X-Men Introduction
X-Men is a free online pokies game from Playtech for browsers and mobile or tablet devices, starring some of your favourite heroes and villains from the titular movie/cartoon/comic book franchise. In a world where humans are preternaturally born with fantastical abilities like telekinesis and mind-reading, these genetic mutants are - rightly and wrongly - feared by an ignorant public.
Widespread mistrust runs rampant and prejudice lurks just below the surface. Thankfully, that's just a work of fiction, and the only danger that this pokie represents is a very real threat to your free time. With numerous ways to win a great number of prizes, this is one game where you don't need to be a mind reader to win big.
The colour scheme is bright but not jarring, providing a good contrast between hero and villain symbols that makes them easy to differentiate. The character design is very much inspired by the X-Men movies, and most of the key players should immediately be familiar to anyone who has ever watched one.
X-Men is a five-reel pokie with 20 possible paylines and very broad range of prizes. Alongside regular prizes, there are special scatter and wild symbols, in addition to free spins, bonus rounds, extra game features and even a mystery jackpot! This range of regular prizes and unexpected extras is definitely far more extensive than some others and makes for a game where there are always numerous ways to win.
Multiplied by X
Professor X and Magneto are the most valuable regular symbols, and they appear in blue and red respectively. Both are worth a maximum prize of 1500 coins, and both become extra wild during their opposing heroes and villains free spin game modes. This bonus mode is unlocked by finding three or more scatter symbols in any combination, whether or not they occupy a selected payline.
During this round, you start off in heroes mode, where you can potentially rack up unlimited free spins with successive scatter wins, but finding a Magneto on reel three will trigger villains mode, where available free spins are limited to eight. In this game, the wild symbol yields a total prize of 10,000 coins for finding five in a winning configuration.
This symbol can also be used as a substitute for any other symbol except the scatter, meaning it can still net you big prizes even if you don't get the coveted wild win maximum normal jackpot. One of the more unique features of this game is the X bonus. This is triggered when you get any combination of hero symbols occupying the central five positions on reels two, three and four, forming the aforementioned X shape.
Triggering the X bonus will award you with a prize of 5x your total bet.
Multi-level Madness
Another feature that is unique to this game and some other Marvel-branded pokies is the mystery jackpot, which can be triggered randomly by any spin, although larger bets improve your odds accordingly. In this mode, you'll be asked to randomly select a number of squares lying face-down in an attempt to match three with the same jackpot value. In this round, a jackpot is guaranteed, but get lucky and you could possibly win an insane 850,000 coins!
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