Alexander The Great World Conqueror

Alexander The Great World Conqueror: Slot Overview

Few personalities tower over the Ancient World like Alexander III of Macedon, better known as Alexander The Great. Tutored by Aristotle until the age of 16, at 20, he became king, then by 30 years of age, he had forged one of the largest empires in history - and never lost a battle. Pretty safe to say he earned the 'Great' part of his nickname with credentials like that, for some people at least, and with the popularity of Ancient Greek-themed slots, it's no wonder he's appeared in the gambling world before. This time it's casino game maker Red Tiger's turn to do a bit of conquering. The title is Alexander The Great World Conqueror, and it is a progressive slot players work their way through, visiting 4 locations, expanding the game as they do so.

Alexander The Great World Conqueror has 4 stages to it, and quite what they are and how to bandy through them is covered in the following section. In the beginning, Stage 1 is Macedon, and players are treated to an appealing Ancient Greek style setting, columned buildings, and statues, like what visiting a place like the Parthenon would have been like thousands of years ago. A pretty scene, but you're unlikely to see something here that hasn't been seen in a dozen or more other Greek-themed slots - until the progressing and conquesting begins.

For Stage 1, Alexander's action is held on a 5-reel, 3-row gaming grid, utilising a 243-ways-to-win pay system. Mathematically speaking, Alexander The Great World Conqueror is highly volatile and has a theoretical return to player of 95.75%, though whether battling your way through to the final stage to achieve that figure or not isn't crystal clear. What is, though, is bet levels, which can be set as low as 10 p/c per spin or up to $/€10. It's not the most highroller friendly game, but as is typically the case with RT, the lower the max bet, the higher the maximum exposure.

To win in Alexander The Great World Conqueror requires landing matching symbols from the leftmost side of the grid across adjacent reels. Starting with the lows, we find 10-A card royals, then a Greek vase, an Egyptian statue, a Babylonian statue, and a Persian golden lion as the high pays. Landing a 5-of-a-kind win pays 0.3 to 3 times the bet, while 6 OAK wins on the expanded reels are worth 0.5 to 5 times the bet. Alexander wilds can land on any reel except the first and last reel, no matter the grid size, substituting for any regular pay symbol. Wilds also get modifiers as players move through the stages.

Alexander The Great World Conqueror: Slot Features

To progress through Alexander The Great World Conqueror's stages requires hitting the Aristotle symbol. Landing 10 of them moves play to Stage 2 in Egypt, 10 further Aristotle symbols moves the game to Stage 3 in Babylonia, and a further 10 moves onto Stage 4 in Persia. Each stage offers a different reel set-up and/or change of rules:

• Conquest of Egypt (Stage 2) - When reaching progression level Stage 2 in Egypt, an extra row of symbols is added to the grid. This transforms it into a 5x4-sized matrix with 1,024 ways to win.
• Conquest of Babylonia (Stage 3) - When reaching Stage 3 in Babylonia, an extra reel is added to the grid. Now the grid is 6x4 in size with 4,096 ways to win. In addition, wild symbols may land with a ways multiplier of x2 to x5.
• Conquest of Persia (Stage 4) – When reaching Stage 4 in Persia, another row is added to the grid, making it 6x5 in size with 15,625 ways to win. Now, wild symbols have the chance to stick in the base game for between 1 and 5 spins. During free spins, the wild symbols stick for the full duration of the feature.

Alexander's Treasure

When 3 scatter symbols land, Alexander's Treasure is awarded. Each triggering scatter flips to reveal a number of 1 to 7. The total of all numbers in view is the number of free spins awarded, from 3 to 21. Aristotle does not land during free spins. During the round, a free spins scatter may land, awarding an additional 1 to 7 free spins.

Alexander The Great World Conqueror: Slot Verdict

Alexander is one of those phenomena that may make one wonder if objectivity exists in the world. If you're on his 'side', let's say, then yeah, his blistering conquest across vast swathes of the planet might be considered great. If you're on the other 'side', he might be seen as a warmongering annoyance, or as the BBC put it, Alexander the not so Great. His achievements might be impressive, but it's kind of nice that nowadays, alphas can conduct their battles in the boardroom, in business, or in any number of competitive arenas which don't involve leading hordes of soldiers into battle against a defending army that would probably rather be at home ploughing fields or reading a book.

For some make-believe battling and conquering, players also have the option of taking on Alexander The Great World Conqueror as well. As far as the levelling-up aspect goes, progressing through Alexander The Great World Conqueror wasn't a major battle. As a rough guide, in general, it seemed to take around 100 spins to land 10 Aristotle symbols to move on up to the next stage, where the grid gets bigger and the ways to win more numerous. Upon reaching the final stage, free spins also get the added boost of sticky wilds, and while it might seem like you're missing out till then, free spins didn't trigger for us anyway during the first session until Persia was achieved, making it hard to compare. Maybe we just lucked out, but triggering free spins was one of the toughest skirmishes encountered while playing Alexander The Great World Conqueror.

A fair amount of treasure lies in wait for successful conquerors, too, to the tune of 10,467.5 times the bet. However, Alexander The Great World Conqueror's biggest USP is arguably the chance to progress through its 4 stages, charting the progress of Alexander's battles, some of them anyway. If you don't like that part of the game, little else is likely to win you over on what is otherwise pretty average Red Tiger stuff.