Andre the Giant is a five reel video slot brought to us by Nyx Interactive software provider featuring the legendary WWF wrestler. The game has high quality graphics and symbols inspired by the wrestling theme such as heavy weight championship belt, a referee, the wrestling ring, wresting boots, and similar. All the fans of wrestling who would love to see Andre crush his opponents in ring once again will love this game. Spin it for free right here or visit Nyx Interactive Casinos to play for real money.
Before you start the match, remember to set your bet. Choose the number of “Lines” by clicking on -/+. There are 25 paylines in total, and if you want to activate all of them, press “Max” button. Then adjust the coin size with -/+ of the “Bet” button. Also press “Max” to set the highest wager per line. “Spin” will start the game. However, to have the reels turn preset number of times without interruptions, click on “Auto Play”.
Andre himself appears on reels 2 and 4, and when he does, he really goes wild expanding to cover all three positions on the reels. If the expansion results in a winning combination the Andre Goes Wild feature is activated. The Wild also substitutes for all symbols except for the scattered Logo.
When any 3 or more scatters appear on the reels, players get 10 free games. During these free games collect Special Attack Moves on reel five. Enter the ring after the free games where each Special Attack Move could repeat your free games win. If three or more Special Attacks hit, select the Andre Giant Signature Fishing Move to win a bonus prize of up to 20x the triggering bet.
There is also the Gamble feature, where you can increase your winnings. After each line win, press “Gamble” to enter the feature. Select the colour or the suit of the card. If you guess the colour you double your win, and if you guess the suit you quadruple it. You can gamble up to five times. However, the game ends and you lose everything when you make an incorrect guess. Choose to collect your winnings and end the game at any time by pressing “Take Win”.
Game Play
Lines: Set the number of active payline.
Max: Activate all paylines.
Coin size: Adjust the coin denomination.
Max: Set the highest wager.
Spin: Start the game.
Auto Play: Reels spin preset number of times.
Gamble: Enter the gamble feature.
When I was still a schooling boy, I loved to watch wrestling matches on TV, but after knowing that those matches were mostly for entertainment only, meaning, the winners of the matches have been predetermined, I began to lose interest in them. Only those real Title bouts would be worth watching, but that never got my interest back till today. Hence this Andre game didn't and couldn't get my interest either, even though playing the game itself wasn't that bad or that boring. Nevertheless, the outcome of the matches with this Andre The Giant would almost always be the same, and predetermined - I would lose! Hahaha.
Anyway, NextGen games have never been a favourite of mine, except for 300 Shields game, and this Andre's game is no exception. Andre, the Wild symbol, for example, is not only a non-paying symbol, but it doesn't even double any wins with it - certainly not to my liking at all! Yeah, it does expand to become a full Wild Reel with wins, but that alone is never good enough for me. Luckily, the Scatter symbol pays a nice 200x the total bet for getting 5 of them, and the highest paying regular symbol also pays the same amount, so that improves back my impressions on this game. However, getting 3 or more Scatter symbols to get 10 free spins that has no multiplier and cannot even be retriggered, sucks too.
Okay, so the paytable isn't a good one, only average at best, so most of the payouts from this game would also be average at best. I've played this game a few times over the years, without getting any single withdrawable win, needless to say, so I've never been impressed in any way. Suffice to say, playing the game can be quite fun, and the Free Spins games can come quite frequently too when the going is good, but other than that, there's nothing else better to look out for, or to expect.
I find the Free Spins games to be quite disappointing most of the times, with very low payouts of between 10x up to 35x, and only rarely would wins of above 50x total bet could be achieved. My best win so far is only 120x my bet amount, the one and only win of above 100x, so I certainly won't be trying to get better wins. Yes, I may play this game again, just to pass away the time, or because there's nothing better for me to do, but that's about all of it.