Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Review: Wild Spirit

Released in tandem with Silent Samurai to put Playtech Casinos’ stable of games over 50 last week was ostensibly Native American-themed 5-reel 20-payline Wild Spirit.

Already detecting my underwhelmed feelings? Look, LCD doesn’t want to incite any animistic spirits (can animistic spirits becoming incited, in fact?), but truth be told Wild Spirit didn’t do it for LCD. The symbols are frankly uninteresting at best (including the steed rearing up to a bombastic chord or two) and the wood-carved A-K-Q-J-10 symbols are straight-up silly.

And Wild Spirit proves as fanciful as most “interpretation” of such mythology typically is; the bonus round features what is promised to be a fortune-telling shaman (LCD thought the gypsies of lore told the fortunes ... ah, well) actually offers a kind of Card Sharks-like game that offers you double half or all your winnings.

Tell you what though: If you can’t hold LCD’s interest beyond the bonus round, well, there just ain’t enough happening. And there ain’t enough happening in Wild Spirit. LCD rating: 2/10.