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About Michelangelo Slot IGT have really scraped the bottom of the barrel to find a theme for a slot game in this case. Really, taking the great works of the artist and sculptor Michelangelo, and debasing by making them into a slot? Well we suppose if you enjoy both great art and the slots then this game could be suitable for you. The Michelangelo slot machine by IGT is an interesting slot that utilizes a feature called 'Tumbling Reels' where all winning combinations on all lines disap.
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Many an hour amongst avid art fans has been spent arguing one simple question – who was the greatest artist of all time, Michelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci? No matter which side of the fence you fall in terms of art appreciation there can be no doubt at all that with the popular Da Vinci Diamonds slot out there on the market, Leonardo is winning the slot game battle. Or at least he was until now, with the launch of High 5 Games new Michelangelo slot game, produced ironically in partnership with IGT who in turn were the makers of the Da Vinci Diamonds and Double Da Vinci Diamonds slots.
The new slot shares its basics with one of High 5 Games most unique and entertaining titles – the retro 70’s themed slot Foxy Dynamite. Both the structure of a five by three reel system and 99 pay-lines is identical as is the inclusion of the tumbling reels mechanic. Where the games differ slightly is in their secondary bonus as the Foxy game preferences the instant win scatter bucks feature and the Michelangelo slot has the popular connected lines feature only.
We realise that a 99 line game is usually the type of thing that you see on larger reel grids such as 6×4 or 7×5. However, it isn’t as complicated on a 5×3 screen as you might imagine. There are so many pay-lines in play that when you have all 99 lines selected you essentially turn the slot into a 243 ways to win style game where almost (but not quite) all sequential combinations across the reels form a win.Rather than being overly complicated or gimmicky the layout allows the game to bridge the gap between smaller 20-30 pay line games and the any ways win slots. The game sits neatly in the middle having higher variance than an all ways pay game but more ways to win than a traditional pay-line game, all in all, some would say this is the best of both worlds.
The bets are placed per line from just 0.01 credit so that’s a minimum bet of a fairly hefty (for a low stakes player) 0.99 credits up to a ludicrous 990.00 credit bet – that’s right. Just short of one thousand per spin can be played on this slot game online! When seen as a real cash slot in the casinos it does tend to carry a lower max bet. Though that will vary from one venue to another. Whilst the controls are pretty much stock one nice thing to note is that the auto-play button now displays the number of spins remaining in the queue, which older titles didn’t.
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High 5 Games clearly feel that Michelangelo was a better sculptor than a painter and so, three of the four high paying symbols on the Michelangelo slot are the heads of his most famous stone creations. The top paying icon, offering 5000x the line bet, is the game logo itself. Just three bespoke icons, no matter how well drawn does seem a little light and we can’t help but think H5G could have done a little more with the theme. The reel grid, frame, color scheme and audio are all decent enough and in tone but again, nothing record breaking or new.Slots Free Games Michelangelo
One thing the game definitely doesn’t lack, thanks to the appearance of tumbling reels is plenty of excitement. Each and every time a winning combination forms it ignites in a halo of flame and falls from the screen, with fresh symbols dropping from above, hopefully forming another win. Just like the famous avalanche feature in NetEnt’s Gonzo’s Quest this adds extra free spins into the base game without having to trigger the actual bonus feature itself.
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It would be easy to open up the free spins feature on the Michelangelo Slot and dismiss it as another small spins game of the type in other High 5 Games slots like Majestic Sea. Whilst it’s true that there is no re-trigger available for the spins and the random number issued for three scatters seems laughable at between 1-4 spins only. There are reasons for this.
Firstly, the tumbling reels mechanic both in the base game and the free spins round is still in effect. There’s free spins on a regular basis on this game and making the feature game big would mean dramatically reducing the variance or the hit ratio – neither of which a slot player wants to see. Second and, perhaps more important is that although these spins are small in number, it doesn’t mean they won’t be rewarding. Alongside the tumbling reels feature there is also an extra fixed wild available in the spins game which appears more commonly, four free spins on this game could quite easily be as rewarding as three or four times that on other games.
The Michelangelo Slot versus its contemporary rivals is likely to be as controversial as discussions over the artist it is based on. High 5 Games have tried to carefully structure a slot where the hit ratio, variance and rewards all gel in just the right mix and largely they’ve done a very good job of it.
Where the game falls a little is in the entertainment stakes versus its predecessor Foxy Dynamite, it isn’t an ugly game, but it isn’t a beautiful one either though. That said, we should always be reminded that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and many people may really love the theme!