Inside Asian Gaming

43 Innovation Series Spinning Streak™ is a hit game format from the Innovation Series. A total of 15 individual reels spin independently. When winning symbols appear, those winning symbols are held and all the other reels re- spin to give the player the chance of a bigger win. The net effect is that what starts as a small win can multiply into a huge one as the screen fills with award and bonus symbols. “It’s a littlebit likeWMS’s Super Respin feature,” says Stuart Gribble. “Once you have some of the wild symbols it will freeze those and give you a multiplier and re-spin the rest. When you’re in free spin mode, you have to wait for at least one winning combination to come up.” Titles in theSpinning Streak format include Kingdom of the Titans . to be very successful in a video format and is now available in a mechanical configuration. Now the latest is to add the two-level local area jackpot. The Transmissive Reels allow the more elaborate bet structures.” Zeus is an embodiment of the G+ Series focus on celebrating wins. “There’s lots of sound, motion, animation. Celebrating a win is a big thing. It’s all about ‘Everybody look at me, I’ve won a jackpot’,” states Mr Gribble. “Zeus is absolutely one of the strongest titles in Macau. It’s carried on for three years. I think it was three years ago we put the first Zeus in over at The Sands [Macao]. It just shot to the top of the list along with Great Wall [ of China , WMS’s highly popular five- reel video game]. “That’s why Great Wall as a standalone got turned into a progressive here [in Macau]. What’s different about the Great Wall mystery progressive is that instead of issuing you credits, we issue you free spins,” explains Stuart Gribble. “It doesn’t have such big numbers [as some of the high volatility games], but as you see more and more play these things rise incrementally. The fact is you can win 53 free spins. That goes back to that Macau fascination with free spins in general and fast-playing games. So this suits that. It does it in a linked jackpot scenario.” based technology and system. This software can also be ported back to stand-alone machines,” explains Mr Gribble. “It offers very detailed, high quality graphics. Each of the characters presented on the graphical interface is friendly and approachable. When you trigger a bonus round, you can see that. Take the red fish bonus as an example. “We pick three clams and those are our wild symbols now. The character moves around the screen and touches any symbol we have on our list—so we’re basically interacting with this guy [the animated character]. That, in turn, lets the player know that the play is not scripted. You know you have a shot at winning if you pick the right symbol. That just validates that it’s a fair machine,” asserts Mr Gribble. Games—G+ Series™ The G+ Series is an entire line of streamlined, free-spin based video slot games designed specifically to let players celebrate the win. “The idea is that if you’re really into getting on with the betting, you get to play four games at the same time,” says Stuart Gribble. Samurai Master is a good example of the genre. “What the player’s looking for is that with an initial bet of 80, you want an over 100 times bet. This is the kind of win I want–120 times bet, 130 times bet. That makes me a happy gambler,” he explains. Zeus is another G+ Series game that performs exceptionally well in Asia, says Mr Gribble. “We have a local area network version of Zeus. It’s a game that has already proven WMS Great Wall of China™ Zeus™, part of the G+ Series