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today we're here in Las Vegas at g2e this is the Global Gaming Expo
it is the world's largest trade show for the gaming industry
all the world's largest slot manufactures are here
also table game manufacturers they're all here to present their wares to the
casino executives hoping that they'll
see all these new games and buy them for their casino. So
join us as we go in and take a look at g2e the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas
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WMS Gaming is one of the world's largest slot machine manufactures and you're
probably familiar with many of their games
today we're gonna look at some of their new games they're bringing onto the market including
including Lord of the Rings, The Godfather
and an especially interesting version Monopoly
so let's go see what's new with WMS Gaming
Phil, this
version of wizard of Oz, there are a lot of versions of Wizard of Oz on the floor which
version is this, which generation? It's the Great and Powerful Oz, it's our fourth
version of Wizard of Oz
This is a three real mechanical community game it's very different than the video games that
are out there in the past This game is a
community game where every player gets to play as their favorite character be it
scarecrow or Dorothy
and randomly the wizard comes out and awards everyone on the bank 7 free spins
and then it gives additional multipliers to give the entire bank
wild reels, or just scarecrow wilds
really crazy right dynamic community game experience where
players are winning together and playing as their favorite Wizard of Oz character
So this is the free spin bonus here the second round where
sunny sent you on a mission to collect these money symbols on the on the
bonus so the player keeps going
if they collect all 8 they go back to sunny, sunny gives them a new envelope
full of cash and sends them on a new mission to go get additional free spins
There we got four out of the eight and one more spin to go
that's good there's a couple on there. So you're gonna get paid for the line win and you're gonna get the 3
bags
Got one more spin, try to get one more.
So we're back in, we're good. So you challenge is complete you go back to
sunny
And we're gonna show you the options and they're gonna mix them up like every good mobster you've got
to get your envelope here
there I did it correctly so I got the $30 pick there
It's multi denom, but mostly penny
When will this be on the market? This is just rolling out now
it's rolling out now. So now I'm about to go on my third mission here and I get to go
collect accordions
It's something similar every time
Lets see how I do here. Hey, I'm on fire
So now we're in round four so we're off to a really good bonus round here
Now when you pick those it's based purely on random, it's not predetermined?
It's purely random, right we show you what it is, we mix it up and whatever you pick
is what you pick. It is
not predetermined
So these are the bonuses that are unlocked and this is
the bonus that is that is locked.
So you can play as the Gandolf Fireworks, the garden heist, the prancing pony because this player has been
playing and they've unlocked
all these different bonuses on a quest to try to unlock the battle at the end
you can go on to playerslife.com our website play casual games for fun
and that unlock content in the game itself so you not only in the
casino can you unlock miles
actually do it from home playing a casual game for fun
And when you play online at home there's no charge for that I assume?
There's no charge that is not a gambling website
it's really a community for players to get together to talk about their favorite
games
play casual games for fun and really kinda take
the community to the next level of slot players
We have this win stream and it's showing you all the Lord the Rings game
we have installed throughout North America
and where people are winning what trophies they've won
what casino they're playing at Because Lord the Rings has a set of trophies in the
game as you're playing the game you get these trophies
and when you unlock the trophies you get the ring so it's kinda bragging rights online
to collect these virtual items online.
So this is live this is really happening now
where people are at so you got renokeno won Gandalf's pipe at River City in
Missouri. Again this community online we have forums
online on players life, we have blogs by our designers
just posted last weekend a
tour of WMS so you can click on the blog and see
how we make the games, the tour of our facilities where we work again we have
the forms you can discuss
the games we also have a mobile version as well for the handheld versions.
Wow, I didn't realize that all this was out there
Yeah this is, we launched playerslife last year with Lord of the Rings and
at this year's G2E we're showing twenty new games that are playerslife enabled
it's really kinda bringing the community out there and give slot players a
place to go online.
that's a 5x wild on reel one and a 5x wild on reel five
I hope they come into play
now you've got a bit of trouble
Now you got yourself a nice big win there because you got your wild on reel five and the 3x
wild to help you out there
So now you get one final spin with all your wilds active
and you get one more pick
for credit amounts you could have retriggered which sends you back to play the bonus
again
or you could've locked some power spins in there. So it's a very dynamic bonus round
Lord of the Rings
the first game had 8 additional bonus rounds, Two Towers adds
an additional four
so you've got twelve different bonus rounds to pick from in this game
as you play through.
So this is no longer tied into the monopoly symbols on the machine?
The base games underneath it are different we're showing Jewels of Africa and the
Monkee's theme
Just to be different so here the player's big event is triggered
and it's the railroad bonus, so here every player in the banks is going to go to this
railroad bonus feature. Based on their bet they get a multiplier
so those railroads are gonna go around and select properties
mr Monoploy is gonna come out surround some properties the players are gonna win those
credits
Then at the end of the bonus every player's given an individual pick to try to match
one of the properties to get an additional multiplier
so it really has a collaborative feature as well
Let's see how it goes here
Did it pick one yet? Whatever he surrounds
that's what the players gonna win he's kind a big tease in this game
he's got a big area going here
And he's just gonna pick one or you can more than one? Everyone in the bank's
going to win the the five, the 200 and the five. Now every player in the bank's gonna give an
individual pick to
try to match one of those properties. So if I find the blue
I'm gonna get that 200 multiplier.
I got the red I didn't win so I basically just
get the 210 in this bonus no one matched
I'll show you when the other bonus is here
The play the board bonus, this is really the big event game
so it's a collaborative game everyone goes in again with the multiplier based on
their bet
so we got six rows on the board
1 player is gonna be given the choice to roll the dice so this player was given the
option
to throw the dice up and roll the dice for the entire bank. So they got a seven
which will put him on chance Now this player here makes a selection whatever he picks,
75 credits, everyone in the bank gets that 75. If it would have been 200 everyone would've got
200
So we call this collaborative gaming so now the dice are down here
it switches from Player to Player
everybody gets a turn roll the dice? Everyone gets a turn to roll the dice
so now we've got the railroad again so now we got a bonus from
inside the bonus so that
goes back to the other bonus
Yeah so, inside the the play the board bonus you get to basically get
you know the individual bonuses, the spaces so it's kinda exciting for the player because they get to play
multiple bonuses inside one bonus
again in this bonus Mr Monopoly surrounds property cards whatever property
cards he surrounds
everyone in the bank gets those credits and then they get an individual pick
to try to match one of the properties for a multiplier
It's a completely random path every round is different every time
through the tunnel
so he surrounded the two red properties and the two blue properties everyone's gonna get a pick
you're trying to match those properties
to get an additional credit amount
blue, got a green down there and so no one matched again they get their
credit
but now they go back to the board because they are still inside the board so the players
still get to roll the dice so now it's my turn to roll the dice
throw em up, it's a six
so there 25 times their multiplier and the dice move down
12 doubles -doubles give us another roll
just like Monopoly. Community Chest
so this player's going to get a pick so he won 200 so I like him a lot
he's my friend. So I get the two hundred as well everyone on the bank gets the 200 and since he rolled
doubles he gets to roll the dice again
like monopoly
Park Place, not bad.
This game is interesting in that it really is community because everybody participates
its community and its also collaborative
You're kinda playing together if I pick the 200 you win the 200
So we came out with monopoly big event four years ago
this is kinda the follow-up kinda really leveraging the technology doing new features
like the collaborative gaming
Certainly everybody's rooting for everybody else because they're on the same boat
They're on the same boat on this one
I got one roll left let's get something good
got 11
This game looks like a lot of fun
It's fantastic this game was a lot of fun to make and a lot of fun to play
really recreates the monopoly and the whole collaborative aspect really changes the
game
now when will this land in casinos?
It's in the casinos now it's just rolling out now
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