Everything Old is New Again

User Rating: 8 | Monopoly / Boggle / Yahtzee / Battleship DS
Look, I know that we have all played these classics from the time that we were little kids, so I did not expect that there would be much room for innovation - I was wrong. I don't think that I had this much fun playing Monopoly when I was a kid. All the gameplay is there, plus the graphics are great and, more importantly, there is a teriffic sense of humor about the game with a running scroll commentary while the game is going on.

Even against the computer you can try and make deals, swap properties, wheel and deal as you try and build your mini empire. Tons of gameplay options make this one a whole lot of fun. Battleship against the computer is fun too, and the computer is using what appears to me to be pretty good AI so that this is not some silly easy game. Boggle and Yahtzee seem like fun too, although there was so much going on in Yahtzee that I needed the instruction book to figure things out.

And, by the way, the best part ---- with one cartridge you can play up to four people wirelessly. That's right, battleship, monolpoly, etc. against your friends at the same time wirelessly.