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SlotsData Maxi Slot Review: Batman

Batman is one of the world’s most famous superheroes, and with good reason. There is an unmistakable air of mystery around the hero who is known as the Caped Crusader, and also The Dark Knight. By day, the man is Bruce Wayne, the playboy orphan of Gotham City’s richest citizens. By night he dons a cowl and cape and soars above the rooftops fighting crime as beckoned by the famous, ubiquitous Bat Signal. Batman has never been outside the spotlight for very long, owing to a steady steam of hit Hollywood movies from the 1980s onward. The last of this series to date was “The Dark Knight,” starring Christian Bale as the (anti)hero and the doomed Heath Ledger as his nemesis, the Joker. Now fans of the Batman can enjoy their favorite comic book export in an incredible new online slot machine game! Our review of the Batman slots game is the second of SlotsData’s series of Maxi Slot reviews, which take an in-depth exploratory look at some of the best of the best of what’s out there at online casinos.

Batman comes to us from Cryptologic, who has been consistently raising the bar with its online casino offerings this year. Long the second banana to global slots blockbuster Microgaming, the geniuses at Crypto have really dedicated themselves to improving their standards and taking their execution of cutting-edge slots gameplay to the next level. Batman is a prime example of this newfound commitment to excellence. A five-reel, fifty-payline title, Batman offers lucky players no shortage of opportunities to win big money! Coin values start at one cent and range upwards to twenty dollars, affording a wide and flexible range of bets to both skinflints and high rollers alike! Max coins is the vast number of two hundred fifty, for a maximum of five coins per payline. That makes the highest possible per-spin bet one of five thousand dollars. Now, we know that you are balking at that concept. You’re looking at that otherwise tasty jackpot of two thousand coins (forty thousand dollars, for our information) and wondering why exactly you should consider placing bets on a jackpot that is less than ten times the top bet amount. The Batman slot is a rule breaker, because every spin offers you such a good chance of at least recouping your bet. All things considered, this is a big money slot. It’s loose and very generous, which is a fabulous combination we like to see! With batman, Crypto offers a free practice mode for players who would rather preview this slot before laying out their bankroll to play with real money first.

Sizewise, this is an impressive slot machine title. The action on the reels takes place from above, as if you are the Batman himself looking down upon the streets of Gotham City. It makes for a unique and very special perspective. The images on the reels are vivid and bring to life some of the most memorable characters from DC’s universe. It begins, appropriately, with a video slot machine clip of Batman pursuing his arch-nemesis, the Joker. The images are not only gorgeously rendered, but animated in a perfectly lively fashion as well. You’ll see Commissioner Gorden, the police chief who is sympathetic to Batman’s struggle (and also the father of Barbara Gordon, the eventual Batgirl), the slick black Batmobile, the BatBike, and several others. The villainous Joker is the jackpot symbols. You will need to score five of this leering baddie in a row to bring home the big prize on this game. There is also a “bonus bet” feature that can extend the fifty paylines into the tremendous number of SIXTY, for a limited time only, affording you even more chances to win with this fabulously generous pokey.

The symbol of Batman is, naturally, the wild symbol. It can substitute for any other icon on the reels (excepting the scatter symbol) in a winning combination, including the jackpot symbol / Joker. There is a labeled scatter logo. You have to get three of these appearing from left to right across the reels in order to be taken to the exceptional Batman online slot bonus game, which is one of the best we’ve seen recently. It mimics the style and action of a high-intensity video game in which you as the player must target Gotham City’s crooks and thieves with the “Bat-arang,” which is naturally a bat-shaped boomerang. If you succeed in putting these petty crime lords behind bars, you will face the Joker in a final showdown. At stake is the safety of Gotham’s streets – but also a whopping bonus prize of one hundred times the triggering bet. You willhave two chances to take down this evil villain and save your city!

The combination of hand-drawn animation, excellent graphic design, flawless gameplay, big money, and many paylines is a lethal one in the Batman online slot. Lethal to its competition, that is! We wholeheartedly recommend this online slot to fans of the comic book series and movies, as well as those of you out there who aren’t so much into the whole superhero genre (although really, what’s wrong with you?).

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