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Superhero Slots: Spider-Man

“Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can!” Such is the tale of Peter Parker, a newspaper reporter who develops extraordinary abilities when he’s bitten by a genetically-engineered spider. This slot game revolves around the amazing superhero who scales tall buildings, swoops from place to place on a strand of webbing, and snares bad guys in huge spider webs. Spider-Man struggles with his love for the beautiful redhead, Mary Jane Watson, and his many nemeses, like Venom, Sandman, and the Green Goblin.

As part of the Cryptologic superhero progressive jackpot network, players of this slot game have the chance to win one of three multilevel jackpot prizes, many of which are awarded every few hours. It features wild symbols, scatters, multipliers, free spins, and a bonus game. None of these are particularly extraordinary, but they ought to be more than enough to satisfy diehard Spider-Man fans and comic buffs in general, who are just happy to see their favorite characters get the online slot machine treatment!

The Spider-Man progressive jackpot online slot game was really a let-down. We’re not fans at all of putting letters and numbers on the reels in the place of pictorial icons. While some might argue that this lends itself to a less-cluttered look, we think that it’s a bit lazy on the part of game designers, who can’t or don’t want to come up with appropriate symbols. We’ve also complained at length about the very ordinary graphics of these Marvel slot games from Cryptologic. They are heavily played, because players love the characters, but really could have used a bit more development, in our opinions!

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