The Magic Orb Hold & Win

Around the time of testing, it was announced that scientists had observed thefirst living robots reproducingin a way not seen in animals or plants. Naturally, there's a lot more to the story but, it's not hard to have dystopic visions of these xenobots endlessly replicating themselves and taking over the world. In the same way, it feels like the Hold & Win range has taken on a life of its own, one iSoftBet has lost control over and is now replicating at an exponential rate. At the way things are going, maybe someday, all that's left will be mounds of trash and hordes of xenobots playing Hold & Win games. Hashtag shudder. Don't shudder too hard just yet, though, because The Magic Orb is one of the more interesting selections from iSoftBet's Hold & Win range. For one, it's a grid slot, whereas most of its sister slots tend to be simplistic 5x3 sort of affairs, so there's a bit of diversity. It's also got just about everything a grid slot needs - loads of modifiers, cascades, free drops with a progressive multiplier, oh, and a streak respin side bonus. A touch of innovation is even supplied by the centrally located Magic Orb. In some ways, a pain since the Orb literally takes up prime real estate that could have been utilised by pay symbols to form clusters. At other times the Orb Prizes help kick start a chain reaction of wins, so it's a pro and con thing. What's easier to fall for is a max win figure of20,776x, which is respectable enough for a grid slot, and noticeably high for a Hold & Win game. Despite the big numbers, The Magic Orb doesn't feel destined for big things. There's nothing off-putting, it's pretty magical, but nothing really thrusts the game to greatness either. Maybe all those gems and rocks caused a personality deficit because even though the playthrough went fine, we weren't left with a major desire for round two.