Spartacus Gladiator of Rome Pokies
There are a couple of online casino pokies based on the true story of a Roman slave who raised an army and almost brought the empire down, and one of the newest is the Spartacus Gladiator of Rome video pokie by WMS Gaming. It’s got the popular Colossal Reels feature, where a giant set of reels, 12 symbol positions high, sit to the right side of the screen, while a more conventional 5-reel set, 4 rows high, take up the left side.
Features such as stacked symbols, scatter payouts and a free spins game should be enough to bring players to these super-sized reels, and of course, it’s got the classic ancient civilisation theme that seems to be hugely popular with online casino players worldwide. Columns sit behind the reels, along with the title, and underneath is the standard set of controls used across the WMS Gaming range. These are used to set bet sizes from the low limit of 0.10 to a maximum of 250.00 per spin, although free Spartacus Gladiator of Rome video pokie games can be tried at many sites.
The buttons also open up the pay table, which reveals what each winning combination is worth, and players will need to line up 3 or more symbols of the same kind on adjacent reels to win anything in normal play.
Playing Spartacus Gladiator of Rome
The playing card hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades symbols are the ones that players are going to see the most often, and while some may not like these generic icons filling much of the game, when they start to pay out frequent wins, most won’t be too bothered about it. Like all symbols, they can be stacked on the reels, so despite the Colossal set being 12 symbols high, there may be only 2 or 3 different symbol types on each, which makes it easier than it looks to line matching symbols up across them.
A sword and shield, gladiator helmet, lion, and mean-looking gladiator swinging a mace around make up the higher value symbols, but even these are topped by Spartacus and the female gladiator, who are both 9 symbols high. These special images give the Spartacus Gladiator of Rome video pokie some real visual impact and when they stop across either set of reels, there’s a positive impact on the bankrolls of any player who lands them.
Obviously, the left side set of reels won’t be able to display these two characters in full, but this only makes it even easier to get winning lines of the highest-value symbols and plenty of coins paid out.
Spartacus Gladiator of Rome
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Bonus Features
The game logo acts as a wild symbol, giving it the ability to substitute for all others, apart from the Colosseum to help make winning lines up. As well as completing combinations, it can also stretch winning lines across additional reels, although it’s not worth anything on its own, but will also be a stacked wild, potentially covering any reel that it appears on. The wild has another special skill however, as any that appear on the left side reels will move across to the Colossal set and again, will potentially cover all 12 spots, hopefully completing a few winning lines on this side as well, although it’s not guaranteed.
The Colosseum was where the main gladiator fights took place in ancient Rome, so it’s only appropriate that it is given prominence in this pokie, turning up on reels 1, 3 and 5 of either reel set to trigger the main bonus rounds. Any 3 or more feature symbols, in any positions across the total of 10 reels, will award a scatter payout and then a number of free spins will commence.
If 3 Colosseum symbols appeared, a win of 2x the triggering bet is paid, followed by 8 free spins, while 4 of them will first award 5x the total bet, with 12 spins, and 5 scattered across the reels will see a win of 20x the bet followed by 20 free spins playing out. During the bonus games, any wild symbols will be guaranteed to cover a whole reel, and then be copied on the giant set, becoming an expanding wild that will fill these as well, while 3 or more scatters will retrigger the free spins.
The Verdict
The Colossal Reels layout has proved to be a big success for WMS Gaming and it’s easy to see why, not least because of the impressive sight where giant reels, 12 symbols high are spinning. The stacked symbols make it relatively easy to land some wins, and the way that wild symbols transfer across from the left set to the right ones, with the potential to create further winning combinations for free, is one of the main attractions of this quality online casino game.