Halloween Horrors Online Slot Review
Imagine yourself walking through a field late at night, the field featuring gnarled trees and the floor strewn with thousands of pumpkins. As you tread carefully, avoiding the pumpkins, you look up and there is one giant pumpkin staring directly at you, with eyes, nose and mouth cut out, the glow of the flame shining through the face the of pumpkin and bats flying about the sky around its head. I’ve just described the opening animation to the Halloween Horrors Slot by 1x2, the clip setting the scene nicely for the slot.
This slot encompasses everything you might expect from a Halloween based game apart from kids shouting trick or treat and then becoming annoyed when you give them a cola bottle as opposed to a crisp five pound note. The background to the slot is a graveyard scene set against a green night sky, where a witch on her broomstick flies through the sky and bats hang upside down from a tree. The symbols in the game are a combination of ghouls and creatures, all drawn in the cartoon style you might expect when watching Scooby Doo. You’ll also find some playing card symbols all covered in slimy green goo – making for a somewhat unattractive but effective slot. The slot also has a slightly eerie background sound that occasionally emits deep, scary laughing – this is also effective. The main feature of the slot is the free spins round – this is activated by the scatter symbol and you’ll find an added symbol in this round.
Set up and Play for Halloween Horrors
Take away the ghouls, the bats and goo and you’ll find a somewhat basic five reel slot. This particular slot has 25 win lines, but you’ll be able to move these up and down by clicking on the arrows next to the number. You’ll also choose the coin amount and the value to give you your total stake for the spin. To win at this slot you’ll need to land at least 3 in a row from left to right on a win line for the majority of the symbols, but the top 4 symbols will actually pay out when landing just 2 in a row. The witches hat is the highest paying symbol, giving you a 750x your coin amount win when landing 5 in a row, with the ghost, the bat and the cat-like creature paying 500x, 300x and 100x respectively.
An auto bet button gives you the opportunity to let the slot run automatically for up to 100 spins, the pay table button brings up all of the pays and the rules of the slot and the ‘show win lines’ button will overlay the lines onto the reels.
The pumpkin symbol is the wild and will substitute for every other symbol apart from the skull scatter symbol to give extra wins. This skull symbol is the scatter for the free spins round, which will be activated when you see the skull three or more times on the reels.
Halloween Horror Slot Free Spins Round
The number of free spins you’ll be awarded is based upon the number of scatter symbols you actually landed to activate the feature. Three skulls and you’ll have 5 free spins, four skulls give you 10 and the maximum five skulls give you 15 free spins.
During this round the headstone symbol is added – this headstone has a face and it’s really not what you’d want to encounter if walking through a graveyard at night (although if you are walking through a graveyard at night you probably deserve all you get!). This is an added scatter symbol, where you’ll gain a win if it appears 2 or more times anywhere on a win line. If the headstone should fill an entire win line you’ll pick up a win of 200x.
Halloween Horrors - Conclusion
This isn’t the greatest looking video slot in the world and it doesn’t have the grandest features, but it certainly has its charms. This is probably because the slot has quite a character, the symbols although horror based are also amusing, giving the slot a good sense of fun. So, if a slot player is looking for a humorous game without the experience being held up by long drawn out features, this might be an ideal game to fill the occasional half an hour, especially as 1X2 Games are Flash or HTML based, which means that they are compatible with the majority of mobile devices. Having written this review, I’m off to check out that incessant knocking sound coming from the cellar – could have sworn I also heard a scream but I must be mistaken…
