Fortunes of Egypt Boss Media

I guess all the BossMedia games are Jackpot ones, just because I have noticed they all have the same bonus rounds, which consist picking up points while you play and the same Jackpots, which are tree of them, Jackpot, Super Jackpot or Grand Jackpot but only if you bet with the highest stake, otherwise will only award you with 100 X the bet.

Fortunes of Egypt is 5 reels with 25 pay lines slot, which I must say the graphics of the game is really out dated. The main symbols on this game are the Cleopatra, the Pyramids of Giza, the Egyptian eye, ancient necklace, the walking Egyptian, Egyptian sail boat, the Sphinx a scroll of papyrus, and the cobra. There are 3 more symbols which are the bonus one the treasure chest, the scatter which is the scarab and the wild symbol which is the Pharaoh.

The Pharaoh symbol being wild one, will substitute all the symbols on the reels, of course expect the scatter, the bonus symbol and of course the Jackpot symbol. The free spins are not so generous, because the first round if you trigger bit only 3 scatter symbols will award the player only 8 free spins, while 4 of them 25 free spins and the best but very hard to be triggered is the 5 scatters anywhere on the reels, which is 100 free spins.

The bonus round is the hardest to be triggered, just because you need to collect 1000 points and you earn those points while you play. Of course playing with a minimum bet won’t give you the bonus round that easily or fast, but placing higher bets will unlock the bonus round feature more faster. So the higher the bet will unlock that bonus feature. The bad thing or I don't like, is that, the bonus symbol which is the treasure chest ,only appears on the 5th reel, but what I have noticed, it doesn't appear that much often, so getting the bonus round will take more time and of course bigger budget.

This slot is among the very few Boss Media games that I don’t mind to play with. Unfortunately, Fortunes of Egypt doesn’t excel with its visual appearance but it’s not surprise as it can be said about all Boss products and I don’t understand why the developers doesn’t put in more effort to upgrade this segment. The graphics are not too well drawn or detailed and some of the symbols could fit the game more because in this format it can’t compete with other slots in the market of similar theme. This is clearly the area where the improvement is much needed. The figure elements are the common and expected for a historical, Egyptian subject slot, namely, Eye of Ra, snake, hieroglyph, sphinx.

Playing with maximum number of coins (min. €2.50 total bet) the player has a chance to win one of the 3 Jackpots of the game (Jackpot, Super and Grand) if 3 or more Jackpot symbols are on an active line then a pick is required from 3 sarcophagus to determine what kind of Jackpot is won. To trigger the bonus game we have to collect at least 1000 bonus points. The easiest way to do that if a Treasure Chest symbol lands on the fifth reel when we get that much bonus points as the used number of lines multiplied by the credits per line shows. If the bonus starts the goal is to get through the slabs to reach the treasure, 3 slabs are in front of us and must avoid the one that has a hole under it. The successful try will result from 100 to 50.000 bonus credit. Maybe this extra is not that complex than other games’ but this little ‘find the way’ side game is a good one but it’s almost impossible to choose the right path every time, at least I never could manage my man to do it.

At least 3 Scarabs are needed to get spins without bets and depending of the number of the appearing Scatters it can be 8, 20 or even 100 free spins. This latter number would be very great to have just once especially if I consider that values of all wins during free spins are multiplied by x2. Pharaoh emblem is the Wild but only has substitute function but if it does its job and completes a 5 of a kind win mixing with Cleopatra characters, the player can happy about to get the best paying line and the bankroll is increased by 5000 coins.

As I said the game has its own shortcomings and it’s not just one, but however the delightful atmosphere it has is very great and worth to spend some time with it and that’s exactly why I play with Fortunes of Egypt from time to time.
If you look a super action, ‘lift out of your seat’ type game this is definitely not a good choice because it doesn’t offer too much interesting or exciting elements.