Review of Aliens Slot
“Aliens” is an online slot rendering of the famous “Aliens” movie by James Cameron, and is brought to our screens by Net Entertainment.
Slot Theme
This action sci-fi thriller is based on the feature films of the same name. You will find yourself marooned on a spaceship overrun by malicious flesh eating Aliens, who will stop at nothing to eradicate the universe of human beings.
The transparent reels form the foreground to an animated rendering of real time 3D action before you. This effect locks you into the game, and should you play at night with the lights off, you are sure to sit with hair on end, due to the nature of which the game engulfs you. You are no longer a spectator, but are involved in every step of the game. Beat the beasts and win great bounty for doing so.
Symbols and Soundtrack
The eerie soundtrack is both dramatic and tense, providing that true horror movie feel, where anything bad could happen at any time, so brace yourself.
The cast of creatures involves the hideous Extra-Terrestrial villains from the movie, with various poses of fully grown aliens, and likewise a few different icons of “face-crawlers.” The lower valued icons are those of unhatched eggs, whereas the highest paying icon includes the fully grown alien creature facing you head on. The ‘wild’ symbol for the “Aliens“slot is the “Weyland-Yatani Corp” logo icon. This will substitute for any and all symbols to help create winning combinations to boost the bankroll.
Bonus Features
The greatest involvement of the senses in this slot arrives when playing through the progressive levels of the bonus feature mini-game, which adopt the 3D animation rendering of action combat scenes. These various stages include:
Level 1 - Base Game Accumulation
To trigger the other progressive levels/features, you will be required to accumulate multipliers in order to fill up the multiplier meter. This is done with every win combination. Each symbol involved in a win, will fill up one spot on the multiplier meter, gaining ground towards eventually filling it. Wild symbols unfortunately do not count towards this accumulation.
Level 2 - Blasting Baddies
Once the multiplier meter is full, you will be armed with a machine gun, and progress down a dark corridor in search of the Alien Hive so that you can destroy it. Along the way, between spins, various aliens will attack you, but because you are a trained special ops soldier, you are able to blast them with your machine gun. Ammo is quite often collected from dead soldiers along the way, but should you run out of bullets, the feature will end.
Level 3 - The Hive
Should you make it to the Hive, you will be allocated two new meters. One is to measure a grenade multiplier, and the other to accumulate power for each grenade. Your task is to throw grenades at the hive to destroy it while rolling 5 free spins. You are also allotted 4 clips of ammo to shoot at the enemy between grenade throws. Should you run out of ammunition before the Hive is destroyed, the feature will end.
The moral of the story is: In order to succeed, do not run out of bullets for your machine gun or you are doomed.
Summary
This NetEnt game is very busy, with things happening all over the show. Just as well your only requirement as a player is to hit the spin button - everything else is automatically generated. If it's an intense adventure you want, I will have to try very hard to think of another game that can generate an equal chill to this one. The progressive bonus feature makes for great entertainment, and super win potential, which if we are honest, is all we slot players ever really want. So, give this game a whirl, but rather wait for tonight before you do so.
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