1942: Sky Warrior Slot Machine

The 1942 Sky Warrior slot gives you 5×4 reels over 30 paylines with a feature triggered on each wild win, giving you richer reels and free spins.

As in the sky, the background is pretty white and blue, with some clouds all around, and the reel set also has a dark blue background. All symbols and graphics look plain and clear.

1942 Sky Warrior makes use of the classic split between low- and high-paying symbols to populate the reels. The high-paying symbols show a variety of fighter pilots looking at the camera. Although they all look distinct, the game makes no effort to give them any sort of personality. The low-paying symbols are based on card letters, made to look like insignia.

The silver star is a wild symbol that has the usual power to act as others if needed to fill in gaps in a winning combination, but it’s also key to a couple of exciting bonus features. Whenever it’s part of a playing card symbol win, once you get paid, the winning symbols vanish, along with any other examples of the same type, and those above cascade down to fill the gaps. This can lead to a further win, although it isn’t guaranteed.

If the wild helps to make a win with the pilot symbols, the relevant symbol is upgraded in value to the next highest, and your prize gets a boost. If you are lucky enough to complete wins with both high and low symbols in the same spin, the pilot upgrades first, then the card symbols vanish.

A free spins bonus feature starts when 3 winged scatter symbols land on reels 1, 3, and 5 in the same spin. You get 10 free games, with at least 1 wild symbol in each. Once a low value symbol is removed, it won’t feature in any remaining spins, while any pilot upgrades remain active for the rest of the round. You get 5 more spins if the scatter appears in 3 places in any free game.

This is a beautiful-looking slot theme that stands out from the rest of the usual ancient Greek and Egyptian games that are now a dime a dozen.