Live Dealer and 3D Roulette - Bringing a Classic Game to Life Online

The spread of the Internet across the world opened up a whole new platform for people who those enjoy casino games. Apart from the online slots games which tend to be the most popular online casinos of all one of the most popular games played is a real casino classic - roulette. There is a good reason for that. Unlike poker it is a relatively easy game to learn to play, is fast paced and offers a decent chance to win.

The earliest online casino roulette games were of course very basic in terms of the graphics, as was the case for all the offerings in those first casinos that sprang up in the mid Nineties. That is no longer the case though and two different types of online roulette make the online casino roulette experience very close to the 'real thing.'

Live Roulette - Live roulette is exactly what it sounds like. Croupiers, usually attractive women, although some casinos are equal opportunity in nature and hire handsome male dealers as well, spin a real roulette wheel in a studio set up to look like a real casino. Players then interact with these dealers via a camera system and can watch as the bets they place on the computer screen are translated into real life chips on the physical table and then the spin is played out in the studio.

3D Roulette - The tools and technologies available to game developers creating online casino games have improved significantly, especially over the last few years, and 3D roulette games are becoming very popular.

There are distinct advantages of a 3D roulette game over a 2D version. The obvious fact that the everything is clearer and easier to see is a big bonus but it is not the only one.

There is a certain glamor attached to roulette that offerings like online slots really do not have. The common perception of the average slots player is the older lady (although that is not true) while roulette is associated with the likes of James Bond and whatever bad guy he is pitted against. The more realistic the graphics the more a player can tap into this side of the game and for most people, without them even realizing it at first it heightens their enjoyment of the basic game.