Amazons' Story Pokie Machine
Wild horses and equally wild-looking Amazonian women are the unlikely stars of the Amazons’ Story video pokie by EGT, which takes bits from other games in their range and chucks them all together in a unique mix. Many of the picture symbols have been seen in Amazon’s Battle, another game in their range that has a fairly up to date format, but there’s also lots of dice filling up the reels, which will remind players of other EGT pokies such as 50 Dice.
It may be an unusual mix, but seems to work perfectly well, and there’s some decent bonus features thrown in just for good measure, such as wild substitutions, scatter pays, free spins, plus the gamble round and Jackpot Cards progressive prize that all pokies from this developer come with.
Something else the majority of EGT video pokies have is an attractive design and Amazons’ Story doesn’t disappoint, having an image of the jungle, complete with trees, creepers and a sunset behind the reels. Above the main part of the game, we see the title, and 4 steadily-increasing progressive jackpots, each linked to a playing card suit. Below the reels, there’s a set of control buttons, where the wager can be adjusted from a minimum of 0.30, to a high limit of 15.00, while free Amazons’ Story video pokies can be found at many casinos, if players prefer to test the game before they play for real money.
Playing Amazons’ Story
This is a conventional 5-reel , 30-payline game, where the symbols are arranged over 3 rows, and to claim a win in the base game, players will want to see 3 or more of the same symbol landing across a payline, on sequential reels from the left side. Those who review the paytable will see that all symbols contain a dice, although the higher-value ones have pictures superimposed on them. The least-valuable dice are the pink and light blue ones, and when 3, 4 or 5 of either type stop across a payline, the wins will be equal to 2x, 8x or 15x the amount staked per line.
Green and red dice will pay a little more, then moving up we see the dark blue dice and the light green will pay 8x, 15x or 30x the line bet. To give this pokie a relatively distinct appearance, there’s several beautiful Amazonian women filling the top of the pay table, with the blonde only needing to be on reels 1 and 2 to pay out 5x the line bet, and a full run of this symbol across a payline being worth 50x.
A couple of bonus symbols will mix things up a little, with a horse paying out the best wins in the normal run of play, but also being a stacked wild symbol, acting as all except the scatter if it can then create a winning combination.
Amazons' Story
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Free Spins Bonus Game
A decorative double-headed axe is another stacked symbol, and while it only pays out 60 coins, and at least 7 of them need to be in view at once to get even that, it will also be the trigger for a free spins round. Just 7 extra spins are awarded, but if 8 axes appear at once, then players are given 15 extra games and 9 scatters will equal the best award of 30 spins.
Gamble Game
Wins of 1050 coins or below can be gambled in an optional round that doubles the prize if players correctly pick if a rapidly-flashing playing card is a red or black suit. They can then try to double it again and again, or collect the prize at any stake, but of course, a wrong pick loses the gamble.
Jackpot Cards
Any of those 4 progressive jackpots can be won in the randomly-triggered Jackpot Cards round, where players see 12 playing cards and reveal the suits when clicking on them in turn. The first suit found on 3 cards will see the corresponding jackpot paid out, from the small Club win to the substantial Spades prize.
The Verdict
This is a low volatility pokie that would probably be best suited to casual players rather than high roller gamblers. The low maximum wager, and the way symbols tend to line up for frequent, but smaller payouts, should be fine for most punters however, and there’s enough going on with the bonus features to make this an interesting set of reels to spin.
Using the same symbols taken from another pokie seems like a bit of a cheat, and while the bonuses are certainly quite good, there’s nothing very innovative about them. However, that isn’t really the aim of this online casino pokie, and EGT have delivered an entertaining game that deserves to find a wide audience.