Monopoly City Streets is a live multiplayer online browser game. It uses the Monopoly Board game on real world streets using Google Maps and OpenStreetMap.

The goal is simple: Play to beat your friends and the world by becoming the richest property magnate in existence.

Begin with 3 million monopoly dollars in the bank. Start your property empire by buying any street in the world. Construct amazing buildings on the streets you own to collect rent. Use Chance Cards and sabotage your mates by building Hazards on their streets.

Monopoly City Streets began in Spetember 2009 and is due to finish, initially, at end of December 2009.

The game is really an online, and worldwide, version of Monopoly City.

Monopoly City Streets - more rules and Strategy

Hazards and bulldozers

Hazard cards allow the player to build a prison, factory or waste plant on an opponent's street that does not already have a bonus building and is not full of other buildings. Hazards prevent rent from being collected on that street. Bulldozer cards allow the player to demolish a building on any opponent's street that is not protected by a bonus building; or a hazard on their own street. Other cards will cause the player to gain or lose money.

Strategy

There are two primary factors influencing strategy. First, since the tax rate increases as the number of streets owned increases, players prefer longer, more expensive streets because they can fit more buildings. Secondly, while expensive buildings pay more rent, the rent to cost ratio decreases as buildings become more expensive. Players must decide the correct balance between the number of streets and types of buildings owned.

More expensive buildings are larger and take up more space. However, a player that fills his street with only one type of building will often be able to fit smaller, less expensive buildings between them, thus increasing rent output on "full" streets while remaining at the same tax rate.

At higher levels, multiplayer strategy becomes more important. If a player is wealthy enough to appear on the Leaderboard, his streets are likely to be sabotaged with bulldozers and hazards. However, sabotaging another player's streets, especially less wealthy players, invites retribution. Famous streets are likely to attract higher bids than obscure streets equivalent in length.

Owning adjacent streets or a large number of streets in a small area has no benefit.

You may want to try this great game online, if so go to: MonopolyCityStreets.com.
Or else bring Monopoly City to your living room and enjoy a great family game.