Gladiator Jackpot Playtech

Gladiator Jackpot slot from Playtech, is based upon the iconic movie ‘Gladiator’. With 5 Reels and 25 (adjustable) win lines, plus a Progressive Jackpot!

From the moment you enter Colosseum, the amazing graphics in combination with the imposing music, immediately releasing the intense roll of the reels! The wheels start the fight with you or against you. Whenever I'm trying my luck on this great slot, those thoughts coming through my mind...The reels are gonna roll over me... or might reward me with the great Jackpot!

Land three Gladiator helmets and the Gladiator jackpot bonus is triggered. After the short feature film, a new screen appears and displays 9 different helmets; each with a cash value. All values are added up and awarded to you! 3 or more scatter symbols appearing in view, will award the free spins Colosseum bonus! Another short film takes place and a new screen will appear. Stacked stones stand between you! You are required to pick from those stones, starting from the bottom. Free spins, multipliers and extra scatters can be won!

Surely, Gladiator Jackpot is a thrilling slot with a plethora of features and sometimes can be very rewarding!

When I was just a little boy, my father would take me to see movies, lots of movies. Of Cowboys, Red Indians, Romans, and including modern war movies too, like The Longest Day. Aah, not really, I was already grown up by that time, so I saw that one on my own, or was that with a girlfriend? Gees, I can't remember, but never mind. Roman action movies have always been my favourite in those days, movies like The Trojan Horse, Cleopatra, Hercules and Ben Hur. Nowadays, I like to watch 'Bend Her' movies at times, but that's a totally different category! Hahaha.

So it isn't surprising at all that this Gladiator soon became one of my favourite slot games too. Movie video clips keep the play exciting, the free spins games were thrilling, and the Jackpot Bonus games were exhilarating and killing! At times, I could feel my heart beating like hell, trying to get out of my body, but I kept everything steady, hehehe. That was that time when I got a Jackpot Bonus game, and the Golden Helmets starting appearing one by one by one! In my head, I was going all crazy like "oooh my god!...2 million jackpot!...come on!...come on!...all Golden Helmets...PUH-leeease!...five up already..." Ooh boy, my butts couldn't sit still when the 7th Golden Helmet appeared! Just two more to go...to 2 million jackpot! Then the 8th appeared...SILVER! Damn! WTF must a silver helmet spoil all my happiness? Why oh why?! God didn't answer. There was only silence, hahaha. Then the last 9th helmet came, another gold one. Blardy hell, I was saying to myself, missed by one blardy silver helmet, a blardy 2-million-dollar silver helmet!

That day could have been my best day ever, but it turned out to be my worst day! My best day if I had won that huge jackpot that could have changed my whole life forever. My worst day because I missed getting it for another two more times within that same blardy day!!! One missed by yet another silver helmet. The other one missed by three silver helmets. Damn! Why oh why?! How can anyone be so unlucky, not once but three times in a single day?! No answer of course, just silence! Hehehe.

Well, that Jackpot Bonus game is the one thing to keep looking out for, but the free spins games were no less exciting. I managed to pick out one item each from the pyramid of choices, getting free spins, a win multiplier, a special scatter and an extra Wild at the very top of the pyramid. The final payout was good, but not huge, because the scatter symbol wasn't the Queen or the Emperor. That would give a real whopper of a win if you can get 4 or 5 of them! So far, I have reached this level of free spins game not more than 10 times. I have won all 10s and all Js, whilst the others were never full. I had the Emperor and the Queen too, but none of them came in threes to activate the symbol scattering game. That was also a big disappointment for me, because both these two symbols could pay really big in the scattering game. Imagine getting 5 scatters of the Emperor, then see how it would expand and cover all the 5 reels! Oooh-boy! I hope one day I can get to see this too, but never forgetting all the Golden Helmets of course! Hahaha.

Why do we gamble? For a chance to win big, to solve all our financial problems and to be a bit famous for winning a progressive Jackpot. Whenever I sit down to play this game I take a look at the jackpot amount and the last time I played it there were about 2 million euros. Hitting a sum like that seems impossible but in a gamblers mind there is always hope that one day that amount will be transferred to my balance.

This version of the game is totally identical like the original Gladiator slot. Standard 25 paylines, 5 reels and with the same bonus features. The only difference is that in the Gladiator bonus you have a chance to win millions. The gladiator bonus is triggered when you get 3 helmets on reels 2, 3 and 4. The helmets are wild symbols so even by getting them you have a chance for some nice 5 of a kind combination wins. In the bonus 9 helmets are revealed and they can be in gold, silver or in bronze. Some day one lucky player will see all 9 gold helmets on the screen and all of his financial problems will be solved. Off course every time I get this bonus I hope it’s gonna be me but the most I have gotten so far is only 7. The second feature of the game is the coliseum bonus. Here if you get 3 scattered coliseums anywhere on the reels you are taken to the coliseum bonus where you have a chance to win extra features like free games with multipliers, extra scatters and extra wilds. I have never managed to unlock all of the features in this bonus so I can’t say I had some big wins.

The fact remains that all of us including me play this game only for the ultimate payout from the progressive jackpot. If you want to play this game just for some big wins you better play the regular version because the jackpot version is a bit tighter when it comes to regular payouts.