300 Shields Extreme Slot review

With a jackpot of up to 17,770x the stake, 300 Shields Extreme does keep the action as interesting as in its predecessor, but now it has a more modern form and a Buy option.

NextGen Gaming was already fairly successful with their previous Spartan-themed slot machine, 300 Shields, but now they decided to take that game to another level, and they’ve done it by bringing the original to a more modern stage. Using the option to buy the feature, or the HTML5 technology to make it more accessible, the game is now ready to get some attention from players once again. The theme is going to revolve around the same Spartan warriors and their weapons, and the cartoon-style graphics look pretty good overall. You have fields of grains and Greek temples in the background, while on the reels you get images from a battle. The Royals have arrows sticking out of them, while the higher paying icons show off ships, warriors, swords, shields and arrows.

An impressive top jackpot of 17,770x the stake is a possibility in 300 Shields Extreme, and the game uses only 5×3 reels and 25 lines to get there. Whether it’s the Battle Feature, the Free Spins with their 300x multipliers, the scatters or the wilds, I think you will find plenty of good action inside.

The regular bets of 300 Shields Extreme are designed to cover 25 lines, and so they range from $0.25 to $12.50.

One of the new things which were introduced in this version of the game, the Buy Pass option will let you wager 60x the regular stake, to trigger the free spins directly.

What makes the free spins special here, is the fact that the ultra high volatility comes from that side of the game. You can get up to 300x multipliers, and to do this you need to collect Shields. This triggers additional free spins, during which the wild symbol applies multipliers (5x, 25x and 300x, as you keep collecting more and more Shields). To get the free spins in the first place, you need 3+ Shield scatters in view.

Warriors are the wilds of the game, they pay fairly well themselves, but the target is to get them during the free spins, where they also apply big multipliers. They’re used as substitutes as well, in combination with regular symbols.

300 Shields Extreme will offer us decent graphics and huge volatility, and it’s also a more modern game, which even gives you the option to buy access to its hugely profitable free spins.