Set inside a football stadium and with a rocking soundtrack, symbols on the reels include football boots, football pitches, player shirts, referees and 5 footballers. The one with the red shirt is the most rewarding giving you 10 times your stake for 5 on a payline.
The game uses the Rolling Reels feature which can be found in many Microgaming slot games – basically, all contributing symbols from a winning combination explode and disappear to leave gaps on the reels. The remaining symbols fall into the empty spaces with new ones falling to fill the new vacated spaces – this allows you to form more winning combinations. This carries on until you no longer have a win.
The football star logo is the wild with more than 40 wilds appear on the reels to boost your wins – the good news is that the wild appears stacked on reels 3, 4 and 5 for even bigger wins. It replaces all symbols bar the scatter. The game comes with a Striking Wild feature – this randomly triggered extra sees reels 2, 3 or 4 turn fully wild to give you a guaranteed winning combination.
The main attraction is the Free Spins feature which is played when you get 3, 4 or 5 football scatter symbols – as well as 5, 50 or 250 times your stake, you’ll get 15, 20 or 25 free spins. With stacked wilds on reels 3, 4 and 5, the Rolling Reels feature goes into overdrive as consecutive wins will see the multiplier boost from 1x to 2x to 3x to 4x to 5x and finally 10x! This means a 10x multiplier can be applied on every free spin.
Football Star may not be the most elaborate slot game in terms of design, but the tried and tested bonus features offer good winning potential – there’s up to 2,114 times your total stake to be won on every single free spin with a 10x multiplier.
If you like the Rolling Reels feature, it can be found in other Microgaming titles like Tarzan and Jungle Jim El Dorado. If it’s football you’re after, the superb Bicicleta from Yggdrasil Gaming is my top choice.