New Mg-slot "Lord of the rings"

[Deeplay]

Got 50 free games from 32red today, graphics very nice, payouts are a joke, apart from the eye candy no idea what the hype was about. Made me go half blind after 10 mins with all the fades god knows why MG think this is cool. Won £40 odd though on free games which I then promptly lost in around 1 minute on break Da *my* bank. Like thundersuck2 I wont play this one unless Im really up or very drunk.

 

[margie]

never heard of that

i never heard of it but i will check a cool site to find it onlineglobalcasino has blogs so if its new they will be chatting

 

[Nifty29]

i never heard of it but i will check a cool site to find it onlineglobalcasino has blogs so if its new they will be chatting

Gee thanks Margie for the cloaked advertisement for a site that is actually a casino

You wouldnt happen to be the owner of that site would you?? (you state in your first post at CM you are a casino owner...)

Oh and before people start saying "this is why newbies dont want to post etc etc", think about this: Why would you mention a 'cool' site and name it and say 'if it's new they'll be chatting about it'. After all, the game is new and WE ARE CHATTING ABOUT IT RIGHT HERE!! LOL!! So why would they need to go somewhere else??? Or specifically name that site and the advantages it has...AND knowing full well it is a casino not a forum or blog!!!

Simple - because it is a lame attempt to promote your own casino, and it is an insult to CM and other members here who actually respect the place.

P.S. You might also see that the casino being shilled here is called 888 INET BET CASINO (which is just a skin for Windows Casino) - how pathetic is that? Only a slimeball would attempt to trade on the good name of an operator like Inetbet. Its people like you who give online gaming a bad name IMO.

 

[love2winalot]

Hiya: Every single part of their name is copied from other places.
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[maxd]

i never heard of it but i will check a cool site to find it ....

The boss warned you about spamming, I'm going to show you what happens when you don't listen to the boss. I'm going to waggle my pointy finger and poof!, you are history. How's that for 'cool'?

 

[jetset]

Clumsy, Margie - very clumsy.

 

[Simmo!]

Wonder what they have lined up for the next two in the series. I'd really like to see a version of this keeping the stacked wilds and adding bigger multipliers in the bonus round. Something like Playtechs' Great Blue (which is a totally brilliant high-variance slot IMO) where you can get up to like 20 spins at 10x would make it much more exciting rather than 1x free spins. Maybe drop the Eye of Sauron feature (which does seem a bit pointless considering it has stacked wilds already).

But as far as evolution goes, while not everyone likes it, I have to say it's great that these games are evolving in such interesting ways.

 

[Perc]

Not quite sure what to make of this slot.

Pro's:

A great license.
Cinematic spins do look great (albeit they can get annoying for some)

Con's:

Paytable is very weak. You might as well ignore ANY win apart from when you get a bunch of stacked LOTR wilds or the expanding wild. The wins were so diluted it was a bit of a painful death waiting for the bonus... .and what a wait that was....

It took me 950 spins to get my first (and only) free spins bonus. 950... what the hell?? I know its down to luck at the end of the day but I almost felt the game was malfunctioning constantly giving me 2 scatters.

So when it did eventually trigger it was with 4 scatters. A £1.20 stake gave a sub £100 free spins. Maybe I was unlucky.

I am not a fan of free spins when they are at 1x, regardless of the modifier.

So after the long wait its just a 243 way game with a 1x free spin mode.

errrr, Yay!

Totally agree, that was almost exactly the same experience I had. I deposited $50 for 50 free spins on LOTR, hit one good spin and ended up with a bonus of $49 from those spins (not even a sniff of a bonus, any time two scatters showed the second one was on the last reel).

Played down from $99 to $50 on 60 cent spins, then 30 cent spins down to $10 before I finally hit the bonus triggered on 4 scatters. Free spins plus scatters gave me a whopping $10, then hit 3 scatters a few spins later and free spins gave me just under $3.

I thought for sure since it was so cheap with the scatters that the free spins would be worth something...

Pretty disappointed since I enjoyed everything else about the game. I'd much rather have an ugly slot with gameboy-like graphics that pays better.

 

[Jasminebed]

Oh, you guys killed on your free spins. I got $3.42 on 50 spins. If you don't hit a feature, or a lot of stacked wilds, there is little hope.

 

[aceking123]

didnt even get to those free spins @£3 per spin but did get a hit for £596 straight in. so it can pay reasonable on the stacked side ,but i didnt carry on playing.

 

[Zoozie]

Small review on LOTR slot

A few thoughts about "Lord of the Ring Slot". To put it short I am very disappointed.

MG have shown with "Tomb Raider 2" and "Thunderstruck 2" that they can make the best and most
advanced video slots ever build. LOTR does not match these for several reasons which I will state below.

Gameplay/Features:
The normal(non-feature) game play is exciting enough because of the stacked wild on all reels. Every spin anything can happen
with all the stacked wilds.

The freespin feature with random stacked wild is also a new idea for a feature and it works great with the many
stacked wilds on the reels already.

My problem is that I had expected a lot more than just 1 feature from a release of this magnitude and with
rights to use the full LOTR lore.

Compare to Tomb Raider 2.
1. Random trigger "held wilds" freespin.
2. Freespins feature with exploding symbols.
3. Global Adventure feature. And this feature even has a complete sub-feature game in itself.

Compare to Thunderstruck 2:
1. Random trigger multiple stacked wilds freespin.
2. Feature game 1
3. Feature game 2
4. Feature game 3
5. Feature game 4

As you can see I really feel there is so much feature game content missing in LOTR.

Lore:
The graphics is state of the arts as always. But I doubt anyone plays for long with the
"Cinematic Spins" option turned on. Who want to see the same movie clips over and over again?
This is a video-slot, not a trailer for a movie. There is simply too much focus on showing
a few movie clips instead of making a videoslot. And how can they possible forget to
add characters like Gollum and Gandalf? I know there is only a limited number of symbols to use
, but I still feel the TJQKA symbols should be replaced with something that fits the lore better.
I would have created the slot with at least 2 more feature games and these could involve Gollum
and Gandalf and I would definately also add the Balrog as well. Adding 2 more feature games would make it
one hell of a video slot like TR 2 and TS 2. I can not believe MG made the slot mechanics so simple after they
knew what a succes TR2/TS2 turned into.

 

[Simmo!]

My problem is that I had expected a lot more than just 1 feature from a release of this magnitude and with
rights to use the full LOTR lore.

Actually I agree on that - I expected 2 or 3 features. The problem is, and you'll probably know this better than anyone Z, if you have stacked wilds on a game then balancing the variance has got to be much harder. If you start building in several features aswell, I would expect you would either a) end up with some very boring low-paying features or b) end up with a very, very high variance slot that never pays anything at all without lots of stacked wilds or features. I never play TR2 because of (a) in fact.

IMO you'll just never find a low variance slot with stacked wilds, certainly I can't think of one: it seems to be the nature of the beast.

Players mostly judge a slot on how much it pays out. Most don't care about variance or calculations, as we often see here, and that's the challenge for a slots manufacturer. Spring Break, Thunderstruck and Cleopatra are excellent examples of where MG and IGT have got the balance of entertainment/variance pretty much spot on, but they all share a common denominator. One feature, all identical. The challenge of new generation slots is to balance exciting and innovative gameplay with the feeling of being able to win.

Thunderstruck 2 and LOTR have done the first very well, TS2 has *almost* made it on the 2nd but just fallen short IMO and I'm not convinced that LOTR has the balance right though.

 

[hausse222]

I think the clue is the missing multiplier at free spins. You can only win big at this slot, if there are some stacked wilds at the right place. But wilds - especially stacked - seem to be very rare...
In my opinion its not a medium but a high-variance slot

 

[steveh35]

A few thoughts about "Lord of the Ring Slot". To put it short I am very disappointed.

.

Compare to Tomb Raider 2.
1. Random trigger "held wilds" freespin.
2. Freespins feature with exploding symbols.
3. Global Adventure feature. And this feature even has a complete sub-feature game in itself.

Compare to Thunderstruck 2:
1. Random trigger multiple stacked wilds freespin.
2. Feature game 1
3. Feature game 2
4. Feature game 3
5. Feature game 4

As you can see I really feel there is so much feature game content missing in LOTR.

Lore:
The graphics is state of the arts as always. But I doubt anyone plays for long with the
"Cinematic Spins" option turned on. Who want to see the same movie clips over and over again?
This is a video-slot, not a trailer for a movie. There is simply too much focus on showing
a few movie clips instead of making a videoslot. And how can they possible forget to
add characters like Gollum and Gandalf? I know there is only a limited number of symbols to use
, but I still feel the TJQKA symbols should be replaced with something that fits the lore better.
I would have created the slot with at least 2 more feature games and these could involve Gollum
and Gandalf and I would definately also add the Balrog as well. Adding 2 more feature games would make it
one hell of a video slot like TR 2 and TS 2. I can not believe MG made the slot mechanics so simple after they
knew what a succes TR2/TS2 turned into.

The simple answer is this is Lord Of The Rings 1 and they obviously intend to improve it with 2 eg Thunderstruck 1 is terrible 9 lines barley any hits for ages no feature and dire graphics then Thunderstruck 2 completely different all about marketing no point making it the best how will they make 2 better if they do.

Have to agree about Tomb Raider 2 1 was just simple spins and free spins No.2 probably one of the best games MG has a pleasure to play.

If MG wanna develop there gaming more they need to look into developing features and perhaps moving away from the now static lifeless free spin market and start having interesting and challenging bonus playable features for example not the most interesting game but Queen Of The Jungle you have numerous features to play when you get three monkeys maybe develop that sort of example make you wanna know what the features are make you play to find out not simply this gets you a free spin and ermmm it doesn'r do a lot else.

 

[Tengil]

Transfered a bit from my sports balance at Expekt to try it out. After some 400 spins I was so bored that quit the game. Better than Thunderstruck 2 and way better than one of the worst slots ever Tomb Raider 2. Still Hitman is the best if we talk about "hyped" MG slots.

Too many symbols and the feature is nothing extra. On the plus side it runs smooth in Instant casino and finally a MG slot that has the stop button. And it has the feel that a decent win is around the corner.

 

[Simmo!]

...Thunderstruck 1 is terrible 9 lines barley any hits for ages no feature and dire graphics

It also happens to be the most popular slot ever at Microgaming casinos and even now, some 5 years after it was released, it still tops the charts at most casinos

Still Hitman is the best if we talk about "hyped" MG slots.

No arguments there

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[steveh35]

It also happens to be the most popular slot ever at Microgaming casinos and even now, some 5 years after it was released, it still tops the charts at most casinos

That be where the casinos make all there money from then I can't even win on it on tournaments, maybe its the challenge that one day it might pay something and people keep going back thinking today it must pay.

 

[hausse222]

After "losing" 1000,- with 1,50,- bets in fun-mode rapidly i came to the conclusion that i will no more risk any real money with this slot. Biggest win was 50 X bet in freespins. Most of the time 4- or 5-of the kind "wins" that doesnt reach the initial bet. You could think that the licence for the game is included in the pay out rate

 

[skiny]

Bloody waste of time. And I had to deposit at least 32 bucks to get these spins.

 

[kidgloves]

First post here guys and girls.
I have to echo the dissapointment others have aired regarding the lack of innovation on the feature front, but do think that they are purposely holding back for future releases.
Not sure they've got the balance right though on what they've not put in this time round as people will just ignore the slot.
Yes, very pretty and you admire that for the first few minutes - how about an interactive feature or two that uses clips and graphics to take our breath away??
I played through Ladbrokes and have qualified for the full 1000 free spins. I consider myself lucky that my total loss for this qualification is around £1000. Hope to get £150-£200 back off the free spins and then my LOTR chapter will be closed.
Thunderstruck II held my interest for around 6 weeks, LOTR didn't manage 6 days.

 

[hausse222]

Yesterday i wrote here that this slot sucks because of its high variance and bad payouts. The last two day i only invested a little and the result is unbelievable (-> Winner Thread (. :notworthy

Btw. i still think that this slot is crap

 

[Webzcas]

Thunderstruck 1 isn't affectionately known as THUNDERSUCKS without good reason.

Still a very good slot but I might as well of chucked all my money down the toilet playing TS.

 

[gokkie]

Just a warning about this piece of **** slot.

Started with 300$ playing at 0.90$ a spin.

591 spins later my balance reads 0

Wagered 591* 0,90 = 531$
Return (531-300 lost) = 231$

Payout percentage over 591 spins= 43%

Number of free spins rounds hit : ZERO, ZIP, NADA NOT ONE

A small sample, I know but still really bad run.
I can't recall I ever had a worse run than this at any MG slot in years.
Well maybe on deck the halls or break da bank ....

It can suck you dry in no time, blehhhh (disgust)

 

[Webzcas]

I'm sure it will level out over time. For instance Great Blue on Playtech can be a money sucker too for example. I have gone over 600 spins before being awarded the free spins feature. But when it pays out, it seriously pays out.

 

[gokkie]

I'm sure it will level out over time. For instance Great Blue on Playtech can be a money sucker too for example. I have gone over 600 spins before being awarded the free spins feature. But when it pays out, it seriously pays out.

I know Great blue on playtech very well. But the difference is that when you hit the free spins there it gives you 20 free spins at 10x multiplier.
And LOTR: 15 spins at 1xmultiplier, there's a huge difference.

On the other hand LOTR can give you a big return in a single spin.

I know it evens out but just wanted to warn players that the LOTR slot can really lose you money fast compared to most other MG slots which have lower variance.

I am at 900 spins now, hit the feature once for 30*bet, balance 0.. I think I will stop playing, that's enough for the night.