Treasures Of Troy Pokies
Casino games developer IGT takes players back to an historical moment in ancient Greece with their Treasures of Troy pokie. Loosely based on real events, there’s images of Achilles, Helen of Troy, swords and even the famous wooden horse across the 5 reels of this game, but perhaps of more interest is the way that it plays, with the Multiway Xtra system making it easier to line up symbols for a win, and bonuses such as free spins and wild substitutions all helping to bring in the cash.
Famed for the events of the Trojan Wars, where legend has it 1000 ships were sent to take the city after Helen was whisked away by a prince, Troy has been the subject of pokies before, but any game based on ancient civilisations is sure to attract loyal fans, so IGT have come out with a sure-fire hit.To help set the scene, a picture of the city peeks out from behind the reels, and these are in turn contained within the columns and roof of a temple, with control buttons below and the game title above it all.
Talking of control buttons, there’s the option to play this game in different modes, with players able to activate 40 paylines for 1,024 different winning ways to line up symbols, or they can go for the Multiway Xtra format, where any time the symbol that made up a win appears on a reel more than once, the prize is multiplied. It costs more to take the Multiway Xtra road, but wins will occur more frequently to compensate, and whichever is chosen, symbols only need to be on adjacent reels to win, not on defined paylines..
Playing Treasures Of Troy
Once the playing format has been decided upon, it’s time to spin up some wins. The standard high card symbols will create the lower value winning lines, and assuming the more popular Multiway Xtra option is chosen, the J, Q, K and A are all worth 10 coins when they land across reels 1 to 4, and 40 coins if a 5 of a kind line is landed. A sword is worth 40 or 100 coins, with the warrior’s helmet valued the same, while a couple of un-named male characters will pay 75 coins for lines of 4, and 250 or 350 for full lines of 5.
Helen of Troy is the star of the show and the cause of all the troubles, but she is also the most valuable symbol, paying out prizes equal to 100 coins when she lands on 4 reels and 500 when she appears across all 5.
By playing 40 lines, only 3 matching symbols need appear to get a win, but while the paytable may imply that bigger wins will occur and that they are easier to land, without the potential to multiply prizes when several symbols appear on a reel, it pretty much balances itself out.
Treasures Of Troy
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Bonus Features
Although it won’t appear on reel 1 on the left side, the Treasures of Troy game logo is a wild that can land on any other reel and act as any symbol if it can complete a winning line.
The wooden horse was used by the invading armies to get inside Troy and open the gates to the city, and in this pokie, the horse symbol gets players inside a free spins bonus game whenever it trots into any 2 or more positions at once. If just 2 landed, they are granted 10 free games, 3 wooden horse symbols will trigger 15 spins and if 5 turned up, then 20 free games will play out.
During these spin, the horse symbol will appear reversed for some reason, but not to worry, as landing it again will retrigger further free games which will start once any left in the current round have finished, to a potential maximum of 130 spins.
The VerdictA classic theme should be more than enough to get players to seek out the Treasures of Troy, but looks are not everything, and this pokie delivers the goods, both in the normal run of play and in the free games.
The fact that different formats can be chosen is a nice feature in itself, and a fairlyunusual one that gives players with smaller bankrolls the option to stake less per spin, although the average returns will be about the same.
It’s perhaps a pity that the playing card symbols haven’t been re-designed to go with the ancient Greek subject matter, and the mix of symbols is the same in the free spins as it is in the base game, but other than these points, Treasures of Troy is a quality pokie.