Cleopatra II seems to be a slot machine with a theme that IGT’s developers have a special connection to, as the name of the queen of the Egyptians has been used in four of their slot machines so far, with very similar graphics in each case. This one has slightly better graphics than its predecessor, with more details for the main symbols that appear in it, while the secondary ones haven’t changed much. The payouts are smaller, but you still get a decent slot machine that you can spend some time on, without getting bored immediately.
With 5 reels and up to 20 lines, Cleopatra II is a game designed by IGT, whose developers improved on the original title somewhat, while keeping the same features (wild symbols, free games, multiplier, scatters) and the prize at $50,000.
Features of Cleopatra II
The slot’s bonus feature and its free spins and multipliers give you good reasons to try the game out, on top of which you will find a wild symbol as well, and it also has multipliers.
The Cleo II symbol that you will notice making appearances in the game gets the wild role, and that’s why it is capable of substituting for the various other regular symbols. As a wild, it is still required to appear on active lines and for the other symbols on them to be matching, in order for its powers to be able to operate. Besides helping you take advantage of more paying combinations, the wild is also going to double their payouts, as long as it contributed to their creation. Add to this the fact that the top jackpot is offered by the wild’s own combinations, and you get the full picture of how important this symbol can be for the game.
Free Games Feature
The Sphinx remains the slot’s scatter symbol, and as before this is a scatter that has the ability to trigger the bonus game, with its free spins. You make a choice when the feature starts, picking a box that has inside a number of free spins, the range being 5 to 20. Each winning combo that you get during these free spins will make the multiplier go up by 1x. The game advertises that up to 50 free spins can be used in total, with multipliers going up to 50x as well.
Betting options and jackpots
A top wager of $100 is not that much these days, not when you compare this title to the ones that ask for $500 or more. Each payline gets a maximum of $5, using up to 5 coins of $1. The coins can’t be modified in value, but fewer of them can be used per line if you can’t afford to use all 5.
In exchange for your investment, you will get paid up to 10,000 times the line wager, or up to $50,000. It’s a serious payout for a game with $100 bets, worthy of your attention.
Design and symbols
This being the second part from the Cleopatra series, you might be expecting some huge improvements, but that’s not the case. The surrounding graphics and the playing cards seem to be quite similar or identical, the change being in the few symbols that are Egyptian themed. In that area you do see the improvement and the quality level has definitely increased. It still doesn’t compare well with the best looking Egyptian slots offered by the market today.
Symbols: Cleo II Logo (wild, 10,000x), Sphinx (scatter, 200x the bet), Anubis (500x), Horus (500x), Bastet (500x), Ace (125x), King (125x), Queen (100x), Jack (100x) and 10 (100x).
Is It Worth Playing?
With clear improvements when it comes to the design of the symbols, and with the game remaining pretty much the same in most areas, I’d recommend Cleopatra II over the first title from the series, but not over other slot machines.
The Cleopatra II slot machine is offered through the IGT platform, so if you want to play it for real or just to practice, look out for casinos that use it.
