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Slot Review: Opulence

Be warned, readers – we are about to get on our fabled high horse again. There are few things that we dislike in an online slot game as much as racist and/or stereotypical caricatures of different ethnic groups, and we seem to have hit upon another example of this not-so-charming species. Opulence, like the title suggests, is a slot game entirely having to do with riches. In this case, the riches belong to a group of Middle Eastern gentlemen, who are portrayed in an unflattering light by the cheesy graphics of this game, Wizard Gaming is definitely a lesser-known casino software provider, and we don’t really imagine them competing with Microgaming, Cryptologic and their ilk any time in the near future if this is the best they can turn out!

Opulence is a five-reel, fifteen payline online slot machine game. There is a fixed coin size of five cents (one nickel), with the possibility to bet as much as ten coins per payline making the max coin size one hundred fifty coins. That’s seven dollars and fifty cents per spin, which is pretty reasonable. There is a progressive jackpot.

A fat, cigar-chomping gentleman shares reel space with a mustachioed sheik in a turban and an evil-looking, aubergine-nosed man in a head veil. There are also images of luxury cars and boats, plus a bizarrely-placed armadillo and a set of bagpipes that are the wild and scatter symbols. The images are pretty crude, and don’t really make us want to play this slot game again.

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