Legion Gold

Legion Gold: Slot Overview

If, on the off chance you were wondering, a Wikipedia search revealed that legionnaires at the time of Julius Caesar collected a paycheck worth 225 Denarii each year, split over three payments, as well as a sign-on bonus of 75 Denarii. Since Denarii were common silver coins of the era, it was probably unlikely regular soldiers came into a heck of a lot of contact with gold, though some did receive salt allocations, if that counts. Anyway, it's unlikely to be salt or silver that players will be wanting to collect when they line up to take on Legion Gold from software provider Play'n GO. Not that Legion Gold has the ability to deliver a conquered country's worth of riches in the greater scheme of things. Regardless, players into all things Ancient Roman might be tempted by the slot's Gold Re-spins round and Mega Free Spins with a roaming mega-sized symbol.

Legion Gold takes place in a sumptuous Roman spot at the height of the Empire's powers. Thick, sturdy columns metaphorically represent a robust civilisation that must have felt like it would last forever during its golden years. Ah well, the pendulum swung back the other way eventually, as it often does in human endeavours. Many empires have risen, thrived, and then faded away. The circle of life continues. Anyway, for Legion Gold, Ancient Rome enthusiasts get a taste of its glory when it was literally the centre of the world, one of the centres at least.

Played on a 5-reel, 3-row gaming grid, 25 paylines have been built into Legion Gold to line up winning combinations. For all pay symbols, three to five of a kind pay out when they land along a line, from the first reel onwards. Mathematically, Legion Gold is a medium volatile game with a default RTP of 96.2%. As per usual, PnG uses flexible RTP, so lower versions are available. A wide variety of bets can be set, from 5 p/c to $/€100 per game round, which should be sufficient for most punters.

For symbols, Legion Gold's got eight regular pays, split into four lows and four highs, as well as a wild, a scatter, and gold Coins. Hitting a line of five regular pay symbols awards two times the bet when made up of the J-A royals or 8 to 20 times the stake for five eagles, dogs, horses, or bears. Legionnaire-adorned wild symbols are present on all reels and can land stacked, filling the whole reel. Wilds substitute for any non-special pay symbol and possess the same value as the growling bear pay if making winning lines of themselves.

Legion Gold: Slot Features

Just as Rome was founded by two brothers, Romulus and Remus, according to legend, so too does Legion Gold come with two bonus rounds. One is a gold coin triggered hold 'n win round; the second is Mega Free Spins, where a massive symbol roams about the board.

Gold Re-spins

Landing 6 gold Coins in the base game triggers Gold Re-spins. Standard stuff, the triggering Coins are carried over to the bonus round, which ends when no more spins are left, or each position on the board is filled with Coins. When that happens, all values in view are tallied up and awarded to the player.

Mega Free Spins

When 3 scatter symbols are in view on reels 1, 3, and 5, players enter the second of Legion's Gold's bonus rounds. The 3 scatters merge to form one massive symbol 3x3 in size, and 5 Mega Free Spins are awarded. On each Mega Free Spin, the massive symbol moves to a random position anywhere on the board. The massive symbol counts as a block of 9 regular symbols for any win evaluations.

Legion Gold: Slot Verdict

Rome wasn't built in a day, as the saying goes, but the online slot Legion Gold might have been. Not really, but it didn't strike one as a game that pushed an experienced outfit like Play'n GO to the limits of its design capabilities. No doubt it looks good; Play'n GO rarely releases a duff-looking game, being rammed with rich Roman imagery, including the odd but interesting collection of animals on the premium symbols. They made a welcome break from weapons or an influx of soldiers or gladiators, which often adorn these sorts of games.

Nah, the thing with Legion Gold was the gaming; more specifically, the way its two bonus rounds felt a little light on creativity and heft. Free spins, for example, are basically Wolf Gold's merged massive symbol, which has appeared on numerous occasions since, such as in Akiva: Claws of Power, Apache Way, or Lost City of the Djinn. Kind of cool that the mega symbol moves around here, though, as the roaming aspect is admittedly less common. Equally uncommon, maybe more so, was the Gold Re-spins feature. No idea why Mega Free Spins triggered way more often than the hold 'n win round, but darn if the Gold Re-spins bonus round was a tease during the review, meaning we got to see a load of Mega Symbol action but very little of the hold 'n win variety.

Not too long before Legion Gold came along, we reviewed another ancient civilisation slot from Play'n GO called Gates of Troy. Whilst Gates of Troy was centred around Ancient Greek history rather than Ancient Rome's and came with a different batch of features, both come across as rather mediocre, though Legion Gold's Mega Free Spins might possess a degree of intrigue for players interested in the roaming massive symbol part.