Sky Raiders Power Combo

Sky Raiders Power Combo: Slot Overview

How many people, when picturing the future, visualise flying cars buzzing about the place? It's a popular thought put forward by movies like Back to the Future 2 and cartoons like The Jetsons. From the time the Wright brothers first flew in 1903 until Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a mere 66 years had passed by, so it makes sense that people would assume flying around in our own personal craft would be as common as walking sooner or later. It seems this dream has stalled of late, so to indulge in a bit of sky-bound fantasy while having a punt here is Sky Raiders Power Combo from Games Global partner All For One Studios.

Sky Raiders Power Combo is another instalment in the broadening Power Combo slot category, with contributions made not only by All For One Studios but also by others such as Aurum Signature Studios and Just For The Win. It is something of All For One's baby, however, being the developer who really kickstarted this particular 3 feature/Power Combo movement. Rarely, if ever, as high in the sky as this, though, where the gaming grid has been placed on the back of a barge flying through clouds, joined by floating settlements and another flying ship. The view's pretty appealing with its mix of pirates, fantasy, and steampunk.

On the base game's 5x3 grid, there are 243 ways to win, and winning combinations start from the leftmost reel. This is a highly volatile game, and the RTP defaults to 96% while three lower return models have been made as well. Stake levels are 20 c to $/€20 per spin, and in keeping with Power Combo tradition, loads of feature buy combos are available for bonus buyers.

On the paytable, we find 11 regular paying symbols. Starting from the least valuable are spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs, paying 0.4x the bet for 5-of-a-kind, then a bottle, a gun, swords, and a hat worth 0.5x to 0.8x for 5-of-a-kind, then a parrot and two character symbols awarding 1x to 2x for a 5 OAK hit. Another piraty character appears on the wild symbol, present on reels 2, 3, and 4. Wilds substitute for all symbols except scatters or coins.

Sky Raiders Power Combo: Slot Features

Sky Raiders Power Combo has free spins where 3 different powers may trigger individually or in combinations. When a green, golden or purple scatter lands, it can trigger free spins with a special power:

• Green Scatter - can trigger 8 free spins with wild power. When a wild symbol lands, a position below it and above it is turned wild.
• Golden Scatter - can trigger 8 free spins with jackpot power. Coin symbols can reveal a coloured dollar symbol or a cash prize. Cash prizes are 1x to 10x the bet. Collecting red dollar symbols is needed to win the grand jackpot; yellow dollar sign symbols are for the major jackpot, green dollar symbols are for the minor jackpot, and blue dollar symbols are for the mini jackpot. Each jackpot has a container next to it, collecting differently coloured dollar symbols. When a jackpot's container is full, the respective prize is awarded. The Grand is worth 10,000x, the Major is 500x, the Minor is 50x, and the Mini is 25x the bet.
• Purple Scatter - can trigger 8 free spins with Rolling Power. This feature triggers Rolling Reels on each win, removing winning symbols and dropping symbols to replace them.

Free spins powers can be combined. This occurs when scatters of different colours trigger their respective power in a free spins round. Or, during an active free spins round, thereby upgrading it with the combined powers while resetting the number of free spins to 8. The more active powers, the bigger the grid and more ways to win - 1 power activates a 5x4 grid with 1,024 ways to win, 2 powers activate a 5x5 grid with 3,125 ways to win, whereas 3 powers activate a 5x6 grid with 7,776 ways to win.

Feature Buy

Seven features may be bought from the feature buy, mixing and matching free spins with various combinations of powers for 35x to 110x the bet.

Sky Raiders Power Combo: Slot Verdict

Few could accuse All For One Studios of being disloyal quitters. The developer has rolled out its triple feature Power Combo idea and stuck hard to it as if clinging to a partner in the middle of winter for warmth. The first time we really came across the concept was in Kings of Crystals, and there have been several 'official' Power Combo slot releases since then - Eggz! Power Combo, Queens of Ra Power Combo, and Luck of the Devil Power Combo, for example. However, the game Sky Raiders Power Combo most closely resembles is 3 Powers of Zeus Power Combo, as the two games are near to, or basically are mathematical clones. They have the same features and figures, but different outer skin.

The skin's not bad, though. Pirates sailing the seven seas are an online slot mainstay, but pirates riding the ether raining destruction from above are rarer. Not entirely unique, perhaps. Sky Raiders Power Combo sits alongside slots like Yggdrasil Gaming's Cazino Zeppelin/Cazino Zeppelin Reloaded or Push Gaming's Land of Zenith on the steampunk side of things with lashings of buccaneer daring mixed in. So the theme is quite a neat idea; the concern is action bordering on virtually the same as 3 Powers of Zeus, which didn't exactly go down amazingly well when it was reviewed.

Some of us feel that the Games Global family has boxed themselves in by excessively churning out Power Combo and local jackpot slots, not to mention the abundance of recycled content. Nevertheless, these games seem to resonate with a specific segment of gamblers, as evidenced by their continued production. Sky Raiders Power Combo naturally loses a few cool points being a clone and all that, so it might be unlikely to win many non-believers over to the movement, but it's imaginatively presented enough to give those warm to Power Combo slots a dose of flying fortress fun.