Ubisoft reveals Accessibility Spotlight for Monopoly: Star Wars Heroes vs. Villains
Monopoly: Star Wars Heroes vs. Villains is coming on June 30, bringing thrilling new team-based twists to the classic board game. Experience epic cinematic moments as you compete across iconic locations, building a team of Star Wars heroes like Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, and Han Solo as well as villains like Darth Vader, Darth Maul, and Emperer Palpatine. Each character has a game-changing ability that can turn the tide of gameplay in your favor with a single roll of the dice.
The teams at Ubisoft wanted to make sure this edition of Monopoly was accessible for as many people as possible, so here are all the accessibility features for the game.
VISUALS
- Colorblind accessible by design, without needing modes.
- Easily readable text, all of the text in the menus and in-game is 28px or above by default and in a clear sans-serif font.
- Strong contrast by default between text and UI elements and their backgrounds.
- Contrast slider to increase difference between lights and darks.
- Comfortable camera, no shakes or sways, or fast camera movements
- Interactive elements are clearly indicated, e.g. obvious glow effect to differentiate ally/enemy properties from properties that aren’t influenced.
CONTROLS
- Controller remapping for both gameplay and menu navigation, on keyboard mouse or controller. Includes stick swapping (through remapping or a dedicated option), and remapping analog sticks and triggers to digital buttons.
- Sensitivity for sticks and mouse can be adjusted separately for vertical/horizontal. Apples to all in-game areas.
- Controller support on PC, with the ability to use combinations of controller and mouse/keyboard controls.
- Vibration can be turned off.
- No holds required, not many actions need holds and those which do have to change them to a tap instead.
- No button mashing or QTEs by design.
- Only one hand needed to play the game.
AUDIO
- Subtitles/captions for speech and some non-speech sounds, in a clear sans serif font, with optional speaker names, configurable background and size (up to 48px), and can be turned on before any important sounds.
- No audio reliance, essential information is not communicated by sound alone.
- Multiple volume sliders, for master, sound, music, ambience and speech.
- Mono/stereo/surround modes.
GAMEPLAY
- Three difficulty settings for playing against AI.
- Game saves automatically after each turn, and manually when quitting.
- Failure-free practice mode available by starting a game without any other players.
- Untimed-text prompts, messages always require a button press to be closed so you can take as long as you need to read them.
GUIDANCE
- Control reminders for controls used during gameplay and menu navigation are shown onscreen.
- Tutorials section to teach both basic Monopoly rules and the games unique features through gameplay simulation.
- Database section displaying all character abilities, destiny cards, go events and the new rules.
- Tooltips to give extra context during gameplay.
You can play Monopoly: Star Wars Heroes vs. Villains on June 30 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch, Switch 2, and PC.
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Victor Dima is a Blind Gaming Journalist and Accessibility Ambassador, Living in Oslo with his wife Alina. Victor was the first journalist in Romania to receive the PS5 & the PS VR2 from PlayStation. He is also working closely with Xbox Nordic and other game publishers such as Ubisoft, Ea, Bungie, Activision, blizzard, square Enix, Capcom, Rockstar Games, Sega, PlayStation studios, WB Games, Bethesda and many others.
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