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Slot Review: Gone With the Wind

There are online slots dedicated to great movies, TV shows, actors, and even comic book characters. Are you convinced that great literature has received the short end of the stick in terms of licensed slot titles? Fiddle-dee-dee! You could imagine our delight when we stumbled upon the internet pokey adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s famous Civil War novel, Gone With the Wind. Any doubts we might have had about this novel’s ability to be adapted successfully were quelled when we took out first spins. This is nothing short of a deft and extremely re-playable title, with a huge jackpot to boot!

Gone With the Wind is the story of the beautiful and headstrong Scarlett O’Hara, who is sixteen years old and living in Georgia during the last day of antebellum peace before the opening fire of the Civil War. Through more than ten years, three husbands, the deaths of several loved ones, and near-starvation, she grows up and conducts a torrid affair with Rhett Butler, a raven-haired blockade runner who sees Scarlett for the manipulative woman she truly is. The story of their love is the heart and soul of Gone With the Wind, a novel that goes for more than 1,000 pages in most editions.

Luckily, it will only take you a matter of moments to get the story when you are playing the online slot inspired by this blockbuster (which was converted into an all-time top-grossing Hollywood movie in 1939). Created by PartyGaming, a top provider of licensed titles for internet casinos, Gone With the Wind is truly a tour de force in slot games made for the World Wide Web. This title sports five reels and twenty paylines of great online slot action. Coin values start at one cent and range upwards to five dollars, with max coins of two hundred (ten per payline) making the highest per-spin wager one of one thousand dollars. That’s exorbitantly expensive for almost all of the slot players we know, but that’s the price to take a shot at the top jackpot prize of fifty thousand dollars, or ten thousand coins! There is also a free practice mode for those of us who can’t do anything but dream of that kind of riches.

Gone With the Wind overwhelms the player from the very first glance. Its background is the sweeping Georgian façade of Scarlett’s legendary home, the plantation Tara. The red tile roof is the top boundary for the reels, and the white pillars of the front porch separate the reels from one another. Sweeping oak trees frame the porch on either side. The total effect is amazing. The graphics are nothing short of extraordinary for this slot title. The images on the reels are little vignettes from the story, depicted lovingly as miniature graphics with plenty of detail. You’ll see a horse and buggy, a steamboat, a train, a doll, and a makeup box. Poker symbols on the reels match up to many of the characters – Rhett is the King, and Scarlett is the Queen, of course. The opening animation that welcomes you into the game is of those who gorgeous people (drawn as they were depicted in the movie by old Hollywood legends Vivian Leigh and Clark Gable) embracing each other lovingly.

The title logo is the jackpot symbol for the Gone With the Wind online slot machine title. You can win this prize on any active playline. The Gone With the Wind title logo is also wild – it can substitute for any other icon on the reels in a winning combination. The symbol of Rhett is the scatter symbol. Getting at least three of these lucky icons on the reels at any given time activates the free spin round, which also contains an extra step. Pick any three of Scarlett’s famous and beautiful hats to uncover your cumulative free spin amount! The highest possible prize is one hundred free spins at a quadruple multiplier! These spins can be retriggered during the bonus round.

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