Superstars: Slot Overview
Question, have you ever watched an awards ceremony, like the
Oscars and been enraptured by the star power4️⃣ and talent on display or repulsed by a
perceived phoney backslapping look at us we're famous attitude? If you're in4️⃣ the first
camp, we've got a slot that might have you going gaga. Superstars is the slot in
question, and4️⃣ comes from software provider NetEnt. Like an award ceremony, or similar
to Nintendo's All Star games, NetEnt has gathered a4️⃣ group of their most beloved star
characters and jammed them into a single online slot and accompanied each one of4️⃣ them
with their own feature.
As to the stars, the big names on show here are Finn, Gonzo,
Lady Pig, Brute,4️⃣ and a star from the studio's iconic Starburst slot. Bringing together
five colossal characters has got to be easier when4️⃣ they are from casino games compared
to real life. Actors in the seventh Fast & Furious movie made headlines for4️⃣ apparently
including limits in their contracts over how much punishment they would take on screen.
Some drew the conclusion that4️⃣ none of the three male leads wanted to come off weaker
than the others. Fortunately, there's none of that going4️⃣ on in Superstars, where the
characters happily share space on a 5x5 game grid, backgrounded by a big rainbow for
4️⃣ this NetEnt family reunion.
Superstars has been designed to run on any device, and lets
players pick stakes of 10 p/c4️⃣ toR$/€100 per spin. It's not a particularly massive slot;
potential is decent enough but not mind-blowing at 4,596 times the4️⃣ stake, while the
math model runs medium/high volatile. The game may be found with three RTP options,
maxing out at4️⃣ 96.08% before dropping to 94.06% or 92.01% for the two lower
models.
Lining the 5x5 grid are 45 ways to win,4️⃣ occurring when matching symbols hit
from the leftmost side on consecutive reels. 10 to ace card ranks are used as4️⃣ the low
pays before the characters appear as the high pays – Lady Pig, Finn, Brute, Gonzo, and
the Starburst4️⃣ icon. Wilds don't land in the base game but scatters do; let's see where
they lead us.
Superstars: Slot Features
Not a4️⃣ lot out of the ordinary really happens in
the base game, but this can change when at least 3 diamond4️⃣ symbols are collected. Doing
so triggers the free spins round, which is a mix of hold 'n win, with the4️⃣ reels
surrounded by a board game.
Once triggered, 3 spins are awarded, with the triggering
scatters converted into random multipliers on4️⃣ the reels. When new multipliers land
during the feature, the number of spins is reset to 3. If a Dice4️⃣ symbol was on reel 5
when activated, it substitutes for a scatter, and players get to roll a Dice to4️⃣ move a
token around the game board. Extra dice can randomly land on the reels or be won from
some4️⃣ of the features. When a Dice is collected, it is rolled to determine how many
steps around the board the4️⃣ token moves. Landing on certain game board squares triggers
these features:
Finn feature – adds +5 to up to five multiplier4️⃣ prizes on the reels,
which are then combined into 1, meaning more multipliers are able to land.
– adds +5 to
4️⃣ up to five multiplier prizes on the reels, which are then combined into 1, meaning more
multipliers are able to4️⃣ land. Gonzo feature – multiplies up to 24 random multipliers
prizes by x2, x3, or x5.
– multiplies up to 244️⃣ random multipliers prizes by x2, x3, or
x5. Miss Banks feature – places up to 15 random multiplier prizes onto4️⃣ the reels worth
up to 5x. If the new prize lands on a prize already there, the values are added.
–
4️⃣ places up to 15 random multiplier prizes onto the reels worth up to 5x. If the new
prize lands on4️⃣ a prize already there, the values are added. Space Wars feature – three
of the highest multiplier prizes are cloned,4️⃣ and three extra respins awarded. Only
cloned prizes may land on the respins.
– three of the highest multiplier prizes are
4️⃣ cloned, and three extra respins awarded. Only cloned prizes may land on the respins.
Starburst feature – places a vertical4️⃣ stack of three equal multiplier prizes worth 2x
to 5x.
– places a vertical stack of three equal multiplier prizes worth4️⃣ 2x to 5x. Extra
Spin feature – landing on the top right square of the board increases the spin count4️⃣ up
to 4 rather than 3. When spins are reset, they reset to four from then on.
– landing on
the4️⃣ top right square of the board increases the spin count up to 4 rather than 3. When
spins are reset,4️⃣ they reset to four from then on. Extra Life feature – manage to go all
away around the board grants4️⃣ an extra life in the form of a heart. The next time the
spins counter hits 0, the life resets4️⃣ it to the max number – 3 or 4.
Wheel Game
If the
token lands on a Wheel square, players get to4️⃣ spin the wheel for one of these prizes:
1
additional dice.
additional dice. 2 additional dice.
additional dice. +1 - All
Multiplier prizes4️⃣ on the reels increase by +1.
- All Multiplier prizes on the reels
increase by +1. Upgrade – adds 1 times4️⃣ the bet to all blank squares on the game board.
If the token lands on one, the values of multiplier4️⃣ prizes on the reels increase.
–
adds 1 times the bet to all blank squares on the game board. If the4️⃣ token lands on one,
the values of multiplier prizes on the reels increase. Random – awards one of the Finn,
4️⃣ Gonzo, Miss Banks, Space Wars, or Starburst features.
– awards one of the Finn, Gonzo,
Miss Banks, Space Wars, or Starburst4️⃣ features. Replay – replays the next Bonus feature
if one is triggered.
Final Game
If all of the spaces on the reels4️⃣ are filled with
multiplier prizes, the Final Game is triggered. The squares on the game board are given
values of4️⃣ 25x to 1,000x except the top right and bottom left corners which award Dice
if landed on. Players enter the4️⃣ Final Game carrying the number of Dice they had in free
spins. The maximum number of free spins plus the4️⃣ number of hearts is transferred into
Dice for the Final Game. If you have an unused Replay, the first Dice4️⃣ roll number is
doubled.
Buy Feature
Players keen and able to dive straight into the bonus round with
the help of the4️⃣ bonus buy option can do so at the cost of 150x the bet total
bet.
Superstars: Slot Verdict
If you're familiar with4️⃣ the characters in Superstars,
it's a bit like the line from the Cheers theme song, 'Where everybody knows your name',
4️⃣ in reverse, or some such thing. At times, when tv shows do an episode made up of
snippets of past4️⃣ episodes, they can come across like wafer-thin filler, but Superstars,
fortunately, doesn't feel like that. Instead, you get the impression4️⃣ that the NetEnt
team might have had a bit of fun making this, running through their extensive back
catalogue, trawling4️⃣ for popular characters they could rope into a single all-star slot
and see what might happen.
The result is a game4️⃣ that should be rather appealing to
players who can name the stars. It's not mandatory to know all of them4️⃣ to enjoy the
game, of course, but it might help. The base game is a little so-so since there really
4️⃣ isn't anything special to it; NetEnt has saved the creative juices to pour them into a
fairly elaborate bonus round.4️⃣ In a nutshell, the bonus round is a hold 'n win feature
with a stack of extras to work your4️⃣ way through, depending on how Dice are won and
rolled. As alluded to before, Superstars isn't a massive game, but4️⃣ when the stars are
performing and the multipliers are adding up, it can go all the way through to 4,596
4️⃣ times the stake. Bigger than some of the games its characters are drawn from, smaller
than others.
Add up all of4️⃣ the bits, pieces, and characters, and you've got a pretty
fun game on your hands. If you consider slots like4️⃣ Money Train 3 to be the acme of hold
'n wins, then Superstars may come over a bit lite. Still,4️⃣ Superstars isn't trying to
compete in that division, aiming instead for a more general audience or players
nostalgically warmed by4️⃣ the thought of having so much online slot star power brought
together in one place.
