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Google and Hasbro's Monopoly City Streets launches on Wednesday and will run for four-months. In theory, anyone can buy any street in the world. It makes me wonder how much my humble street would cost (probably not all that much, compared to say, Wall Street.
New players are given $3 million in Monopoly money. After all, streets in the real world are a lot more expensive than in the original game. Get to it first, you get the street. Miss out on it, and you can make an offer which, if it is not refused within 7 days, is automatically accepted. You can see that people are going to want to login daily, eh?
This all begins Wednesday. It's unclear exactly how much Google contributed to Monopoly City Streets. It's not called Google Monopoly, right? It's possible that Hasbro just leveraged existing Google Maps APIs.
At any rate, and here's what Google and Hasbro's Monopoly City Streets preview site said prior to launch (right now the site is timing out a lot):
Welcome to Monopoly City Streets. You versus the world in the biggest live game of MONOPOLY in history!
On the 9th SEPTEMBER, a world of property empire building on an unimaginable scale will be launched! A live worldwide game of MONOPOLY using Google Maps as the game board. The goal is simple. Play to beat your friends and the world to become the richest property magnate in existence.
Own any street in the world. Build humble houses, crazy castles and stupendous skyscrapers to collect rent. Use MONOPOLY Chance Cards to sabotage your mates by building Hazards on their streets.
Which strategy will you employ? Determined drive? Ingenious daring? Intelligent caution? Will you thrive under the pressure of a fast growing global property empire – or will you crumble? Find out if you’ll thrive, or even survive, in the amazing world of MONOPOLY City Streets. It's going to be epic fun!
In a way this is bad timing, you can probably see. With the world in a global recession, there isn't much money like this being thrown around. On the other hand, it might take our minds off of reality.
Posted September 9th, 2009 by Michael Santo
