Evolution Slots
Dive into NetEnt's newest video slot called Evolution. Just be ready to let go of what you think you know about the concepts of evolution itself. Evolution is, after all, about change and growth. With this game you can immerse yourself in watery sounds combined with an awesome graphics environment that could transport you to new worlds - literally when you score the feature! Still, in the primary Evolution world, there are plenty of gorgeous hues and "fantastical" creatures.
What's it about?
In the main game, your goal is to get yourself matching symbols from the leftmost reel to the right along any of the game's 25 paylines. Wild symbols increase your odds of getting winning combinations. To enter the game's generous free spins feature, get three or more scattered Free Spin symbols anywhere on the reels. During this feature, winning combinations will evolve to the next highest-paying symbol. Even the lowest symbol hits can turn into big wins.
Betting Options
When you first load Evolution, decide how much you want to bet. You can do this with the "Coin Level" meter on the bottom-left. Each increase boosts your total bet by 25 coins. If you want to adjust your base coin denomination, use the arrows beside "Coin Value" on the bottom-right. Start by pushing the circular arrow button in the middle, or push "Max Bet" to spin with a coin level of 10. If you want to spin several times in a row, use the "Autoplay" function. This slots game is played on 5 a reel grid with 25-paylines. The coin value goes up to 50 cents and the highest bet per spin is $125. There is a possibility of winning up to 44,000 coins per spin - nothing damp or watered down about that prize!
Sharp graphics and great theme
The main part, or "first-world", of the game has sharp graphics and soothing sounds offering up the sensations of being underwater. This primary underwater environment is filled with single cell, amoeba-like, symbols that actually evolve and become the scatter symbols as the game progresses. As the symbols climb the food chain, you might recognize parts of some of the animals we have on this planet, but those parts are then combined with other mythological animal parts to form nothing like we have in this world: Draconius rex, Basilisk pluma, and Albus slugus are examples.
Game symbols
Added to the symbols' visual transformation, each time a symbol evolves there is a delightful pinging sound that reminded me of movies featuring submarines. One might also imagine the sound being a mini-celebration of life that combines with the delightful shift of the symbol into the new life-form. The background in the first section of the slot is sharp and features a slowly revolving "light from above" which is soothing and non-intrusive to the game itself.
Wild and Scatter features
The wild symbols appear on your reels and substitute for all others except those free spin. Three of the free spins going anywhere on your reel grid will activate the free spins for all five symbols. In addition to giving the free spins, the player is transported to the additional game world or the Evolution Feature.
Evolution Feature
As mentioned above, apart from the evolving symbols in the main section, when the free spins are triggered, the Evolution Feature is activated and the player is transported to an entirely new and beautiful world within the main game! Plus not only does the game world itself change, but also the lower symbols evolve into higher symbols and higher "pay-forms". In other words, every time you get a winning bet line in the free spins section, the lowest valued symbols will transform into higher symbols giving you an extra chance to make bet line wins.
Free Spins
As mentioned above, there are 2 different game worlds with this slot. The main game world and the FREE SPINS game world. Yet another plus is that you can be awarded additional free games within this feature thereby staying longer in the world-within-the-world with the chance to make bigger winning combinations. Once the free spins round is complete you are thrown back down to the original world via an exciting meteor crash and your profits are added to your balance.
With great audio and graphics, combined with great odds for winning and great chances for free spins, Evolution is sure to be one of NetEnt's greatest games thus far.