World Cup Soccer Spins Slot Machine
What, to you, is a more attractive as well as intimidating prospect - being at the epicentre of the world’s most awaited sporting spectacle, or standing at the cusp of winning a huge jackpot of $25,000?
If you are having a tough time figuring out, our only advice would be to not even try! World Cup Soccer Spins, an out-and-out entertainer of a slot game developed by GameOS to celebrate the 2014 Soccer World Cup held in Brazil, lets you have your cake and eat it, too. So, get set, be a full kit wally if you want, and be ready to live the life in the limelight with a jackpot that is sure to steal all the eyeballs!
What’s In it for You?
If you are a football maniac, EVERYTHING! Football (or soccer, if you will!) is often called the game of the world. With more 1 billion fans scattered around the world, there is every reason why the Football World Cup that comes around every four years is a marquee event in sporting calendars.
World Cup Soccer Spins tries to capture this spirit of football with simple symbols and a clear, clutter-free design that proves to be a winner. Developers often get carried away in a bid to create something special in terms of looks, but GameOS seems to have successfully thwarted the need to join those ranks.
The symbols that will greet you in this sports-themed slot are all football-centric. From screaming and leaping superstars of the game to brightly coloured game merchandise, accessories and even red-yellow cards can be seen adorning the reels.
More About the Gameplay
World Cup Soccer Spins has the ability and resources to draw reactions ranging from ‘meh!’ to ‘ay caramba!!’
The gameplay itself is nothing out of the ordinary. If at all, it follows all the characteristics of a generic GameOS slot. With 5 reels and 30 paylines, there’s enough room to come across combinations that actually land you in profit, rather than just breaking things even for you (or worse, shoving you down the loss-valley).
The slot paylines are all fixed. So, the best you can do is wager even sums on all of them, hoping that payout symbols get caught in the web of lines that you have woven. Again, without resorting to any surprises, GameOS presents us with the standard wagering structure of one coin per line per spin, with coin value fluctuating between 5 cents to $5.
For slots that have a reel to payline ratio of less than 0.2 (such as this slot), the upper limit of $5 seems to be pretty reasonable, as you get to wager up to $150 per spin!
Just to remind our readers all over again: a no-conditions-apply jackpot worth 5,000 game coins is what is at stake here when you Bet-Max at $150.
Bend it Like Beckham!
Bending the corner kick like David Beckham is a skill in short supply. But you can surely bend some rules and convert your half-cooked combinations into crispy-crunchy treats that will pay out quick and nice. All you need is some help from the wild of the slot – a football itself! It will help you solve tricky and so-near-yet-so-far sort of combinations with a free hand of swapping and subbing. There are no slot multipliers associated with the wild.
That, however, doesn’t matter, because you still have an outside chance of making the wild symbols count through the MegaWild feature that is native to GameOS slots. This feature is activated when the wild symbol appears on the third reel.
We know by now that GameOS has a confusing policy regarding scatter symbols. So, we were quite happy to see a solid, old-fashioned scatter (a Referee Whistle) make things easy for us. This scatter resembles to scatters used by Microgaming and Playtech, in that it offers free spins (5, 10 or 15) based on the number of scatters that appear on screen.
Wrapping the Deal Up
To wrap the gameplay up, along with free spins bonuses, GameOS has provided a bonus round in which you will be required to shoot a football into the net while dodging all the obstacles.
This round is triggered when you land three or more Bonus Football symbols on the reels.
Own Goal?
For avid football fans, World Cup Soccer Spins can be a fun way to channel their passion into something that can be quite lucrative.
Even though this slot is a winner when it comes to graphics and symbols used, a very predictable gameplay that bears no surprises whatsoever and a bonus round that looks somewhat dated prompt us to think twice before recommending this slot to our readers!
