The Great Czar is a 5-reel video slot from Microgaming software provider with a Russian theme. The design matches the golden days of the Russian Empire and when the reels spin you’ll get a chance to meet the Czar and Czarina who are dressed in the traditional Russian royal clothes, and there will be the crown and other autocratic symbols. Try it right here for free, or head over to Microgaming Casinos to play for real money.
The experience the greatness of the Russian Empire to the fullest, you need to adjust your bet first. Pressing “Coins”, you will select the number of coins you want to wager (up to 5), and a click on the “+/- ” will modify the coin value ranging from 0.01 to 0.05. “Spin” starts the game. If you want to spin on the highest possible wager press “Max Bet” and the game will start. To spin the reels multiple times uninterrupted, press “Auto Play” button.
Shield is a wild symbol and it replaces all other symbols except the scatter to form the winning combo. Crown symbol in the game is a scattered symbol and it can be found anywhere across the reels. It can form a winning string when three or more of them are scattered across the reels. Crown symbol also serves as a free spin activator, triggering the bonus game when 3 or more are displayed.
Having activated the free spins, the player is rewarded with up to 90 spins free of charge and up to 90x multiplier. What’s interesting is that the player determines how much free spins and multiplayers he gets. During the free spins the symbol stacks are created by the king, while the wild symbol stacks are created by the shield. Keep in mind that this feature cannot be retriggered while the player is using it.
Game Play
Coins: Pick the number of coins to bet.
“+/-“: Choose the coin size.
Max Bet: Set the highest wager.
Spin: Start the game.
Auto Play: Turn the reels for a preset number of times uninterrupted.
Ah, The Great Czar, a game that I first played some years ago, when Microgaming games still were a big great jinx for me! None of the games were good to me, none gave me any good wins, all of them only knew how to eat up my credits, each and every time I played them. Not until early this year though, when I finally broke that jinx, and Microgaming games have suddenly and miraculously became better for me! Perhaps it was nothing more than mere superstitions and unfounded beliefs, that jinx thing, but for me, it was real. Some things in life just cannot be logically explained or comprehended, and this jinx thing is one of them!
The Great Czar is one of so many Microgaming games that I had revisited and replayed after many years of lapse, purely because the jinx was gone, and I do believe that those games owed me something in return! Hahaha. But believe it or not, those games are actually playing much better now than before! This Czar game is one of them, although I still couldn't get any of those nice big wins. But then again, I am still hesitant to take a big risk at choosing that 1 free spin with a 15x multiplier to try and get a really big win. I still didn't dare to even take up that 10x multiplier option because of the too few free spins that go along with it. I kept taking the 10 free spins with a 3x multiplier on so many occasions already! Hmm, maybe one fine day I will! Hehehe.
The Great Czar plays with 30 paylines, not selectable unfortunately, which I would have greatly preferred. It's an old game, but looking quite contemporary, mainly due to its colourful presentation using vibrant colours. The Shield is the non-paying Wild symbol, and the Crown is the Scatter symbol, paying 150x the total bet for getting 5 of them. Not a lot to cover for the non-paying Wild symbol. Getting 3 or more of these Crowns award the 'Imperial Crown Free Spins Bonus' game, whereby 8 options of free spins and multipliers are given, from a very risky 1 free spin with a 15x multiplier, up to 20 free spins with a 1x multiplier. More free spins cannot be retriggered, so this bit sucks a bit!
During play, both in the base game and during the free spins, the Czar symbol is fully stacked on all reels, but the other symbols are not stacked at all. So, the only possibility of getting all same symbols is with the Czar, which would pay 500x the total bet amount. Multiply that 500x with a chosen multiplier of say 5x, that would give a huge win of 2500x. Would it be possible to win all 15 Czar symbols with the 10x or 15x multiplier? I really really doubt it! Hahaha. Would be really fantastic if it is possible though! Nevertheless, The Great Czar is a good and interesting game to play, but be aware that those 100x and above wins can be damn difficult to get, to say the very least! Hehehe.