GAME TEST / Outerspace Invaders eventnote Published on 13 Jun 2018 Available on the Leander Games platform, Outerspace Invaders is a 5 reel and 25 fixed paylines slot that reminds us of the old Hollywood drive-in movies of the 1950's about flying saucers and alien encounters. 5-reel 10-line Slots. The objective of the Space Invaders slot is to obtain winning symbol combinations by spinning the reels. To play the game: Click Continue on the entry screen so that you can be directed to the main game reels. The number of active paylines is permanently set at 10. Wins can form on any payline.
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This game slopes back from the perspective of the player – and is made to look like you were standing in front of an arcade machine. There are 5 reels, filled with space invaders and other sci-fi type graphics – there are 3 rows of these symbols on each reel. You’ll notice the buttons to spin and for the pay table look like the circular buttons on the original space invaders machines. There are 10 win lines (changeable if you wish), and you can choose auto play or turbo mode if you prefer.
Unusually, wins go in both directions. As well as the usual 3+ symbols from the left triggering a win, 3+ from the right will also win you prizes.
The highest paying symbol is the yellow moon or asteroid. This is worth 150 coins for 5, 75 for 4 and 20 coins for just 3. Keep in mind that you have 2 directions for only 10 coins for each spin – and these prizes are bigger than they first seem. Next is purple alien, followed by a green UFO and what looks like a blue space weapon.
Three of the classic space invader symbols offer the lower prizes. I would have preferred these to have the high prizes!
There are no special symbols like wilds and scatters on the reels. You can get wilds, these come via the cannon and / or UFO features.
Cannon and UFO Special Features
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Both of the special features stay on the same reels, with no second screen bonus for this game. Every time you spin, the green cannon under the reels will move to a random position under the reels. There are 3 barricades, though under reels 2 and 4 the gap between the cannon and the symbols is clear.
Sometimes, the cannon will fire after the reels have stopped – turning any of the space invader symbols in the reel above into wilds. Wins are then recalculated, you will often find multiple wins are made possible, with the bi-directional win-lines helping here.
There is also a UFO above the reels. This sometimes goes across with a beeping sound which will be familiar to anyone that knows the original game. If the UFO stops above the same reel that the cannon is on, then the cannon shoots the UFO.
This takes the form of a long laser burst, which causes the UFO to wobble and throw out pieces over the reels. When these land, they will turn into wild symbols. You can sometimes get good coverage of wilds in this way – triggering multiple wins from the same spin.