Iron Man Slots

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Iron Man is one of the most popular of the Marvel superheroes
in the movies but in the 1960s he was considered a less exciting
superhero than Thor and Spider-man. Still, Tony Stark must have
done something right because not only was Iron Man a founding
Avenger he also managed to keep his own comic book going long
after some of his “cooler” rivals lost their own magazines.

The Iron Man slots game by Playtech was designed around the
first movie, the 2008 blockbuster directed by Jon Favreau which
not only made Robert Downey, Jr. an international mega star, it
also saved Marvel Entertainment’s intellectual property rights
from passing to their creditors and laid a solid foundation for
building the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Everything in the slot
game is taken directly from the movie in one way or another.

Curiously, unlike some other superhero slot games there is no
villain symbol in this game. Instead. Iron Man has two symbols
and Tony Stark has one. Could it be that Iron Man is his own
worst villain? The character is unquestionably one of the
most popular superheroes in film history, with no small credit
going to the character’s personal struggles.

Slots players who are accustomed to film clips and
interactive animations in later games may be a little
disappointed with this one, but Playtech cut some new ground
with the design features in its Iron Man slots.

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Gameplay

The Iron Man slot game is a 5-reel, 3-row video slot game
with 25 pay lines. The game boasts an unlimited free spins bonus
game and an innovative in-game prize boost feature. All winning
combinations pay from left to right and only when they occur on
active pay lines, except for the Scatter combinations, which pay
regardless of where they appear on the screen. The game also
participates in the Marvel Multi-Level Mystery Progressive
Jackpot, which is explained below.

Playtech positioned a control ribbon across the top of the
screen for the casino to leverage its other games but this is
also where the in-game options menu (denoted by the Wrench icon)
can be found. The sound can be toggled on or off and brave
players can load up to four games at one time.

Thirteen numbered buttons run down the left side of the
playing area and twelve numbered buttons run down the right side
of the playing area. Clicking on any of these buttons activates
all the pay lines up to the corresponding button number and
deactivates all the higher numbered pay lines. Colored lines
matching the buttons’ own colors are used to designate which pay
lines are awarding prizes during game play.

The game’s remaining controls run across the bottom of the
screen below the playing reels. From left to right they control
the coin value, pay tables interface, auto play, active pay
lines, bet per line, maximum bet, and individual game spins.

• Coin Value Control

Clicking on this brings up an
expanding menu with 6 coin value options. The game defaults
to the lowest option of 0.01. Highest value is 1.00 although
this can be configured for any currency and any variety of
denominations.

Just below the coin value control is the Info
button. Clicking on Info brings up the 5-page pay table
interface, but the interface itself has a button that
brings down an overlay showing all the pay line charts.
This screen is designed to operate similarly to Tony
Stark’s virtual interactive 3-D hologram displays as
seen in the movie.

• The Auto Start Widget

This uses two special buttons,
minus ( – ) and plus ( + ), to set how many spins the game
plays continuously before you interrupt the auto play, run
out of money, or leave the game. Hold either button down to
scroll from 0 to 99 or downward.

• The Lines Control

This is just a clickable button. You
must click on it 25 times to cycle through all the pay line
settings to return to where you start.

• The Bet Per Line Control

This is also just a clickable
button. It scrolls through the options numbering from 1 to
10 but represents its value in terms of multiples of the
coin value.

• The Total Bet Window

This is positioned just above the
Max Bet button. Total Bet is the product of Bet Per Line
times Coin Value.

• Clicking on Max Bet

This control sets Active Pay Lines
and Bet Per Line to their maximum values and initiates 1
spin. Coin value remains wherever it was. If Coin Value is
set to the maximum, however, then Max Bet represents a very
substantial bet such as 250 Dollars, Pounds, or Euros.

• The Win Display

This button is positioned just above
the Spin button and it reports the sum of all prizes paid on
the last game or 0 if no prize was won.

• The Spin Button

This initiates a single game but also
doubles as a Stop button. There is a slight delay after you
click on Spin before it becomes a Stop button.

Iron Man Slots Pay Table

There are twelve symbols in the game, of which two are Wild
symbols and one is a Scatter symbol.

Wild Symbols

Both the Iron Man symbols are Wild and they pay 5,000 times
bet per line for 5 of a kind, 350 times bet per line for 4 of a
kind, 70 times bet per line for 3 of a kind, and 10 times bet
per line for 2 of a kind. The Wild symbols are stacked on reels
2, 3, and 4 and they can become Expanding Wilds if they can help
with pay lines across all three rows. The Expanding Wilds
display in-tile animations of Iron Man soaring up into the sky
and play an ambient sound representing his thrusters from the
movie’s sound effects.

The dual Wild symbols also introduce a unique Mixed Pay
Feature where if at least one of each symbol contributes to a
winning combination they add 8 times bet per line to the prize
for 2 Mixed Wilds, 30 times bet per line for 3 Mixed Wilds, 150
times bet per line for 4 Mixed Wilds, and 750 times bet per line
for 5 Mixed Wilds. Mixed combinations must begin on reel 1.

Scatter Symbol

The Iron Man game logo is the Scatter symbol. All Scatter
prizes pay a multiple of the Total Bet, from 1 times total bet
for 2 of a kind to 100 times total bet for 5 of a kind. When 3
or more Scatter symbols appear the Missile Attack Bonus game is
triggered. See below for details.

High Value Symbols

Tony Stark’s portrait is the game’s high value symbol,
although he only pays 500 times bet per line for 5 of a kind.

The Jericho Missile and Tony’s electronic Briefcase are the
next highest value symbols, with both paying a maximum of 200
times bet per line for 5 of a kind.

Low Value Symbols

The remaining symbols are the usual low value “A”, “K”, “Q”,
“J”, “10”, and “9” symbols found in many slot games. Their 5 of
a kind prizes range from 150 times bet per line down to 75 times
bet per line.

Iron Man Slots Missile Attack Bonus Game

The Missile Attack Bonus Game begins when 3 or more Scatter
symbols appear anywhere on the reels. The feature begins with an
animation showing Iron Man flying toward New York City and an
F-22 Fighter Jet moving in ahead of him. The fighter launches 12
missiles. This is vaguely reminiscent of the scene in the
“Avengers” movie where Iron Man intercepts a nuclear missile
fired from a fighter jet.

The bonus game consists of two rounds. In the first round you
click on each of the missiles in turn, revealing a prize. There
are three types of prizes: cash amounts, free spins, and a
multiplier.

There are nine cash prizes and it is possible to collect all
of them. There are three free spin prizes and it is possible to
collect of them, too.

However, the pick round ends when you have clicked on at
least one free spin prize and the multiplier.

The second round consists of all the free spins you won in
the first round. All prizes are multiplied per the pick you
made. It is possible to retrigger free spins indefinitely
although the game remains at the same multiplier level
determined in the first round.

Marvel Mystery Multi-level Progressive Jackpot

All Marvel superhero slot games are linked to the Marvel
Mystery Multi-Level progressive jackpot game. However, you must
be playing for free money in order to play this game.

The bonus game is awarded at random and may be triggered
after any spin completes. Although you can enter the bonus
having made the lowest possible bet and won nothing on your last
spin, the more you bet the better your chances of triggering the
jackpot bonus.

There are four jackpots:

• Power Jackpot
• Extra Power Jackpot
• Super Power Jackpot
• Ultimate Power Jackpot

Their prizes are accordingly larger in size corresponding to
the names of the jackpots.

You are taken to a screen displaying 20 mystery symbols.
Your objective is to click on the symbols, revealing the names
of jackpots, until you uncover three names for any one jackpot.

You are guaranteed to win one of the jackpots even if you
don’t click on any of the mystery symbols because a timer will
eventually wind down and reveal a jackpot prize for you.
Clicking on the symbols gives you a shot at the highest jackpot.
There is no way to know in advance which jackpot you will win
either way.

Conclusion

When it was introduced the Iron Man slots game was very
innovative and it still offers a unique gaming experience in
both the Mixed Wilds feature and the Missile Attack Bonus game.
If the maximum prizes for the various symbols strike you as
being rather low, think about it. The theoretical return to
player for this game is 94.89%, which is about the mid-range for
a modern slot game. To provide for so many different ways to win
the game has to temper its maximum prizes so you should win more
often in this game.

The animations are all cartoonish but this game came out in
2009 and there are at least two more Iron Man slots in the
series. For its time this game was very stylish and colorful.
The introductory film alone almost makes you want to watch the
movie all over again.

If you are a fan of the Iron Man movie soundtrack you’ll be
disappointed with this game’s sound options. The only way to
hear music is to visit the pay table and its music is a kind of
techno theme that does not do justice to the movie. It would
have been nice to hear Robert Downey, Jr.’s voice once in a
while, or have J.A.R.V.I.S. make some vacuous comment about how
you are doing well, could do better, and shold watch out for
missiles.

Still, when all is said and done the game is fun to play and
you feel well rewarded when the Wilds begin expanding and the
missiles begin to fly. Although cartoonish the game’s
illustrations are close enough to the movie’s depictions of
Stark, Iron Man, the Jericho, and Tony’s brief case that you
come away with a sense of how cool the game must have seemed
within the first year after Iron Man had forever changed the way
superhero movies will be perceived.

You may not win enough money to become the next Tony Stark
but you’ll keep spinning the reels for a chance to win one of
those four jackpots and you won’t complain about the Missile
Attack Bonus game.