Since Christopher Nolan’s stunning blockbuster The Dark Knight Rises™ burst onto our screens last summer in all its dark, menacing glory, we’ve been eagerly awaiting a bombastic online slot version from Microgaming, developed through its licensing agreement with DC Entertainment. It’s the software developer’s second foray into the Batman franchise, following the hugely successful The Dark Knight™, unveiled in the summer of 2012.While The Dark Knight was a progressive slot, which meant it offered potentially earth-shattering prizes for a spin on the Mega bonus round, The Dark Knight Rises isn’t linked to the Microgaming Progressive Jackpot, so while it may not afford the chance to win millions, it does allow room for the developers to let rip with some uniquely exciting and creative bonus rounds. And that’s what we want in our blockbuster movie slots, thank you very much: oodles of fast-paced, action-packed features sliced with audio and visuals from the movies, plus rip-roaring animation, as Batman comes out of retirement to take on the terrifying, anarchic force of nature that is Bane.How many ways to win?!The Dark Knight Rises is a 5-reel slot with 243 ways to win. For those of you new to the “243 Ways to Win” format, this is an exciting rethinking of the slot machine model that removes the constraints of paylines. Instead, wins are based on left-to-right combinations, regardless of their position on each reel. Winning combinations must start from the first reel, of course, but can continue on in any position from top, centre or bottom, meaning that all symbols act like adjacent scatters. It’s the perfect hectic, high-volatility format for a game that effectively encapsulates the hard-hitting excitement of the movie.First up, the music tense, atmospheric, cinematic, and all your favourite characters from the movies appear on the reels, bursting into life as video animations as they make combinations. But it’s when the bonus features are activated that the game truly comes alive. There are lots of exciting new features here, such as Fight Mode, Symbol Scramble and Split Wilds, all of which are triggered randomly – and frequently – in the base game.
In the Symbol Scramble feature, the symbols on the reels rearrange themselves to give you the best possible winning combination. Then there’s the Expanding Wild feature where the Special Wild symbol expands across the whole middle reel, giving you a big chance of hitting some winning combos.Particularly notable for its awesomeness is the Fight Mode Feature; here Batman and Bane take centre stage to fight it out in an animated duel across the screen. Microgaming carefully scrutinised footage from the film in order to choreograph and develop these realistic fight sequences specifically for the game, and the result is pretty effective. However, it also serves a purpose: the duo fight it out to award you a random number of free spins and multiplier value. This is then added to the free spins/multiplier in the Free Spins Bonus feature when you trigger it next.
The Free Spins Bonus feature itself is triggered when you get or more Scatter Bonus symbols anywhere on the reels. Here, you are rewarded with 10 free spins, plus the free spins/multipliers you have accumulated during fight mode.You will then play a choice of two bonus games, depending whether you choose the Bane or Batman character. Choose Bane and any win will activate the Rolling Reels Feature. Hit a winning combo in this mode and the winning symbols explode, allowing the symbols to drop down in their place, which means you can potentially win multiple times on every free spin.Should you activate the Free Spins Bonus feature 10 times, the Super Stacked Wilds feature will come into play. Here, the Dark Knight Rises logo symbol is the wild which will create a wild stack on reels two and four, potentially resulting in some big, big wins. Choose Batman to trigger the Extra Wild Blast Feature, where you get to choose which symbol you want as an extra wild. Trigger the Free Spins Bonus feature ten times to unlock the Heat Seeking Wilds Feature, which transforms random symbols on the three middle reels into wilds which can split in two effectively creating a six-of-a-kind combination, worth twice that of five-of-a-kind.
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1,782,000 coins or 89,100 in currency
0.30 – 7.50
5 Reels, 243 ways to wins
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