NetEnt is renowned in the online gambling industry for offering games with a wide range of backgrounds and cultures, such as Pyramid Quest For Immortality (2015). Today, 27 May 2016, is a first with Football Champions Cup. A mobile compatible gambling game that is guaranteed to be rich in emotion, suspense and action just from its cover.
NetEnt has taken the risk of putting together this three-dimensional video slot that is composed of 5 reels, 3 rows and 20 fixed lines. In the gameplay of this very exciting game, the first task of the players will be to select the flag of a country from a horizontal drop-down menu in order to define their belonging to a football team.
Once this choice is made with a single click, users of the Football Champions Cup slot will quickly get into the thick of things. They will be in the middle of a football stadium where the stands are already packed with excited footballers.
The Marseillaise song will be heard loud and clear. The players in front of the 5 reels will be presented as the captains of their respective teams and their goal, without making any pun, will be to represent their team and lead them to victory. Features will be embedded in the gameplay to help players achieve their goal of making the final and winning!
In this adrenaline-fuelled atmosphere, users of the Football Champions Cup online game will be able to enjoy the attraction of free games that will allow them to progress to the quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals with a chance to win some lucrative prizes.
A bonus game will also be present on the pitch with the involvement of two players, one of whom will be a football player and the other a goalkeeper. A fierce battle between these two opponents will be maintained by a series of penalty kicks. The users of this mobile slot will play these two protagonists in an alternating way to try to win a maximum of money.
An Overlay Wilds feature will also be part of the game, aiming to act in a completely random way to deliver single wilds. To top it all off, and most NetEnt games of chance are equipped with this, a fixed jackpot worth €210,350 will be dangling in front of players' faces. In addition, big and mega wins can be found during the course of the game's options.
The interface of the 3D Football Champions Cup slot is formed by all kinds of icons that relate to the lexical field of football. In addition, there are very useful protective gloves for the goalkeeper. Football shoes, a whistle, different coloured chasubles but also icons specific to the features such as a solid gold cup, an icon dedicated to the bonus level and a football to represent the two wilds functions (The singles and the Overlay Wilds option).
On the sidelines there will be several buttons to allow players to set a bet between €0.20 and €100. This is a fairly flexible scale that can be varied by means of two adjustment buttons. The first will consist of setting coins on the 20 fixed lines and the second will be used to set a denomination value. With each new spin, and as with all NetEnt slots, the final value of the bet can be decreased or increased.
Now it's time to get to the point! I will start with the description of the feature called Overlay Wilds. As you might expect, this is a substitute feature but with its own style of operation.
This Overlay Wilds option will appear completely randomly in the gameplay of the game so that no icons will be able to cause its activation. Upon its sudden entry into the Football Champions Cup game, the feature will preferentially appear on reels 1 and 3.
Following this first wave, on reels 1 and 4. Overlay Wilds will result in all of the graphics it touches on the reels being replaced with wilds. All symbols can be replaced on the spot except for bonus game items, free games and single wilds already present on the interface.
During each pass with the mission to transform illustrations to activate paylines, the Overlay Wilds feature will be able to occur between 2 and 5 times. Right-to-left paths symbolised by large footballs will overwrite the squares they wish to change into wilds.
In addition to this option, which can easily be described as a wild card, simple wilds will be active. They will have the same functions as Overlay Wilds but to a lesser degree. In addition to greatly assisting the Football Champions Cup video slot in releasing prizes, the single wilds will be able to offer lots of chips. By getting 3, 4 or 5 times the single wild, players will be able to host the equivalent of 50, 200 or 2000 chips in their cashier respectively.
The bonus game is definitely worth a look and I sincerely hope that many people will be able to discover it. To make it through this special level, players will need to get three bonus icons anywhere on their screen.
Once this is accomplished, players will suddenly find themselves on the football pitch. They will be facing a well-guarded goal. The stands will vibrate to the centre of the football field. The fields and the screams of the fans will be felt.
A lot of weight will be on the players' shoulders at this point in the gameplay of Football Champions Cup mobile casino game. Despite the incessant noise, you will have to ignore all these disturbing elements and find a source of concentration to achieve victory.
Small victories orchestrated by a series of penalties. The bonus game will be divided into two parts. The first will allow players to step into the shoes of a football player to score penalties. The second sequence will give a chance to get into the body of a goalkeeper to try and catch any balls that are thrown at them with force.
Each game will have five trials and these will alternate between playing with the player to score goals and then protecting the goal by playing as the goalkeeper so that no ball can go into the net. Each game will be accompanied by a power gauge.
A goal scored or a goal protected will bring a green notch in the gauge. Conversely, either missing a goal or failing as a goalkeeper will result in a red notch. These different green and red states will calculate the final amount in coins.
Playing the game is very simple. Strategic zones are located in the four corners of the cage. Just click on them and the Football Champions Cup game starts a very realistic cinematography. Each zone offers a random pack of chips in case of victory. In case of failure, the coin pack is also revealed but without bringing any malus to the total already won.
To activate free games, the Football Champions Cup video slot is set up by collecting three icons of a solid gold cup.
When this pattern takes shape in the slot's gameplay, the slot will take a new twist to allow players to participate in a free spins tournament based on the elimination stages in a football championship. From the outset, the Football Champions Cup slot will offer a total of sixteen free spins which will be divided into three equal parts. The first will be four free spins that will allow you to enter and play in the quarter finals.
Four more free spins will then run to emulate the semi-final and finally the four remaining free spins to enjoy the final and try to win an additional prize if they win.
During these three phases of the game, Football Champions Cup will feature unexpected events to fully immerse players in a football stadium filled with tens of thousands of football fans coming to support and encourage their favourite team.