300 Shields Slot machine review

300 Shields

300 Shields, a 5 reel slot with 25 paylines, was made by the guys from amaya. The game's features include a scatter symbol, a wild, free spins and a $5,000 top jackpot.

The 300 Spartans that went against the army of the Persian Empire are famous for their heroic last stand. Movies were made around their heroic feats in the past, with the latest one being called “300", and movies will be made about them in the future as well. It's an inspiring story, one that we love to read about, or see it re-enacted. This Slot is themed around those brave 300 warriors, and it's a decent design overall. The reels are placed in the middle of the screen, with the image in the background being an image of Greece, with the temples on the hills in the distance, and with grain crops closer by. The game makes use of the usual mix of card symbols, starting with the 9, and continuing until the A symbol, and each one has an arrow stuck in it, a sign that even they didn't escape unharmed from the attack of the Persians. The other symbols which the game includes have images with a warrior, a shield, an archer, a ship, a short sword and a group of arrows in mid flight.

Wagers placed on the game's 25 lines use coins of $0.01 to $5 each, for a maximum bet possible of $125. The top jackpot is 1000 coins, and it can be worth up to $5,000. One can win that top jackpot with the warrior symbol, when it takes up all the spaces on a payline. That means having five symbols with this warrior on them.

The same warrior is used as the 300 Shields wild symbol, so it will substitute for the rest of the regular symbols in the game, the one major exception being the scatter symbol, which uses the image of a shield.

The scatter will have two roles in this game. One of them is giving the player prizes in cash, multiples of the total bet made during that round. For the prizes to be awarded, the player needs 2 to 5 symbols anywhere on the reels, and the prizes will be 2 to 100 times what was wagered during that round.

If at least three scatters are present, a round with free spins is activated, where the player gets as a special feature a multiplier which is available for all wins that have a warrior in them. The multiplier keeps growing, the more shields the player collects during the Free Spins, up to a huge 300x multiplier.

The game is well designed, gives the player the chance to win some decent prizes, and has multipliers of up to 300x in it. It's definitely recommended.