Reviewed on January 23, 2015
LIKED
It all started here in the RTG casinos with the slot “The Elf Wars”. A slot nicely arranged with lots of ribbons that you love to play because the game looks so beautiful. And then have arrived also the other variants of this slot nearly identical in all respects. “Santa Strikes Back” is one of these variants. Like “The Elf Wars” this slot appearance is impeccable, perhaps too “overdone”. Each symbol is beautifully arranged in colored paper, just like it is ready to be placed in the Christmas tree with many ribbons and decorations. And together with these minor symbols Rudolph and Santa are also present as major symbols and as Wild and Scatter. I did not know who is Rudolph from this slot but I guess that I belong to a minority and that almost everyone knows that Rudolph is a famous reindeer from Santa's sleigh.
Recently RTG came up with an invention that makes wins or entering Free Games even more difficult (of course). One needs not only 3 Scatters on reels but also they need to be identical. Here for example there is a battle between Santa and Rudolph and it is necessary that one of them be the winner of this battle 3 times for the Free Games to go off. It is possible to have 4 Scatters and in 2 of them to win Rudolph and in the other 2 to win Santa and thus you will not enter in Free Games. Of course all Free Games in RTG are famous because of their small wins of 1-3 dollars.And again the statistics of this slot are “classical” for RTG. In just 200 games you realize that you have lost about 10-30 dollars playing with the minimum bet.
But this slot beauty lies in its impeccable appearance and in the story that accompanies it. Therefore I will not criticize too much the game play itself and I will stop here with an average appreciation for the game.
Recently RTG came up with an invention that makes wins or entering Free Games even more difficult (of course). One needs not only 3 Scatters on reels but also they need to be identical. Here for example there is a battle between Santa and Rudolph and it is necessary that one of them be the winner of this battle 3 times for the Free Games to go off. It is possible to have 4 Scatters and in 2 of them to win Rudolph and in the other 2 to win Santa and thus you will not enter in Free Games. Of course all Free Games in RTG are famous because of their small wins of 1-3 dollars.And again the statistics of this slot are “classical” for RTG. In just 200 games you realize that you have lost about 10-30 dollars playing with the minimum bet.
But this slot beauty lies in its impeccable appearance and in the story that accompanies it. Therefore I will not criticize too much the game play itself and I will stop here with an average appreciation for the game.
DISLIKED
As everyone knows in 90% of cases you lose in the normal game. Then in the Free Games that you have waited for so long, again you will not really win anything. And a last negative fact: it is not much pleasant when Rudolph wins the fight between him and Santa.
