2001 · DR Studios · Business simulation · Puzzle

Monopoly Tycoon

Build your fortune in a living, breathing Monopoly City(TM). Create a top property business and battle against your opponents to become the richest and biggest property tycoon around! Create multiple businesses in Monopoly City, from a humble bakers shop to an empire of superstores! Deal your way to the top by buying & selling, building & demolishing, starting businesses and selling them at their peak!

Released: 30 September 2001
Platforms: Mobile Windows
Genres: Business simulation Puzzle Simulation Strategy
Developers: DR Studios
Publishers: —
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: Bird view / Isometric
Themes: Business Party
Country: United Kingdom
Age ratings: ESRB E PEGI 3

About

Monopoly Tycoon is a construction and management simulation PC game published in 2001 by Infogrames and developed by Deep Red Games. The player operates a business that owns stores and apartments in a city derived from the Monopoly board game. Instead of using dice, the game relies more on the speed and innovativeness of the players. In the standard mode, the user plays against the AI opponents. In the multiplayer version, players go against other online players in order to gain victory.

There are various levels with varying difficulty. Some involve just financial prosperity of the businesses while others involve success in the political arena. But the primary objective of most levels is to accumulate the most wealth in the given time.

Keywords

tycoon
horse
management
battleship
boardgame adaptation
day/night cycle
city builder
licensed game
world map
character select screen
polygonal 3d
multiplayer lan

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

In Monopoly Tycoon, the player operates a business by owning businesses, apartments, and being landlord to blocks. The player earns income from selling products and services, housing people in apartments and hotels. Income is also generated from rent for any blocks that the player is landlord of, plus utilities and railroads.

Monopoly Tycoon has the same set of blocks as the board game with an additional three. When a player is landlord of all blocks of the same color, he is able to build hotels. In addition, being landlord of any property allows the player to build park space.

Development

The game was announced by Hasbro Interactive on May 5, 2000, in a press release.

Reception

Monopoly Tycoon was a commercial success, selling nearly 2 million copies by 2006. Lead designer Clive Robert explained that these sales "took years" to achieve, and that the game continued to sell as of 2006, after its release in September 2001. In the United States, Monopoly Tycoon sold 290,000 copies and earned $6.8 million by August 2006. Edge ranked it as the 66th best-selling computer game released in the country between January 2000 and August 2006.

Monopoly Tycoon received "generally favorable" reviews with an average score of 85 out of 100 according to the review aggregation website Metacritic, based on 10 reviews. It received a 'great' score of 8.5/10 from GameSpot and a 'great' score from IGN of 8.2/10. Trey Walker at GameSpot said that "Monopoly Tycoon is the kind of game you might have imagined as a kid while you played the real board game."