Microgaming Sports Themed Online Slots

• Published: April 22, 2017
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Sports and slots have some innate connection. This accounts for the popularity of sports themed video slots at online casinos. Microgaming has in its portfolio a series of five slot games that employ the same template but have graphics based on different sports. If you are attracted to the slots engine then you can enjoy the same gaming features but switch to the sport that is dominant at the time. You can play all these video slots at Microgaming online casinos like Royal Vegas and Golden Riviera.

The series began with a video slot based on ice hockey and it was titled Break Away. All the symbols have been taken from the sport and include players, referee, hockey rink, mask, skates and ice maker. The detailing of the symbols and the win animations are awesome. And since the slot machine has 243 ways to win the winning combinations occur frequently. The symbols that appear in winning combinations vanish from the reels after the payouts are awarded. Fresh symbols fill up the void. If new winning combinations appear on the reels then the process repeats itself.

The game logo is the wild symbol and it can appear in stacks on reels 3, 4 and 5. In a special feature called Smashing Wild, one of the central three reels turns into wild for one spin with a guaranteed payout. The flaming puck scatter symbol triggers the free spins bonus. You can win up to 25 free spins depending on the number of scatters in the trigger. The free spins have the Rolling Reels feature in which consecutive wins in the same free spin are paid out with increasing multipliers. The multipliers could rise up to 10x. The free spins could be retriggered.

On the occasion of the FIFA World Cup in 2014, Microgaming launched the next video slot in the series and named it Football Star. The gaming features were identical, but the symbols were taken from football. Cricket and rugby had their World Cups in 2015 and these became the occasions for the next video slots in the series. Microgaming decided to continue with the nomenclature of Football Star and these new video slots were titled Cricket Star and Rugby Star respectively. The final video slot in this series, as yet, is Basketball Star. You can play all these video slots on your desktops and mobile devices at Microgaming online casinos.