Gladiator Legends: Slot Overview
In these modern times of ours, there aren't always huge
opportunities to feel like legends in the 🎅 workplace. We might pull off some
particularly tricky VLOOKUP or nail a presentation, but how many times do we get 🎅 the
chance to step back from victory in an arena, pulse thumping, dripping sweat, while
100,000 spectators go wild? There's 🎅 a good chance this will never happen, and to be
honest, this is probably a good thing since fighting in 🎅 the Colosseum was a risky
profession. Much better to take advantage of games like Gladiator Legends from Hacksaw
Gaming which 🎅 captures the spirit of the arena where it is possible to find glory
without risking life or limb.
For players who 🎅 like to pretend they're warriors on the
reels, Hacksaw has made mental conceptualisation easier due to Gladiator Legends'
exceptional presentation. 🎅 If the studio had been on a 300 binge when designing the
game, it wouldn't be a surprise because Gladiator 🎅 Legends has a similar comic book
meets real-life look that is thoroughly Frank Miller-ish. In the middle of the screen
🎅 sits a 5-reel, 4-row game area amidst swords, arrows, ashes; the detritus of battle. If
you are still not quite 🎅 ready to get your war gear on, the darkly dramatic soundtrack
might be enough to push you over the line 🎅 for a spin. It's heavy stuff, and all the
excuse armchair slot warriors could ever need to suit up for 🎅 battle.
Playable on
tablet, mobile, or desktop devices, slot gladiators can pick bets from 10 p/c toR$/€100
per spin. It's highly 🎅 volatile, Hacksaw having rated this part of the math model a full
5 out of 5, while the standard return 🎅 value is 96.31%. There are also four bonus buy
options affecting RTP, all of which are noted in the next 🎅 section. Hit frequency,
meanwhile, has been recorded at 26.71% and occurs when matching symbols land across one
of the 10 🎅 paylines, starting from the leftmost side of the panel.
The pay symbols are
made up of five low value 10-A card 🎅 royals and five bloodied instruments of war.
Landing five identical symbols on a payline is worth a payout of 0.5-1 🎅 times the stake
when made up of low pays, or 5-30x the bet for the highs. Growling lion wilds land 🎅 in
any reel to replace any of the high or low paying symbols. If five wilds land on a
line, 🎅 they are worth 30x the bet as well.
Gladiator Legends: Slot Features
We're no
experts, but there is a chance some professional 🎅 gladiators honed their skill on one
weapon whereas others trained on a variety of instruments. For Gladiator Legends,
Hacksaw has 🎅 taken the latter, scattergun approach, and stacked the game with a wide
selection of features.
VS Symbols
VS symbols expand into full-reel 🎅 Duel Reel symbols,
and have 2 multipliers, representing two gladiators; the gladiator's battle and the
winning fighter's multiplier is applied 🎅 to the entire reel. Note, VS symbols only
expand in the base game if they can form a win. Also 🎅 in the base game, Duel Reels can
be wild with a multiplier or without. Multipliers in the base game range 🎅 from x2 to
x100, and if more than one is used in a win, the multipliers are added together before
🎅 being applied to the win.
Champions of the Arena
This bonus is triggered when 3 Arena
symbols are in view and starts 🎅 with 3 spins that are reset whenever a VS symbol lands.
Once in, keep an eye on the Reel Multiplier 🎅 sitting above each reel - when a VS symbol
hits, the winning Reel Multiplier replaces the current Reel Multiplier. Moreover,
🎅 multiplier coin symbols can appear in this round – Normal Coins and Epic Coins:
Normal
Coins reveal a multiplier of x2-x10 🎅 , which multiplies the corresponding Reel
Multiplier above it .
reveal a , which multiplies the corresponding . Epic Coins have
🎅 multipliers of x2-x10 and multiply all Reel Multipliers. When spins run out, the sum of
all Reel Multipliers times the 🎅 bet is awarded.
Worth noting is that Duel Reels in the
Champions of the Arena bonus have multipliers of x1 to 🎅 x1,000.
Unleash the
Beast
Unleash the Beast also starts with 3 spins and is activated when 3 Beast symbols
land at the 🎅 same time. As in the other bonus, spins reset whenever a VS symbol hits.
Here, reels 1, 2, 4, and 🎅 5 have reel multipliers, but when Duel Reels hit, their value
is added to the respective Reel Multiplier instead of 🎅 replacing it. Reel 3 is the
locked Beast Reel which is unlocked when a VS symbol has landed on all 🎅 of the other 4
reels. When unlocked, reel 3 has a special Beast Duel multiplier which multiplies the
other reels' 🎅 Duel Multipliers before they are added to the Reel Multiplier. When the
game ends, the sum of all Reel Multiplier 🎅 is multiplied by the bet and paid. Lastly, in
Unleash the Beast, reels 1, 2, 4, or 5 can have 🎅 Duel Reel multipliers of x1 to x250,
while the middle Beast Reel can have x2 to x20.
Buy Bonus
If available, players 🎅 have
the choice of four bonus buys:
10x the bet guarantees a game round with at least 1 VS
symbol (RTP 🎅 is 96.45%).
guarantees a game round with (RTP is 96.45%). 40x the bet
guarantees a game round with at least 2 🎅 VS symbols (RTP is 96.4%).
guarantees a game
round with (RTP is 96.4%). 100x the bet buys Champions of the Arena 🎅 (RTP is
96.43%).
buys (RTP is 96.43%). 400x the bet buys Unleash the Beast (RTP is
96.46%).
Gladiator Legends: Slot Verdict
Hacksaw Gaming 🎅 continues to successfully
branch away from the sort of cutesy games they are famous for. We're certainly not
taking anything 🎅 away from their so-called lighter slots, yet the decision to explore a
grittier path is paying healthy dividends for players. 🎅 Slots like Wanted Dead or Alive
and The Bowery Boys are solid examples of Hacksaw's exploration of the heavier side 🎅 of
life. The slot Gladiator Legends most closely resembles, however, is probably Warrior
Ways due to the VS battles and 🎅 Reel Multiplier collection features.
If anything,
Gladiator Legends was a more exciting game to play than Warrior Ways. Hacksaw has done
🎅 a number on the theme, creating an ideal environment for virtual warriors to test their
mettle. It can be quite 🎅 a test, too. Another thing Hacksaw pulls off with consistent
regularity is crafting features or bonus games that can swing 🎅 from feeling
infuriatingly unfair to heroically spectacular in a heartbeat, and vice versa.
Gladiator Legends drips this quality. Swapping out 🎅 Reel Multipliers in Champions of the
Arena can be a tough pill to swallow when a measly multiplier bumps off 🎅 a juicy one.
You can see why there is such a price difference between the two bonus games since
Unleash 🎅 the Beast's reel multipliers are persistent; they don't get swapped. They can
mount up too, when the battle's going your 🎅 way, up to 10,000x the bet at
most.
Gladiator Legends is further evidence, if ever it was needed, of the breadth 🎅 of
Hacksaw Gaming's design talents. While the studio has plenty of expertise creating
Canny the Can, mobile-friendly Candy Crush type 🎅 slots, they are just as comfortable
dropping players into tightly adrenalised situations to let them fight it out for
potential 🎅 glory.
