E-Force

Hey players, get your bazookas, nunchucks, and machine guns ready; it’s time for… Easter? Yeah, you heard right, E-Force from software provider Yggdrasil Gaming is an Easter-themed online slot the likes of which you probably haven’t experienced before. The premise is this, Easterville has been threatened by the evil Dr Zeppelin, and the Easter Eggs must be defended by a cadre of rabbit soldiers. Users are invited to leap into the mayhem, where they can find a free spins bonus round with a growing win multiplier and masses of carton animal shenanigans. To be honest, it sounds kinda ludicrous, but hey, in this crazy world we live in, sometimes a dose of ludicrousness is just what’s needed. Let’s see if E-Force is the one to provide it.

The Yggdrasil Gaming team went for an 80s action movie angle when designing E-Force, with a cartoon animal twist. The result is bunny characters that look like heroes from action movies like Robocop, Commando, Game of Death, Rambo, and Indiana Jones. It’s kinda cool, and the whole game has a playful 80s mashup vibe. Easterville, the place, looks pretty hardcore, too, decked out in barbed wire and an alarm to help protect it from the dastardly Dr Zeppelin. A bit silly, perhaps, but it’s a fun riff on the way Easter is usually portrayed in an online slot.

Matching the warlike antics on the front end, behind-the-scenes E-Force runs on a medium-high volatile math model available in four RTP configurations – topping out at 96%. Playable from 10 p/c to £/€100 per spin, it utilises a 5×3 game panel in combination with 243 ways to win, where as long as matching symbols land on adjacent reels from the left, winning ways are formed. No lines or specific rows are necessary.

To the symbols now, and E-Force has 8 regular pays in its possession. The four lower value tiles are easter eggs covered in various movie-related items, paying 2x the bet for five-of-a-kind, while the four high pays appear to be bunny versions of Indiana Jones, John Matrix (Arnie), Bruce Lee, and Sylvester Stallone as Rambo. High pays award 4 to 10 times the bet for a five symbol winning way. The Robocop bunny shows up on the wild symbol, replacing all other pay symbols to complete a winning way. Wilds land on the three central reels only.

E-Force: Slot Features

E-Force expends much of its creative energy on the amusing theme, so there isn’t a massive amount left over for the features. What we have to cover here are free spins and a bonus buy.

Free Spins

Scatters appear on reels 1 and 5. Landing at least 3 scatters (wilds substitute for scatters) triggers the free spins phase of play. The number of triggering symbols equates to the number of free spins awarded and begins with a win multiplier set to x1. Each time a wild or scatter lands in the free spins round, it awards an additional free spin and increases the win multiplier by +1. The win multiplier is uncapped and only resets when the free spins round comes to an end.

Bonus Buy

If the bonus buy functionality is available in the game you are playing, then it is possible to buy 3-9 free spins for 50 times the stake. Alternatively, laying out 500x the bet buys 15 free spins.

E-Force: Slot Verdict

Hopefully, players will be besotted with E-Force’s theme because there isn’t much else going on features-wise to reel them in. The base game is largely devoid of extra bits, and the bonus round consists of nothing more than free spins with a rising multiplier. Decent enough, but nothing particularly new. It means that on paper, E-Force’s features did come across as a little sparse, and it keeps gaming innovations to a minimum. As a result, maybe don’t bother playing E-Force if you are in the mood for getting a belt of the latest outpouring of mechanical ingenuity. That doesn’t appear to be the Yggdrasil Gaming team’s focus when it sat down to design an off-the-wall Easter slot.

Instead, the main focus seems to be on building a wackily enjoyable game world. And we’d have to say this the studio has accomplished. Quite cleverly, E-Force doesn’t just give rabbits some weapons and send them off to defend a place called Easterville. It ups the ante by using recognisable characters from a handful of classic movies. The studio has presumably put enough distance between the films and characters to avoid any unwanted legal attention, though the Robocop one is pretty darn close. Picking this angle injects extra joviality into an already playful game. Certainly, more than enough to make E-Force an amusing slot to fire up during the Easter period and maybe even beyond it. An impressive 10,000x the bet win cap ties a final big bow on the game.

Add it all up, and E-Force felt like it leaned a little too heavily on the thematic elements at the expense of the gaming side of things. However, E-Force’s production values manage to make its quirky mix of cartoon characters, parodical attitude, and uncomplicated gaming work.