In the frozen game, the ice symbol freezes into a wild – Wilds will stay in place until a bonus feature is triggered. Up to one ice wild can be added per spin with a maximum of 4 frozen wilds on the reels at any one time. Bonus rounds in Frozen Inferno. The bonus round is activated when you collect 5 ice or Fire Wilds. Frozen Inferno is a video slot game from WMS that will put you in the shoes of a powerful magician, within a fictional universe inspired by both Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones. Choose a side and channel the awesome powers of ice and fire to create wilds and unlock free spins on. Frozen Inferno is a nearly perfect machine for a very specific group of players. This is a wonderful option for people who like to play a lot of spins without any complicated features or bonuses getting in the way. Frozen Inferno plays out on a 5x4 reel configuration with a set number of 40 win-lines. The wizard, whether in frozen or inferno mode is the joint highest paying symbol alongside the wild, worth 250 coins. FrozenInferno 1 point 2 points 3 points 11 months ago. Pretty much just the extra life steal for sustain and their tristana was killing me pretty easily between ults. There was probably a.
[toc]Fire and Ice, or their equivalent, have proven to be a fecund subject upon which to base many popular entertainments. The hugely popular Game of Thrones is based on the whole notion of fire (symbolized by Danaerys’ Dragons) and Ice (symbolized by the ever present threat of winter coming). Now there is a fantastic slot from WMS which takes a similar approach. It’s called Frozen Inferno.
I’m not normally a fan of paradoxical titles, as often they don’t really fit so well together when you view the actual game itself, but what you have here is one slot that you can actually play two ways. At the start of the game you can elect to play as either the Fire Mage or Ice Wizard. Which character you select will determine the game you play. The games themselves are almost identical in terms of structure and prizes, simply that the symbols, backdrop and features are slightly different depending on who you choose to play as.
Personally, I found the Ice Wizard the better of the two options and it’s this that I am basing the review mainly on.
Once you have selected the character you wish to play as on the slot, you’re taken to the respective reels to play. Although the games look different to each other in terms of symbols and backdrop, the actual mechanics of the game are almost identical. However unlike slots like Lost Vegas, you cannot switch between the two modes once you’ve made your initial selection. Unless you trigger the free spins bonus, in which case the game changes automatically.
The slot is a 5×4 reel game. The first thing that will strike you is how visually stunning it is. The backdrops, regardless of which magical character you select, are incredible. There are deep red thundering volcanoes spewing lava on the Inferno and a glacial snowy backdrop complete with falling snow on the Frozen. The slot comes with 40 non-selectable paylines. You can wager from $0.01 up to $5 per payline giving a minimum bet of $0.40 and a maximum bet of $200.
There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the Frozen Inferno slot has been designed to capture the swell in interest in the fantasy genre led by films like the Lord of the Rings trilogy and shows like Game of Thrones. Therefore if you enjoy TV shows and films like this, then this is a slot that will have great appeal.
This is also a slot with really slick presentation and beautifully captured graphics. They really look the part for each of the two versions of the game you can play. The ability to select a different wizard each time you play gives the game extra life and will appeal to players who like slot games with plenty of options.
Once you have selected your Wizard and the gameplay starts, you ‘ll be blown away with how the slot looks. Either option looks fantastic with the fiery oranges and red of the Inferno, or the cool blues and whites of the Frozen. Visually the slot looks outstanding. It is further improved by some clever use of sounds in keeping with the setting and style. These really add to the atmosphere.
The other thing you’ll notice on the reel is that you begin the slot with a bonus already in place. In the Inferno game, this is a Roving Wild symbol that randomly moves around the reels. On the Frozen game, it’s a Wild that is frozen in place on the middle reel. This Wild remains on the reels for all of your spins.
The reels are adorned with a host of different trinkets and jewels, all of which don’t look out of place in a fantasy slot. The symbols are similar for both versions of the game, with the main difference being the colors of the symbols rather than what they actually are. Wins are based on the size of your coin bet. The top prize is around 250 times your standard line bet, achieved if you land five of the Wild symbols, from either game, across the reels.
As you spin you’ll notice that there are a number of other features in the game to look out for. The first of these is the Ice or Fire symbol. If landed on the reels this will turn into either a Frozen Wild or Roving Wild and remain on the reels. You can collect up to four of these Wilds on the reels at any one time. They can actually lead to some decent sized spins. When you collect four, you’ll then quickly trigger the Free Spins bonus.
The Free Spins bonus offers some of the biggest wins in the game. There is an unlimited number of free spins granted because the game guarantees you at least five wins in the free spins round. Furthermore, you’ll see plenty of Wild symbols adorning the reels and you can land up to eight on screen at once. The more Wilds you land, the greater your chances of one of your five guaranteed wins from your free spins being a very decent win indeed.
Once you’ve completed your Free Spins bonus, you’ll then notice that the slot reverts back to the base game. But this time you’ll play the other game. So if you triggered your free spins playing the Frozen version of the slot, you’ll restart the base game playing the Inferno version. It’s a nice touch and means that players get to experience both games.
You can elect to play Frozen Inferno in one of two game modes initially. The game modes will then switch every time you play through a free spins bonus. This gives you a great opportunity to play through both modes even if you select the same mode to start the game with.
The fact that you are guaranteed at least one Wild on the reels on every spin, and can collect more permanent wilds as the game progresses, is a fantastic feature. It can result in some very handy base game wins. In truth, you’ll need this as the game is a very volatile slot at times.
There’s nothing worse for a slot player than to spend an age triggering a free spins bonus round, only to then play through and win a very small amount on your spins. With the Frozen Inferno, you’re guaranteed to win at least five times in the bonus round. You will receive unlimited free spins to ensure that you do.
The presentation on the Frozen Inferno slot is outstanding. The sound is understated but very effective and creates the perfect atmosphere. The graphics on the reels and in the background of the slot are striking and beautifully rendered. This is a slot that does immerse you in its world very nicely indeed.
All the key features of Frozen Inferno come from how the Wilds are used, collected and distributed across the reels. When you consider on most slots Wild simply are used as substitutes, or a high paying symbol, the way the Wild symbols are used so imaginatively here in both versions of the game is excellent.
Unlimited free spins sounds great but it is only unlimited until you land five wins. But, during those free spins, you can collect more Wilds to increase the value of potential wins. The more Wilds you collect, the bigger your free spins wins can be. I found some of those wins to be huge.
Perhaps I’ve been spoilt by slots such as Lost Vegas or Fruit Vs Candy, but I found it a little frustrating at times that I could not switch between both game modes freely but had to wait until I’d finished a Free Spins round before the game switched modes.
On most slots it is relatively easy to locate the coin selection and paytable information, but on the Frozen Inferno slot they are hidden away behind a button the left and they are not labelled particularly intuitively. Not ideal especially if you are relatively new to slots and need to get to know the game better before you play.
On a 5×4 slot that is mid to high volatility, 40 paylines isn’t much and that is soon apparent as the base game can eat your cash extremely quickly if you are not careful. Good bankroll management is essential in order to get the best from this slot.
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The presentation on Frozen Inferno is absolutely top notch. It goes to show you don’t need huge cartoon-style introductions and hundreds of animations to produce a slot that looks so effective in either game mode. The graphics are simple, yet hugely effective and create the perfect ambiance for the game.
Although this is a pretty generic 5×4 slot in many respects the creative way you can use the Wilds in the game in so many ways does really give the game plenty of originality and add to this unlimited free spins with five guaranteed wins and of course two game modes, there’s tonnes of originality here.
Play value is always never going to score well on a higher variance slot and while it can be an expensive play on the Frozen Inferno slot, you do feel like you are getting your money’s worth and of course, there is the added bonus that you can always land some massive wins, or the large 250,000 coin jackpot.
A 250,000 coin jackpot is a very tempting thing, even when played at smaller coin levels. Add to this the potential to land some very decent sized wins in the free spins bonus round and you have a slot which has enough of a wow-factor to attract players who prefer bigger jackpot games.
With two game modes, you’ll want to give both of them a real test before you give up on this slot and then with the free spins mode and the novel way Wilds are used, plus a massive jackpot to chase, this is certainly one slot you will want to play time and time again.
Frozen Inferno manages to combine both elements into a hugely entertaining, impactful and enjoyable slot that offers a chance at a very large jackpot, while still giving players full enjoyment in the base game and particularly during free spins. This is a slot that will appeal to players long after their first session at the reels.
Inferno opens on theevening of Good Friday in the year 1300. Travelingthrough a dark wood, Dante Alighieri has lost his path and now wandersfearfully through the forest. The sun shines down on a mountainabove him, and he attempts to climb up to it but finds his way blockedby three beasts—a leopard, a lion, and a she-wolf. Frightened andhelpless, Dante returns to the dark wood. Here he encounters theghost of Virgil, the great Roman poet, who has come to guide Danteback to his path, to the top of the mountain. Virgil says that theirpath will take them through Hell and that they will eventually reachHeaven, where Dante’s beloved Beatrice awaits. He adds that it wasBeatrice, along with two other holy women, who, seeing Dante lostin the wood, sent Virgil to guide him.
Virgil leads Dante through the gates of Hell, marked bythe haunting inscription “abandon all hope, you who enter here”(III.7). They enter the outlying region ofHell, the Ante-Inferno, where the souls who in life could not committo either good or evil now must run in a futile chase after a blankbanner, day after day, while hornets bite them and worms lap theirblood. Dante witnesses their suffering with repugnance and pity.The ferryman Charon then takes him and his guide across the riverAcheron, the real border of Hell. The First Circle of Hell, Limbo,houses pagans, including Virgil and many of the other great writersand poets of antiquity, who died without knowing of Christ. Aftermeeting Horace, Ovid, and Lucan, Dante continues into the SecondCircle of Hell, reserved for the sin of Lust. At the border of theSecond Circle, the monster Minos lurks, assigning condemned soulsto their punishments. He curls his tail around himself a certainnumber of times, indicating the number of the circle to which thesoul must go. Inside the Second Circle, Dante watches as the soulsof the Lustful swirl about in a terrible storm; Dante meets Francesca,who tells him the story of her doomed love affair with Paolo daRimini, her husband’s brother; the relationship has landed bothin Hell.
In the Third Circle of Hell, the Gluttonous must lie inmud and endure a rain of filth and excrement. In the Fourth Circle,the Avaricious and the Prodigal are made to charge at one anotherwith giant boulders. The Fifth Circle of Hell contains the riverStyx, a swampy, fetid cesspool in which the Wrathful spendeternity struggling with one another; the Sullen lie bound beneaththe Styx’s waters, choking on the mud. Dante glimpses Filippo Argenti,a former political enemy of his, and watches in delight as othersouls tear the man to pieces.
Virgil and Dante next proceed to the walls of the cityof Dis, a city contained within the larger region of Hell. The demonswho guard the gates refuse to open them for Virgil, and an angelicmessenger arrives from Heaven to force the gates open before Dante.The Sixth Circle of Hell houses the Heretics, and there Dante encountersa rival political leader named Farinata. A deep valley leads intothe First Ring of the Seventh Circle of Hell, where those who wereviolent toward others spend eternity in a river of boiling blood.Virgil and Dante meet a group of Centaurs, creatures who are halfman, half horse. One of them, Nessus, takes them into the SecondRing of the Seventh Circle of Hell, where they encounter those whowere violent toward themselves (the Suicides). These souls mustendure eternity in the form of trees. Dante there speaks with Pierdella Vigna. Going deeper into the Seventh Circle of Hell, the travelers findthose who were violent toward God (the Blasphemers); Dante meetshis old patron, Brunetto Latini, walking among the souls of thosewho were violent toward Nature (the Sodomites) on a desert of burningsand. They also encounter the Usurers, those who were violent towardArt.
The monster Geryon transports Virgil and Danteacross a great abyss to the Eighth Circle of Hell, known as Malebolge,or “evil pockets” (or “pouches”); the term refers to the circle’sdivision into various pockets separated by great folds of earth.In the First Pouch, the Panderers and the Seducers receive lashingsfrom whips; in the second, the Flatterers must lie in a river ofhuman feces. The Simoniacs in the Third Pouch hang upside down inbaptismal fonts while their feet burn with fire. In the Fourth Pouchare the Astrologists or Diviners, forced to walk with their headson backward, a sight that moves Dante to great pity. In the FifthPouch, the Barrators (those who accepted bribes) steep in pitchwhile demons tear them apart. The Hypocrites in the Sixth Pouchmust forever walk in circles, wearing heavy robes made of lead. Caiphas,the priest who confirmed Jesus’ death sentence, lies crucified onthe ground; the other sinners tread on him as they walk. In thehorrifying Seventh Pouch, the Thieves sit trapped in a pit of vipers,becoming vipers themselves when bitten; to regain their form, theymust bite another thief in turn.
In the Eighth Pouch of the Eighth Circle of Hell,Dante speaks to Ulysses, the great hero of Homer’s epics, now doomedto an eternity among those guilty of Spiritual Theft (the FalseCounselors) for his role in executing the ruse of the Trojan Horse.In the Ninth Pouch, the souls of Sowers of Scandal and Schism walkin a circle, constantly afflicted by wounds that open and closerepeatedly. In the Tenth Pouch, the Falsifiers suffer from horribleplagues and diseases.
Virgil and Dante proceed to the Ninth Circle of Hell throughthe Giants’ Well, which leads to a massive drop to Cocytus, a greatfrozen lake. The giant Antaeus picks Virgil and Dante up and setsthem down at the bottom of the well, in the lowest region of Hell.In Caina, the First Ring of the Ninth Circle of Hell, those whobetrayed their kin stand frozen up to their necks in the lake’sice. In Antenora, the Second Ring, those who betrayed their countryand party stand frozen up to their heads; here Dante meets CountUgolino, who spends eternity gnawing on the head of the man whoimprisoned him in life. In Ptolomea, the Third Ring, those who betrayedtheir guests spend eternity lying on their backs in the frozen lake,their tears making blocks of ice over their eyes. Dante next followsVirgil into Judecca, the Fourth Ring of the Ninth Circle of Helland the lowest depth. Here, those who betrayed their benefactorsspend eternity in complete icy submersion.
A huge, mist-shrouded form lurks ahead, and Dante approaches it.It is the three-headed giant Lucifer, plunged waist-deep into the ice.His body pierces the center of the Earth, where he fell when God hurledhim down from Heaven. Each of Lucifer’s mouths chews one of history’sthree greatest sinners: Judas, the betrayer of Christ, and Cassiusand Brutus, the betrayers of Julius Caesar. Virgil leads Dante ona climb down Lucifer’s massive form, holding on to his frozen tuftsof hair. Eventually, the poets reach the Lethe, the river of forgetfulness,and travel from there out of Hell and back onto Earth. They emergefrom Hell on Easter morning, just before sunrise.