What a great concept. Microgaming has obtained licensing rights to the immensely popular, and immediately identifiable concept of the video game Lara Croft™ and Tomb Raider™ and have molded this spectacular game into an even more spectacular five reel, fifteen payline online slot machine. This wonderful multi-coin slot machine offers several unforgettable features such as a Wild Symbol, a Scatter Symbol, a great Bonus Feature and even the opportunity to obtain Free Spins, this is also the very first online slot machine to offer you the chance to enter the Bonus Round as a result of either normal play or during any of your Free Spins. With Tomb Raider, you are offered some of the most remarkable graphics that you will find on any online slot machine. Microgaming has incorporated several of favorite and easily recognizable logos from the games namesake, including the ever-popular Lara Croft™.
The next symbol is the Tomb Raider logo. This symbol acts as the game’s Wild Symbol and will substitute any of the game’s symbols except for the Scatter Symbol and the Bonus Idol. The Lara Croft™ (bust only) symbol is the game’s Free Spin Trigger, and when you hit three, four or five of them, you win 10 Free Spins. Next on the list is the Gadget. This is the symbol that looks like a triangle with several gears coming off of it. Next is Crouching Lara. The Crouching Lara symbol is just that, a picture of Lara in the crouching position. The Tiger is the next symbol used. It is simply a graphic of a Tiger slinking down stone stairs. The remaining symbols are a golden A, representing the Ace (as in a deck of cards); a blue K, representing the King; a purple Q , representing a Queen; a blue J for the Jack, and a green number ten.
This fantastic game offers players a plethora of special features and extras. The first of which is the Free Spin Bonus Game. If you hit three or more of the Lara Symbols on any active reels, you activate the Free Spins Bonus and get 10 free spins. If you hit three or more of the Lara symbols during a free spin turn, you will be awarded 10 more free spins that are automatically added to your remaining free spins for that round. When this free spin bonus is activated, all of the bets, paylines and coin sizes played in the current normal round are activated for the free spin round and all wins during this bonus round are multiplied by three! This Lara symbol has a second purpose as well. If two or more of the Lara symbols are hit anywhere on the reels, it activates a scatter bonus that will award you with anywhere between two and four hundred coins, depending on how many symbols show up. These Scatter wins are also counted when in Free Spin Bonus mode. The next special feature offered by this game is called the Tomb Bonus Game (which can also still be activated during the Free Spin Bonus Game, however, wins from the Tomb Bonus are not multiplied as other wins in the Free Spin Game). In order to enter the Tomb Bonus Game, you have to hit three or more of the golden Idol symbols in a row on an activated payline. The Wild Symbol, the Tomb Raider logo, does not replace the Idol to activate this bonus game. Once you enter the Tomb Bonus Game, you are given the opportunity to choose a certain number of Idols to give you your bonus win amounts. If you hit three Idol Symbols to enter the Tomb Bonus Game, you get to select three idols; if you hit four Idol Symbols to enter the Tomb Bonus Game, you get to select four idols; and if you hit five Idol Symbols to enter the Tomb Bonus Game, you get to select five idols. When you go to the bonus screen, you will see Twelve Idols that each hide a random number of coins. The number of coins shown behind an Idol when you pick it, is multiplied by the number of coins you wagered per payline.
Number of Idol Symbols on an Enabled Payline |
Payout Range |
5 |
60 to 2,500 |
4 |
48 to 2,000 |
3 |
36 to 1,500 |
Next on this long list of special features is the Wild Symbol. Very fittingly, the Wild Symbol for this great game is the Tomb Raider Slots game logo. This symbol will replace any other symbol on any active payline to complete a winning combination, with the exception of any scatter win and the Idol that activated the Tomb Bonus Game. Now, on to the Lara Symbol. The Lara Symbol is the symbol of Lara with her arms crossed by her head. This is both the Scatter Symbol and the Free Spins activator. To win the Scatter bonus, you need only hit at least two of these symbols anywhere on the reels. It does not matter if the payline it appears on is activated or even if the symbols are in the same row. Your scatter winnings can be calculated by multiplying the corresponding payout (see the Payout table) by the number of credits that were wagered. If you have hit both a scatter win and a regular win, you get paid for both wins since the scatter bonus symbols don’t need to appear on any specific payline. Any scatter win will be added to your normal payline win.
When playing this game, you are allowed to wager up to five coins on each of their fifteen paylines, making the maximum bet per spin seventy five coins. Since you have a choice of coin denominations including five cents, ten cents, twenty cents, twenty five cents, fifty cents and one dollar, the cost per spin ranges from $3.75 all the way up to $75.00. If you make the maximum bet, you can win up to $37, 500 on a single spin. And if you factor in the Free Spin Bonus 3x multiplier feature, your single spin win possibilities go all the way up to $112, 500! The tables below show the payouts for this game.
Tomb Raider Slots Payout Table
Symbol Name |
2 Symbols |
3 Symbols |
4 Symbols |
5 Symbols |
Tomb Raider |
5 |
200 |
2,000 |
7,500 |
Gadget |
-- |
50 |
100 |
500 |
Crouching Lara |
-- |
20 |
100 |
500 |
Tiger |
-- |
15 |
75 |
250 |
Ace |
-- |
10 |
50 |
125 |
King |
-- |
5 |
50 |
100 |
Queen |
-- |
5 |
25 |
100 |
Jack |
-- |
2 |
15 |
75 |
Ten |
-- |
2 |
15 |
75 |
Number of Lara Symbols on Screen |
Multiply Total Credits Bet by |
5 |
400 |
4 |
50 |
3 |
4 |
2 |
2 |
Now that you know pretty much everything that you can possibly know about this great game, the next logical thing that you should know about is the company who developed the game. Microgaming Software developed and distributed this wonderful game. Microgaming is one of the best online casino software providers that you will come across. They have been around since 1994, making them one of the oldest, largest and advanced software providers available. They make it their goal to be 100 % honest and fair with their customers and in all of their practices and with the operation of their software and games. They can make this promise for their products because of several top of the line security measures including encryption, firewalls, and several other measures that are all used by financial institutions world wide. To further make certain that their products are fair and secure, Microgaming developed Credibility Technologies to provide each and every casino and player with the utmost security and confidence in the software.
One of the final measures applied is the use of third party auditing services provided by PriceWaterHouseCoopers. This company audits the fairness and randomness of each one of the games that Microgaming has put out in any of their casinos, including Tomb Raider. Microgaming software is also known for being incredibly user friendly. All of the interfaces within each casino are very easy to use and to understand, making them accessible to anyone who wishes to use them. Their games also have the best graphics and sound effects, as seen in Tomb Raider, that really bring the games to life and make it increasingly hard to remember that you’re not in a land based casino playing these great games. Another wonderful feature offered in Tomb Raider as well as other Microgaming games is the Status Feature that is available in the game itself and shows you how long you have been in this particular game, how many spins total and per hour, and your top three wins of the session. They also offer a feature that allows you to review how much you bet on any day you wish to review, see a detailed log of your past betting habits, and lots of other information regarding your casino account.