Back in the day, the Ancient Romans didn't just get a kick out of watching gladiators battle or wild animals let loose on prisoners. One of the major attractions in the Ancient World was chariot racing, where riders had the option of competing individually or under certain team colours, which spectators might support and even bet on. A similar thing goes in Chase For Glory from developer Pragmatic Play and partner Wild Streak Gaming. This is not a chariot-themed game, however, but rather a gladiator one where players pick the champion of their choice to compete in free spins rounds with various rules depending on the selected champion, fought out over 4 spinning game grids.
Chase For Glory's base game is fought out in an open-air amphitheatre somewhere in the Roman Empire. It doesn't look impressive enough to be the Colosseum, the most famous amphitheatre of them all, so we could be in North Africa, along the Mediterranean, or further afield. Whatever tickles your fancy. The four champions who will be competing in free spins line either side of the screen, facing off against each other with steely-eyed determination. Chase For Glory manages to be both fairly good-looking and slightly retro at the same time. A common trait found in more than one Wild Streak Gaming slot. Guess that's just how they roll.
>When players are ready to roll the dice, so to speak, they may pick a stake of 30 c up to $/€240 per spin and gear up for battle. Not so much in the base game since it doesn't have any features to report back on. It relies on hitting wins of 3 to 5 of a kind across a 5-reel, 3-row gaming matrix to provide the entertainment. Chase For Glory doesn't use paylines, making use of a 243-ways to-win pay system instead. It's a highly volatile slot, producing a default RTP of 96% when betting on each spin or when buying the bonus round.
Landing on Chase For Glory's base game reels are 10 regular pay symbols, a wild, and a scatter. The pay symbols include 10 to A card royals as the low pay lot, worth 0.33x to 2.5x the bet for 5-of-a-kind, then a trident, sword, helmet, chest plate, and treasure box as the highs, paying 2.67x to 16.67x the bet for a 5 symbol hit. Wilds appear on reels 2 and 4 only, substituting for all regular pay symbols.
>Chase For Glory's base game is pretty low thrills since no extra features find their way in. Therefore, the race doesn't pick up the pace until free spins are triggered. Landing 3, 4, or 5 scatters is needed to do so, and when this occurs, 25 free spins are awarded.
The free spins round is played on 4 different 5x3 grids of symbols. Before the round begins, players pick 1 of 4 riders, which are each associated with one of the gaming grids, to be their champion – or a random option if they can't make up their minds. During the round, wins are only awarded on the grid associated with the chosen champion, and each champion has a certain set of rules:
Multipliers apply to all wins passing through them. During the feature, Coin symbols may land. When they do, they are collected next to the champion of the grid they landed on. Reset symbols may also appear on the reels. Hitting a Reset symbol resets the coin collection of the champion with the highest Coin count to 0, but not the champion chosen at the beginning. If two or more champions are tied, one is picked at random to reset. At the end of the round, if the chosen champion has the highest number of collected Coins or is tied for the most, then the wins from all grids are awarded to the player. Free spins cannot be retriggered, but they can be bought for 100x the bet.
>A bit of a game of two halves this one. The base game chugs along, doing its thing, hitting the odd decent win here and there, helped by wilds on the two relevant reels, sometimes landing stacked in the process. This phase of Chase For Glory got a bit repetitive, causing the trigger finger to hover enthusiastically over the buy feature button. However, activating free spins naturally wasn't the most herculean task we've undertaken, so soon enough, the champions were set upon each other to collect Coins and stare at each other a lot without ever doing any actual punching or kicking in the quad-gridded bonus round.
It wasn't long ago we'd gone to war with another four grid online slot, so perhaps this specific tactic is on the up and up amongst software providers. From memory, the last one was Dragon's Loot Link&Win 4Tune from Games Global partner All For One Studios. Interestingly, Dragon's Loot and Chase For Glory share similar collection race action. In All For One's game, it was the chest symbol you wanted, while here it is Coins, lots and lots of Coins to beat the other champions and get your hands on all four reel sets' winning totals. There is really no way of saying how the coin collection will go, either. That sounds obvious, but what we mean is that no matter the picked option, the result could go effortlessly, frustratingly, any way. You might think the more spins, the better, but at least during the review, the number of spins didn't seem to make any difference. Such is the random nature of gambling. What we do know is that when all is going to plan in Chase For Glory, players are able to collect wins of up to 7,887 times the bet.
Chase For Glory's base game can plod, though its combination of ways and wilds helped inject some life at times. However, for gamblers who get a kick out of multi-screen action, the Coin chase sequence during free spins might be just what the doc ordered.
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