Legion Gold

Review Legion Gold

Did you know that gladiators would sometimes fight wild animals instead of each other? These scenes would happen in the Colosseum and it’s hard to imagine nowadays that people could be so uncivilised. These wild animals would include rhinos, bears, tigers, elephants, and sometimes even giraffes. This explains why there is a horse and a bear armoured up in this title by Play’n Go, and why you’ll find a legionnaire wild symbol here. As a player, you won’t get to see any actual fighting though, so this should be reassuring for those that don’t want to see any violence. At the same time, the graphical presentation is still very strong so it won’t get boring in this game. Nothing really too exciting occurs in the base game, so you will need to activate the Gold Re-spins round or the Mega Symbol Bonus Round. The first is a streak respins feature, whilst the latter is a free spins round that gives you a 3×3 sized mega symbol moving into a new position during every spin.

How to Play

Legion Gold is a real money casino pokie game that can also be played in a free demo version at CherryRed. This gives New Zealanders with an interest in online gambling the opportunity to get a better grasp of the game rules without the need to wager their own money. We always recommend you to make use of this demo mode. If you do, here is all the info you need to know about it. You don’t have to be an experienced player to make your first spin on Legion Gold. Here is how you play Legion Gold by Play’n Go:

• The play button is easily recognised by the green circle with a couple of pointers. Pressing it will trigger the 5×3 grid. This grid comes with 25 paylines.
• Next to the play button you will see an easy to recognise orange circle with a play sign revealing the autoplay feature with up to one hundred spins and various limits.
• Players can adjust their stake before any spin. The good thing is that you can play with both low and high stakes ranging from as low as $ 0.05 up to $ 100 per spin.
• The blue info is meant to familiarise yourself with the payout table. There is also the speaker for audio control and the thunderbolt is meant for speed control. Click on the question mark to read the game rules and the three lines for the settings.
• We recommend you to set your limits before you make your first real money spin. This can be done by going to the account settings at your favourite online casino. If not available, then contact the casino’s customer service or visit the responsible play page.
• Sometimes, limits can also be set for auto spins. If you opt for autoplay, we also recommend you to set limits.

Symbol Wins

This online pokie comes with an exceptional design and great HD graphics. The audio is perfect as well, definitely adding to the overall game experience. The low values in the games are the standard J, Q, K, and A. They all award the same amount, giving you 2x the stake for a 5-of-a-kind combos. The high values are a vulture, a dog, a horse, and a bear. The horse and the bear wear golden helmets, and the dog has a golden necklace. These animals award between 8x and 20x the bet for a win containing 5 symbols. As expected, the most valuable animal is the bear which can pay up to 20x for 5-of-a-kinds combinations. The Wild Symbol substitutes all pay symbols except the scatter and the Gold Coin. Here is what the different symbols can mean and how much they can pay:

Bonus Features

The fact that only two bonus features are included with Legion Gold makes it a very straightforward casino game. Both the base game and the features are not difficult to understand. In Legion Gold players can count on a free spins feature and gold respins. Here is some more information about both of them:

Gold Respins

In addition to “normal” symbols, in Legion Gold coin symbols with a cash prize can also land on the playing field. You need to spin at least 6p-of-a-kind combos at the same time in order to activate the gold respins feature. The gold coins will then be locked in position, after which you will receive 3 respins. The remaining positions re-spin and every time you manage to spin a new coin symbol, the number of respins is reset to 3.

The feature is over if you do not manage to spin a new coin symbol within 3 respins or if you manage to fill the entire playing field with coin symbols. In both cases, all prize money shown by coin symbols is added together and paid out to the player. If you have managed to fill the entire playing field with coin symbols, you will receive an additional prize worth 1,000 times the bet.

Legion Gold Free Spins

The free spins feature of Legion Gold is kind of unique, we have to say. This is because there is a gigantic symbol found on the playing field. This mega symbol has dimensions of 3×3 and remains on the reels for the entire free spins feature. It does move every free spin to a different random position on the playing field.

This mega symbol is an amalgamation of the 3 scatters that you have to spin to activate the free spins feature of Legion Gold. By spinning a scatter on reels 1, 3 and 5 in the base game you will be rewarded with 5 so-called mega free spins, with which you can benefit from the mega symbol. The 3×3 mega symbol shows a random symbol every spin. You can divide the displayed symbol into 9 units of that particular symbol.

Payout Metrics

The Legion Gold pokie is played on 5 reels and has 25 fixed paylines. All wins pay from left to right on adjacent reels, beginning from reel 1. Only the highest win per line is paid out. The Legion Gold RTP is set at 96.23%, which is above the industry average for online pokies in New Zealand. Do note that there are multiple versions that all come with different RTP rates, so make sure you’re playing the one you want to play. We recommend you to always check the RTP, not only for this pokie game. As for volatility, this casino game sits in the medium range.

The max win is 2000x your total bet, which is quite low in comparison with other pokies out there. But the probability of making the top win isn’t all that bad, with 1: 50 million spins on average landing the top prize. The RTP of 96.23% and medium-high volatility fit perfectly with the rest of the game. Therefore, the player will receive a stable game and well-balanced variance. We’re glad with what we saw in this sense.

Summary

As always with online pokies that come with a Roman gladiator game theme, we expected a fair level of action and intensity. We definitely got the intensity we were hoping for with the audio of the casino game whilst the bonus features were quite disappointing. There are only two bonus features to be enjoyed which are on the low side, especially for a pokie game that promises battles and action. This online casino game comes with a standard Respins feature and a Free Spins feature that doesn’t add as much as we’d hoped for.

We therefore wonder why Play’n Go went ahead and came up with this Ancient Rome-themed pokie as they did it without anything new. Overall, there might not be too much to write about here, but hey at least there is a Mega symbol that could add some extra thrills as you spin away with maximum wins of 2000x your total stake. This might not be as much as expected, but all together, the low-medium volatility, 96.23% RTP rate and the top win of 2000x the bet fits the overall picture. We therefore suggest players to test the game themselves by making use of the free demo mode, available at CherryRed.