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A bargain!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 54 / 55
Date: October 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This one of the best simulations of actual slot machines made by IGT (including popular favorites like Double Diamond, Balloon Bars, and Sizzling 7's.) Keep in mind that this is a revamp of their original "Slots" program released earlier, so if you own the original, you may want to decide if you want to buy this just for the improved graphics and sound as the machines are the same.

In addition, this offers a dead-on simulation of the multiplay video poker machines IGT has also made famous. It helps teach you how to play video poker correctly by providing hints on the correct cards to keep and discard based on mathematical probability. Just remember you won't get these hints in a casino. You also get decent looking blackjack and Spanish 21 games and Masque does a pretty good job of showing you the correct plays for these games as well.

If you just want to play for fun, you'll have a blast with this program. But if you're planning a trip to Vegas and you'd like to put a little time and effort into making your bankroll last longer, then this is money well spent.

Hope the review helped.

The casino revolution comes home.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 15 / 16
Date: September 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

IGT stands for International Gaming Technology, though the "I" could just as easily mean "Innovative". IGT introduced slot machine players to imaginative features like Wild Cherry, which matches any symbol on the payline even when the Wild Cherry stops above or below the payline. In machines like Kangaroo, Balloon Bars, Leap Frog and Knockdown, special symbols rise or drop to the payline if they're one stop off. Haywire surprises the player with repeats of certain payouts while Spin Til You Win and Fourth of July treat players to a free round of spins until a winning combination hits.

What IGT did for slots, Action Gaming did for video poker. Their MultiPlay Video Poker machines are the most popular in casinos around the world. You place a bet on up to fifty hands, then play a single hand of draw poker. The cards you hold in your first hand are pre-selected in as many as 49 more hands. The machine then draws your replacement cards and deals cards to the remaining hands. The special paytables from IGT's legendary Game King library add even more excitement. When the machine deals you 3 Deuces and an Ace in Triple Double Bonus Fifty Play Poker, the suspense of watching for that fourth Deuce and its 2,000-credit payout among those 50 hands is downright heart-stopping. If you're lucky enough to receive four cards of a Royal Flush on the initial deal, well, then it's time to call an ambulance, just in case.

Spin Poker marries MultiPlay Video Poker with a 5-reel, 9-payline slot machine. Your initial hand spins into the center payline and the cards you hold are duplicated on the upper and lower paylines as stationary slot machine reels. Your drawn cards spin in on the discarded reels and the machine tallies your winnings on as many as 9 zig-zagging paylines.

Thanks to Masque Publishing, that sweaty-palm white-knuckle casino action is yours to enjoy anywhere there's a computer with a CD-ROM drive. Fifty great IGT slots and as many MultiPlay Video Poker variations come together on one CD.

The slot machine recreations are virtually flawless, though the sound effects, most likely for copyright reasons, are altered slightly from the actual casino machines. You can zoom back to admire each machine's cabinet artwork, and then zoom in on the reels when it's time to get down to business. The reels spin with uncanny realism, rearing back before the spin begins and clunking to a halt with a slight jitter.

In MultiPlay Video Poker, the machine will "squawk" when it deals a paying hand but, unlike the casino version, it doesn't display the hand's rank. You have to really keep an eye peeled when you're playing any Deuces Wild game to make sure you're not about to throw away a Straight Flush.

As if that's not enough, Masque throws in a couple of popular table games, Blackjack and Spanish 21. All of the MultiPlay Video Poker and table games offer tutorial modes to help you sharpen your skills and keep you playing longer. The slot machines can be played with their actual payout odds or at a higher-than-normal jackpot ratio.

The only real shortcoming is that you must have the CD-ROM to play the games. There's no option to install the entire contents on your hard drive and bypass the need for the CD. For that reason alone, I have to withhold that final star.

Great training for the real thing!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 15
Date: November 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Lately there have been a number of shows on TV regarding Las Vegas - the hotels, food, shows, shopping --- gambling! After viewing them I thought it would be fun to visit. Naturally I would want to try my hand at gambling, but certainly don't want to lose my shirt!

With that in mind I ordered "IGT Slots and Multiplay Video Poker". Since slots are pure luck I decided to focus on the video poker. With video poker you can increase your chances through making the correct card decisions. The software loaded quickly and I selected the game "Jacks or Better" to train on.

The game is neat because not only can you play as if you were in a casino but you can also make card choices and the system will give you a score based on what an expert would do. If your choice is not the best you can look to see where you made your mistakes. The sounds and graphics are excellent. Grab a beer or glass of wine and you created your own private casino (without the cash of course).

By the end of the first day I was playing a game that I had never heard of before with 92% accuracy! I felt like I could handle the real deal in a casino.

The software includes 50 of the best slot machines like Wild Cherry, Hot Peppers, Haywire and Five Times Pay. Many video poker games such as Joker Poker, Bonus and Double Bonus. Blackjack and Spanish 21 are also included.

The instructions were good but as a complete novice there was some terminololgy I was unclear on and hence had to do a quickie internet search. But overall I feel its very good training!

So next time you are in Vegas and someone hits a Royal Flush at Jacks or Better hopefully it will be me. Even if I dont hit at least I won't feel like a total rube thanks to training with "IGT Slots and Multiplay Video Poker" AND my tight hand on how much I am willing to lose!

It's Finally Here!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 13
Date: June 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

...If you liked all of the Masque games so far, you'll definitely want this one. And with the bonus Multi-play video polker built in, its definitely a big bargain. That's right, 2 of their previous games for the price of one. And new and improved.. Along with Slots 2 and Slots by Bally, this one completes the set. This one is pure IGT slots, games like Wild Cherry, Double Diamonds, 5 and 10 times pay, Red White and Blue , etc. All the ones you stillfind at your favorite slot house.

A remarkable improvement over the original IGT slots program.

UPDATE:

Just when I thought I had all of the Masque games that there were worth while having, along comes the new all video slots that hit the shelves today. From what I saw of the previoews, this is another winner, except that there are fewer actual Name Brand (Bally?) machines, and some that Masque have made up. but all with bonus rounds. So if this is as good as their previous efforts, it should be a winner.

One good thing about the Masque games are the good quality realistic graphics and animation; yet at an efficient low running 32 MB. So they run and play great. [As an aside, I admit that as good as these are, Phantom EFX makes aneven better set of games, with two more hitting the shelves at this time. Ironically, one is an all video collection (nickle alley), and yet another new casino with new machines. They have licensed to Shuffle Master, another slot maker. However, for the same price, these may even be better; except that at a cost of a whopping 128MB memeory (it will run with 64 MB, and on my 96 machie, but slow loading between machines (RD2). On top of that, to handle all of the sound , grahphics, animation, and the most realistic experience, it also takes up 900MB on the Hard drive. so if your machine can handle it, great. do you think there is some PC slot game war going on? Hmmm.]

My only complaint about all of the Masque3 games is that i wish they could be played for higher denominations. But then, I would never go to more than a five dollar machine in an actual slot parlor anyway.

Keep up the good work.

The best IGT slot sim...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: June 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you're looking for all of your favorite IGT slots they're here. It's just like playing the real thing except you can't reach out and touch the slots. The slots have been faithfully recreated. Buy this game if you love IGT slots...

The best IGT slot sim...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: June 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you're looking for all of your favorite IGT slots they're here. It's just like playing the real thing except you can't reach out and touch the slots. The slots have been faithfully recreated. Buy this game if you love IGT slots. ...

WONDERFUL!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: February 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is very realistic. A great source of fun for hours of entertainment. Easy to use.

Slots & Multiplay Video Poker

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: September 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Excellent game. Well designed. Plays as close to the real thing as possible.

Good practice, but no single-play option.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: October 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The slot machine aspects of this game are very realistic, except for the glaring, albeit expected, absence of the removal of the general point of playing a slot machine...to win money. Since slot machine play cannot be 'practiced' as a skill to improve the outcome, it does not take long for this game to become quite boring. It's still nice to have though, for those times when whatever else you could be doing, or nothing, is worse.

As for the Video Poker play, the tutorial program is quite good, and does allow you to practice to improve your game. What I dislike about it is that all the video poker features in this program are of the multi-play options (3 hands is the minimum, up to 100). I am not a big fan of the multi-play games, because I think it takes away from your true outcome and diminishes the thrill of the 2nd deal. If you only had one hand and hit 4 Aces you would be happy, but when you have 4 hands out of 100 hit the 4 Aces it turns to ho-hum. I've hit Royal Flushes twice in real casinos on single-play hands, and I can assure you the thrill of that was much greater than seeing it in a very tiny corner out of 100 hands. I have taken to now only playing the 3 hand version on this program, and try not to look at the top two hands.

Gambling fun-no loss of money

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: March 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Hours of entertainment; works beautifully. The tutorials are on target. Speedy arrival and easy installation.

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