Thunderstruck II

Thunderstruck II is the sequel to Microgaming’s cult game Thunderstruck. Thunderstruck, the first one has been around for a long time and is one of the most popular slot games ever. This one is the graphically enhanced version of the original and has better music, better elements and yes better pay-outs.

Know the Game

Thunderstruck II comes with 5 reels and 243 winning combinations. Bet lines start from 0.01 to 0.25 with 10 coin levels. Maximum that you can make in this game is around 2.4 million coins. It has highly rewarding 4 different bonus events that keeps you hooked on to the game. Jackpot is of 1000 coins.

The concept takes heavily from the Norse Mythology and features Thor, Odin, Loki and Valkyrie in the reels. Elements like ship, Thor’s hammer, Thunderstuck II’s logo are also importantly placed. Logo acts as the wild symbol and gives double pay-out whenever its featured in the winning combination. Though it stays the same in the Wildstorm feature. Wildstorm feature is triggered randomly and rewards the player with five reels going wild at one go. Thor’s hammer is the scatterer here. More than two scatterer will multiply the final pay-out. Three or more Thor’s hammer can take you to the Great wall of spin, basically the bonus levels.

Bonus Levels

Bonus levels are the heart and soul of this game and gives to a wonderful kick when you are able to unlock different levels. So now you know about the Great Hall of Spins and how to reach there. There they are four free games. When you trigger the Great wall of the spin for the first four times you get to play the Valkyrie game where you get 10 free spins and 5x multiplier. After Valkyrie you unlock Loki in your 5th to 9th bonus features. Loki rewards you with 15 free spins and some magic, its Loki after all. Wild Magic feature will randomly change numbers and elements into additional wilds and helps you make more winning combinations. Loki is followed by the Odin from the 10th to 14th bonus feature. Odin is the ruler, the allfather and hence comes with better rewards. With 20 free spins and Wild raven feature that randomly turns symbols into 2x and 3x multiplier. This turns into 6x multiplier if both of Odin’s raven are featured together. You can imagine the chances of you making big wins in this game is why so high. The final bonus level is unlocking Thor which is the most rewarding of them all. After you have hit your 15th trigger Thor is unlocked and comes with a gift of 25 free spins and comes with a special Rolling reels’ feature that increase the payout to 5x with consecutive wins.

Verdict

This has been a cult game for a long time and will stay so. Great graphics, music and well-made bonus features keeps your interest going. Plus, who doesn’t love the Norse mythology, we have grown up listening to their stories and identify with their heroics. A medium variance game that can potentially give you big gains, Thunderstuck II is a complete win-win.

Go play this game (if you don’t do already), it’s the allfather Odin’s order!!!