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empire shields slot theme, stakes, pays & symbols

The name “Empire Shields” might make you picture an army of Roman soldiers or a fleet of British warships from the time of the dark ages, but GONG had other ideas. The developer has gone with a sci-fi theme for their Empire Shields slot game, so all the high-paying symbols feature wonderfully over-the-top characters instead. These guys are mostly wearing crazy suits of armour, holding enormous weapons, or clasping mythical-looking orbs. Fans of Asian artwork will probably appreciate this theme, despite the art style being much more realistic than a typical Anime series. 

As for the paytable, everything looks roughly aligned with what I would expect for a 243-way online slot. The highest-paying symbol is a huge guy with white hair and an equally massive sword with a return of 15x your bet for a full pay way of five-of-a-kind. He is followed by a blonde heroine clasping a giant shield who returns 10x your stake for all five, a younger guy dressed in Red (with an uncanny resemblance to Kilik from the Soul Calibur fighting game franchise) who will pay you 7.5x, and a winged beauty wearing lilac paying 5x your bet for a fully loaded pay way. The wild symbol pays 15x your bet for a full pay way, identical to the regular top symbol, whilst the scatter returns a slightly disappointing 10x if you hit all five.

You’ll find the wager selection, autoplay, and turbo speed options hidden behind the hamburger menu in Empire Shields online slot, just like most other GONG Gaming Technologies machines. The minimum bet per spin is €0.20, whilst the maximum is €20.00, both of which seem entirely reasonable for a 243-way game.

base game & MODIFIERS

At first glance, Empire Shields may appear to be a relatively standard online slot; the base game layout is a standard 5x3 affair, but after you have made your first spin, you will immediately notice that there are five additional positions above the standard reel set which are now full of special symbols.

As a 243-way online slot, you only need to hit matching symbols on three or more adjacent reels starting from the left-hand side to score a winning combination. There are several base game modifiers, all activated by that additional row we mentioned which GONG calls the “Topper”.

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topper feature

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double reel modifier

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multiplier modifier

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energy wild modifier

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expanding wild modifier

empire shields slot free spins feature

Three or more scatter symbols will trigger the main free spins bonus round, but before you start, you will be taken to a separate screen containing 20 shields. You will be asked to pick five shields out of the available 20 to fill your topper, which will remain locked in place for the duration of the bonus round.

During free spins, all modifiers require the same energy to activate as they do in the base game. Multipliers are still refreshed between spins, but the shields do not scroll, and you do not lose any meter you build up unless you run out of free spins. On your 10th spin, the game will activate all of the topper features for you; it might only be a single spin, but if you picked a particularly lucrative set of feature shields at the beginning of the feature, then this one final spin can be extremely valuable. 

The free spins feature can be re-triggered by hitting three or more scatters during your free spins. Not only does this win you ten more free spins, but it also gets you an additional “all features activated” spin at the end.

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