Grace Of Cleopatra Pokies
Although Cleopatra only lived until she was 39 years old, it seems that her legend will carry on forever, and with the numerous pokies based around her life, the online casino business is doing its part to keep her name alive. The Grace of Cleopatra video pokie comes from Bulgarian based developer Euro Games Technologies, (EGT) and is a traditionally styled game that has 5 reels, symbols arranged in 3 rows and 10 paylines running across them.
The symbols will be familiar to anyone who has played an Egyptian-themed online pokie before, as they all seem to stick to just a few iconic images such as jewelled beetles and cat statues, but this game adds a couple of extra characters to the mix, presumably Mark Anthony and Julius Caesar, who were both lovers of the Queen and ended up at war with each other. Behind the reels, there’s just a glimpse of the river Nile with a couple of boats sailing in to the sunset and some temples on the shoreline.
Although it isn’t mobile-optimised, players can find this game on the desktop versions of the multiple online casinos that carry software from this trusted developer. They can stake as little as 0.10 on a spin of the reels, or go all the way up to a high limit of 200.00, and in the base game, wins occur when matching symbols stop across a payline, in an unbroken row from the left side, although Cleopatra herself can change that when she lands in the right places.
Playing Grace of Cleopatra
The symbols are all beautifully presented and the pictures of the main characters are exceptionally realistic, although the usual playing card 10, J, Q, K and A will tend to fill much of the reels, as they will create the lower-value winning combinations. A review of the pay table reveals that the 10, J and Q are each worth 5, 25 or 100 times the line bet when stopping on 3, 4 or 5 reels across a payline, while the K and A pay out 5, 40 or 150x.
Picture symbols will only need to be on reels 1 and 2 from the left side to make up a win-line, with the cat and beetle each valued between 5 and 750x the line bet, Mark Anthony pays up to 2000x and Julius Caesar is worth the top payout in normal play of 5000x when he lands right across a line on all 5 reels.
Cleopatra seems like she had a pretty wild life, and turns up as the wild symbol of this pokie, able to substitute for any others if she can complete a winning line, either filling in any gaps in lines of matching symbols, or extending a run across additional reels. Like Mark and Caesar, there’s a nice animation accompanying her any time she’s part of a win, whether she substitutes for something else, or makes up a line on her own, paying out 20, 200 or 2000x when landing on 3, 4 or 5 reels at a time.
Grace Of Cleopatra
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Bonus Features
Once these awards are paid out, Cleopatra will also launch 10 free spins, but before they begin, another symbol is selected at random to be an expanding symbol, stretching across any reel it lands on during the free games, which makes it easier to complete lines of it. Players will be hoping that a high-value symbol is picked, but they have no influence over it, and get what they are given.
Any 3 or more Cleopatra symbols in a single free spin will re-trigger the round and add 10 additional games on to the end of the current ones.
Jackpot Cards
Above the reels, there’s 4 little boxes, each with a playing card suit and a rising progressive jackpot amount within them. One of these will be won if the randomly-triggered Jackpot Cards round begins, and players will need to click 12 face-down playing cards until 3 of a suit are found. This jackpot is then awarded, ranging from the small Club prize to the much larger Spade jackpot.
Gamble Game
Any win of less than 350 coins can potentially be multiplied several times over if players choose to gamble it, doubling the amount if they get the colour of a playing card correct, but losing it, and anything won so far in the gamble, if they get it wrong at any point.
The Verdict
Despite the over-used theme, the Grace of Cleopatra video pokie is a good-looking game that looks slightly more sophisticated than many similar ones and has some nice, reliable payouts. The bonus features are nothing special however, and players will have to really like ancient Egypt to make this one of their all-time favourites.