Zeus Slots
Featuring 30 paylines, five reels and an array of several winning combinations, the Zeus slot machine helps you understand why WMS is one of the most premium slot providers. It is a fast moving slot themed on the Ancient Greek God Zeus as well as several prominent Goddesses and with its vibrant graphics, extraordinary surround sound and winning opportunities provides for an exciting, thrilling and adventurous gaming experience.
Zeus online slot is easy to understand and play. All you need to do is glance through the game rules and pay table information and you are all set to earn big payouts form this game. Consequently the Zeus slot machine has achieved popularity comparable to the Cleopatra slots by rival IGT.
An Overview of the Zeus Slot Machine
Symbols in the Zeus slot machine are related to Zeus and other Gods and Goddesses from Greek mythology and they take you on a realistic Greek adventure. You have Zeus of course, Pegasus, Boat, Helmet, Vase, Wreath, Harp, Silver and Gold Coin but no card symbols.
Three symbols that you don't want to miss are the wild symbol, the scatter lightning symbol and the Zeus symbol which is the highest paying symbol. The lightning symbol triggers the bonus and you can win payouts on the completion of winning combinations. The scatter symbol, the lightning thunderbolt cannot be combined with the wild to make winning combinations. The Zeus symbol is used in groups during one or more bonus rounds.
The machine offers coins in multiple denominations that range from 0.01 dollars to five dollars. You can only use one coin at a time on a payline with the minimum line bet set at 0.30 dollars and maximum line bet at 5 dollars. You can place a maximum bet of 150 dollars and the maximum win is set at 2,500 dollars of real cash and amounts to 500 casino credits. The symbols can appear stacked and this means you can hit stacked wilds in each spin. There are thirty active paylines, effectively allowing you to have your cash reserves ticking for as long as you want.
WMS has equipped Zeus with an economical and time saving autoplay option. Set your preferences on the machine – custom wager amount, number of spins, time difference you want between two spins etc. and allow the WMS software to play the game and win payouts for you.
Playing the Bonus Rounds on Zeus
Zeus includes a very lucrative free games feature and it won't be an overstatement if we called it one of the primary reasons why Zeus has enjoyed such a huge popularity in the field of slot games. This Zeus free spin bonus is triggered when you get three or more scatter symbols (lightning thunderbolt) on any of the active paylines. Depending on the number of lightning thunderbolt symbols that appear on your screen you are awarded a certain number of free spins.
Three scatter symbols gets you ten free spins, four scatter symbols give twenty five free spins and five scatter symbols award you with a hundred free spins. What makes this bonus round especially great is that you can re-trigger the free spins feature by getting three or more lightning thunderbolts in any of the free spins you were previously entitled to!
Your coins are locked at their original value during the Zeus free spins but the winnings contribute to the total payout.
The Zeus theme has enjoyed such popularity among pokie players that WMA went on to develop more slot machines closely similar to Zeus, like the WMS Transmissive Zeus Slot Machine, Great Zeus, Zeus II and Zeus III.
Zeus: Greek Mythology
Youngest son of the Titans Cronus and Titanis Rhea, Zeus is the God of the sky and the supreme God of the Olympians. Lord of the sky, thunder and rains, Zeus escaped from being swallowed by his father Cronus when his mother Rhea hid a newborn Zeus in cave on Crete's Mount Dicte.
Cronus had learned that he would be overthrown by his own son and would therefore swallow each of his children as soon as they were born. A worried Rhea sought the help of Gaia and gave birth to Zeus in Crete. She handed a rock wrapped in clothes to Cronus who went ahead to swallow it. In the cave, Zeus was raised by Gaia. However several other versions of the myth exist which talk of a young Zeus being raised by a goat, some nymphs, and even a shepherd family.
The grown up Zeus made his father regurgitate his siblings. Starting with the rock that he swallowed instead of swallowing baby Zeus, Cronus regurgitated all his sons and daughters in the reverse order of which he had swallowed them. The siblings joined forces and fought off the Titans and their cruel leader Cronus. With the world now free of the Titans, Zeus locked the titans up in the underworld of Tartarus.
Zeus then drew lots with his elder brothers Hades and Poseidon to establish who would rule what. Zeus won the draw to become the supreme ruler of the Gods, the earth and Mount Olympus. Poseidon got the sea under his custody and Hades took the underworld of Tartarus. Zeus married Hera and was known for his romantic escapades.
On account of being the supreme leader of the Gods, Zeus is the God of mercy and justice, punisher of the evil, protector of the weak and truthful and also the rain God who gathered clouds and wielded the thunderbolt. His symbols are the thunderbolt, the oak, the eagle, and aegis – some of which have been used in the Zeus slot machine.
