Vikings' Victory Slots
Another all-singing, all-dancing title from the team at Makitone Gaming, Vikings’ Victory is a 5 reel, 25 payline title that comes with all of the bells and whistles that you’d expect from a modern slot.
With its Norse raiding theme, players will have the chance to plunder some great prizes courtesy of a combined pick-and-click and free spins feature, while there’s also a substitute wild symbol included to increase their base game wins. Vikings’ Victory also features a top prize of 5,000x your bet per line as its regular jackpot award, making it considerably more generous than other slots by Makitone.
Smooth Sailing
As is the case with most titles developed by Makitone Gaming, Vikings’ Victory features an incredibly functional user interface, with all betting options being controlled by one button. By clicking “change bet” players will be presented with a pop-up menu with which they can customised every aspect of the game, including the amount of active paylines, their coin size and the number of coins per line.
With between 1 and 25 paylines available, coin amounts ranging from €0.01 to €5 and players able to bet up to 10 coins per line, this means that Vikings’ Victory can be played from anywhere between €0.01 and €1,250 a turn, though a spin with all paylines enabled will cost you at least €0.25.
Whatever investment they choose to make, players will be chasing the aforementioned 5,000x jackpot for finding a wild symbol on each of the game’s five reels, while there are a number of smaller prize awards issued for three-of-a-kind and even two-of-a-kind combinations in some cases.
Glorious Voyage
Having established a reputation for building high-quality video slots that come equipped with state-of-the-art graphics and sound, we’re pleased to say that Vikings’ Victory certainly doesn’t let Maktione down in this respect. Though perhaps lacking the charm of Koi Garden, the slot features plenty of appropriate symbols and sounds to provide an immersive Viking experience to players.
The game’s background is a Viking long ship set in front of a mountainous Scandinavian landscape, with billowing smoke and a foreboding crow providing a nice bit of additional animation. The symbols, meanwhile, feature all manner of Viking warriors and workers, with an archer, male and female foot soldiers, a blacksmith and two hulking berserkers that wield both maces and dual-axes.
Each payline combination is greeted with a short animation that is unique to the winning symbol, with archers loosing their arrows and warriors charging into battle. The berserkers, meanwhile, are also greeted with additional war cry sound effects, making the overall experience entertaining if a little repetitive when you have to listen to the same grunts over and over during a combination win!
Like other titles by Makitone Gaming, Vikings’ Victory also features consistent background music throughout the base game and bonus features to keep things fresh, interesting and atmospheric.
Raiding Party
Vikings’ Victory is quite an unusual slot in the sense that its two main bonus rounds have been combined into one extra-rewarding feature. Triggered whenever three axe-wielding Viking scatter symbols appear anywhere on the gameboard, players will first be taken to a new screen where they’ll choose from a number of cash amounts before being launched straight into seven free spins.
During the first half of this feature, players will be presented with seven wooden crates and barrels sitting on a jetty and will have to pick three to reveal instant-win prizes ranging from 125x to 750x their line bet. After that portion of the bonus has been completed, they’ll be returned to the base game reels and given seven free spins, with any extra winnings benefitting from a 3x prize multiplier.
While this combination in itself can result in some huge wins, the even better news is that landing another set of three scatter symbols will return you to the pick-and-click portion of the feature, with the winnings you uncover this time also being subjected to the 3x multiplier found during free spins.
The Spoils of War
All in all, Vikings’ Victory is a quirky title that somehow manages to put a fresh spin on what is actually a fairly well worn theme. The combination bonus feature is something we’ve not really seen in many other slots before and can result in some huge prize payouts, while the presence of a substitute wild symbol is a welcome addition that was sorely lacking from other games by the studio.
