Red Cliff Slot Machine
The Battle of Red Cliffs took place in AD 208 – 209 in China and brought about the end of the Han Dynasty, ushering in the period of the Three Kingdoms. Anyone spinning the reels of Evoplay Entertainment’s Red Cliff video slot won’t need a history lesson, but it’s nice to know the reason for the title and why it’s filled with warriors, weapons and epic battle scenes.
This 5-reel, 25-line online casino slot is also filled with bonus features, with players triggering a free spins round where wins can be multiplied to a high limit of 250x, while random in-game events can boost the chances of getting an extra win at any time when wild symbols are added to the reels, or a completely new set turn up at once.
The background image is a delight to behold, unless you don’t like battle scenes, but for anyone impressed by these things, the image of warships approaching a beach defended by cavalry and giant crossbows is quite a sight. The reels are surrounded with red and gold accents and the title sits above them in an elaborate gold frame to help bring the styles of ancient China to life.
Playing At The Red Cliffs
Hopefully punters won’t have much of a battle to get winning combinations when they play this game, collecting standard prizes by lining up matching symbols across a payline from left to right. The minimum stake to get started is 0.25, although it’s possible to practice on free Red Cliff video slots before committing to a real cash wager.
Lower value coin wins occur when either the teacup or bird symbols land across a payline, with 4x, 10x or 100x the line bet returned for 3, 4 or 5 appearing. The lantern and musical instrument each pay out 5x, 12x or 125x, while the crossbow, vase, warriors and girl will all be worth progressively more. The top paying regular symbol is a musician and he only needs to be seen on reels 1 and 2 to pay 2x the line bet, rising to a maximum of 250x when 5 of this symbol lands.
A ceremonial sword is valued between 5x and a huge 1000x the line bet, depending on how many appear across the reels, plus it’s a wild symbol that can replace all others, apart from the scatter to boost the ratio of winning spins.
Random In-Game Events
After any spin, it’s possible that Red Cliffs will give you another chance to get a win when any of 3 random events occurs. A Cleave Hit event sees a sword cutting through 3 symbols from top to bottom, that get turned into additional wilds and any new winlines are then calculated, or you could see a Savage Blow that does the same thing, but to a horizontal set of symbols.
A Laceration Hit sounds painful but could bring some pleasure as 5 symbols are cut and replaced by 5 matching examples of any other symbol, hopefully leading to a nice win, although like all Random Events, prize winning combinations are not assured.
Scatters And Bonus Games
There’s one more symbol to look at, and this is another special icon which sees rows of soldiers waiting to attack. It’s a scatter symbol that pays between 2x and 100x the total bet amount when it lands, triggering 5 free spins in the process.
These are very unique bonus games, as anyone who sees 2 shield symbols appear before the end of the spins will receive 5 additional spins where wins will be multiplied by 5x. If 6 shields appear before the end of these new spins, 5 more games are added and any wins during these will be subject to a 25x multiplier.
Fortunate players who manage to collect 12 more shields get yet another set of 5 free spins and if any winlines are formed in them, a huge 250x multiplier will be applied to the payout and if that’s not enough, the whole feature can begin again if 5 shields land in this series of bonus games.
The Verdict
While the initial sight of the Red Cliff online slot is pretty impressive, what matters to most gamblers is how much they can potentially earn and with a top multiplier of 250x applied to their winnings, it’s an impressive slot in more ways than one.
We found the random features were triggered quite frequently, although not always leading to a win, and while it can be relatively easy to trigger the free spins, getting to that huge multiplier has so far evaded us. But it’s a good-looking slot that has a high return to player ratio and even though it’s not mobile-optimised, this is a game that we can highly recommend.
