Sword of the Elements Slots
Although there are many online slot providers, few of them rival Real Time Gaming, Churning out pokies that continue to certify their lofty spot among gaming halls, RTG presents the fantastical Sword of the Elements, which is a throwback to the ancient Orient, when Chinese emperors reigned supreme in the vastness of Western Asia, spanning the vast steppes beyond the Great Wall they built to halt the conquest of Alexander the Greek and later, the Mongol hordes. History aside, this commemoration of those old great kingdom offers you plenty of chances to win some serious cash - up to 2000 times whatever you wager!
An Exciting Array of Attributes
With the expected 5 reels and 25 paylines, this fantasy pokey is displayed on a gameboard spanning four rows and five columns for an extended amount of space for the many possible winning combinations. The Oriental-calligraphic style of the icons will regale you, and the animations are of similarly high-quality. We will take a deeper dive into the icon in the paytable subsection of this article but, for the time being, you will find:
A Chinese emperor symbol
A Chinese empress symbol (think Wu Zetian of the appropriate dynasty)
A Legal Scroll
A warrior's shield
Poker cards from Ace through 10
Additionally, Sword of the Elements Slots also has many attributes that work to extend your gameplay if you are lucky enough to unlock them. These include expanding substitute symbols (the Wild), a buy feature, free spins courtesy of the scatter icon, a special bonus feature and a Gamble feature.
Sword of the Elements Bonuses
The first of these is the Bonus Scatter which, when at least three of a kind appear on the reels, activates the Sword of the Elements Bonus Session as long as all of this takes place in the base game. The Bonus Scatter takes the form of a wonderful winter season with a mountain range, and the spring and summer seasons intermixed with the cold climate. You have to see it to understand!
There's also a regular scatter on the paytable: it is a Blue Dragon and when three of a kind show up, it activates and delivers 10 Free Spins to the player. The game's wild icon is none other than the vicious Chinese empress, who unmistakably favors the famous Wu Zetian from history. An iron ruler, she took the reigns after her husband the emperor died and became the first woman in history to preside over a vast Oriental empire. As the Wild symbol, she is capable of making a substitution for all other icons except for the two Bonus Scatters. These notwithstanding, the wild empress can show up on the synced reels and then function as an expanding wild to span across the entire center reel.
Elemental Paytable Values
The emperor symbol - which is the Chinese-equivalent of a king - sits at the top with a payout of 1000 coins for five of a kind showing up. If four Emperors appear, then you win 200 coins, and for three of a kind you still receive 40 coins as a payout. Next is the Guangdong warrior who, for five on the reels, pays out 600 coins; for four of a kind you win 120 coins and for three Guangdong palace warrior symbols, you win 30 coins.
The Warrior shield we wrote about earlier finally makes its payout debut here, and it doesn't disappoint. For five of a kind of the shield you get a 200 coin reward; for four of them you get a 40 coin payout, and for three Warrior Shield icons your prize is 20 coins. The LAw Scroll comes in 4th place and pays out 100 coins for five of a kind; alternatively if you manage to land four Law Scrolls, then you win 30 coins instead. For three of a kind of the last character icon in the game, the Law scroll pays you 15 coins.
The poker card symbols make a flamboyant entrance into Sword of the Elements slots, drawn as they are in the original Oriental calligraphic style that took the world by storm when it emerged from the Easter kingdoms. The orange fire Ace symbol, for five on the reels, pays 50 coins; for four it pays 15 coins, and for three it pays you 10 coins. The sky blue King, on the other hand, pays out 40 coins for five of a kind, 10 coins for four and 5 coins for three Kings. The shimmering verdant Queen symbol pays out 40 coins for five, 10 coins for four of a kind and 5 coins for three - just like the King. For the steel grey Joker symbol, if five of them land you are recompensed 30 coins; for four of them you win 10 coins and for three steel grey Jokers you get 5 coins. Lastly the numeral 10 pays you 30 coins for five, 10 coins for four, and 5 coins for three of a kind.