Shields of the Wild is from Scientific Games and has 5 reels and 10 paylines – with a medieval theme and playable from 10p a spin on all devices, it comes with randomly symbol upgrades for bigger wins.
The symbols are in three rows and are overlaid against this backdrop without solid reels to block the scene.
If you take at a look at the game menu, you’ll see that most of the symbols are shields in various shapes and styles. Lower-value ones are more basic wooden types and the high-value shields are crafted from metal with animal face decorations.
A golden shield with a lion embossed on it is the top-paying standard symbol and you win 25x, 50x, or 100x the amount staked when it crosses three, four, or five reels on a payline.
The game logo is a wild symbol, which not only acts as others if needed, but also pays 30x, 150x, or 250x the line stake when stopping on three, four, or all five reels respectively. It won’t replace the upgrade or scatter symbol however.
Shields of the Wild comes with a Shield Wall feature which can be triggered randomly on any base game spin – all symbols, except the wild and scatter, are upgraded to the next higher paying symbol up to 8 times. This can lead to a screen full of the lion shield which will give you 100 times your stake.
The game is all about the Marching Stacks Free Games feature – this is played when you get 3, 4 or 5 sword scatters anywhere on the reels. A stack of symbols will appear on reel 5 – depending on how many scatters you get (3, 4 or 5), the stack of symbols will be chosen a group of 5 symbols. If you trigger the feature with 5 scatters, you’ll get the 5 highest value symbols apart from the lion shield.
Now, you will then get free spins – if an upgrade sword symbol appears on that free spin, the stack upgrades to the next higher paying symbol. If no upgrade sword appears, the stack moves 1 reel to the left with an identical stack of symbols added to reel 5 – this means you have a stack of symbols on both reels 4 and 5.
This continues until all 5 reels are filled by stacked symbols – getting 2 upgrade sword symbols will result in 2 symbol upgrades and so on. This can result in plenty of free spins. In the end, the aim is to fill the screen with the highest value lion shield symbol – if you manage to do this, you’ll win 100 times your stake.
You are guaranteed to win at least 20 times your stake. Finally, once the Marching Stacks Free Games feature is complete, a free retrigger may be awarded meaning you play the feature again. All in all, there’s 2,500 times your stake to be won in the feature.
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