Maradona

Known as one of the greatest football players of all time, Diego Maradona is undoubtedly a legend in the sport. He played for Argentina, accumulating 91 caps and scoring a total of 34 goals for his country. This online slot game includes different parts of his impressive career, including a reference to FC Barcelona, which is the most notable club he was a part of. When looking at the visuals of the Maradona game, everything is relatively simple. The animations of each spin are smooth and different stills of the superstar can be seen in the background. 

The Maradona slot was created by Blueprint Gaming, who do a great job of keeping their games consistent with the theme. Some examples of previous releases include Eye of Horus Fortune Play and Wolf Legend Megaways. They have also collaborated with various shows to create slots, such as The Goonies Return.  

To start this section of the review, we have to touch briefly on the J, Q, K, and A symbols, which appear in many online slots. From here, there are the premium icons, shown as different club shirts that were a part of Maradona's career. There is a Boca Juniors shirt, a Barcelona shirt, a Napoli shirt, and finally, an Argentina football shirt. Should five of these form a matching combination, players can be awarded with 7.5x, 7.5x, 10x, and 40x, in that order.

When it comes to special symbols, there is a wild, shown as a captain's armband. Next is the scatter symbol, shown as Maradona himself, which is linked to the main bonus in the game. Finally, there are golden footballs that can appear with values on them. These are linked to a feature of their own.

The first bonus feature within Maradona is based on a collect mechanic. Different footballs can appear across any of the first 4 reels, with a collect symbol having the potential to drop exclusively on reel 5. If a collect icon drops into view, alongside one or more football symbols, this feature will trigger.

There are four different variations of this collect feature that can occur, depending on the shirt Maradona is wearing on the fifth reel. If it's a Barcelona shirt, all of the values on the footballs will be collected and awarded to the player. A Boca Juniors shirt will hold the football icons in place, before triggering a respin. If more footballs appear, they will also become sticky before another spin is awarded. This continues until no new symbols appear, at which point they will be totalled up and awarded to the player.

Should Maradona be wearing a Napoli shirt, all values will be collected before a 'boost' is applied to them. Finally, there is a version of this feature that is based on the Argentina shirt, which collects all of the values on the screen before multiplying them by a number up to 5x.

Maradona also has a free spins bonus mode, which can be triggered if a scatter symbol appears on reels 2, 3, and 4 simultaneously. This will award players with a total of 10 free spins. One notable difference between this mode and the base game is that more football icons are added to the reels.

Furthermore, even if the values are not collected, they are added to a pot located above the relevant reel. During the final spin, a collect symbol is guaranteed to appear, with all of the other football icons being upgraded with the final number shown above the respective reel. 

With a variety of different references to the legend appearing through this slot, Maradona does a good job of paying respect to one of the greatest footballers to ever play the game. The user interface for this release is simple. However, the various features offer a modern touch!