Ace Round Slots
Developed by Evoplay Entertainment, Ace Round takes the style of console games such as Call of Duty and transfers it to an exciting online slot game. It’s filled with guns, grenades, S.W.A.T. teams and terrorists, so will appeal to the gaming crowd as well as anyone who just likes shooting stuff and blowing things up.
If you’re not into that sort of thing, perhaps the potential to trigger lots of bonus features, such as re-spins, special wilds and in-game bonuses will be enough to place this slot within your sights. It’s got some sharp graphics and a suitable military-type soundtrack to go along with the action, while various battlefield noises play along in the background to complement the events on screen.
Everything happens against a well-designed backdrop of a Middle-Eastern cityscape, where crates and oil barrels are stacked up in an alley, providing cover for the combatants and adding to the atmosphere.
Playing Ace Round
It’s a 5-reel game, where players are looking to land 3 or more matching symbols across adjacent reels on any of the 20 paylines to get a win. There’s a wide bet range, from the low limit of just 0.5 per coin to 10.00 per coin, although free Ace Round video slot games are available if you just want to try it out before making real wagers.
The symbols in the Ace Round video slot mostly consist of various items needed to dispatch the other side, and the lowest value winning combinations are created when a handgun with silencer, or pump-action shotgun land in the right places. Punters will get 2x their line bet when 3 of either symbol appear, while 4 or 5 are each worth 15 or 60x the amount staked per line.
Other symbols include Kalashnikovs, a medical bag which could prove very handy given the number of weapons on show, body armour, round grenades, combat gloves and the top paying symbol is a deadly-looking knife that’s worth 20, 150 or 500x the line bet. Each winning combo is followed by a short animation, with the machine guns for example, being replaced by targets and the handgun firing off a couple of shots.
In-Game Grenade Bonuses
There’s some potentially rewarding features to enjoy whenever special grenade symbols turn up. The red Fire grenade burns away the bottom row of symbols, and those above drop down into the empty spaces, but if that creates another winline, it happens again, up to a maximum of 5 times over.
Smoke grenades fill the screen with, unsurprisingly, smoke, and once it clears players will see that all symbols will have changed, which will hopefully lead to another win. The HE grenade blasts away between 6 and 9 random symbols, replacing them with a new set, and this can also lead to new winning lines being formed, although it’s not actually guaranteed.
Wild Features
There’s 4 wild symbols here, with a S.W.AT. member and a terrorist each getting their own during the main game and in the free spins rounds, while throughout the bonus games, players can also see hostage or bomb wild symbols on the reels.
The S.W.AT. wild will only land on reel 1, on the left side, but when he does the reels will continue to re-spin for free as he moves across them 1 at a time. If another S.W.AT. wild appears, the reel re-spins will continue until there’s none left in view. The terrorist wild does much the same thing, but he starts on the right side and moves steadily across to the left.
It all gets even more interesting if both wilds have appeared, as when they collide, free spins bonus games are triggered. If the S.W.A.T. wild overlaps the terrorist when they meet, 3 free spins are awarded, during which 5 random symbols are replaced by the hostage wild symbol for each spin. If the terrorist overlapped the S.W.A.T. wild there’s a bonus of 10 free spins and whenever the bomb wild completes a winning line, the value is subject to a multiplier of 5x.
The Bottom Line
Slots like this will appeal to a broad range of online casino players, not just those who like the console games that inspired it. Nice graphics and animations, an exciting, if somewhat unusual subject matter, and the multitude of bonus features will attract anyone looking for an action-packed game.
It’s certainly a real money online slot machine that you won’t be bored with, although the soundtrack may have players clicking the mute button before too long, as there’s only so many times you can hear the same battle commands before they get a little wearing.
Other than this, we found the Ace Round video slot to be a highly entertaining game that’s sure to be picked up by plenty of casinos.
