What can online casino offer to fans of slot machines? Well, practically everything, that real halls can, plus something more than that. But before we look into online slot machine halls, let’s give a meaning to several notions. “One-handed gangsters” have been divided into two categories called slots and video slots (meaning a slot of a coin-receiver). Classical slots represent three mechanic barrels with a possibility to play on 1-5 lines. Video slots are a video screen 3×5 with the game on 9-30 lines with rich additional bonus possibilities.

One can find both kinds of playing machine in an online casino. From the point of view of the games quantity and their functional possibilities online games do not yield (and to some degree they may exceed) to offline ones. The doubtless leader in the slots quantity and quality is the “Microgaming” software. The downloaded versions suggest up to 180 kinds of different slot machines, classic ones and video slots in about equal parts. The classic slots suggest a game from 1 to 5 lines. There can be up to 10 plays with progressive jackpots which average sums vary from 5 thousand to more than one million dollars. The first 9-line video slots appeared several years ago. The play “Tomb raider” (that is known thanks to the computer game and the film “Lara Croft, tomb plunder”) still holds much favour. Lara’s picture of 4 floors height can even be seen in the company “Microgaming” office. After that 20- and even 30-line video slots appeared. The video slots provide with an opportunity to win free of charge bonus rounds including prize multiplication, additional bonus games, the possibility to risk and double the win, jackpots of hundred thousand dollars. The maximum prize of such games is usually $40-200 thousand. There are of course “wild” and bonus symbols, animation that is all the variety of possibilities for what the players love video slots. Besides, the player can set the quantity of games and then games start will be conducted automatically.

The second place would be rather given to the casino with the soft of the company “Criptologic”. Recently they have concluded a treaty with a popular comics publisher – the company “Marvel” and have already created more than ten video slots with popular comics heroes (we know, for example, such personages as Hulk and Spiderman). All in all, the casino suggests more than 50 classical video slots, covering 9-20 lines with the abundance of possibilities. Another unique possibility, provided for payers of the British casino “William Hill” is the availability of English “fruity” slot-machines that function with an opportunity of “pushing” the drum in order to make it move for a little while giving a player the winning combination. At the moment when I’m writing these lines jackpot on the video slot “Millionaires’ Club” exceeds $3,5 ml., that is twice as much as the previous record for the on-line casino. When you receive a current issue of the journal, the jackpot will either reach the sum of $4 ml. or it will be hit and consequently it will constitute its original sum of $400 thousand.

Such producers of slots as “RTG” and “Playtech” yield a little as to the diversity of slots (but not as to their functionality). There are classical slots and video slots with diverse functions and jackpots including the ones at one million dollar. Only the “Boss Media” out of five provider leaders yields a little its competitors as to the quality of slots, but they too possess video slots, at least for nine lines and without a full abundance of possibilities.

While evaluating slots online, it is necessary to consider such a burning question as the percentage of payment. Unfortunately, in spite of the numerous players’ requests the absolute majority of casinos do not show the laid into the game percentage of payment. However, one can try to estimate it. For example, the casinos with the software from “Microgaming” and “Criptologic” publish monthly common payment percentages, notarized by auditing company PricewaterhouseCoopers. So the average payment percentage of all the slots usually varies in the range of 94-96 %.

As a conclusion, I want to mention that an online casino represents a very wide choice of different kinds of playing machines that do not yield with their functional characteristics to those ones you can see in playing rooms. The pluses of the online playing are more comfort conditions, wide range of stakes, the presence of bonuses that can double your means for playing. Besides, some casinos give the information about payments in pawn and the honesty guarantee that is difficult to see in real world. So, if someone decides to play slots in an online casino (s)he won’t regret it.

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Arthur Prudent
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I also want to know, are the comics and the graphic novels for avatar the same thing or two diff. things.

thanks for the help it’s appreciated.

I never see avatar in comic so far..hmmm..hope to get one!

Go sit in the corner…

Chrysler called on Marvel Comics to let Jeep enthusiasts and potential customers experience awesome adventures through creative thinking of the masses. The web-based marketing campaign is resorted to by the automaker to promote the 2007 Jeep Patriot – a compact sport utility vehicle.

In the said campaign, customers can submit dialogues and plots suggesting how the four young protagonists should handle villains. Customers can also solve a mystery in “The Patriot Factor,” an online comic. The Chrysler Group, composed of the Dodge, Jeep and Chrysler brands, together with Marvel Comics, endeavor to create the comic to be viewed at www.patriotadventure.com.

Jeep Patriot and Marvel set out the adventure to create a new online comic book. The online book is designed to transform sketch to ink and finally to color. The evolution could be created cell by cell or page by page.

Marvel Comics is known for its famous stories linked to super powers. Spiderman and X-Men are just few of its popular masterpieces. The joint venture is aimed at attracting the young car purchasers since they are hard to reach with the conventional types of advertising.

The comic story happens in an unnamed metropolis. It started when Ryan Singer, an acclaimed electronic musician and producer, composes a song based on a series of numbers he overheard two strangers whispering. Eventually, the strangers show up at Singer’s loft with the intent to create mayhem.

Singer’s wife, Natalie, and best friend, Joe Starks, are introduced. Mason Black, the fourth character and a mentor of sorts, guides the trio driving a Jeep Patriot through their adventures. Black also provides them with gear. What will happen next is up to consumers to supply. Customers have to register online to help build gangs adventures and fate.

The online marketing strategy is an attempt of the automaker to get its new Patriot noticed by making customers actively and creatively involved. “It’s driven by a need for advertisers to connect more deeply with their potential customers,” said Stephen Lovett, director of client development at consulting firm Harris Interactive in Ann Arbor. “More companies are test-driving co-called consumer-driven marketing to engage potential buyers. There is a trend for far more involvement.”

The Jeep Patriot, officially introduced at the New York Auto Show, is one of Jeep’s first crossover SUVs. It is placed between the Liberty and Compass models. So far, it is the most affordable sport utility vehicle in North America. The Jeep Patriot, based on DaimlerChrysler/Mitsubishi GS platform, uses a four-cylinder 2.4 L GEMA gasoline engine and EBC Active Brakes Direct. It will also get a 2.0 L Volkswagen-designed diesel engine for the European and Australian markets. The Jeep Patriot, priced at $14,985, efficiently combines on-road and off-road capabilities. Its target customer is young and upwardly mobile.

The first five pages of the comic adventure will immediately be displayed online. The upcoming 15 pages will be displayed as scheduled by the judges. “It’s all about connecting people to the brand and involving them to the Jeep experience,” said James Kenyon, Chrysler spokesman.

“If I’m watching a TV spot that was developed by a customer, that person who developed it was extremely involved and probably came closer to the brand as part of spending their time researching,” Lovett added. “You definitely impact the people who do get involved and raise their hands and connect. But how many others can you also get to feel some of that?”

A team from Jeep and Marvel comics will pick the most interesting story ideas. Those participants will be given the original illustrated panel created by Bing Cansino, Marvel artist. They will also be credited as authors in the printed book.

Anthony Fontanelle
http://www.articlesbase.com/automotive-articles/marvel-comics-to-woo-jeep-buyers-103161.html

Reliable sites would be TFAW and Amazon (for trade paper backs)

you’ll find many comics here, for free…no spyware