The Dark Knight Video Slot : A Batman-Themed Progressive Jackpot Slot
The Dark Knight is a Microgaming video slot release, themed after the 2008 DC Comics blockbuster movie with the same title. Presented with 243 ways-to-win in a five-reel set up, this online slot is one of the biggest and most successful Microgaming progressive jackpot title releases. Dark Knight slot players have the option to add actual Dark Knight film clips during reel-spinning actions, by enabling the feature in the options menu.
Players should be on the lookout for Batman and Joker's off-screen appearances. Any one of them bring random prizes, which can be a 1x multiplier increment or a set of five (5) free spins. Still, the main highlights of this Microgaming slot hit are the special icons and bonus game features, including the Progressive Jackpot round.
The Dark Knight Regular Wild and Full-Reel Stacked Wilds
The Batman Emblem represents the game's Wild Symbol. Aside from its Wild substitution power, it also pays double for pay ways completed by the Batman Wild. If three, four, or five Wild logos complete a pay way, the combination is eligible as a completed ways-to-win combination. However, based on the Dark Knight payout rules, if a symbol creates two or more winning combinations along a pay pattern, only the highest payway combo of that symbol will count as a win.
The Batman Wild can also appear in stacked formation. The full-reel Stacked Wilds could emerge in a single reel or simultaneously in more than one reel. Such an occurrence increases the likelihood of attaining big wins by way of numerous multiple ways-to-win.
The Joker Logo Scatter Symbol
The Joker Logo poses as the Scatter Symbol. It brings not only Scatter Pays of 3, 6, 30 and 300 coins for every two or more Joker Scatters emerging as reel outcomes. It also sets off The Dark Knight Free-Spins Bonus Game.
The Dark Knight Free Spins Bonus Game
Fifteen (15) bet-free spins are available to Dark Knight players whenever three or more Joker Scatter symbols appear anywhere in any spot across the 3-row x 5-column reel. The Free Spins game though, cannot be re-triggered; but the special off-screen appearances of The Dark Knight and the Joker could bring around another set of five free spins as random prize.
All winning ways-to-win achieved during the game earns triple pay value based on the payout equivalent of the ?matched symbols. Batman or Joker could also increase the 3x value multiplier, as the two animated figures are capable of increasing the 3x multiplier up to 5x by increments of 1x .
The Dark Knight Progressive Jackpot Game
At some point during the reel-spinning motions, the Progressive Jackpot Game (PJG) could be activated. This random occurrence opens up an opportunity to win any of four Microgaming Progressive jackpots: the Mini, the Minor, the Major, and the Mega Progressive.
The Dark Knight PJG is played via a Spinning Wheel containing 10 colour-coded prize segments and 2 arrowhead prize indicators. A Dark Knight player must first select the Wheel Game to play, which is actually a choice of arrowhead prize determiner, represented by Batman and Joker. Choosing between the Batman and the Joker indicators is important. The prize outcome of a player's spinning wheel action depends on where his or her preferred arrowhead points, once the wheel comes to a stop.
