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(More customer reviews)The Classic Games Collection from Hasbro contains four games: Clue, Life, Monopoly, and Scrabble.
The best game of all four contained in the collection is undeniably Clue. It's too hard to play it with another player, and the more opponents involved, the better. Clue offers that with up to five computer players with three different levels: novice, normal, and expert. I went by each of three different levels, and there is a difference in terms of solving the mystery. The expert level feels pretty good and appropriate with no cheating like knowing the clues ahead of time or what cards I have. So, I was satisfied with the game play although I feel that every time somebody suggests three clues, it goes pretty fast. At the same time, it causes me a headache to watch the lighting and the animation video. If I turn it off, the asking of the clues goes real fast that I am more than certain to miss everything. It's just that I want to see that feature fixed up like the asking of each character in a list compiled by the computer. I don't want to use the auto-scribing of the clues because that completely takes away the basic concept of the game. Regardless, I've had a lot of fun playing Clue. As a word of warning, Clue will more likely not work on your PC because of some malfunction, but for me, it seemed to work just fine on my HP laptop with Vista Windows.
Life is, in my opinion, the worst game of this collection because it's so boring and requires nothing but luck. The game is mostly point-and-click and landing on spaces after a spin. My chief complaint of Life is that the game board is too big to see everything. So, if I want to see the spinner, I can't see where I am moving to, and if I want to see where I am moving to, I can't see the spinner. Most of the time, I don't know what the heck is going on except for pluses and minuses of the monetary sums. After a while, the game gets dreadfully boring. For anyone else interested and liked the game a lot, the CD works fine without a glitch.
Monopoly is a game I've liked but gotten bored after a few games. The concept behind Monopoly is pretty simple: get the grouped cards, build houses/hotels, and grab the money. The hardest part of the game is getting the grouped cards especially with as many as five opponents. Luckily, Monopoly allows trading, and that's where your game either gets made or broken. Like Clue, there are three levels of AI's intelligence, and I find the Tycoon level the hardest and haven't beaten that one yet. Still, I am pretty impressed overall. The game can be slow because I have to wait for each opponent to roll and move his piece, but worse is the annoying trade proposals which will halt the game for a while because I have to watch them. Overall, Monopoly is a very decently made PC game without any glitch.
Scrabble is actually a game for me because I've thought myself as a semi-hardcore player at it, but I've quit it due to addiction. There are many levels of AI's intelligence, and don't be angry that you find some of them extremely unfair. It's so because they know the dictionary inside-and-out, and yes...the words are valid, if you can believe it or not. So, how to get back to the AI: simple...memorize the dictionary. That's all there is to it. The CD went without a glitch.
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Make tonight a family game night! This Classic Game Collection brings four family-favorite games to your PC: Monopoly, Life, Scrabble and Clue. If you loved the board games, you'll love this collection, featuring exciting game play with new game extras.
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