Gladiator is a 25-payline video slot operating on the Playtech software platform. The slot’s design and symbols were created to reflect the eponymous movie perfectly, with the Coliseum symbol being the game’s scatter and the Gladiator Helmet being the wild card. Players are invited to try the slot on this page free of charge or visit any of the listed Playtech casinos to play the game for real money.
Prior to entering the arena alongside legendary Maximus Decimus, one should fix their wager. “Lines” adjusts the number of paylines used, “Bet Per Line” chooses the number of coins wagered and “Click To Change” modifies the coin value ranging from 0.01 to 5. In order to start the game, one should press “Spin” and to spin the reels at the highest bet, “Bet Max” should be pushed. “Auto Start” turns the reels for a preset number of times without any interruption.
After any win, players can click “Gamble” to increase their winnings. If they guess whether the face-down card is “Red” or “Black”, their sum is doubled. Guessing wrong, however, leads to the loss of the amount and the termination of the gamble feature. Players can also press “Collect” at any time in order to save their winnings and leave the round.
3 or more scattered Coliseums trigger the Coliseum Bonus in which players pick stones to reveal their prizes. Different prizes are located in different rows. Row 1 contains Free Games, row 2 hides Free Game multipliers, row 3 will reveal extra scatters and row 4 holds extra wilds.
For each pick players win a prize and 1 of 4 options. They can collect all prizes in the picked column, pick another prize in the row above, pick another prize in the same row or collect the prize and continue to their Free Games. The Coliseum Bonus cannot be re-activated during the Free Game round.
The Gladiator Bonus is initiated when 3 Gladiator Helmets emerge on reels 2, 3 and 4. There are 9 random Helmets of different prize values and they can be gold, silver or bronze. All Helmet wins are added up.
A 5,000-coin jackpot will be won when 5 Emperor Commodus symbols occur on an enabled payline.
Game Play
Lines: Select the number of active paylines.
Click To Change: Adjust the coin value.
Bet Pet Line: Pick the number of coins to bet.
Spin: Initiate the game at the selected wager.
Bet Max: Spin the reels at the maximum bet.
Auto Start: Turn the reels multiple times uninterrupted.
Gamble: Enter the gamble round to increase winnings.
Collect: Save the won amount.
Pardon me guys, I wanted to do a review on BetSoft's Gladiator game, but I had already posted there a review on Playtech's Gladiator game instead. Since I cannot do any magic to swap that review back into here, where it should be, so I'll just have to post my BetSoft review here, error intended of course, hehehe.
BetSoft's version of this Gladiator game is based on one of the Gladiator movies over the years, with the actor and actress portraits for the game's icons, just as with Playtech's version too. The graphics and animations in this game are just as good, only this game plays and pays very differently. There are no Wild symbols initially, but the Hero and the Princess symbols are turned into Wild symbols when they land on reel 3, anywhere on reel 3 for the Hero, but only on the top position on reel 3 for the Princess. The Hero symbol expands into a full Wild Reel, whilst the Princess symbol turns the 2 symbols below her into Wilds, with all 3 Wild symbols paying 2x for wins. Both Wild symbols do not pay anything for themselves, but substitute for other symbols except for the Scatter and Bonus symbols.
The Coliseum is the Scatter symbol, paying 750x the line bet for getting 5 of them, but doesn't trigger any Free Spins game or any other feature either. Argh! The Door is the Bonus symbol, it doesn't pay anything for itself, but getting 3 or more of them triggers a 'Click Me' feature. Keep picking on the symbols to win cash prizes, until a 'Collect' symbol is revealed to end the feature. I've never liked this sort of feature, because the prizes are usually too little for my liking. Getting the Hero + Coliseum + Villain symbols consecutively on any active payline on reels 2, 3 and 4, triggers the Gladiator Battle Bonus game. Pick the Hero or the Villain to win the fight to win a cash reward. The only interesting thing about this bonus game is the fight animation. As for the other symbols, the Hero pays 400x, the Villain pays 400x too, the Horse pays 100x, and the rest pay from 75x to 25x, all per line bet for getting 5 of each kind. A very low paytable indeed.
Comparing this Gladiator game to Playtech's game, this version failed to impress me by a big margin! The paytable is very low, the payouts in the base game were likewise too, and both the 'Click Me' and Gladiator Battle Bonus games paid very poorly, with wins of only 4x up to 13x total bet amounts. Only once I did I get a 20x win from the Bonus game, but from thereon, all paid below 10x, very disappointing payouts indeed, but is typical for most of BetSoft games. Playing Gladiator gave a bit of fun for awhile, but as discerning players would say, "it's the payouts that counts!"