Superstars: Slot Overview
Question, have you ever watched an awards ceremony, like the
Oscars and been enraptured by the star power 🔔 and talent on display or repulsed by a
perceived phoney backslapping look at us we're famous attitude? If you're in 🔔 the first
camp, we've got a slot that might have you going gaga. Superstars is the slot in
question, and 🔔 comes from software provider NetEnt. Like an award ceremony, or similar
to Nintendo's All Star games, NetEnt has gathered a 🔔 group of their most beloved star
characters and jammed them into a single online slot and accompanied each one of 🔔 them
with their own feature.
As to the stars, the big names on show here are Finn, Gonzo,
Lady Pig, Brute, 🔔 and a star from the studio's iconic Starburst slot. Bringing together
five colossal characters has got to be easier when 🔔 they are from casino games compared
to real life. Actors in the seventh Fast & Furious movie made headlines for 🔔 apparently
including limits in their contracts over how much punishment they would take on screen.
Some drew the conclusion that 🔔 none of the three male leads wanted to come off weaker
than the others. Fortunately, there's none of that going 🔔 on in Superstars, where the
characters happily share space on a 5x5 game grid, backgrounded by a big rainbow for
🔔 this NetEnt family reunion.
Superstars has been designed to run on any device, and lets
players pick stakes of 10 p/c 🔔 toR$/€100 per spin. It's not a particularly massive slot;
potential is decent enough but not mind-blowing at 4,596 times the 🔔 stake, while the
math model runs medium/high volatile. The game may be found with three RTP options,
maxing out at 🔔 96.08% before dropping to 94.06% or 92.01% for the two lower
models.
Lining the 5x5 grid are 45 ways to win, 🔔 occurring when matching symbols hit
from the leftmost side on consecutive reels. 10 to ace card ranks are used as 🔔 the low
pays before the characters appear as the high pays – Lady Pig, Finn, Brute, Gonzo, and
the Starburst 🔔 icon. Wilds don't land in the base game but scatters do; let's see where
they lead us.
Superstars: Slot Features
Not a 🔔 lot out of the ordinary really happens in
the base game, but this can change when at least 3 diamond 🔔 symbols are collected. Doing
so triggers the free spins round, which is a mix of hold 'n win, with the 🔔 reels
surrounded by a board game.
Once triggered, 3 spins are awarded, with the triggering
scatters converted into random multipliers on 🔔 the reels. When new multipliers land
during the feature, the number of spins is reset to 3. If a Dice 🔔 symbol was on reel 5
when activated, it substitutes for a scatter, and players get to roll a Dice to 🔔 move a
token around the game board. Extra dice can randomly land on the reels or be won from
some 🔔 of the features. When a Dice is collected, it is rolled to determine how many
steps around the board the 🔔 token moves. Landing on certain game board squares triggers
these features:
Finn feature – adds +5 to up to five multiplier 🔔 prizes on the reels,
which are then combined into 1, meaning more multipliers are able to land.
– adds +5 to
🔔 up to five multiplier prizes on the reels, which are then combined into 1, meaning more
multipliers are able to 🔔 land. Gonzo feature – multiplies up to 24 random multipliers
prizes by x2, x3, or x5.
– multiplies up to 24 🔔 random multipliers prizes by x2, x3, or
x5. Miss Banks feature – places up to 15 random multiplier prizes onto 🔔 the reels worth
up to 5x. If the new prize lands on a prize already there, the values are added.
–
🔔 places up to 15 random multiplier prizes onto the reels worth up to 5x. If the new
prize lands on 🔔 a prize already there, the values are added. Space Wars feature – three
of the highest multiplier prizes are cloned, 🔔 and three extra respins awarded. Only
cloned prizes may land on the respins.
– three of the highest multiplier prizes are
🔔 cloned, and three extra respins awarded. Only cloned prizes may land on the respins.
Starburst feature – places a vertical 🔔 stack of three equal multiplier prizes worth 2x
to 5x.
– places a vertical stack of three equal multiplier prizes worth 🔔 2x to 5x. Extra
Spin feature – landing on the top right square of the board increases the spin count 🔔 up
to 4 rather than 3. When spins are reset, they reset to four from then on.
– landing on
the 🔔 top right square of the board increases the spin count up to 4 rather than 3. When
spins are reset, 🔔 they reset to four from then on. Extra Life feature – manage to go all
away around the board grants 🔔 an extra life in the form of a heart. The next time the
spins counter hits 0, the life resets 🔔 it to the max number – 3 or 4.
Wheel Game
If the
token lands on a Wheel square, players get to 🔔 spin the wheel for one of these prizes:
1
additional dice.
additional dice. 2 additional dice.
additional dice. +1 - All
Multiplier prizes 🔔 on the reels increase by +1.
- All Multiplier prizes on the reels
increase by +1. Upgrade – adds 1 times 🔔 the bet to all blank squares on the game board.
If the token lands on one, the values of multiplier 🔔 prizes on the reels increase.
–
adds 1 times the bet to all blank squares on the game board. If the 🔔 token lands on one,
the values of multiplier prizes on the reels increase. Random – awards one of the Finn,
🔔 Gonzo, Miss Banks, Space Wars, or Starburst features.
– awards one of the Finn, Gonzo,
Miss Banks, Space Wars, or Starburst 🔔 features. Replay – replays the next Bonus feature
if one is triggered.
Final Game
If all of the spaces on the reels 🔔 are filled with
multiplier prizes, the Final Game is triggered. The squares on the game board are given
values of 🔔 25x to 1,000x except the top right and bottom left corners which award Dice
if landed on. Players enter the 🔔 Final Game carrying the number of Dice they had in free
spins. The maximum number of free spins plus the 🔔 number of hearts is transferred into
Dice for the Final Game. If you have an unused Replay, the first Dice 🔔 roll number is
doubled.
Buy Feature
Players keen and able to dive straight into the bonus round with
the help of the 🔔 bonus buy option can do so at the cost of 150x the bet total
bet.
Superstars: Slot Verdict
If you're familiar with 🔔 the characters in Superstars,
it's a bit like the line from the Cheers theme song, 'Where everybody knows your name',
🔔 in reverse, or some such thing. At times, when tv shows do an episode made up of
snippets of past 🔔 episodes, they can come across like wafer-thin filler, but Superstars,
fortunately, doesn't feel like that. Instead, you get the impression 🔔 that the NetEnt
team might have had a bit of fun making this, running through their extensive back
catalogue, trawling 🔔 for popular characters they could rope into a single all-star slot
and see what might happen.
The result is a game 🔔 that should be rather appealing to
players who can name the stars. It's not mandatory to know all of them 🔔 to enjoy the
game, of course, but it might help. The base game is a little so-so since there really
🔔 isn't anything special to it; NetEnt has saved the creative juices to pour them into a
fairly elaborate bonus round. 🔔 In a nutshell, the bonus round is a hold 'n win feature
with a stack of extras to work your 🔔 way through, depending on how Dice are won and
rolled. As alluded to before, Superstars isn't a massive game, but 🔔 when the stars are
performing and the multipliers are adding up, it can go all the way through to 4,596
🔔 times the stake. Bigger than some of the games its characters are drawn from, smaller
than others.
Add up all of 🔔 the bits, pieces, and characters, and you've got a pretty
fun game on your hands. If you consider slots like 🔔 Money Train 3 to be the acme of hold
'n wins, then Superstars may come over a bit lite. Still, 🔔 Superstars isn't trying to
compete in that division, aiming instead for a more general audience or players
nostalgically warmed by 🔔 the thought of having so much online slot star power brought
together in one place.
