Gladiator may well be 2 or so years old now ( The slot that is, not the film! ), but I have to say this is by far and above my favourite online slot of all time. Indeed playing it now, it still gives me the same sense of thrill and fun, which I experienced the first time I span the 5 reels nearly 2 years ago.

What is so striking about Gladiator is the sheer quality of the graphics employed, the smoothness of the reels spinning and the possibility of hitting the two features on offer.

In a nutshell this is a licensed slot based on the popular Russell Crowe epic of the same name. The one thing funnily enough that is missing, is Crowe himself, presumably due to licensing reasons.

Gladiator is a 25 line slot with two awesome features. The first of these is the the Gladiator Bonus Round, which is triggered by hitting the Gladiator Helmet Wild Symbol on three of the lines. The Gladiator Bonus Round, allows 9 helmets to be picked automatically. Bronze helmets equal your bet size, with silver and gold helmets being greater multiples of your original bet amount.

The second feature on offer and one with the potential to give you a superb return, sometimes 100x or more your original bet, is the Colleseum Feature. This is triggered by hitting three or more colleseum scatter symbols. Once hit, you are taken as if marched to an underground dungeon, whereby you have to choose boxes to progress. This decides, how many free spins you receive, bet multiplier, scatter symbol and wild symbol to be used in the Colleseum Bonus Round.

Invariably you are likely to just receive a number of spins and a bet multiplier, but if you are lucky, you can receive an additional scatter and wild symbols and this is where the funs begins and your bankroll can seriously climb as a result.

Another cool feature employed by Gladiator is the cinematic effects employed. Whereby if you hit a payline of three or more symbols, clips from the film are shown. We really were blown away by this when the slot first launched, as Gladiator was the first such slot to employ these effects. It is credit to Playtech the developers and Gladiator itself, that two years on, other software companies are only now beginning to catch up in this area.

Below you will find a freeplay flash version of Gladiator, to try out for yourself. This may take a minute or two to load. However it is certainly worth the wait

You will see after experiencing playing the freeplay version of Gladiator, exactly why it is one of my favourite slots!

If you are a slots fan, you should also check out the FreePlay Slots Section on Casinos Online, which includes the Cleopatra Slots, Thunderstruck 2 and Wolfrun.

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