Playtech's range of online slots based on the popular Winning Games card game Top Trumps has included celebrities and movie stars, but the football-themed slots are definitely the best.
Top Trumps Football Legends recalled the classic playground favourite with images of Pele, Bobby Charlton, and Johann Cruyff. More modern footie fans can now enjoy an updated (more or less) version of the online casino slot with Top Trumps World Football Stars.
Play Both Ways On Five Reels
Top Trumps has been around for decades, and is still a firm fave with kids across the world. The card game is easy to play: deal out cards featuring footballers, movies, or cars, and compare stats with your opponent (age, goals scored, power, etc). The higher stat wins the card. Whoever wins all the cards wins the game.
Top Trumps Football Stars slot machine uses a soccer ball as a wild symbol. It replaces all the icons that don`t have prize features and has multipliers of 50, 250, and 500. What sets this game apart is the fact that you can choose how the highly paid icons will appear.
Playtech's range of Top Trumps-themed slots now includes several football titles (one of the most popular Top Trumps subjects). However, the Top Trumps World Football Stars video slot is easily the best out there.
The game is played over five reels, with 15 paylines available for gambling. In true Playtech fashion, all real cash betting ranges are catered for. You can pick from as little as 0.01 a line, or bump up the coins and go for 1.00 per line. With a max bet of 15.00 a spin, there's enough for low limit wallets to enjoy.
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Choose Your Teams To Cheer On
Before you start this no-download/download game, you get to choose two teams to 'compete' against each other. The first team takes up your L-R symbols, while the second team pays right to left. For example, we chose England and France, so David Beckham, Wayne Rooney, and Steven Gerrard all formed the paylines running from Reel 1. France players like Patrick Vieira, Thierry Henry, and Zinedine Zidane run the other way. However, you can pick from a top world team like Brazil or Argentina if you prefer.
By the looks of the kits and symbols this game is firmly rooted in Euro 2004, or more likely, the 2006 World Cup. It's already looking dated in our opinion.
In terms of pays, the poker symbols are the worst, and they're pretty bad. 3OAK (3-of-a-kind) 9s, 10s, Js, and Qs pay just 5x your line bet, with 5OAK paying 100-200x. Kings and Aces fare little better.
The players themselves pay from 50x for 3OAK to 5,000x for 5OAK, but the better payers earn you cash if you land just two on a winning payline. You can also earn 10-120x your line bet for mixing up players from either of your teams.
Land Wilds For Massive Jackpots
As in many of these Top Trumps online slot games, the Wilds are fairly generous. Five Wild symbols on a payline will dish out 10,000-line bet wins to gamblers. They substitute for all symbols other than the various Scatters, and the Bonus Football icon.
Look out for the FREE GAMES flag Scatter symbols. While you'll only need two anywhere to win 1x your line bet, they will also trigger a free spins bonus game. You'll have to land a free games flag of a SINGLE team (in our case, either France or England) to win the 12 spins on offer.
During the bonus feature, combos pay out both left-to-right AND right-to-left but you won't see any other Scatters appearing for your 12 spins, so the round can't be retriggered.
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Pass The Ball For Big Bonus Game Wins
You can win more real cash with the Pass The Ball Bonus. If you land the football on Reel 2 with a 'left side' team player on its left, you'll activate the special bonus. This can also be triggered by landing a football on Reel 4 and 'right side' team member on its immediate right (Reel 5).
This is where things get fun: the football is now 'passed' between all of your player's team members that appear on the reels. Every player the ball touches wins you a value worth 3x your total bet.
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Top Trumps World Football Stars is a little high on the volatility scale, but that's understandable for what was a big release back in the day. The range of payouts goes from pretty lousy to pretty amazing, and if you can hit the Pass the Ball Bonus it makes for some nice prizes.
The game is fast to play, but as with other Top Trumps-themed slots in this range there's not much that really screams out 'Top Trumps'. Surely it would be better to have a bonus game round that incorporates some of the 'hi/lo' elements of the card game?
This is a problem that also affects Top Trumps Celebs and Top Trumps World Football Stars 2014, but they are still fun games with genuinely interesting bonuses. Hunt them out now, and get your bankroll ready.