Reviewed on July 25, 2016
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Whenever I see a Russian themed game, one great movie always come to my mind - Doctor Zhivago (1965), starred the late Omar Sharif and beautiful Julie Christie, a dauntingly long love story, over 3 hours long, but I loved watching it, even after a few times already. Whenever I looked at the Tsar and the Queen in this Days of the Tsar game, I see Dr Zhivago and Lara, the nurse and the lover. Hmm. Hopeless romantic I am! Hahaha.
The Tsar is the Wild symbol, pays a wonderful 10,000x the line bet if you can get 5 of him on a payline, but that's about all that you can get. It doesn't double any wins, it doesn't do anything else but to substitute for other symbols except the Faberge Scatter symbol. This Faberge Egg, a beautifully decorated egg, much like an Easter egg but better, is the Scatter symbol, 5 of which pay 100x the total bet, which doesn't really justify its exquisite status! It should be at least 250x - 500x, but what the heck. The Queen pays 2000x the line bet for 5 of her, which I feel should be higher too, but this queen isn't Lara, so what the heck again, whilst all the other symbols pay from 1000x the line bet down to 100x the line bet. A little on the low side but can be considered an average paytable.
3 or more Scatter symbols award a Free Spins game, the number of spins won indicated by the numbers appearing on each Faberge Egg, and all wins are doubled. The Free Spins game cannot be retriggered but more free spins can be won with each appearing Faberge Egg which adds +1 more free spin. From the few Free Spins games that I had, there were quite a number of additional free spins given, usually about 4 or 5 in average, so getting 20 free spins isn't that hard at all. Getting nice big wins are. The usual payouts from the free spins that I've had were around 30x - 40x my total bet, which weren't bad at all, but not big enough to satisfy my romantic desires, hahaha.
The Tsar is the Wild symbol, pays a wonderful 10,000x the line bet if you can get 5 of him on a payline, but that's about all that you can get. It doesn't double any wins, it doesn't do anything else but to substitute for other symbols except the Faberge Scatter symbol. This Faberge Egg, a beautifully decorated egg, much like an Easter egg but better, is the Scatter symbol, 5 of which pay 100x the total bet, which doesn't really justify its exquisite status! It should be at least 250x - 500x, but what the heck. The Queen pays 2000x the line bet for 5 of her, which I feel should be higher too, but this queen isn't Lara, so what the heck again, whilst all the other symbols pay from 1000x the line bet down to 100x the line bet. A little on the low side but can be considered an average paytable.
3 or more Scatter symbols award a Free Spins game, the number of spins won indicated by the numbers appearing on each Faberge Egg, and all wins are doubled. The Free Spins game cannot be retriggered but more free spins can be won with each appearing Faberge Egg which adds +1 more free spin. From the few Free Spins games that I had, there were quite a number of additional free spins given, usually about 4 or 5 in average, so getting 20 free spins isn't that hard at all. Getting nice big wins are. The usual payouts from the free spins that I've had were around 30x - 40x my total bet, which weren't bad at all, but not big enough to satisfy my romantic desires, hahaha.
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How I wish the Wilds could do more in creating more and bigger wins, and the same goes for the Faberge Egg Scatters too, but Days of the Tsar isn't like Doctor Zhivago. It never could and never will be either. The game just don't have the finesse and flair to be one.
