Spin and Score Megaways Review
With the 2024 FIFA World Cup in Qatar coming up in late November, we expect to ♣ see a bunch of football slots from different developers eager to cash in on the hype. Pragmatic Play is hardly ♣ gonna win any award for the most original football release with Spin and Score Megaways, as this is a simple ♣ reskin of Power of Thor Megaways minus the bonus buy option.
It’s the third reskin job actually, following the recent Legend ♣ of Heroes Megaways, and you get to meet some generic footballers that hardly do much to give this game any ♣ personality. The dynamic grid is placed in the middle of a jam-packed stadium, and you get the Big Wild transformation ♣ feature, a progressive multiplier bonus round and a 5,000x potential.
Spin and Score Megaways Slot - Reels Screen
Spin and Score Megaways ♣ Slot Features
The premium football player symbols pay between 2 and 20 x your stake for 6 of a kind wins, ♣ and all winning symbols are removed via the Tumble mechanic. This opens up gaps for new and/or existing symbols to ♣ drop down to create new winning combos, and this process repeats as long as you keep winning.
The Golden Ball Wild ♣ appears on the top horizontal reel only, and it steps in for pay symbols to help complete wins. In addition, ♣ you can slide in a 2-position Big Wild on the top horizontal reel, and it transforms all symbols directly below ♣ into wilds if fully in view. This can repeat if the big wild changes positions via the tumble feature, but ♣ the big wild has to be fully in view to trigger the transformation modifier.
The Bonus Round triggers when you land ♣ 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9 scatters in view, and this gives you 10, 14, 18, 22, 26 or ♣ 30 free spins, respectively. You can gamble to win more free spins if you get between 10 and 18 spins ♣ initially, and this is done via a wheel of fortune that awards +4 extra spin per successful gamble. A single ♣ loss on the wheel means you lose the whole bonus round.
The most you can get from the gamble wheel is ♣ 22 free spins, and the progressive win multiplier starts at x1 when the bonus round starts. The win multiplier increases ♣ by +1 per tumble win, and there is no limit as to how high it can go. The Big Wilds ♣ feature can trigger in the bonus round as well, and landing 3 scatters anywhere in the same tumble sequence awards ♣ +4 extra spins.
The 200 Spins Spin and Score Megaways Slot Experience
You get a decent taste of the base game, before ♣ we trigger the bonus round with 5 scatters right after the 1-minute mark. We decided to collect the 14 free ♣ spins we got instead of risking it all on the gamble wheel, and the feature plays out for the remainder ♣ of the 4:46-minute highlights video. You can check it all out for yourself by hitting the play button below.
Review Summary
The ♣ problem with most, if not all, football slots, is that they are not even remotely as engaging as watching the ♣ game itself. Playing a round of Fifa online on your PS4 or PS5 is also a lot more fun, and ♣ Spin and Score Megaways comes with uninspired, generic visuals and a somewhat annoying soundtrack. In addition, this is also the ♣ third reskin of Power of Thor Megaways, which admittedly has been somewhat of a success for Pragmatic Play.
Without the star ♣ power emanating from the Norse god, nor any real world football stars like you get in Blueprint’s D10S Maradona, there ♣ is not much here to be attracted to except the features. Double wild reels with a decent multiplier can lead ♣ to okay payouts, but the 5,000x potential is still half of what most players expect from this engine. The bonus ♣ buy option is also gone, so despite being football fans we much prefer the original Norse mythology release over this.
Pros ♣ Big Wild triggers double wild reels
FS w/ progressive win multiplier
Gamble for up to 22 FS up front
Max win probability of ♣ 1 in 867,302 Cons 5,000x potential is below par for this engine
Third reskin of Power of Thor Megaways
Beware of customizable ♣ RTP ranges
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D10S Maradona - is a far better alternative ♣ to the game at hand in our humble opinion, and this branded Blueprint release comes with 4 different cash symbol ♣ collect features. An accumulating cash pot upgrades all cash symbols on the climactic final free spin, and you can win ♣ up to 10,000x your stake.
Power of Thor Megaways - is the somewhat successful original release in what looks like it’s ♣ becoming a reskin series from Pragmatic Play. You get a top reel that provides the Big Wild, which again turns ♣ all symbols below wild. The progressive multiplier bonus round is the same, and so is the 5,000x potential.
Spinions Game Day ♣ - is one of the better football slots we’ve tried actually, despite the non-serious approach. At least you get to ♣ see some ball passing action, and the Spinion characters are as charming as ever. You can look forward to respins ♣ with moving wild multipliers that increase per pass, and the multiplier never resets in the bonus round.
