The Walking Dead Playtech Origins Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

The Walking Dead (Playtech Origins) Review

Playtech has recently entered into a partnership with AMC Networks, and this gives the crafty developer exclusive worldwide rights to a wide variety of AMC and WE tv brands. They’ve clearly decided to fire one of the biggest guns first, and the slot version of The Walking Dead comes with a creepy atmosphere thanks to the excellent soundtrack. The main characters (Negan, Michonne, Daryl, Carol and Rick Grimes) serve as premium symbols, and stacked wilds come with zombie animations.

As is the case with many branded efforts, the features aren’t exactly innovative, but they certainly get the job done. You get a decent streak respins style Tower feature with unlockable multiplier rows and jackpots up to 1,000x your stake, as well as 5 different bonus round versions that are chosen randomly when the feature triggers. The math model will not impress experienced punters, and a 2,000x potential seems low compared to many other branded Playtech titles.

The Walking Dead Slot - Reels Screen

The Walking Dead Slot Features

The Wild symbol steps in for all regular pay symbols to help complete winning combinations, and it’s also the highest paying symbol in the game together with Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln). Landing 5 wilds on payline awards 3x your stake, while regular premium symbols pay between 2 and 3 x your stake for the same. When 2 or 3 wilds appear on the same reel they merge into a stacked zombie wild.

The Tower Feature triggers when you land 6+ coin symbols at the same time, and the triggering coins become sticky on a new and otherwise cleared grid.

This is a hold-and-win style feature where the 3 respins you start with resets for every new sticky coin symbol you land.

Some coin symbols land with a key attached, and you need to collect 2 to unlock extra rows. Rows 7 and 8 come with an x2 and x5 multiplier, respectively, and it will apply to all regular cash coins. The 9th row lands nothing but Biohazard coins, and these award 1 of the 4 following jackpots:

• Grand Jackpot pays 1,000x your stake.
• Major Jackpot pays 200x your stake.
• Minor Jackpot pays 50x your stake.
• Mini Jackpot pays 20x your stake.

The Tower streak respins style feature goes on until you either run out of spins, or you fill the grid with coins.

The Walking Dead Slot - Bonus Game

You need at least 3 shield scatters anywhere in view to trigger the Bonus Round, and you first get a scatter win of 1, 10 or 50 x your stake, respectively, for 3, 4 or 5 scatters. You get 6 free spins no matter what, and 1 of the 5 versions of the bonus round is then selected randomly. Landing 3+ scatters during the feature awards +6 extra spins, and here is an overview of the 5 bonus round versions:

• The Horde - expands all wild and coin symbols that land on the 3 middle reels so they fill the entire reel.

  

  This can help trigger The Tower bonus game.
• Saviors - adds a random multiplier to all coin or wild symbols that land on reels 2, 3 and 4. Each position gets a random multiplier assigned to it, and the values are added together when you win. This does not apply to Biohazard coins.
• Alexandria - awards a respins feature that freezes the regular free spins counter when a full stack of coins land anywhere. The coin stack moves 1 position to the left per respin, and you therefore need only 3+ new coins to trigger The Tower feature.
• The Whisperers - gives you up to 3 reels that land as special reels (marked by unique visuals), and these special reels come with wilds and coin symbols only.
• The Wild Walkers - awards respins when a stack of wilds land anywhere, and the free spins counter is frozen as the stacked wild moves 1 step to the left per respin. All coins that land during the feature turn into wilds too, and a full stack of coins turn into an additional walking wild.

The 200 Spins The Walking Dead Slot Experience

We grind along in the base game for a while, until we suddenly land enough coins to trigger The Tower respins feature. It’s introduced by the classic Negan line: “I hope you got your shittin’ pants on”, and we trigger the Free Spins round right after. This happens around the 4-minute mark, and you can check the whole 6:45-minute highlights video below by hitting the play button.

Review Summary

The Walking Dead is a pretty typical branded effort from Playtech, and fans of the zombie apocalypse TV series will immediately be sucked in by the eerie soundtrack. All the main characters are represented on the reels (Negan, Michonne, Daryl, Carol and Rick Grimes), and you get a bunch of tried and tested bonus features to keep you motivated through the base game grind.

The casual medium volatility gives this game the broad appeal it's clearly shooting for, but the 2,000x potential will hardly impress experienced punters.

The 5 different bonus round versions will keep things fresh for a while, and we get that this production is aimed mostly at the huge fan base this show has managed to rack up over the years. It's a high quality production for sure, but there is nothing really new to see in terms of features.

Pros

• The Tower streak respins w/ 4 jackpots
• 5 different Free Spins bonus rounds
• Win up to 2,000x your stake

Cons

• The 95.73 % RTP is a tad below average

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