Better late than never, as I would often tell teacher. It has taken us some time to get around to the X-men slot game review but we got there in the end. This Playtech offering is another polished and feature packed addition to their stable of Marvel Comic themed online slot games. As such it is tied into Playtech’s enticing progressive jackpot network and played in a 5 reel, 25 payline format. Betting ranges in real money are £0.01 – £50.00 per payline so each spin can cost you a maximum of £125.
Features of X-Men
Unusually for Playtech, the game does not feature the standard playing card symbols. Every symbol here is an X-Men related picture or character. The game contains both heroes and villains. From lowest value to highest we have Juggernaut, Cyclops, Beast, Storm – all the way up to Wolverine, Magneto and Professor X. The wild symbol is a ‘wild’ logo and the scatter symbol is the X-Men logo. The soundtrack playing throughout has a slightly techno feel and the pace increases in Bonus Features. There are numerous applicable sound effects including Wolverines metal claws slicing together. The wild symbol appears simply as bright animated letters whenever the symbol substitutes for another. It also doubles up as a paying symbol with a 10,000 coin payout when five icons lineup on an active payline. The four Marvel progressive jackpots are triggered completely at random. If you are lucky enough you will see twenty hidden logos and click to reveal them until three identical ones are found (power, extra power, super power or ultimate power).
Bonus Games
Although not a bonus game as such, worth mentioning is whenever any of the five heroes form an ‘X’ shape in the centre of the reels you’ll win 5x the total bet. Whilst this is unlikely to produce big wins, it occurs reasonably regularly.
Unquestionably the big deal in the game is the Unlimited Free Spins Feature. This will trigger when landing 3 or more of the X-Men scatter Symbols. The game has 2 modes, Hero’s and Villains and will launch in Hero mode where you start with unlimited spins that will continue until Magneto lands on reel 3 and Villains mode starts. Here there are 8 free spins which countdown unless Professor X appears to save you on reel 3, at which point you go back to unlimited spins in Heroes mode and so on and so forth. A run of luck can see some impressive win totals.
Summary
As with every Playtech Marvel feature, this is a well produced and graphically excellent online slot game. Fans of the genre will not be disappointed but players of all tastes, especially those obsessed with enticing bonus features will find themselves lured here. The unlimited spins bait will be too tempting to pass up. These preferred Free Slot Money partners will be pleased to offer the chance to play the game.
- Software: Playtech
- Type: Video Slot
- Reels: 5
- Paylines: 25
- Min/Max Bet: . 0.01 up to 50
- Jackpot: 100,000 coins
- Bonus Round: Yes
- Free Spins/Multiplier: Yes
- Progressive: Yes
- Scatter Symbol: Yes-X-Men
- Wild symbol: Yes-Wild
- 3D: No
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