Royal Vegas, one of the leading online casinos powered by software from Microgaming, is pleased to announce that it has at last released the long awaited Andrew Lloyd Webber’s popular musical The Phantom of the Opera branded online slot game at the site.
The Phantom of the Opera is a French novel that was published in 1909 and is about a deformed composer who haunts the Paris Opera House. There have been more than 150 remakes of movies based on this novel as well as documentaries, TV shows, radio broadcasts and now an online slot game.
The Phantom of the Opera branded video slot has been developed by Microgaming under license from The Really Useful Group and is based on the 2004 movie version which was an adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1986 musical.
The video slot game features the leading characters, musical numbers and original footage from the movie and also offers players a number of “dernier cri” features that commences in the base game where the Opera House Chandelier could fall at any time to turn up to three reels Wild.
The Phantom’s mysterious letter reveals a cash prize while three Phantom Mask symbols will give players’ a choice between three options that are all named after never to be forgotten songs.
“Music of the Night” awards players with 10 Free Spins with multiple random Wild features while “All I Ask of You” awards 10 Free Spins with Dancing Wilds and “Masquerade” is a 3-level Pick Objects Bonus Game that appears on the second screen of the video slot.
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Microgaming, an award-winning developer of casino, poker and bingo software, is pleased to reveal that it has signed a licensing agreement with The Really Useful Group in terms of which it will develop an online slot game based on the 2004 movie version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera.
The film adaptation of the 1986 musical of the same name was directed by Joel Schumacher and starred Emmy Rossum, Minnie Driver and Gerard Butler. The movie, that was a roaring success and grossed more than $154 million worldwide, featured the classical numbers “The Phantom of the Opera, “All I Ask of You” and “The Music of the Night”,
Microgaming will be developing the online slot game featuring the principal characters, musical numbers and original footage of the film for release later this year.
David Reynolds, Games Publisher at Microgaming, commented on the signing of the agreement by saying that The Phantom of the Opera has had unequivocal success and played to more than 140 million viewers in 35 countries in 166 cities around the world. He added that it is extremely exciting to be working with a musical which is a new type of branded content for Microgaming, extending and broadening their portfolio of games.
Reynolds went on to say that this game is due to be released in the third quarter of this year and will be a true celebration of the world’s biggest opera, balancing a healthy mix of base game features with a feature-packed free spins round.
