Phoenix

The Phoenix slot from iSoftBet has 5 reels and 20 paylines. Potential prizes of up to $500,000 and the presence of free spins, bonus games, scatters and wild symbols all contribute and make this a game worth playing.

The entire game is themed around the mythical Phoenix bird that has its rebirth in fire. The fire and the bird themes are intertwined in this case, so you get a little bit of both. It's not a great design though, with a bit too much gold like colors used. You basically get different shades of gold and sometimes orange. When you do get the themed symbols, you will find that they look quite good and that they have the right styling and quality level. The problem is mostly the rest of the design, that surrounds the few good looking icons. Symbols start with playing cards (9-Ace), and then with the Phoenix bird egg, fire birds, the bird's eye, feathers, Chinese symbols and a logo.

The game's maximum bet has a nice round number when it comes to its number of coins, 100, which are spread across the 20 paylines with 5 coins on each one. The value of a coin goes up to $1, with the starting point being at $0.01. Depending on your choice of coin value, those 100 coins can have a value between $1 and $100. Payouts should go up to 500,000 coins, or the same amount in dollars.

The Phoenix bird is the one to give you that kind of payout, but not directly. Instead, the player gets access to the bonus game if he finds three to five of those symbols on his reels. During this bonus game, the player is taken in the middle of a beautiful fantasy scene, with flowers, musical notes and the phoenix all part of it. You get three levels that you have to go through in order to get paid.

A second bonus symbol exists, also with a phoenix fire bird. This is an instant bonus icon and when you have them on the 1st, 3rd and 5th reels you get a prize of up to 10,000 coins given instantly.

The eye of the phoenix bird is the scatter feature of this slot, awarding the payout of 25x the bet for five symbols, or less for fewer symbols.

Wild symbols can be both regular ones and they can have some extra features for the player. Whenever the wild appears in the middle position on one of the reels from 2 to 4, that entire reel becomes wild and gives the player free spins.

Phoenix is a game that manages to surprise with the collection of features that come with it and with the huge payouts that can be won inside.