Table fanatics can head on over to the roulette wheel, the black jack or craps tables, the more complex pai gow poker and sic bo stations, or any one of six variations of poker. The coin-popping crowd will satiate its urges through no less than three progressive jackpot slot machines, three more animated video slot machines, six standard slots, four progressive jackpot video poker machines, and a half-dozen standard video poker machines. In fact, it effectively translates the workings of virtually every popular casino game in existence-and then some. It's not that this iteration of Monopoly Casino is a bad game.
You choose from a variety of casino games from this screen. Nonetheless, the series remains a lackluster substitute for the real thing and therefore is recommended only to the seriously addicted or those who want to learn the rules of certain games before their next trip to the desert. For this year's edition, developer/publisher Infogrames has thankfully toned down the seemingly nonsensical Monopoly connection, added several new variations of casino games, and generally spruced up the presentation to make things look and sound less cartoonlike. Like 1999's Monopoly Casino, Monopoly Casino Vegas Edition attempts to bring the allure of the casino to the PC.
