Trading Tokyo for London, Rome or one of 20 other cities is now possible when you play the newest version of MONOPOLY. On August 20th, Hasbro, the makers of the world’s most popular board game announced the 22 cities elected by fans worldwide that will appear on the new MONOPOLY Here & Now: The World Edition game board.
The 22 cities, listed in order of property groupings with the highest rent properties listed first, is as follows:
Montreal - Riga
- Cape Town
- Belgrade
- Paris
- Jerusalem
- Hong Kong
- Beijing
- London
- New York
- Sydney
- Vancouver
- Shanghai
- Rome
- Toronto
- Kyiv
- Istanbul
- Athens
- Barcelona
- Tokyo
- Taipei
- Gdynia
Other cool additions to the newest MONOPOLY game board include tokens, houses and hotels reflect icons and styles from all seven continents and Chance and Community Chest cards that highlight events from countries around the world such as Carnival in Rio de Janeiro and a St. Patrick’s Day festival in Dublin.
Is your favorite city included on the new game board? I was pleased to see Tokyo on the list but was surprised to see that is is one of the lower rent properties. This is not very realistic as Tokyo is ranked as the second most expense city to live, second only to Moscow, according to Mercer’s 2008 Cost of Living Index.
MONOPOLY Here & Now: The World Edition will be available at stores in more than 50 countries and 37 different languages starting on August 26, 2008.
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译文:
用东京买伦敦？还是罗马？
用东京去换伦敦，罗马还是其他20个城市，新版地产大亨让这一切变成可能。世界最受欢迎的棋类游戏的制造商孩子宝，在8月20日宣布：新版地产大亨的棋盘上将出现22个城市，这22个城市是由来自全球的棋迷所选出来的。
按照租金高低，这22个城市在财产排行榜的排序如下:
蒙特利尔 - 里加
- 开普敦
- 贝尔格莱德
- 巴黎
- 耶路撒冷
- 香港
- 北京
- 伦敦
- 纽约
- 悉尼
- 温哥华
- 上海
- 罗马
- 多伦多
- 基辅
- 伊斯坦布尔
- 雅典
- 巴塞隆纳
- 东京
- 台北
- 格丁尼亚
最新的地产大亨同时也做了其他酷炫的调整，比如游戏币，还有游戏中的房屋和酒店，分别展示着七大洲的风格特色，里约热内卢的嘉年华、都柏林的圣帕特里克节，这些全球各地的节日在机会卡和社会福利基金卡中一展无疑。
你最喜欢的城市在新的棋盘上吗？我很高兴得看见东京也在排行榜上，但是很惊讶，因为它竟然是几个低租金城市之一。这与现实并不符合，根据美世2008生活成本指数来看，东京事实上是第二大高费用居住地，仅次于莫斯科。
世界版的地产大亨有37种不同语言，且将于2008年8月26日在50余家商店开始销售。
Image Credit: Flickr, Monopoly