Roman Emperors

Roman Emperors: Slot Overview

It's amazing when you think out of the billions of people who have inhabited and do inhabit planet Earth, what a tiny fraction get their deeds recorded in the history books. One small yet prominent group of people who continue to fascinate us thousands of years after their deaths are the Roman emperors, and three major politicians of the time appear in Red Tiger's historical slot, Roman Emperors.

It might be argued that Ancient Rome's continued grip on the imagination is, at last, partly due to a certain romanticising of the era. If so, then visually, Red Tiger has managed to tap into this romantic urge with the design of Roman Emperors. For the base game, a crowded space is the setting, which could be a marketplace, a public meeting, or a governmental get-together, not sure, but it looks grandly Roman. A feeling triggered by the collection of statues, columns, and crowd. Lighting plays an important role in Roman Emperors' dreamy atmosphere, too, so in free spins, where sunlight pours into a lavish, palatial room fit for an emperor.

'Fortuna Ac Felicitas' is written along the bottom of Roman Emperors' 5-reel gaming grid, which translates from Latin to English via Google Translate as 'Luck and Happiness.' Each of the reels holds 3 rows of symbols and is crossed by 25 paylines, awarding cash for hitting winning combinations of matching symbols left to right from the leftmost reel. The lowest bet possible in Roman Emperors is 10 c, going up to the highest stake level of $/€10. Its math model is medium-high volatile, while the most preferable RTP comes in at 95.76%.

Roman Emperors' list of regular pay symbols includes low-pay 10-A playing card ranks and high-pay olives, helmets, rings, scrolls, and chariots. Hitting 5 matching royals in a win triggers a payout of 4 times the bet, whereas 5x to 20x is won for hitting 5 identical highs in a line. A Roman soldier is the game's wild symbol. The wild substitutes any pay symbol, and it pays 40x when a line of 5 wilds lands.

Roman Emperors: Slot Features

In this section, we meet the three characters who star in Roman Emperors and their reel-modifying effects. These features trigger in the base game and in the free spins round.

Silver and Gold SPQR

Three power bars sit above the middle three reels. Each power bar needs 3 points to be filled. When filled, the corresponding character triggers his feature. Landing a silver SPQR symbol adds +1 point to the power bar above it. The golden SPQR symbol adds +1 point to all 3 power bars when it lands. A maximum of 3 Silver SPQR scatters or 1 Golden SPQR may land at the same time, and they only appear on the middle three reels. Gold and Silver cannot land together.

Roman Emperors

When a power bar is filled, its respective feature triggers. This can happen individually or more than one at the same time depending on which power bars are filled.

• Pompey - triggers a respin with all royal symbols removed from the reels.
• Caesar - triggers a respin with 3 to 6 wild symbols added to the reels.
• Crassus - triggers a respin with a win multiplier of x3, x5, x10, or x20.

If a win does not occur on the respin, another respin is awarded until a win takes place. Power bars reset after its feature executes.

Free Spins

Landing 2 scatter symbols on the leftmost and rightmost reels triggers 12 free spins. Scatters cannot land on respins triggered by Emperor features. Power bars are removed from the grid for free spins. Instead, whenever a silver SPQR hits, it triggers the feature on its reel, or when a gold SPQR hits, it triggers all 3 features. Players win an extra +12 free spins should 2 scatters land on the leftmost and rightmost reels.

Roman Emperors: Slot Verdict

One of the main thought processes while reviewing Roman Emperors wasn't whether the game was good or not, but whether people only count in the greater scheme of things if they do deeds extraordinary enough to warrant having their names jotted down in the big diary of historical record. Even then, do recorded deeds even matter if, in a few billion years, the sun is going to roast the planet, and unless we spread our civilisation to other parts of the universe, every trace of humankind will be completely incinerated for eternity? That and a nagging thought the historical Pompey, Crassus, and Caesar were never officially emperors of Rome, though each helped transform Rome from a republic to an empire.

Never mind, let's crack with Roman Emperors the game, which is in many ways a textbook Red Tiger slot. It's got the semi-mystical look endemic in Red Tiger's work, being pleasant visually as it slams down those win line indicators on the gaming grid. The title is a bit plain, but gamblers have a good idea of what they are getting into. The game's features don't rank up there on the innovation list alongside Roman inventions like the Julian Calendar, underfloor heating, and concrete, but the modifiers on their own aren't bad and can improve when more than one triggers at once. What's nice is when Emperor powers do trigger respins, their effect is carried over if the first respin does not produce a win.

Due to a calculated max multiplier of 9,999x the bet, winning potential in Roman Emperors is on the fairly high side as well, though why RT couldn't have just rounded up to 10k is a question. Stir all the parts together, and Roman Emperors comes out with more ticks in the plus column than the minus while fuelling a few persistent thought loops along the way.