Monopoly 2008
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An Updated Classic Returns: MONOPOLY Purists Rejoice! It’s the World’s Most Popular Board Game brought to life! Acquire wealth by buying and developing the Monopoly properties you know and love. It’s all about money – and making more of it than your opponents. Features Include: -Cleverly Animated Tokens, Bright 3D Graphics, New Music -Enhanced Faster Moving Gameplay -Multiplayer Mode with up to 4 Friends OR Play against up to 3 Computer Opponents with an advanced A.I. -3 Opponent Difficulty Levels: First Time Buyer, Entrepreneur and Tycoon -Limitless Replayability -Fun and Addictive Action for Everyone!
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Bejeweled Twist
- Bejeweled Twist is now packaged with a full version of the addicting game, Peggle Nights from Pop Cap
- With Bejeweled Twist, you rotate jewels instead of dragging them around
- Create a line of three or more identical jewels, and each successive turn will give you a multiplier for even more points
- Crisp, updated graphics deliver improved backgrounds and animations
- Four different play modes include Classic, Challenge, Zen and Blitz
Spin match explode… WOW! It’s a brilliant new way to play Bejeweled! Get set for a vivid sensory rush as you spin and match explosive gems for shockwaves of fun. Rotate jewels freely to set up electrifying combos outwit surprising obstacles like Locks and Bombs and create high-voltage Flame and Lightning gems. When you need to dial up the intensity or fine-tune your skills turn to Challenge mode or five-minute Blitz. And if relaxing is more your style kick up your feet with stress-free Zen. No matter the mode you’ll discover new strategies improve your moves and find endless ways to win!Features:Use the revolutionary Gem Rotator to move gems around and make matches anywhere on the boardRelax rev up refocus or recharge in four game modes -Classic Zen Challenge and BlitzClear away Locks and Bombs for magnificent bonusesCreate Flame and Lightning power gems then blast them to smithereens just because you canRelive your best moves with Instant Replay and see where you rank on the high-score listStart playing quickly and easily with in-game tipsEnjoy eye-popping graphics and special effects… you’ve never seen Bejeweled like this before!System Requirements:Windows XP/Vista 1.2GHz processor 256MB of RAM (512+MB recommended) 250MB of free hard drive space DirectX 8 or later DirectX-compatible sound/video 32MB of video memory 16-bit or 32-bit color quality CD-ROM or CD/DVD-ROM drive Keyboard MouseFormat: WIN 98ME2000XPVISTA Genre: ENTERTAINMENT Rating: E Age: 899274001185 UPC: 899274001185 Manufacturer No: PCB-BEJT-ENBejeweled Twist from PopCap is the most ambitious follow-up yet to the Bejeweled franchise of games. The original Bejeweled was the game that launched the “casual gaming” craze, with game mechanics that anyone can pick up and enjoy, and now with Bejeweled Twist, PopCap has added more depth and strategy with a twisting maneuver.
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Bejeweled Twist’s lightning gems result in big scores. View larger. |
Updated graphics deliver crisp new backgrounds and animations. View larger. |
Play four different modes: Classic, Challenge, Zen and Blitz. View larger. |
A New Twist on the Wildly Popular Game
PopCap has sold more than 25 million Bejeweled games, with over 350 million copies downloaded, making it one of the most successful game franchises in history. Bejeweled Twist was four years in the making, and brings an exciting spin on the classic gameplay: instead of dragging the jewels around, you rotate them. The goal is still to create a line of three or more identical jewels, and each successive turn in which you do so gives you a multiplier for even more points. A key difference from the older games is that you don’t have to make a match with every turn.
The graphics have been updated as well, with new backgrounds and animations. The graphics are crisper and more modern while still retaining the fun, colorful look of the old games. The new game exhibits a high level of polish and production values, including nice animations in between levels, fun explosion effects when power-ups are used, and extras like being able to watch an instant replay of high-scoring matches.
Four Different Play Modes
Bejeweled Twist features four different play modes: Classic, Challenge, Zen and Blitz. Classic mode lets you progress through increasingly difficult levels where you try to create jewel chains before a bomb detonates. Challenge mode creates specific tasks for you to complete, such as destroying ten gems in one move. In Blitz mode, you frantically try to accumulate as many points as you can within a certain amount of time. And in Zen mode, you can play a relaxing game without any obstacles or timers.
There are various power-ups that can be used for higher scores, such as a lightning gem, which you’ll receive by matching five gems at once. The lightning gem then eliminates the entire vertical or horizontal column or row where the gem is located. When a you get consecutive matches to max out the chain meter, you’ll receive a fruit gem that destroys all same-colored gems.
Like all great puzzle games, you’ll be surprised how fast that time flies while playing Bejeweled Twist.
| Minimum | Recommended | |
| Operating System | PC: Windows XP/Vista | |
| CPU | 1. 2GHz or faster | |
| Sound | Direct X 8 compatible sound card and drivers | Direct X 9. 0c compatible sound card and drivers |
| Memory | 256 MB | 512+ MB |
| Other Requirements | Internet connection is required to register the game. | |
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Review by Dan Amrich for Monopoly 2008
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You don’t need the CD in the drive to play — that makes it perfect for my intended usage, killing time on a laptop during business flights. I can go one better than simply conserving power by not accessing the CD — I can replace the CD drive altogether and swap in a second battery on long flights. I didn’t expect that perk when I put this on my wish list, but that alone makes it a great choice for travelers.
The interface is much improved — you can see who owns what with tabs on the inside edge of the board, and they’re colored if the property is mortgaged. Unlike the old Westwood versions, the animations aren’t overly long and don’t slow down play much at all. (You can turn off viewing computer players’ turns altogether to make it even faster.) And the house rules options are plentiful and easy to adjust — great if you like playing Monopoly “your way.”
I didn’t even notice this edition has no online play, but as an airplane player, that totally didn’t matter to me. I was looking for a great single-player game of Monopoly and I found it!
Review by M. Roberts for Monopoly 2008
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Everything is great about this game until you start ‘trading’ with your computer opponents. That’s when you start making offers to buy or swap properties. There are three computer skill levels, but none of them make the slightest bit of sense. Sometimes you offer a tiny amount of cash for a key property, and amazingly the computer accepts, although most of the time it is the impossibility of getting them to accept your offers that frustrates. By way of experiment, I have offered every one of my properties and all my money to computers opponents in exchange for their Get out of Jail free card, and they still refuse to accept my offer! Clever property trading is the whole key to being a skilful Monopoly player, otherwise its almost all pure luck, and the total lack of logic to the way the computer players trade ruins what would otherwise be a brilliant game.
Review by Gary Shuster for Monopoly 2008
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I have a laptop without a CD drive, so when I read the reviews on this product that said the original CD was not required to run the program, I ordered it. I dragged my USB DVD drive out of the closet, hooked it up to my laptop, and installed. Apparently, the publisher has updated the copy protection, since this program won’t run without the original CD in the drive.
I’m not about to drag an external DVD drive around with me just so I can play a game, so I pretty much just wasted my money on this software. Be warned: The current version of the software shipping for this item is heavily copy protected to the point that legitimate purchasers without a built-in CD drive are unable to use the program.
UPDATE: The protection used in my copy is SecuROM (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecuROM). Be warned that even after uninstalling the game, the SecuROM software is NOT uninstalled. Before installing this game, it is probably a good idea to do a Google search for “securom uninstall”. Securom is supposed to allow the software to be used without the original disk in the drive, but I was unable to make it happen.
Review by Pagoda Kid for Monopoly 2008
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I cannot believe the AI in this game. Was this programmed by somebody who got hit in the head a dozen times by a sledge hammer? I cannot believe the trades between the computer players. It ruins the game when stupid trades are made to give other ‘players’ monopolies that effectively end the game. The decisions behind some of the financial transactions is as bad those made by our government..no…worse.
Review by Joshua Coles for Monopoly 2008
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This game is as good as the board game monopoly. Can’t find anyone to play the board game with you? If not, then this is the game for you. It has three levels of difficulty, so it can challenge any level of skill. Great for kids and adults! This is a great buy!
Review by Mrs. R. Henderson for Bejeweled Twist
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I love this new updated version of the fun Bejeweled game. Much more fun to rotate than drag the jewels.
You just click on set of 4 and keep clikcing til it rotates to where you make at least 3. Then there are the flaming bomb jewels. If you match them they explode all around. But my sons think the lightening ones are the coolest. When they are matched, they will do a lightening strike to destroy jewels across and down in t shape. See how many lines you can destroy.
Very fast moving and very fun for all ages that can click and move a mouse. The graphics are very colorful and make this game fun and exciting. Great Family game highly reccommend for all.
Review by R. Nicholson for Bejeweled Twist
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This game is the latest addition to the Bejewel line of games from “POPCAPS”.
The original ‘Bejeweled’ was a game of match 3, 4 or 5 jewels while trying to obtain a higher and higher scores as the game progressed in difficulty. ‘Bejeweled Twist’ adds several new options to the old game. The main difference is in movement of gems; in the original game you moved the gem laterally or up/down to make a match, but in B. Twist you turn 4 gems 90 degrees resulting is more combinations and also more unexpected result.
Some other things I liked:
1.)A very pleasant and catchy electronic tune plays continually in the background; in all the times I’ve played, I’ve never become annoyed or irritated by this melody. (it can, however, be turned off) The graphics/videos and audio effects (explosions etc.) are outstanding.
2.)The old game ended if no match was available (who can ever forget “NO MORE MOVES” as your last desperate attempt to continue a game failed). However, in this game you always have a move; losing involves having a gem that has turned into a time bomb go off before you can destroy or defuse it. This can be very intense as the music pace increases and the bomb start to vibrate and smoke as the counter ticks down towards zero with each successive move .
3.)Every move that makes a match, evokes a multiplier system that allows score to be gradually increased up to a factor of 10x, resulting in potentially incredible high scoring combos; it’s very motivating to try to obtain these increasingly larger and larger multipliers.
4.)’Special’ gems are awarded once the 10x multiplier level meter is reach and filled twice, resulting in a rare, but astronomical scoring opportunity.
5.)In addition to the regular ‘Bejeweled Twist’ matching game there are several other features; a Zen game (unending, no bombs and no tension), a Blitz game (5 minutes to get a new high score) and a Challenge game (where you need to accomplish certain goals to continue).
Conclusion:
A truly interesting addition to the Bejewel family of games; very addicting.
Easily worth every cent of the less than $20.00 you pay to purchase.
5 Stars.
Ray Nicholson
Review by Kenneth R. Shaw for Bejeweled Twist
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This new version of Bejeweled, “Twist”, is an interesting twist (pun intended) of the game, but it is not the same. The original game is a little more mindless, which is a good thing. You can go on for a while enjoying the dropping jewels without too much brain effort, but still enough to make the game challenging. Well, Twist is more complex, in that you actually twist around the jewels in a circular format to form the triple jewels to gain points. Whew! It has great graphics, especially between the levels, but still, ok, not the same as the original.
Review by givpilot for Bejeweled Twist
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Bejeweled Twist is the third incarnation of the very fun and very popular series of Bejeweled PC games (over 25 million copies of Bejeweled have been sold). This latest version adds a few more twists to this classic game, hence the title.
In Bejeweled, gems are laid out on a vertical grid, similar to a chess board, and you swap two gems with each other in an effort to achieve 3 or more in a row. When you make a 3 gem match, the gems “vaporize” and more gems cascade down to take their place. In Bejeweled Twist, you rotate a quartet of gems. In the original Bejeweled, if you swapped a pair of gems and there was no match, the gems returned to their original positions. In Bejeweled Twist, you can make a move without a resulting match. This makes the game much more strategic — you can tactically move gems to set up a match event without having to solely rely on their original random placement. That statement may make Twist sound easier… but it isn’t. There are also surprises in store, bomb gems and doom gems occasionally appear.
There are also variations within Twist. There are different modes of play, including classic, blitz, challenge and zen.
The graphics and audio effects are great; the previous versions were pretty good in this regard, but Twist is much better. The game drives you to excel, if only for the graphic and sound rewards that await! It’s a fun game and one that you’ll play repeatedly.
Bejeweled Twist installs easily and ran fine on a moderately equipped laptop running Windows XP as well as a high powered gaming desktop running Windows Vista Premium.
Review by electriccafe2 for Bejeweled Twist
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The original Bejeweled was a great game.. nice graphics, good sound effects, easy to master gameplay and lots of levels for the advanced player. This new version ‘twists’ that a bit in that instead of reversing two jewels horizontally or vertically, you ‘twist’ or rotate a group of 4 jewels to create your matches. While it sounds interesting and certainly is, I find that my original strategy where I could see a few moves ahead is no longer possible in real time. It’s still a good game, but the play mode is different enough that I like it less than the original.