Legends Battle For Earth: Slot Overview

Try this quick thought experiment: if you could be a superhero, which powers would you pick? Flying would be handy. Super strength and invincibility sound great too, but maybe you’d go for something a bit more unusual. Whatever you’d choose, players can step into superhero shoes for a while, protecting the planet from sinister villains in the online slot Legends Battle For Earth. Created by Octoplay and pals Combat Royale, this is a clash of heroes and baddies where the fight itself can lead to cash rewards as the action unfolds.

Are the people behind Legends Battle For Earth serious comic-book lovers? Judging by the visuals, it certainly feels that way, as the game nails a bold comic-style look, like the characters and scenery have jumped straight off the page and into an online casino. That said, the studio is generally strong at making themes feel alive, whatever the subject, as shown by the end-times fun of Dystopia Rebel Road and the anime/manga-flavoured Eternal Clash – both Showdown Spins slots like Legends Battle For Earth if you haven’t tried them yet.

During the base game, Legends Battle For Earth plays out on a 6×4-reel grid with 20 paylines for forming winning combinations. In terms of the maths, Showdown Spins titles can vary a lot, and Legends Battle For Earth sits in the medium volatility range. The RTP is 95.7% when betting 10 c to $/€150 per spin, or 95.79% when the Double Chance option is used. Turning on Double Chance raises the stake by 40%, doubling the chance of activating the free spins round.

Ten through Ace card ranks are the least thrilling symbols in Legends Battle For Earth. They return 3 to 10 times the bet for landing a 6 OAK win. Above them are 5 hero character symbols, which pay 12 to 50 times the bet for a 6-of-a-kind line. Wilds award 100x for a 5 wild win line and also replace any paying symbols to help complete wins.

Legends Battle For Earth: Slot Features

Combat-style slots like this often offer a taste of the action in the base game, before the main event arrives in the Showdown Spins bonus. In Legends Battle For Earth, that base-game hook is the modifier mechanic delivered by Wild Toolbox.

Wild Toolbox

The Wild Toolbox symbol stands in for every other symbol except the scatter. Up to 2 Wild Toolboxes can appear on the grid at once – one across the first three reels, and one across the last three reels. Each Wild Toolbox activates 3 to 8 modifiers on the reels, with up to 5 modifiers of the same type. The modifiers are:

• Wild Symbol – changes a random symbol into wild, substituting for any pay symbol.
• Multiple Modifier – gives a random symbol a multiplier of x2, x3, or x5. If more than one multiplier lands on the same position, the values are added.

Showdown Spins

Hitting at least 3 scatter symbols in the base game starts Showdown Spins. Depending on the number of trigger scatters, the feature begins with different conditions:

• 3 Scatters – 1000 Player and Enemy Health Points.
• 4 Scatters – 1250 Player and Enemy Health Points, one Ally 1 to 3, plus one Enemy 1 to 3 guaranteed on the first spin.
• 5 Scatters – 1500 Player and Enemy Health Points, two Allies 1 to 3, plus two Enemies 1 to 3 guaranteed on the first spin.
• 6 Scatters – 2000 Player and Enemy Health Points, the Ally Mini-Boss, plus the Enemy Mini-Boss guaranteed on the first spin.

The bonus runs on a 6-reel, 1-row layout, where the only possible symbols are allies, enemies, Boost Toolboxes, and empty spaces. When allies and enemies appear together, they battle each other. Characters lose Attack Power equal to the Attack Power of their opponent. Once Attack Power reaches 0, they are destroyed and are removed from the reels. Allies and Enemies carry Cash Prizes. When enemies are destroyed, their Cash Prize is collected, up to a maximum of 3,000x. When allies are destroyed, their Cash Prize is added to the Prize Pool, up to a maximum of 3,000x. The Prize Pool is paid out if the round ends in a win.

If all enemy characters are destroyed and there are allies in view, they attack the Enemy Health Points, reducing it by their Attack Power. Allied characters that survive a spin get +10 Attack Power at the end of each spin. The opposite occurs, too, meaning enemy characters strike Players Health Points if there are no allies in view to fight them. The feature finishes when Enemy Health Points hit 0, which means the players win. Alternatively, players lose if Players Health Points drop to 0.

Characters

In Showdown Spins, characters can land on the reels with the following attributes:

Allied Characters
Ally 1: 20 Attack Power, 3x the stake Cash Prize. Ally 2: 50 Attack Power, 10x the stake Cash Prize. Ally 3: 150 Attack Power, 30x the stake Cash Prize. Ally 4: 300 Attack Power, 150x the stake Cash Prize. Ally 5: 600 Attack Power, 500x, 1,000x, 1,500x, or 2,000x the stake Cash Prize.

Enemy Characters
Enemy 1: 50 Attack Power, 2x – 200x the stake Cash Prize. Enemy 2: 100 Attack Power, 5x – 200x the stake Cash Prize. Enemy 3: 200 Attack Power, 20x – 300x the stake Cash Prize. Enemy 4: 400 Attack Power, 100x – 300x the stake Cash Prize. Enemy 5: 800 Attack Power, 500x, 1,000x, 1,500x, or 2,000x the stake Cash Prize.

Booster Toolbox

Booster Toolbox symbols can appear on the reels during Showdown Spins. If they land on the allied side, they award +25 Attack Power per Booster Toolbox level to all allies. If they land on the enemy side, they award +10 to the Cash Prize per Booster Toolbox level to all enemies. When a Booster Toolbox is on the grid while a character is present in its section, it activates and its level increases by +1 each time it triggers, up to 10.

Feature Buy

Players can use the bonus buy to enter the Showdown Spins feature instantly for 100x the bet. The RTP for this option is 95.85%.

Legends Battle For Earth: Slot Verdict

In a few respects, Octoplay pushed into riskier territory here and largely made it work. The tricky part was creating a game with fairly generic, non-famous superheroes that players can still care about, while also leaning on mechanics the studio has already used more than once. The upside is that the developer delivers again, making Legends Battle For Earth another entertaining Showdown Spins slot, where allies and enemies collide and trade blows while players sit back and enjoy the showdown.

Theme-wise, Octoplay has successfully brought the superhero-versus-villain vibe from comic panels to the online casino screen. Some of the cast feels loosely familiar, which may help. The purple hero gives off a Deadpool-like energy, while the blue villain hints faintly at Captain America – maybe during a Hydra stint. Those touches can make it easier to connect, helped further by the strong artwork and the plentiful animations. Even so, the base game may feel a little slow. With only twenty paylines on a 6×4 grid, it can seem slightly stretched, although the Wild Toolbox can pepper the reels with wilds. As with most combat slots, the real aim is reaching the Showdown Spins stage, so the base game can come across as more of a lead-in.

Adjustments to the free spins round shift how it plays. One change is that enemies build prize values when they defeat allies, and that accumulated pot is only paid if players win by taking Enemy Health Points down to zero. That can create moments where you want to hit the enemy hard, but not finish things too quickly, so the enemy prize pool has time to grow. For instance, you could land a huge ally attacker with nothing left to fight, who then tears through the Enemy Health Bar while the Prize Pool is still disappointing. On the flip side, you might get to watch a dramatic tug-of-war battle. The maximum win is 6,000x, placing Legends Battle For Earth between Eternal Clash and Dystopia Rebel Road for overall potential. All told, the lively presentation and the interesting rule tweaks should be enough to tempt Showdown Spins fans to suit up.