept. 9) and the game will last for four months, ending on January 31, 2010. It’s free to play and looks set to nab millions of players. In fact, today’s launch was so successful that the servers crashed, meaning it is now impossible to create an account and log-in.
The game is available to play at Monopolycitystreets.com, with a blog detailing the various goings-on located at Blog.Monopolycitystreets.com.
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September 14th, 2009
The games is going to be reset some point this week . Clean start for eveybody.
I love this game so I’ve set up my first ever website at :-
http://www.wincitystreets.com
Wincitystreets is an unofficial community for players of the fantastic free global online game Monopoly City Streets.
Our forum allows you to keep up to date with everything to do with the game and to see what everybody else’s up to.
The forums include sections on the rules FAQS , gameplay, strategy, tips and tricks.
You can create your own blogs and follow other players thoughts, campaigns and disasters.
Registering is easy and free. So please join in !