A speedy variant to the ultra-classic board game, with new rules and action gameplay. This one will be instant love or hate.

While it would have been easy enough for Ubisoft to slap the Monopoly brand on a cheap collection of mini-games, instead they made an effort to give a wide range of boards and characters, and even added a story mode in case you want to play solo. You really should play Monopoly Madness with others, though. And that’s a recommendation, too, not just a statement of fact. It’s easy enough to pick up that almost anyone can play, while each match is both short and competitive enough that it’s the sort of thing that you’ll actually want to play it with others. It’s not Monopoly, to be sure – but in this case, that works surprisingly well.

There's no trace of the classic management and strategic structure of the original Monopoly in this Madness, but if you take it for what it is - a messy multiplayer party game - there's a good amount of fun to have here.