Max Damage Pokie Game

More Details on the Max Damage Game

Max Damage pokie is a low-volatility game from the Microgaming pokies development team that has a 5×3 reel format. Surprisingly it’s a title that was released as late as 2014, and it is a follow-up to the unconventional but popular casino game title, Max Damage and the Alien Attack.

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Max Damage Pokie Game Background

The original Max Damage game combined 1980s Space Invader action with online pokie gameplay. Although ground-breaking in concept, few software houses followed Microgaming’s brave example. This may be the reason why the latest instalment in the Max Damage series comprises a more familiar structure that keeps arcade gaming to a minimum. Probably just as well…

Max Damage is the titular hero upon which this slot is based and he’s trying to defend us from alien attack. To ensure the survival of humanity, players must match various space-related images across five reels in order to travel into space to help Max. Oh, and money can be won as well.

Pokie Features

Max Damage doesn’t include a pay-line structure but instead offers 243 ways to win. Players need to match a minimum of three adjacent symbols from left to right in order to form various combinations. Apart from the achingly derivative playing card images, the game includes five high value symbols: an image of the Earth, Max himself, Max’s spaceship and an alien spaceship. A collection of jerky, but imaginative animations are also included for the higher-value symbols which include Max zapping a spacecraft with his ray-gun.

Wild

The game logo represents the wild which can appear stacked. Landing five of these across the reels triggers a 10,000 coin prize.

Scatter

The scatter is depicted by a grinning green alien in a flying saucer who doesn’t really look like the plundering type. When at least two of these appear in Max Damage, the player will be rewarded with a cash prize of between 300 to 15,000 coins.

Landing three scatters awards 15 free spins and a 2x multiplier. It’s during the free spins that the aforementioned ray-gun animation takes place, furnishing players with a random prize that gets added to existing, standard wins. The remaining symbol then turns into a Wild which sometimes offers an additional pay-out.

Why Play Max Damage?

Perhaps wisely, Microgaming has jettisoned the Space Invaders game which dominated the first title. Although the approach was highly original, it seems fairly obvious that fans of online pokies usually want to play online pokies without being distracted by retro gaming tom-foolery.

Mercifully, Microgaming took note and have created a pokie that includes the usual, tried and trusted mechanisms for taking player’s money. So, thrown back into the mix are scatters, stacked wilds, free spins and, sigh, playing card symbols – all the things which besmirch, sorry we mean grace, standard pokies. The game’s low-to-medium variance means that pay-outs, although regular, tend to be small. However, this is offset to a certain degree by a large jackpot of 2,400,000 coins.

In conclusion then, while the Max Damage base game is rather simplistic, a lively free spins round manages to keep the game in orbit while the small betting denominations should appeal to casual players.

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