Few footballers can lift a whole team like the one and only Maradona could, and he was a legendary personality as well as a divinely gifted player. D10S Maradona is a tribute to his legacy, and Blueprint has filled the visual presentation with jerseys from his most famous clubs and, of course, there is plenty of imagery of the man himself as well.
Needless to say, you need to be a fan to enjoy this game, although the feature department is well equipped with some decent innovations to boot. The Cash Collect feature is something Blueprint does well, and you get 4 different collecting modes in this release. More collecting happens in the bonus round, and the final D10S Spin will have you at the edge of your seat each time.
TheD10S Betincreases your stake by25 %, and this doubles your bonus round chances. The premium symbols, consisting of Maradona’s number 10 jerseys from Boca Juniors, Barcelona, Napoli and Argentina, pay between 7.5 and 40 x your stake for 5 of a kind. TheArgentina flag Wild symbolsteps in for pay symbols to help complete line wins, but it doesn’t hold any value of its own.
You can landCash Symbolsin all stages, and these appearon reels 1 to 4only. You need aCollect symbol on reel 5to collect the prizes however, and this happens in4 different waysas follows:
You need3 scatterson reels 2, 3 and 4 to trigger the Bonus Round, and this awards10 free spins. You get extra cash and collect symbols added to the reelstrips during the feature, and all cash symbols that appear (collector or not) have their value added to thecash potabove the respective reels.
On thefinal D10S Spin, all present cash symbols are upgraded by the cash pot on the relevant reels. You are also guaranteed a collector symbol on reel 5 on the final spin, but cash symbols are not guaranteed.
You get only a brief taste of the base game, before we trigger the bonus round at 0:30 into the 3-minute highlights video. We managed to rack up some decent reel pot prizes for the final D10S Spin, and you can see for yourself how much we got away with by hitting the play button below.
It’s hard to do justice to the most legendary footballer of all time, not least in the somewhat limited format of an online slot. Blueprint has taken the “safe” route of simply infusing the game with Maradona imagery, and there are no video clips or similar of his almost divine abilities with the ball. Fans of the legend will probably get a nostalgic kick out of this though, and the gameplay isn’t too shabby either.
We especially enjoyed the innovation you get in the Cash symbols collect feature, as there are 4 different ways to collect the prizes. This adds some tension to the base game, and decent prizes can come if you’re lucky with the modifiers. The bonus round climaxes on the final D10S Spin, andup to 10,000x your stakeis possible on a good day. Overall, a decent celebration of Maradona in slot format, but not really the stuff legends are made of.
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Maradona HyperWays- is a Maradone tribute by GameArt, and the grid comes with up to a staggering 60,466,176 ways to win. You get cascading wins with a scoreboard multiplier, and it’s active on each bonus round spin for up to 50,000x payouts.
Diego El Pibe De Oro- is another GameArt celebration of Maradona, but this game puts his personality and posh lifestyle in focus instead of his abilities on the pitch. It translates to ‘The Golden Boy’, and the reels are filled with bling. You get some interesting features as well, and a 8,778x potential.
Super Striker- is a generic football slot from NetEnt, in the sense that it doesn’t revolve around any famous soccer players. You get a bet slip feature to keep the base game interesting, as well as random scatter prizes and a 5-tier multiplier-o-rama bonus round with a 5,000x potential.
