Football Star Slot Review
We all dream of being a football star earning millions of pounds a year. In reality though we can always try to win on the 'Football Star' video slot game from Microgaming.
We've grown to expect some great games from Microgaming who are renowned for creating the first true online casino 11 years ago. Their games can be played at many top online casinos and this is definitely one you'll be keen to try your luck on.
Microgaming have produced a few football-themed games in the past, including 'World Cup Mania' and
'Safari Soccer.' This latest release came out in 2014 to coincide with the World Cup and it's lasted a lot longer than the England football team did in that tournament. It's a 5x3 game with 243 different ways of getting a winner. You can stake up to ten coins per spin and the coin values go from £0.01 to £0.10.
If you're expecting to see the symbols include famous footballers you'll be in for a disappointment. This isn't a licensed game so instead we get just get well produced images of footballers playing the game we all love. The symbols include a player trying a spectacular bicycle kick, a diving goalkeeper, a player heading the ball and another one shooting, a red football shirt, the dreaded referee and a football stadium with the scoreboard announcing a goal. The background music fits in well with the game's theme with fans cheering the action.
The Wild symbol in this game is the Football Star logo and there are more than 40 of these stacked up on reels three, four and five giving you plenty of chances to win. The Scatter symbol is the white football. It's good to see for a change that all the symbols used fit in perfectly with the theme of the game. So many out there have a few and then just go down the playing cards route for the other symbols.
The control buttons for the game are all situated down at the bottom of the screen. This includes an Autoplay that can be set for 500 spins. That gives you plenty of time to check the footie scores before returning to the game and getting your own update.
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As with most Microgaming slots, there are several exciting ways to score big in Football Star. A common bonus in games from Microgaming is the collapsing reels feature. When you get a win the symbols that earned you that disappear and go up in flames literally. They then get replaced by new symbols and that could well get you another win.
The collapsing reels feature sees the symbols that land you a winning combination disappear to be replaced by new symbols, and hopefully leading to yet another win all for free.
Also available is the Striking Wilds Feature that can really see your account balance grow.This can happen at any time and reels two, three and four can randomly turn wild with guaranteed wins, though those rolling reels are absent during this feature. With that high amount of Wild symbols on the reels (there's 25 on reel four) you really do have a chance of getting some big wins.
If you get three or more of the Scatter symbols anywhere on the reels then it's free spins time. Just how many you get depends on the number of Scatter symbols appearing. Three gets you 15 free spins, four gives 20 and five earn you a whopping 25 free spins to try and score some big wins with. Adding to the chance of winning is the fact that the collapsinig reels feature carries on and has a multiplier ladder. Each time you get a win and those collapsing reels create another one then the multiplier level increases and its range is from 1x all the way up to 10x.
Conclusion
If you love football then this is going to be right up your street. The theme is stuck to throughout and there are certainly some great chances of winning thanks to those 243 different ways to win. The bonus games are entertaining and again give you the chance to get the wins you wish your favourite side could manage.