Masques of San Marco Slot
It was just a matter of time before IGT produced another Dual Play slot especially after the success of Da Vinci Diamonds Dual Play slots. Masques of San Marco is a 5-reel, 40-payline IGT video slot game with 2 sets of reels, each featuring 20 paylines. Of course the presence of Dual Play feature in Da Vinci Diamonds (also by IGT) drew quite a fan base, so it will be interesting to see if Masques of San Marco follows in those successful footsteps.
It’s Party Time!
Yeah, you heard it right! Masques of San Marco is a carnival themed slot drawing its inspiration from Venice’s Piazza San Marco mask festival. The game features a variety of masked characters who will inhabit cover the 2 sets of reels. The reels appear on top of the city of Venice at night where baroque buildings and gondolas set the scene. Precisely, there are 4 masked characters together with the Sun, Moon, and Stars. There is a wild symbol which is easy to spot, denoted by the name ‘Wild’ written across it. The Wild substitutes all other symbols on the reels apart from the Bonus symbol that is represented by a Mask.
More Wins with FreeFall Feature
The FreeFall feature will be triggered every time you get a winning combination regardless of whether it is regular play or Free Spins. This isn't how casino games work all of the time, but it's certainly nice that it works this way in regards to this game. All winning combinations are evaluated and awarded and the empty spaces get filled with free falling symbols. The reels are again evaluated for winning combinations. The FreeFall Feature remains active until you run out of winning combinations.
Extra Paylines in the Free Spins
You will be awarded with an initial 6 Free spins when you get the Bonus symbol on reels 1, 2, and 3. In the Free Spins, 20 more lines become active and this means you get to play with 60 active paylines. More so, you can retrigger 6 more Free spins by getting more Bonus symbol on reels 1, 2, and 3. This can go on up to a maximum of 300 Free Spins.
Wide Coin Range
The coin values in this slot run from 1.00 to 50.00 coins for a total bet of 2,000 coins. All line wins are multiplied by line bet. This therefore means you can bag as much as 250,000 coins in a single spin. This means that if you're playing in nickels, you could win a jackpot of $12,500. Of course this is a high variance slot where you can only bet as low as 40 coins and hope for big wins. The Free Spins Bonus proves to be quite profitable for us as we managed to retrigger them a couple of times.
Our Opinion
The Masques of San Marco is one of those games that you start playing and wonder why you never heard of it before. It is a shame we haven’t seen many Dual Play games from IGT, but the few we have seen have been nothing but rewarding and entertaining. Masques of San Marco can be likened to another above average slot by IGT, Hearts of Venice by WMS.
