Once the dice are rolled the screen quickly switches to animations of your character jumping and somersaulting around the board to the space rolled. There is simply not much else for you to do other than click the cursor on the screen's two dice when your turn comes around. Numerous nifty clips of the movies have been inserted to break up the monotony of the gameplay though so much window dressing ultimately reveals the blandness of the game. (Why not replace the jail with the Death Star detention center?) There are no more problems to solve or strategies to engage than in the board game and it's this familiarity that proves to be so dull. Oddly enough the In Jail Free Parking and Go to Jail spaces are exactly the same as on the board game. Houses and hotels have been replaced by X-Wings TIE fighters and starports. James Place have been replaced by familiar Star Wars backdrops like Tatooine and Hoth. The familiar avenues like Park Place and St. He also can provide narration throughout the game explaining the scenario presented by each space on each move. The droid C-3PO introduces the game and sets the scene guiding you through the choosing of characters and rules. You buy and maintain as many properties as possible without going bankrupt or having to mortgage too many properties while seeking the financial destruction of your opponents. Each player has a marker or in this case a Star Wars character which moves over spaces that represent either properties to own cards to draw or money to collect or pay. The gameplay of Monopoly should be as familiar to most as tic-tac-toe or checkers. Though not an entirely bad idea the actual combination of the two proves to be somewhat pointless. (Perhaps Skywalker Ranch could replace Water Works.) Monopoly Star Wars differentiates itself from the classic board game by utilizing features available only through a computer game: the thrilling strategies of Monopoly accompanied by all the music sounds and scenes of the Star Wars movies.

A trilogy of movies so successfully merchandised and made a part of the public consciousness deserves a spot on the original Monopoly's game board itself.

How appropriate that the Star Wars franchise should be adapted as a PC version of Monopoly.

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