Tony2005
07-01-2005, 06:29 AM
I've just started playing it, its not as fun as playing the actual board game(no violence) but its abit of a giggle.
The idea behind the game is that London has been turned in to a giant monopoly board, you start of with £15 million to buy your own property and devlop it. then you pick your taxi driver. What happens then is that the taxis are driving about in london(actual taxis with GPS bla bla bla) and when ever an opponent lands on you property they pay. A better explanation is from the site;
We have turned London into a real-life playing board, and real taxi cabs into real-life playing pieces. All you have to do is make as much money from rent as possible, from five other cabs who are your opponents in the game.
We've kitted out 18 cabbies with GPS (Global Positioning System), meaning we can pinpoint their exact whereabouts in London. They will be going about their normal day, picking up and dropping off customers all over town.
All that you've got to do is spend the £15m we give you on properties from around the Monopoly Here & Now board, distribute your apartments and hotels and choose your cabbie. You are placed into a game with your cabbie and 5 other taxi drivers, all travelling around London. Every time one of the other cabs stops outside one of your properties, you get paid rent. Any time your cabbie lands on a property you don't own, you pay up. Simple!
This is the world's biggest game of Monopoly. The locations are real, the cabbies are real and the other players are very real. It's your job to beat them and bag the prizes...
http://www.monopolylive.com
Its abit of a laugh thought I'd share it, so far i've made £228 million :D
The idea behind the game is that London has been turned in to a giant monopoly board, you start of with £15 million to buy your own property and devlop it. then you pick your taxi driver. What happens then is that the taxis are driving about in london(actual taxis with GPS bla bla bla) and when ever an opponent lands on you property they pay. A better explanation is from the site;
We have turned London into a real-life playing board, and real taxi cabs into real-life playing pieces. All you have to do is make as much money from rent as possible, from five other cabs who are your opponents in the game.
We've kitted out 18 cabbies with GPS (Global Positioning System), meaning we can pinpoint their exact whereabouts in London. They will be going about their normal day, picking up and dropping off customers all over town.
All that you've got to do is spend the £15m we give you on properties from around the Monopoly Here & Now board, distribute your apartments and hotels and choose your cabbie. You are placed into a game with your cabbie and 5 other taxi drivers, all travelling around London. Every time one of the other cabs stops outside one of your properties, you get paid rent. Any time your cabbie lands on a property you don't own, you pay up. Simple!
This is the world's biggest game of Monopoly. The locations are real, the cabbies are real and the other players are very real. It's your job to beat them and bag the prizes...
http://www.monopolylive.com
Its abit of a laugh thought I'd share it, so far i've made £228 million :D