Double Dragon Slot Review
Double Dragon is an Asia-themed slot with 5 reels, 3 rows and 25 paylines. Bally has done away with playing card symbols and populated the reels with the pictures that are closely associated with oriental cultures. Features in the slot revolve around wild effects – they can be regular and stacked. Besides, the game has a profitable respin feature that can generate very big wins thanks to locked wilds. If you have a tight budget, you can still spin the reels wagering just $0.25. The maximum jackpot prize in Double Dragon is $5000.
Bally has used a standard 5×3 reel layout here and the game is played over 25 fixed paylines. There are no options to lower down the number of lines so all of them are always active. Speaking of symbols, they have an Asian twist and reflect perfectly what the slot is about. The ten regular symbols are (in ascending order of combination value) firecrackers, a purple fan, a lantern, a Double Luck hieroglyph, an ancient scroll, a pink lotus, golden coins of luck, a jade jewelry, a gold ingot and koi fish.
Low-variance play
Nearly all of Bally’s slots fall under low- or medium-variance slots. The concept of slot variance (or volatility) is based on two parameters: win frequency and a size of winnings. Gamblers who like less risky games tend to pick low-variance slots because winnings therein occur often but this comes at the expense of win sizes that are normally low or moderate. Double Dragon is a typical low-variance game that generates coin awards frequently.
Win all ways
In a bulk of 5-reel slots, winning combos pay when a certain number of matching symbols align along a payline left to right beginning with reel 1. In “All Ways Win” slots like the reviewed one a set of matching symbols count in any direction, either left to right AND right to left. This expands the possibilities to complete a combination and get decent cash prizes.
Bet options and regular payouts
The only customizable wagering option is a line bet that can vary between $0.01 and $20. Since the slot has 25 paylines, the min and max bets are $0.25 and $500, accordingly.
The top winning in the slot is $5000 if you hit five wilds or five koi fish. This amount is x10 times a total bet or x250 times a line bet. Other noteworthy payoffs are $2400 (five ingots) and $1200 (five jade pendants). There must be at least 3 matching symbols to create a payable combination.
Dragon Wild feature and Respins
A wild symbol has very special abilities that are untypical for an average slot. Unlike many 5-reel games from Bally and other software providers, the wild in Double Dragon is stacked and locked at the same time. When a wild symbol appears in any position, it expands vertically covering the entire reel it has landed on, and then all winning combos are evaluated and awarded. After that, the expanded wild gets locked in its position and you are given one respin. If a new wild appears during the respin, it will expand and get locked, and you obtain one more respin. In the best case scenario, all reels gradually become wilds and your wins would be sky high.
Summary
Double Dragon has the maximum bet size of $500 and the first jackpot worth $5000. The most interesting features are expanding wilds and respins, which always act together and yield big prizes. No free spins are attached to the slot.
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