Mega Monster Slots
If you are a lover of spooks, costumes and the creatures of the night then - no matter what time of year it is - Halloween is never too far away. It is with something like this in mind that master games-maker Real Time Gaming had Mega Monster Slots churned out by their top slot-guys (and gals). Boasting of 5 reels and 20 paylines, this good-size video game has everything you could wish for in a monster pokies. For starters, it has the ability to expand in size from 20 paylines to a whopping 60 paylines!
Continuing along with the many attributes, there's a slim chance you get lucky enough to take home the 50,000x line wager prize; this whittles down to 2500x for a low wager. For real cash players, to make things simpler, the wager amounts span from $0.20 all the way up $2. Most of the prizes in this average RTP (Return to Player value) and Hit frequency slot come by way of the simple icon combinations on the paytable below; in particular, these numbers have the ability to reach the stars when the gameboard expands from the 20 active lines to the new value of 60 active lines. The Wild icons really help your chances by symbol-replacing, and we'll see what values it returns all by itself in the next section.
What Icons to Expect
All the icons on the reels harken back to the Halloween "holiday", which has its origins in the Irish and Nordic traditions of Old Hallow's Eve. By name, some of the monsters consist of Werewolves, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide, the Frankenstein Monster, itself, the good doc Frankenstein, a powerful Vampire Lass and more. Garish Brains form the second-tier of symbols, and have plenty of company with magical pendants, cauldrons of potions, and various poker card suits.
Before we delve into the icon payouts, let us first consider the bonus symbols. The first of these is none other than the eponymous Glittering Purple wild which, when it shows up on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th reels, works to supplant all other symbols in the Base Game for improved payouts via the completion of winning combinations. The only symbol the Wild won't supplant is the scatter. Now the scatter, itself, is entitled a Slime Green Bonus and it returns your wager if three of a kind show up. Much more importantly, the scatter shows up on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th reels to activate the special Free Games bonus feature.
A Monstrous (Good) Icon Paytable
The leading character icon is Frankenstein's Monster - and of course, how could it be any other way! For five of a kind on the gameboard, this combo pays out 1000 coins; for four Frankenstein's Monster icons you instead win 100 coins, and for three of a kind of the turn of the century's most horrifying gargoyle, your prize is a solid 40 coins. Next is the recognizable Chewbacca from the blockbuster franchise Star wars; for five Chewies, you win 300 coins; for four of Han Solo's most loyal companion, your payout prize is 120 coins, and for three of a kind of Chewbacca you win 30 coins. Concluding the high-paying tier, we have the Pretty Vampiress symbol; for five of her the payout is 250 coins; four Vampiress icons gets you 100 coins, and three of a kind of the Twilight Wannabe (no one can replace Bella!) icon pays you 20 coins.
For the three character icons that comprise the mid-tier paying symbols, we start with the Green Brain. For five of a kind of the Green Brain symbol you win 150 coins; for four of a kind you instead get paid 50 coins, and for three of a kind you win 20 coins. The Blood Goblet is right on the heels of the previous with a 100 coin payout for five of a kind, a 30 coin payout for four of a kind and a 15 coin reward for three of a kind of the Blood Goblet. Rounding out this section is the Blue-gold Amulet icon; five of these pays out 80 coins, four of them pays out 20 coins and three Amulets pays you 10 coins.
Finishing the paytable are the poker representatives. Five of either the spades or the hearts pays you 50 coins; four of a kind of either pays you, and four of them pays you 15 coins, whereas three of a kind of either is worth 5 coins. As for the diamond and the clover, five of either pays out 40 coins; four of a kind is worth 10 coins and three gets you 5 coins.