Great Gold

Great Gold: Slot Overview

Whether you consider gold to be great or not, it is quite special. For one thing, most of the gold on earth was apparently created inside stars that went supernova and ended up here via asteroids. Gold also has a wide range of uses, from electronics to dentistry, to radiation shielding, amongst others, and it's extremely malleable. For instance, scientists at the University of Leeds created a type of gold that is just two layers of atoms on top of each other. It's so thin it is regarded as two-dimensional. Rest assured, we're not here to sell you shares in some gold mining company or flog watches but to conduct a review of Great Gold, an online slot from Red Tiger. As well as celebrating the yellow metal, Great Gold deals out a Wild Activator feature and free spins with sticky wild reels.

Great Gold, Great Gatsby, are we pushing the association? Perhaps, but like The Great Gatsby film, Great Gold has a shiny Art Deco look about it, together with several gold-related references. One of the most eye-catching references is the stacks of coins glistening in the background, like the inside of Harry Potter's vault at Gringotts. As well as this rich stuff, players can cast their eye over thick crimson curtains and loads of gold trim. A funk track completes what can only be described as quite an opulent scene. Or maybe a gaudy one. Your choice.

Great Gold is played on what looks a little bit like a physical cabinet, sans lever, containing a 5-reel, 3-row gaming zone. Nipping their way along the grid are 10 fixed paylines for landing winning combos of at least three of a kind on. Medium/high volatile, Great Gold can be played on any device and comes with a maximum return to player value of 95.66%, while bet selection ranges from 10 p/c to $/€10 per spin.

Eight regular paying symbols appear on the reels – including mostly classic icons such as cherries, lemons, oranges, plums, clovers, stars, crowns, and sevens. Hitting a winning line made up of five matching symbols gets players a payout worth 3 to 50 times their stake. Additionally, wild symbols also land on all reels to substitute any normal pay tile. If five wilds land along a payline, they are worth a payout of 50 times the bet.

Great Gold: Slot Features

In keeping with the classy/elegant angle, Great Gold isn't overburdened with features. The base game benefits from a random Wild Activator feature, while triggered free spins have a wild collection element as well as locked wild reels.

Wild Activator

This feature may trigger randomly on any spin and rain wilds onto the grid. Players get anywhere from 4 to 8 wilds placed on the reels.

Free Spins

Landing 3 scatter symbols on reels 1, 3, and 5 triggers 10 free spins. During free spins, any wild that lands lights up a bulb above it on the respective reel. When all 4 bulbs on a reel are lit, +2 free spins are awarded and the reel turns into a sticky wild stacked reel for the remainder of the round. The Wild Activator may trigger during free spins, which may help light the bulbs faster.

Great Gold: Slot Verdict

Fruit slots with funky backing tracks continue to prove their popularity, and Red Tiger has added another playable one to the bunch. Great Gold is one of the more elegant-looking examples in this category, despite the fact that it is dripping in gold coins. Perhaps it's evidence, if ever any was needed, of Art Deco's power to add a touch of class, whatever the topic. Either way, Great Gold is a pleasant-looking slot that's somehow gaudy and understated at the same time, which should interest players looking for an up-market fruit slot with a bit of swing to it.

Great Gold's features provide a touch of class, as well. Again, they are in some ways understated but with a strong 'more is better' quality about them. If one wild reel is good, then two, three, four or five is theoretically better. Snatches of wild reels' capabilities may be witnessed in the base game when the Wild Activator activates, yet free spins are where they can really turn it up. It wasn't unheard of to have more than one sticky wild reel in a bonus round, though don't count on the game pouring forth masses of coins even when two or three reels are locked. Great Gold triggered features fairly often during the review, yet they often ended up on the low side. Still, collecting enough wilds to create five sticky wild reels for even a few free spins would be quite a sight. This is surely one of the reasons why Great Gold packs potential higher than a lot of Red Tiger slots at 7,608x the bet.

All up, Great Gold was a classy fruit/gold-themed slot which delivered a satisfying test session. There isn't a whole lot to Great Gold, though, so once the novelty of full reel wilds wears off, it might be easy to feel a little over it. Not to worry, there are plenty more where these sorts of games come from, and no doubt, plenty more on the way.