Hood Slot
If Disney ever decide to remake the Robin Hood story, then the Hood video slot that’s bespoke to Betsson, could provide inspiration for character design, as Robin, Maid Marian, Little John and Friar Tuck are all there in stunning CGI detail across the 5 reels. It’s quite a game to behold, where even the process of loading it up is a visual treat, with the view moving from Nottingham Castle through to Sherwood Forest and there’s a quick summary of the main bonus features to read before the reels take over the screen.
Those features include a treasure chest that opens up to reveal multipliers of between 60x and 450x the coin value, as well as stacked high-paying symbols, wild substitutions, a target practice session and a wheel of bonuses along with free spins. It’s a classic theme and a classic format, where the reels are crossed by 20 paylines and you’ll need matching symbols across a line from the left side to win during the base games. Special wild and scatter symbols will help out of course, and with so many bonuses available, it shouldn’t be long before you’re playing one of the many side games for some instant cash payouts.
Although it’s been commissioned by Betsson, the Hood video slot comes with all the guarantees of fair play that customers deserve to find, while it’s been certified by independent testing labs, so whether you are taking these Merry Men and Lady for a spin on a desktop PC, or playing the game on an iPhone, iPad, Windows or Android device, you’ll get the same high returns and great features.
Riding Through the Glen
It’s not just the character symbols that have been designed with such detail, as the whole game has the appearance of an animated movie, including the forest background decorative frames that surround each symbol and little flourishes and patterns that have been added to even the lower-value playing card suit icons.
The Clubs and Diamonds are worth 3, 15, or 50 coins when they land on 3, 4, or 5 reels across a payline, while Hearts and Spades pay a little more, and the rewards for landing picture symbols go up considerably.
The imposing castle pays 10, 50, or 150 coins, then we see a bow and arrow, Will Scarlet, who is worth a maximum of 175 coins and Little John, who pays up to 250. Friar Tuck and Maid Marian are special symbols that return prizes of 1000 coins when they fill reels 2 or 4 only, A golden on purple wild symbol will act as any base icon if it’s able to complete a winning line, although it isn’t worth anything on its own and can’t substitute for the bonus symbols.
On Target for Bonus Rounds
Any time the treasure chest appears, it will open up to reveal a coin multiplier of between 60x and 450x, but this simple bonus feature is just one of many that make this game so unique. Robin Hood himself is a scatter symbol and whenever this green-cloaked guy is seen in any 3 or more places at once, the Robin’s Riches feature begins. It plays out on a wooden wheel of fortune that spins up any of 4 extra rounds including 6 free spins where any symbols that match the 3 shields that will appear above the reels will become extra wilds.
Other options to spin up are the Rich Pickings game which sees 6 layers of barrels in a cellar. You click any of the 7 barrels in the first layer to either win a prize or go on to the 5 barrels in the second layer, where higher prizes await. Keep going, collecting more gold until you find a pesky castle guard who will end the round.
There’s also the King’s Ransom feature where you just need to pick from the 13 bags of gold to uncover a prize. You’ve then got the choice of accepting it, or rejecting it to enter the Super King’s Ransom, where hopefully you will find greater riches, but it’s not guaranteed.
Random In-Game Features
On top of all these, you can land special reel modifier bonuses, which are quick games played between spins. There’s the Reel Crazy game where Robin swings across the reels, followed by a guaranteed winning spin, or you could find yourself looking at a screen full of Archery targets, where your skills with a bow and arrow will be tested. Not really, it’s actually just a point and click feature that turns targets into winning combinations of symbols.
If you have just 2 scatter symbols in view, the Reel Blast feature can be triggered, which sees a trebuchet firing at reel 5 to turn any symbol in to the all-important third scatter icon that will take you to the Robin’s Riches wheel.
No need to rob from the rich
The betting options start at a low limit of just 0.01 per coin, which equals 0.20 per spin with all 20 paylines active. You can raise this to a maximum wager of 10.00 per coin for a 200.00 bet for the spin and of course, with higher coin values you will qualify for higher returns.
You can also select between 5 and an infinite number of Autospins, which can bring in those prizes without you needing to click each time, although we would have liked to have seen a fast spin option, but Betsson haven’t included one here.
Other Merry Men
Of course such a popular tale deserves a number of slot games to be devoted to it, and the Robin Hood video slot from Toptrend Gaming presents us with a classic Errol Flynn type character who stands to the side of this 5-reel, 40-line game, ready to fire arrows at symbols of coin bags, beers, arrows and a crown.
Robin also appears as a high-paying stacked symbol, while a rolled-up parchment is wild and the game logo is a scatter symbol. When this stops in any 3 places you are given 10 free games, with a special target symbol in play that awards arrows used to shoot boost your winnings.
The High Definition symbols of Lady Robin Hood from Bally Technologies packs a lot into 5 reels and 40 paylines, with up to 8 random wild symbols appearing in the Arrow Mystery Wild feature, while the game logo is a scatter that awards an initial 10 free spins with a 2x multiplier on your winnings. Shield symbols above the reels start to fill up during these games, triggering locked wild symbols that fill the reels for any remaining bonus spins.
Is Hood good?
The highly detailed design of this slot machine makes the symbols seem to pop out from the screen, with smooth animations adding to the realism. It’s got an amazing variety of bonus rounds to help you collect even more from the online and mobile optimised Betsson casino, and while the wheel of fortune spins up random features, you can be sure that each of them will lead to some nice cash payouts.
There’s a free Hood video slot mode that lets you try it out without having to place any real cash bets, but if you want to actually enjoy the full excitement of the game, then at 0.20 per spin you could start to win money and either keep it all for yourself or follow Robin Hoods’ example and give to the poor.
