Richman Online: Move over Monopoly--05-23-2008

	Game Title: Richman Online	MMOsite Resources:
	Genre: Fantasy		Official Site
	Developer: Softstar		Screenshots
	Publisher: Aeria Games		Video
	Status: Closed Beta

This review partly reproduced from Neramaar's blog from MMOsite Writer Club.

So for all point and purpose, Richman Online is a room based MMO somewhere in between Monopoly and Mario Party, and is jam packed with characters, maps, game modes, and item cards for your playing pleasure. There's also a premium content store that sells different looks for your character alongside some new vehicles that allow for extra dice rolls, and special item cards that have various effects. Let's take a look in some more detail.

Game Modes:

	Regular Play: This is your Monopoly version of the game. Buy Land, Stock and Cards, and pray to whichever god you worship that your opponent lands on your hotels. Landing on an empty piece of land gives you the option to buy, landing on it again gives you the option to upgrade. Having 2 or more pieces of land in a row increases your intake when somebody lands on one of them. There are many cards and mascots floating around to add a twist to the game, some of which are explained below. This is your standard mode, and in my opinion easily the most enjoyable.
	Competitive Play: Unlike in regular play, where the main focus is building property and buying shares to eliminate your opponent, Competitive Play will have you using all manner on boom's and blau's known to man to trap and ultimately destroy your opponents instead. This may as well be an entire new game all together, and it's loads of fun.
	Boss Play: As the name suggests, the main focus of Boss Play is working as a team to defeat a boss with massive health. It uses a combination of the above two play styles with altered settings. You Can't build houses and hotels, but you can build structures like Pyramids and Research Facility's that have various effects on the game. As you would expect, all weapons are enabled, and the enemy will be making full use of them…

Power-ups:

Cards: Cards act in the same way as items do in most other games. There's a truckload of different types, and when used correctly all of them have the power to me devastating. Listing them all would take days, but I've included a small list of some of the common ones below.

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