Gladiator

The Gladiator online slot is a 5 reel, 50 payline slot which has a Free Spins feature as well as Substitute and Scatter symbols.  With a massive 50 paylines and an offer of 100 free spins this pokie certainly stands out from the crowd.  Where this pokie falls short is that it never really does justice to the Gladiator theme.  A real missed opportunity in our opinion.

On the positive side this slot does offer something different to the standard pokie machine.  With 50 paylines this is the online equivalent of the 50 Lions pokie, a land based pokie many of our readers will be familiar with.  This naturally brings in a much larger number of winning combinations, but obviously with a maximum of 50 paylines to play, the game can quickly eat into your credits.  In addition, you won't come across many slot machines that offer such a large number of Free Spins.  When the Free Spins feature is triggered within he Gladiator Slot, players are awarded 100 free spins.  Whilst this does appear rather generous, in testing it took us ages to actually trigger the free spin feature.  However, when you do trigger it you will very likely bring in a  decent size win.

To make up for the difficulty in triggering the Free Spins, other features tend to come in a little more often than you would normally expect.  In testing we found that we hit the Substitute symbols came in an awful lot, and we managed to clock up a large number of smaller sized wins along the way.

Where this pokie really lets itself down is in its presentation.  Producing a pokie with a Gladiator theme is a great idea, but the graphics and creativity in this slot don't do the theme the justice it actually deserves.  It's almost as if the lead designers were on holiday when this game was produced and the office junior was left in charge.  This is a crying shame, and ultimately the Gladiator online slot sells itself on the basis of it offering something different (50 paylines and 100 free spins) rather than being a great pokie in it's own right. Harsh you might say, but ultimately Its a case of what might had been.