Gates of Troy: Slot Overview
Get all sword-and-sandals with software provider Play'n GO
in the historically or mythologically minded online slot 👄 Gates of Troy. Those familiar
with Ancient Greece will immediately spot the connection with the Trojan War, an event
that 👄 has rung down the ages, honoured in Homer's Iliad and countless other retellings.
This time it is Play'n GO putting 👄 its spin on the classic tale in an online slot which
counts Guaranteed Scatters, multiplier wilds, and free spins with 👄 wild frames as its
features.
It's no wonder Ancient Greece has stuck in the popular imagination for so
long. It's just 👄 got so much good stuff, from architecture, sculpture, legends, myths,
stories, and more going on. Play'n GO has done an 👄 okay job of bottling some of these
things for Gates of Troy, which is played on a game grid set 👄 in stone before a
background of colonnaded structures, mountains, clouds, seas, and ships. The plinky
soundtrack is quite nice, so 👄 all in all, Gates of Troy is a pleasant-looking and
sounding slot, but one that Play'n GO was unlikely to 👄 have stretched itself to
create.
Gates of Troy is a medium volatile slot played on a panel consisting of 5 reels
👄 holding 4 symbols each. Lining the board are 30 fixed paylines where winning
combinations of three to five of a 👄 kind may land. Playable on any device, stakes vary
from 10 p/c toR$/€30 per spin.
Pointy, Greek-ish fonted 10-A card ranks 👄 line the lower
side of the pay table, while the premium symbols are made up of vases, fruit bowls, and
👄 presumably Paris and Helen as the two highest paying tiles. Landing a five of a kind
winning line awards 2-2.8x 👄 the bet when made up of card symbols or 6.5 to 20 times the
stake for the premiums. Wild symbols 👄 appear on all reels with the ability to replace
any normal paying symbol. As well as being worth up to 👄 30x the bet for a winning line
of five wilds, some wilds may appear with multiplier values on them as 👄 well.
Gates of
Troy: Slot Features
The Trojan Horse is a symbol of the blue-sky thinking needed to
gain access to Troy, 👄 which had withstood the Greek attack for years. The features in
Gates of Troy, by comparison, aren't anywhere near as 👄 innovative and include Guaranteed
Scatters and free spins with wild frames.
Guaranteed Scatters
When this feature is
randomly triggered in the base 👄 game, 2 scatters will be placed on the reels in the hope
of landing at least the third, thereby triggering 👄 free spins.
Free Spins
Landing 3, 4,
or 5 scatter symbols awards 10 free spins plus a payout of 1x, 10x, or 👄 100x the bet. In
free spins, whenever a wild symbol hits, it leaves a frame around the position it
landed 👄 in. Frames remain in position for the remainder of the round. On the final free
spin, all frames on the 👄 reels are filled with wild symbols.
Gates of Troy: Slot
Verdict
Whether the Trojan War was or wasn't an actual historic event, 👄 as some are wont
to debate, it is one of the more memorable moments in Ancient Greek history/mythology.
Gates of 👄 Troy, by contrast, is not one of Play'n GO's more memorable moments. In fact,
it felt like it was made 👄 on the fly, with little thought having been invested in its
creation. The artwork is nice, particularly the background scenery, 👄 but the rest is
forgettably prosaic.
For one, the base game is pretty pedestrian. There are multiplier
wilds, fair dues; who's 👄 going to say no to those? Yet, the other feature, Guaranteed
Scatters, is not the most rousing addition since other 👄 games manage to land two
scatters on a single spin without having to do a song and dance about it. 👄 Guaranteed
Scatters came across as unnecessary hoopla rather than something exciting to look
forward to. Moreover, landing more than three 👄 scatters does not award extra free spins,
making the availability of scatters on all five reels redundant.
Then there are free
👄 spins themselves, with wilds framing the positions they land in, then turning all wild
on the final free spin. Not 👄 a hugely uncommon occurrence in an online slot and one not
used to great effect here. While we're picking holes, 👄 slots that have this feature
often offer it in the base game as well as in free spins. Why pick 👄 Gates of Troy over
them? It's hard to think of a reason, really. It's certainly not the potential which is
👄 about as humdrum as the rest of Gates of Troy at 3,000x the bet. If you like the frame
position 👄 to wild/wild multiplier concept but want a more thrilling experience with
greater potential, then Slotmill's adrenalised slot The Big Hit 👄 might be one to check
out.
To sum up, is it too much of an exaggeration to wonder if a foot 👄 soldier in the
Greek army who didn't give a hootenanny about Paris, Helen, Menelaus or any other of
the main 👄 protagonists would have felt more jaded fighting on the battlefields around
Troy year after year than we did playing Gates 👄 of Troy?
