I think it's appropriate to say that this is one of those games best suited for casual events, to play with friends or family. The design is good, the playability is good, but once I've found the right strategy to always win I lost the interest on it, at least to play alone. All in all, this was a nice experience that allowed me to relive the good ol days when I was a kid and tried to understand what mortgage meant. Truth be told, one major downside for me was that once I've figured how to beat the bots - no matter if I chose easy, medium or hard ones - the game lost a lot of its replay value.

In a world where grinding is more and more often required from gamers, it's actually a relief not having every aspect of a game tied to an time consuming achievement. There are ingame challenges which progress is tracked, but they weren't designed in an attractive enough way that will make me play just to reach/unlock them.

Even though it's worth 1000G, there are only 15 achievements overall, which can be done solo with the AI players in just a few hours. They're small changes that can make a big difference in the usual outcome during gameplay) In terms of achievements, this is a fast and easy completion. (EDIT: I've found that these are a good way to keep yourself interested in the game once you already too used to the classic rules. You can also choose to set a match with 'house rules' instead of the classic ones, which are ways to customize games in a particular aspect or another. There's an option to play on an animated board instead of the flat regular one which helps to keep the players attentive and adds to the feeling to be playing a dynamic game. Unfortunately it's not possibile to mix bots and real people and I wasn't able to play with more than 1 person per console. Playing over Xbox Live though, is a different story.

You can also play alone or with friends adding 'bots' and choosing their difficulty from 'very easy', 'easy', 'normal' or 'hard options'. In any case, you can set a game with at least 2 or up to 6 players. EDIT: Playing locally with many players, you have the option to play with 1 controller for everyone, taking turns, or having 1 controller per person. When I bought this one a couple of days ago it was on sale, so I finally could agree on a price that I thought fair for the fun that I expected and in fact ended up extracting from it.

Personally, I think that the brand alone makes them often expensive. Monopoly Plus was the first Monopoly game that I got to own and play digitally.

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