Clash of Pirates Slots
Pirates have long been a popular topic for online casino slots to follow and those nautical nasties fill the reels of the Clash of Pirates video slot from Evoplay Entertainment. Although they look mean, this lot can actually become the players’ friends, bringing in some of the top wins when they land in the right places across the 5 reels and 30 paylines.
While many people may not have heard of Evoplay Entertainment, they should know that this company has been supplying trusted and reliable slot machines since 2003, and while their range may still be on the small side, what they lack in quantity, they make up for in quality.
Clash of Pirates has some colourful characters taking to the high seas, and a couple of nice bonus features, such as wild substitutions and a free spins round to help players plunder the coffers of their chosen online casino site.
Playing Clash of Pirates
There’s great attention to the details in the design of this game, with an animated giant octopus, or the Kraken, busy wrapping its tentacles around the mast of the ship, while driving rain and choppy seas add to the drama. The reels are surrounded by thick rope, hanging from a mast and barrels float around underneath them, just to complete the picture.
Right at the bottom of the game is the standard Evoplay Entertainment control panel where players can cast off from as little as 0.30 per spin, or go in with all guns blazing and raise it to the high limit of 150.00. If preferred, they can get some practice in first, as free Clash of Pirates video slots are available at most casinos which carry the range.
There’s 9 main symbols to the game and getting a win from them requires 3, 4 or 5 of the same type to stop across a line, in an unbroken sequence from left to right. While the high card symbols 9, 10, J, Q, K and A are all used, each has been given a different colour and set into silver coins which makes them stand out from the rather plain symbols that can be found on other games. Any 3 of a kind on a line will pay out 5x the line bet, while full runs across the reels are worth 100 or 150, depending on which card symbol makes up the winning combination.
Pirate Payouts
Higher prizes are awarded when any of the 4 pirates land across a line, starting with a cabin boy, (or possibly a girl, it’s hard to tell), who is worth 25, 125 or 500x when landing on 3, 4 or 5 reels at a time. Then we have a couple of grizzled pirates with huge beards and bad attitudes, who are worth the same as our cabin person, and at the top of the chain of command, we see an Oriental lady against a pink background.
While she may look quite moody, this top value symbol should please punters, as she only has to land on reels 1 and 2 across a line to return wins of 8x, while full lines of this character are worth a lucky 888x.
An Abyss symbol probably spells doom for the pirate ship, but it spells extra winnings for those spinning the reels, as it’s a wildcard, able to act as all except the scatter symbol if it’s then able to complete a winning line, although there’s no value attached to it on its own.
Free Spins Round
The scatter symbol is a rusty-looking compass, but it points to some free spins when landing in any 3 or more places at once. Before the 10 bonus games begin, there’s an initial award paid out, with 3, 4 or 5 scatters worth 2x, 10x, or 30x the total stake per spin respectively.
To help give these free games slightly better odds, the scatter won’t appear on the reels throughout them, so there are potentially more reel positions to land valuable symbols, but wins aren’t guaranteed in this round. At least the initial payment ensures that players end the games with more than they started with, and there is still the chance of landing some nice prizes before the 10 spins have finished.
The Verdict
Clash of Pirates by Evoplay Entertainment certainly has a nice design and impressive animations. It may not come with anything particularly unique in the way of bonus features, but wild substitutions and free games are familiar extras that will be welcomed by most people.
It can be played with no download needed, although it’s currently not mobile-optimised, which really ties you down to a desktop PC or laptop.
