Cowboys And Aliens From Playtech

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Cowboys and Aliens is a new online slot game that is unusual in two ways. Cowboys are usually pitted with Indians, but this slot game features aliens instead. The graphics in Cowboys and Aliens are designed in the format of comic books. Therefore despite that it has only 9 paylines it is a fantastic slot machine.

The UFO is the wild symbol and it also awards the highest line payout of 10,000 coins. The other thematic symbols are characters from the graphic book of the same name. They include cowboy Zeke, cowgirl, Verity, alien, priest and Indian. These symbols run frames from the comic book when in winning combinations. The low paying symbols are the playing card icons. Perhaps for the first time in online slots history, Playtech has introduced a concept that allows winning combinations with three or more like symbols on any adjacent reels. Winning combinations need not start on the left most reel or the right most reel.

Cowboys and Aliens is packed with features. The Alien Weapon feature is triggered when the gun appears on reel 1. A triangle on the gun spins and randomly awards a number from 1 to 4. That many shots are fired by the gun turning symbols on the other reels into wilds. The payouts are awarded after the feature is played out. The Cowboys and Aliens logo is the scatter symbol and awards scatter payouts when two or more appear anywhere on the reels. When three or more of these symbols appear on the reels 8 free spins are awarded with Comic Strip Wilds. For every spin a rectangle is highlighted on the reels. All symbols that fall within this rectangle are treated as wilds. During the next spin the rectangle will cover a different set of symbols.

The highlight of the Playtech Cowboys and Aliens slot game is the Alien Attack Bonus. This feature is triggered when the alien ship bonus symbol appears on reels 1 and 5 at the same time. The player has to choose from Zeke, Verity and the Indian to fight the aliens. Each character uses a different weapon. Verity can use 20 lashes of the whip but has low accuracy. The Indian can use 12 arrows with medium accuracy. Zeke has six shots with the gun with high accuracy. The aliens attack in three waves. The player is given benefits for each alien killed. These include cash bonuses, a 2x multiplier and extra ammunition. The multiplier is applied to the cash amount won till that point. Extra cash bonuses are awarded if all the aliens are killed and for the ammunition not used. The animation in this feature is simply awesome.

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