Monopoly Goes Google Maps; Confuses Geek Dad

Hasbro announced a new online version of Monopoly to launch on Sept 9 built around Google Maps/Earth. It’s called Monopoly City Streets and has its own blog with very little info thus far. The game will run for just four months.

GeekDad at Wired got to test it out early and found it ... not that interesting.

Frankly, the rules don’t help much. It’s not much of a game and the play is not particularly interesting. Although, it’s kind of cool to own part of downtown Boston.

What GeekDad suffered from in part was not reading the directions (which told him to start in NYC, not Boston, as he did) which led him to an area with no critical mass. That’s just like LBS apps that launch country wide and provide many people with no one to interact with based on location! He didn’t get a sense of the goal of the game or the “fun” but that may just have to wait until more people join at launch.

via PSFK