1421: Voyages of Zheng He Pokie Review
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Overall impression
| Game Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | 1421: Voyages of Zheng He |
| Software: | IGT |
| Game Type: | Video slot |
| Paylines: | 88 |
| Progressive: | No |
| reels: | 5 |
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Theme of The Game
IGT, the game’s developer, has created a title with a theme that’s based on Zheng He, a great explorer of China. This admiral of the Chinese fleet served the Ming dynasty and lived from 1371 to 1433.
He explored Southeast Asia, Western Asia, South Asia and even the East Africa region, going there with large fleets of ships and tens of thousands of sailors. Going by the name of this pokie, we have here a game which is inspired by an expedition that took place in 1421.
According to history, that voyage lasted until 1422, and it was the one that reached East Africa, visiting the Maldives, Hormuz, Aden and Mogadishu along the way.
The symbols used in 1421: Voyages of Zheng have the admiral among them, along with gold coins, dragon flags, large ships, bells, jade statues, gold jewelry and five Royals (10 to A).
Developer
IGT, which designed this game, has close to 100 titles released already, and they’ve been a big name in this industry for a while now. They are a Nevada company, and they create these titles for the online market, but they also manufacture regular machines which are available in brick and mortar casinos around the world.
I’m quite happy with the quality of the design that I’ve seen in this particular game, but it’s not always the case with their pokie machines, which tend to do especially well with features.
How To Play It
Both the lines and the line bet can be customized as the player needs to. Up to 88 lines can be active for each spin, and wagers for them appear to be at $1 or higher. The minimum bet will be at $88 in that case. The maximum one can be quite high, reaching thousands of dollars.
I’ve found the game easy enough to use, with standard betting options for the most part, with all the paytable information you could need provided, and with a simple Spin button located in the middle of the bottom section. I also enjoyed the design for the most part, with related symbols taking the more important roles.
Special Features
Just two symbols are used to give you access to the various features, but they do a very good job. First, we have a Gold Coin wild, which you use like in every other game that has this feature, as a substitute for any other regular symbol. Gold Coins may also form combinations among themselves, paying up to 888 coins this way.
I suggest you pay attention to the Dragon flag symbol as well, which is the one that behaves like a scatter on the reels 2, 3 and 4.
You get all three at the same time, and you trigger a feature which can deliver to you a bonus feature where you pick from three cups, or one of the three types of free spins (10 to 20 free spins, with multipliers varying in each case, the best one reaching 8x).
Maximum Payouts
The base game will offer at most 888 coins, for a combo of five wilds. During free spins, you can expect to win up to 7,104 coins, thanks to multipliers of up to 8x. There is also a Cup feature, where the wins reach 102x the total bet, so up to 8,976 coins. As you can see, it’s the features that will offer the most here.
Summary
I enjoyed the game, mainly because of its unique theme and the bit of history that it uncovered for me, but the features had their contribution as well.
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