It’s time to enjoy some football themed slot fun in our next review. To some, it’s the beautiful game; passion, excitement, and enough to put you in a bad mood for the weekend if your team inevitably lose their latest fixture. For others, it’s just a bunch of overpaid blokes kicking a bag of air around some muddy grass. Whichever camp you fall into, let’s hope this game involves enough action to get you cheering. Ultimate Striker is a high volatility, six-reel, six-row video slot from PG Soft featuring a maximum win of 8,000x and an RTP of 96.72%.
As you might expect, Ultimate Striker is set on a backdrop of a gloriously green football pitch, which creates a perfect environment for a good game. Let’s hope PG Soft has managed to smash the gameplay into the top bins rather than scuffing it wide of the post. It's time to kick off and find out. There’s unlikely to be a boring 0-0 draw here as plenty of game-enhancing features are included, such as the popular Wilds-On-The-Way feature, which sees certain grid positions transform into mystery symbols and subsequently sticky wilds if involved in a win. A multiplier aspect is also included to ensure this is a high scoring affair, with each winning cascade increasing the multiplier value up to x5 in the base game. If you manage to trigger the free spins round, things get even more exciting, as the multipliers will double after each win and hold for the duration of the bonus.
Nowadays, it can be pretty tricky to watch your favourite football team with the high cost of sports TV packages and the difficulty of obtaining match tickets. Plus, why go out in the cold and the rain when you can enjoy some slot based footy action from home? You’d be better off firing up the Ultimate Striker demo slot, which is available for free below!
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Sport, in general, is massive worldwide, and football, or ‘soccer’ as it is often wrongly referred to in some places, has got to be one of the most popular variants. Maybe that’s why there are so many sports themed slots available on the market. PG Soft have several of its own, such as Shaolin Soccer, inspired by a Chinese film of the same name, which is a five-reel, four-row video slot featuring transforming symbols, as well as a free spins round to shoot for. Or if you’d prefer a sport that’s perhaps a bit more relaxing, how about a round of golf? Super Golf Drive is a high volatility, six-reel, six-row video slot featuring a maximum win of 8,000x and an RTP of 96.78%. It has many gameplay similarities to today’s review, so it is a great option if you’ve enjoyed it but would like a change of scenery. Next, we’ll take a deeper look into the features of Ultimate Striker, kicking things off at the pays section.
We can see from the paytable that the top value symbol is the Gold-Backed Football, which will return a prize of 4x your total stake per way of six symbols. Next, it’s the Bet Slip at 3x, followed by the Football Boots at 2.5x, and the Gloves at 1.5x. The least valuable premium symbols are the Corner Flag and the Whistle, which will both pay 1x your total stake for six symbols. The non-premium symbols featured are the usual royals, with the Ace and King returning 0.4x for a winning combo of six, whilst the Queen, Jack and Ten all share payouts of 0.2x.
Real money play on the Ultimate Striker slot starts from a low of €0.20 and rises to a high of €100.00. With many options between these values, I don't see any players having a problem finding a stake to play at that is comparable to their bankroll.
Taking place on a six-reel grid, with up to six possible rows on each, there are a huge 46,656 maximum ways available on Ultimate Striker and a guaranteed minimum of 576. There are no fixed paylines to worry about; just matching any symbol across a minimum of three-reel positions from left to right, commencing on the leftmost reel win result in a win. The familiar cascading reels mechanic is in play, with any symbols involved in a win being removed from the grid, creating space for further symbols to drop into play from the top of the reels.
During any spin, you may notice that some random symbols landing on reels two to five have a silver frame around them. If any of these framed symbols are involved in a win, the grid position they were situated within will transform into a mystery symbol before the next cascade.
Once that next drop-down has occurred, all mystery symbols on the reels will be surrounded by a golden frame and turn into different randomly selected symbols. If these golden-bordered symbols are involved in a win, the grid positions they were situated within will transform into a wild symbol on the next cascade. These wilds will have a value attached to them, which signifies how many times they can be utilised in a winning combination before being removed from the reels. These wilds will stick in position until all their lives are used, or the spin comes to an end due to no further wins.
Beneath the reels, four multiplier values are displayed, which are x1, x2, x3, and x5, during main gameplay. Each spin will commence with the multiplier in the x1 position, and this value will be increased to the next increment after every winning cascade during this spin. The relevant multiplier will be applied to any win value after each cascade.
Landing four scatter symbols on the screen during any single spin will trigger the free spins feature, awarding 15 free spins. Any additional scatter symbols above the initial four will award an extra two free starting spins each.
At the start of this bonus, all multiplier values located at the bottom of the reels will be doubled to x2, x4, x6, and x10. After each spin that contains a winning combination, these values will be increased by +1, +2, +3, and +5, respectively. These values hold and build throughout the free spins feature and do not reset between spins. The value of any wins will be multiplied by the value of the current multiplier reached after each spin. Free spins can be fully re-triggered by landing at least four more scatter symbols in any one spin during this bonus round.
Being a huge football fan, I knew this game was always going to suit my taste, and I really enjoyed testing it. The base game is very playable, largely thanks to the Sticky Wilds-On-The-Way feature, which offers great potential for base game wins when combined with the multipliers.
In the free spins bonus, this is amplified as the sticky multipliers can build to a great height, and 15 free starting spins seem extra generous. During testing, the first bonus I had went for over 2,000x, so there are certainly some sizeable wins in this game's tank; you’ll just have to hope you can avoid the dead spins once you have built those multipliers, as they happen far too often for my liking.
Article by Patrick Owen
Patrick has over eight years of experience playing and reviewing slots and casino games. He is an avid land-based and online casino fan with a hunger to learn more about slot games and the developers that create them.