Fortunes of Sparta Slot

This is one more theme that I actually like playing, although most of such Roman times themed games are rather hard to win on. I’ve played games on gladiators, Romans, Spartans, and whatnots, but none has got into my favourite games list, but whenever I see such a game, I become tempted to give it at least one try. So here I am, trying out this Fortunes Of Sparta game by Blueprint, even though I don’t actually like most games from Blueprint.

My first impressions on this game were quite good. I like the overall presentation, the game has vibrant graphics, and plays in my favourite 5 reels 3 rows format too. What surprised me the most was its minimum starting bet of $0.25 for a 20 lines game, which is very odd indeed. Why that extra 5 cents bet for each spin? That makes no sense at all, except maybe to bring in extra revenue to the game provider.

The win values of the game symbols are yet one more big surprise for me. Getting 5 Wild symbols would pay a whopping 100,000 coins, or 4000x the stake amount, but all the other symbols have miserable win values instead, paying from just 12x down to 4x for getting any 5 of them. For a 20 lines game, these values are extremely low indeed! Yeah sure, getting 5 Wilds would pay a huge win of course, but in real play, anyone would be very lucky enough to get 3 or 4 Wilds in a winning combination. Getting 5 Wilds would actually be like a dream coming true, or simply an impossible mission to do!

However, there are a few good features in the game. Landing a Spartan Streak symbol on reel 3 would trigger Respins of the winning symbol, until no new same symbol lands in a winning combination. This feature also appears in every spin during the free spins feature game play to create more wins. But, without any win multipliers in play, all the wins, both in the base game and free spins, cannot even be big enough to create real excitement. Why the heck aren’t there any multipliers?

The second good thing is that when 3 Bonus symbols land anywhere on the reel, the other symbols would take a respin, similarly as for that Spartan Streak feature. The more Bonus symbols land, the more free spins would be awarded, from 8 free spins up to a maximum of 100 free spins, but that’s where the goodness ends. There can be no retriggers, and I’ve never liked any game that do not provide retriggers of their free spins! There are a very few exceptions of course, but it simply doesn’t apply to this Spartan game.

On the whole, the game looks good but the gameplay and payouts are simply horrible! Those Bonus symbols would take several hundreds of spins to come by, yet the free spins feature games cannot even pay any decent win, almost all the time, and that sucks really bad!

If you are a player who loves challenges, “Blueprint Gaming” has the right game for you. That game is “Fortunes of Sparta” slot, which has been based on warrior spirit of ancient Spartan society, and judging by phrases and fonts used in the game, we can also say that this slot has also been heavily influenced by the film “300”.

One of the most remarkable characteristics of this slot is that all ordinary symbols can appear stacked and this may have positive and negative effects at the same time, for example, stacked symbols can lead to winning big by filling your entire screen with the same symbol, or simply they can get you immersed into a very long losing streak.

As for the features, “Spartan Spins” occurs more frequently than the round of free spins, and it is activated with the appearance of the special symbol “Spartan Streak” in any position on reel 3, after which this symbol expands through the reel and turning it into a wild reel; this can only happen if you have at least 3 identical symbols located on the same active payline, then one or more respins will be awarded successively until the moment they don’t appear more matching symbols, sometimes leading you to get profits exceeding 65x your total bet, in which case this hit will not be called Great Win but “Epic Win.”

I personally have managed to get several “Great Wins” and one or two “Epic Wins” for a few sessions with this slot; what seemed supremely difficult to me is to trigger rounds of free spins, which in theory it is the best feature of the game because after the appearance of at least 3 bonus symbols a respin is granted to give you a chance to get more bonus symbols, giving you thus the opportunity to get up to 100 free games. Today I could not get a single round of free spins, however, in previous sessions I have managed to get rounds of 8 and 10 free games.

Before you start playing “Fortunes of Sparta,” you must predispose your mind for battle, because during the game you will cope with relatively modest prices stipulated for most of the symbols and also must be prepared to endure long streaks of dead spins. Then, if you can hold enough, most certainly you have the fortune of hitting a Great Win during the base game by getting many symbols stacked, or perhaps simply you trigger one of the special features that can easily help you to recover losses, and why not, also to obtain some benefit, especially if at the moment it arrives your special feature you have already increased your level of bet enough to make all the waiting worthwhile.

This game is pretty exciting, but also somewhat risky due to its high volatility. Anyway, I think “Fortunes of Sparta” has a game system that can eventually please many players, especially if they fit into the category of high rollers.